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Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter Stephen Sondheim’s final musical “Here We Are” is hitting the stage in the fall. The legendary musical theater figure, who composed “Sunday in the Park with George,” “Follies,” “Sweeney Todd” and countless other Broadway classics, died in 2021 at the age of 91. The musical, formerly known as “Square One,” was in the works prior to his death and took inspiration from two Luis Buñuel films, “The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie” and “The Exterminating Angel.” Joe Mantello, whose credits include Sondheim’s “Assassins,” as well as “Wicked” and “Take Me Out,” is directing “Here We Are.” The strictly limited engagement will begin September 2023 in The Shed’s Griffin Theater, an Off-Broadway venue near Manhattan’s Hudson Yards neighborhood. Casting will be announced soon.

A raft of Broadway’s recent arrivals led by Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street helped push the industry’s total box office last week to $28,638,821, up 13.8% from the previous week. Total attendance was up commensurately to 229,771.

The revival of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, with Josh Groban and Annaleigh Ashford in previews at the Lunt-Fontanne, is firmly in Broadway’s $1 million club, with receipts for the week ending March 5 at a bloody good $1,526,254. And that’s just for six performances.

Some recent Broadway arrivals added both star power and box office receipts to the weekly grosses reports, with both Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street and Parade selling out (the latter despite some loudmouthed neo-Nazi protesters), and A Doll’s House starring Jessica Chastain and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Bad Cinderella coming close.

“Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” is back on the Great White Way for the first time since 2005.This time around, the story of a murderous barber will call the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre home when previews begin on Sunday, Feb. 26.The cast also features a murderer’s row of theater heavyweights including Josh Groban, Annaleigh Ashford, Jordan Fisher, Ruthie Ann Miles and “Stranger Things'” star Gaten Matarazzo.Not sold?For the first time since 1980, Sondheim’s Tony Award-winning score will be performed as it was in the original production.Plus, “Hamilton” director Thomas Kail is helming this iteration of the classic.And while ticket prices are rather high for the first few weeks after the crowd-pleasing musical opens, we’re happy to report that they’re a bit cheaper if you buy seats to see victims turned into meat pies far in advance.In fact, we found some tickets going for as low as $66 before fees on Vivid Seats for a matinee in May.All prices were found at the time of publication and are subject to fluctuation.Once ‘Sweeney Todd’ leaves Fleet Street and lands on 46th Street in Midtown Manhattan, the show will adopt a fairly typical schedule.Audiences can catch “Sweeney Todd” five nights a week from Tuesday through Saturday at 8 p.m.

Tim Burton has reportedly been dating Italian actress Monica Bellucci in secret for "four months".The innovative film director, 64, who was in a relationship with Harry Potter star Helena Bonham Carter for 13 years, first met Monica, 58, 16 years ago. Having got back in touch last year, the pair are said to have secretly started seeing each other in October, as reports emerged of the new romance this month. It's also believed that the duo made things official around the time Monica presented Tim with the Lumière lifetime award on stage at the Lumière Film Festival in Lyon, France.The festival was being held from Saturday 15 to Sunday 23 October 2022.

Grange Hill and Sweeney Todd actor Lee Whitlock has died at the age of 54, acting agency Urban Collective has confirmed. His representatives took to Twitter on Monday to announce the sad news with a post commending the actor's "entertaining, funny & positive" work. A tweet from the agency read: "Saddened by the death of our client Lee Whitlock.

Grange Hill and Sweeney Todd actor Lee Whitlock has passed away at the age of 54, acting agency Urban Collective has confirmed. His representatives took to Twitter on Monday to announce the news while commending the actor's "entertaining, funny & positive" work. A tweet from the agency read: "Saddened by the death of our client Lee Whitlock.

While getting married is something that couples will remember forever, the follow up honeymoon is, typically, equally as momentous. From celebrities heading to the Caribbean to royals jetting off to the Seychelles, the first post-wedding getaway can be the romantic trip of a lifetime. But for Sam Considine, her honeymoon looked a little different.

Eugene Lee, the Emmy-winning production designer for Saturday Night Live since 1975 and a multiple Tony Award-winner for such Broadway hits as Wicked, Sweeney Todd and Candide, died yesterday in Providence, Rhode Island. He was 83.

Ready to close the chapter. After starring as Princess Margaret on The Crown in seasons 3 and 4, Helena Bonham Carter doesn’t believe the Netflix drama should continue.

Broadway’s upcoming revival of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street starring the previously announced Josh Groban and Annaleigh Ashford has added to its cast with Dear Evan Hansen‘s Jordan Fisher, Stranger Things‘ Gaten Matarazzo and Tony-winning The King and I actor Ruthie Ann Miles.

Helena Bonham Carter is speaking out about some very controversial issues involving a few of her A-list peers.

Hollywood’s curse? Helena Bonham Carter defended J.K. Rowling and Johnny Depp amid their respective controversies — and took a strong stance against cancel culture in the process.

Star-studded. Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery has a huge cast of stars announced as headliners, but the cameos are just as iconic, marking the final film for both the late Angela Lansbury and Stephen Sondheim.

‘We’ve Just Hit Pause for the Moment’“Because of what’s going on with the writers strike and everything, we’ve put the movie on, basically on pause,” Depp said in a 2007 interview with India’s NDTV as he promoted the Tim Burton-directed “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street,” six months after the release of “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End,” the Disney franchise’s third installment. “We’ve just hit pause for the moment to see how everything goes with the writers strike,” Depp said. “Mira’s work with Eric Roth has been amazing.

Ella Kemp Guest Contributor Janelle Monáe reflected on her multifaceted career at a Screen Talk hosted by BFI London Film Festival programmer Grace Barber-Plentie. The conversation, which took place ahead of the European premiere of “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery,” included the musician-actor citing Johnny Depp’s career as one she’d like to emulate given the “transformative” characters he has played. Monáe stressed that it was only Depp’s acting career that she admired, and not Depp as a person. “When I think about careers, this person’s life as an actor, only… Johnny Depp has a very badass career,” Monae said, citing Willy Wonka and Sweeney Todd as “dramatic roles” she aspires to play in her own work. “Whatever the Janelle Monáe version of them is, maybe it’s something even better, I want to be able to do those transformative characters that people are dressing up as for Halloween.”

Broadway will honor the legendary Angela Lansbury with the traditional dimming of marquee lights this Saturday evening.

Theaters on London’s West End dimmed their lights Wednesday evening in memory of the late Angela Lansbury who passed away Tuesday at age 96. The London-born actress last appeared on the West End in 2014’s Blithe Spirit at the Gielgud Theatre, in which she reprised her Tony-winning role as Madame Arcati. She won the Best Supporting Actress Olivier Award for her turn.

London’s West End are set to dim their lights in memory of Dame Angela Lansbury following her death at the age of 96.  The Murder, She Wrote actress died just days before her 97th birthday, her family confirmed this week, leading to an outpouring of grief from friends and fans.  In honour of Lansbury, who had an illustrious stage career as well as working in film and television, London’s West End theatres are set to dim their lights for two minutes at 7pm on Wednesday before performances, the Society of London Theatre (SOLT) and UK Theatre have said.

Angela Lansbury, whose 75-year career in entertainment spanned big screens, small screens and the stage, died Tuesday in Los Angeles at age 96.

died Tuesday at age 96. The denizens of Shubert Alley were overcome with grief and shock when they learned of the actress’ passing in the early evening. Lansbury, a mainstay since 1944, had an eternal quality that suggested she’d never go away.

Legendary actress Angela Lansbury has sadly passed away.

TV Hall of Fame in 1996.“‘Murder, She Wrote’ has given me more worldwide attention than any other role I played in the movies or on the stage,” she said in 2013 while receiving an honorary Oscar. “It’s a wonderful thing to be known in Spain, Portugal, in Paris, in France and Germany and everywhere.”A gifted singer, she also voiced Mrs.

Actress and Broadway icon Angela Lansbury died on Tuesday, October 11. She was 96.

The great Dame Angela Lansbury, known as a Broadway icon and the star of the long running series Murder She Wrote, has passed away.

EXCLUSIVE: Three decades ago Michael Ball (Les Miserables) had teeny-bopper groupies waiting for him at the stage door — in London and on Broadway — thanks to a heartthrob role in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical Aspects of Love. It didn’t hurt that Ball got to belt out “Love Changes Everything,” which was a hit on both sides of the Atlantic.

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Brian Cox admits he "feels sorry" for Amber Heard following her highly publicised defamation trial against ex-husband Johnny Depp.

Josh Groban has been cast as the title character in Sweeney Todd’s Broadway revival. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is coming back to Broadway as a stage musical in March 2023, Billboard reports. Producers announced on Tuesday that the Grammy nominee would lead as Sweeney Todd.

Josh Groban and Annaleigh Ashford are heading to Broadway.

As widely speculated, a new Broadway production of the Stephen Sondheim-Hugh Wheeler classic musical Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street starring Josh Groban and Annaleigh Ashford will begin performances on February 26, 2023, at Broadway’s Lunt-Fontanne Theatre with an official opening night of March 26, 2023.

The classic musical Sweeney Todd is coming back to Broadway next year and it appears that Ticketmaster has leaked the official news.

A controversial cameo. Johnny Depp joined the 2022 MTV Video Music Awards as a hologram astronaut — and Amber Heard‘s sister made it clear she doesn’t approve of the appearance.

reports Broadway Journal. The production will see the 41-year-old Groban starring as the demon barber himself while his pie-baking accomplice Mrs. Lovett will be played by Annaleigh Ashford.

A revival of the Stephen Sondheim musical Sweeney Todd starring Josh Groban and Annaleigh Ashford could land on Broadway this Spring, with the team behind Hamilton – producer Jeffrey Seller and director Thomas Kail – attached, according to a published report.