Sweeney Todd: il diabolico barbiere di Fleet Street

Demon Barber, Meat Pies and All, Sings on Screen

SOME time in 1980, during the five months that the grim and glorious musical “Sweeney Todd” played the Theater Royal Drury Lane, a California college student visiting London bought a ticket. And another and another and another.
Tim Burton, obsessive watcher of horror movies and a worshiper of Vincent Price, had discovered “The Demon Barber of Fleet Street,” not to mention Stephen Sondheim. And after stewing in his imagination on and off for some 25 years, that encounter has been channeled into Mr. [...]

di Sylviane Gold, articolo completo (9050 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 4 Novembre 2007