Sweeney Todd

Reflections on a Teaching Career

Susanne Mentzer | Posted 04.19.2012

Read More: Classical Music, Opera, Education, Sweeney Todd, Teaching Careers, Education Jobs, Teaching, Teaching Career, Arts News
Susanne Mentzer

This is the last week of classes and last week of my full-time employment in academia. I never intentionally aimed to be a teacher. That said, I also never regretted being one.

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Accidents Caused By Wearing Headphones On The Rise

| Posted 03.05.2012

Read More: Headphones, Sweeney Todd, Local-High-School-News, Math Marathon, Teens Swearing, No Cussing Club, Headphone Accidents, High School News, Swearing, Teen News

Every week, HuffPost High School rounds up the best local news stories about high school students from across the country through our friends at Patch...

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True Grit and the Truth about Revenge

Thane Rosenbaum | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Problems With the Legal System, Charles Portis, Rooster Cogburn, Revenge Films, Unforgiven Movie, Academy Awards, Failed Justice, Hamlet, Golden Globes, Kill Bill, True Grit, Coen Brothers, Braveheart, Sweeney Todd, Clint Eastwood, The Godfather, Vengeance, The Gladiator, V for Vendetta, Revenge, Neal Gabler, Oscars, A Time to Kill, Arts News
Thane Rosenbaum

The cultural moment where True Grit finds itself as one of America's most popular films is neither surprising nor necessarily of its own making.

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WATCH: Stephen Sondheim: West Side Story Is 'Embarrassing'

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sweeney Todd, West Side Story, Video, A Little Night Music, Musicals, Stephen Sondheim Broadway, Stephen Sondheim Musical, Broadway, Stephen Sondheim, Home News

Stephen Sondheim ain't a Jet or a Shark. In fact, he's not too crazy about his landmark musical, 'West Side Story,' at all. The famed composer/lyrici...

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Broadway Legend Patti LuPone's Memoir

The Los Angeles Times | Charles McNulty | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sweeney Todd, Patty-Lupone, Broadway, Sunset Boulevard, Anything Goes, Broadway Musicals, Evita, Patti LuPone, Broadway Plays, Patti LuPone Gypsy Reviews, Books News

When an actor is described as "turbulent" or "difficult," it's typically a euphemism for "a royal pain." Patti LuPone, one of the most celebrated musi...

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First Nighter: Stephen Sondheim-James Lapine "Passion" Gives Passion a Bad Name

David Finkle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: A Little Night Music, David Thaxton, Terry Jardine, Stephen Sondheim, Barbara Cook, Neil Austin, Sweeney Todd, Christopher Oram, Nick Lidster, James Lapine, Passione D'Amore, Donmar Warehouse, Jonathan Tunick, Passion, Scarlett Strallen, Scott Ambler, Roundabout, Obsession, Film Review, Relationships, Broadway, Film, Soundtracks, Love, Entertainment News
David Finkle

Passion is a depiction of romantic obsession and the subtly destructive ends to which romantic obsession can lead -- all of it outfitted with somber, totally humorless Sondheim songs.

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Watch: Broadway's Stephen Sondheim Theatre Turns on Its Lights

James Sims | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sweeney Todd, A Little Night Music, Times Square, Theatre, Patti LuPone, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Arts, Broadway, Musicals, Stephen Sondheim, Nathan Lane, New York City, Arts News
James Sims

Stephen Sondheim, the creator of Sweeney Todd and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum joined the ranks of theatrical legends with the naming of a Broadway theatre in his honor.

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First Nighter: Stephen Sondheim Wants to Know

David Finkle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: A Little Night Music, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Do I Hear a Waltz?, Broadway, Follies, Stephen Sondheim, Gypsy, Company, West Side Story, Sweeney Todd, Anyone Can Whistle, Merrily We Roll Along, Passion, The Mad Show, Dick Tracy, Road Show, Arts News
David Finkle

In celebration of Stephen Sondheim's eightieth birthday, his songs are being sung even more this year than they usually are -- which in Manhattan intimate rooms is quite often, to say the least.

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The Art of the Podcast

Joseph Vella | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Miles Davis, Chris Botti, Joseph Vella, Jazz, Podcast, John Coltrane, Jimmy Cobb, Stephen Sondheim, Sweeney Todd, Arts News
Joseph Vella

I've always loved great listening. For me, that is the essence of an engaging music podcast. If I can recapture that lost art of listening in these noisy times then I've done my job.

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First Nighter: Important "Red" Alert on Broadway

David Finkle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Olivier Awards, Mies Van Der Rohe, Martin Scorsese, Bernjamin Britten, The Habit of Art, The Aviator, Alan Corduner, Mark Rothko, Alan Bennett, Eddie Redmayne, Richard Nutbourne, John Logan, Simon Schama, Neil Austin, The Power of Art, Sweeney Todd, The Four Seasons Restaurant, Christopher Oram, Lee Hall, Alfred Molina, W. H. Auden, Friedrich Nietzsche, Aeschylus, Red, Golden Theatre, The Pitman Painters, Philip Johnson, 222 Bowery Studio, Christoph Gluck, Seagram Building, Michael Grandage, Arthur Schopenhauer, Alceste, Entertainment News
David Finkle

Red insists that art matters; so does Red matter in all its dark, dramatic hues.

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Annals of the Over-Rated: Tim Burton

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Batman Returns, Beetlejuice, Lewis Carroll, Pee-Wee Herman, Alice in Wonderland, Tim Burton, Ed Wood, Marshall Fine Blog, Christopher Nolan, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Sweeney Todd, Sleepy Hollow, Edward Scissorhands, Helena Bonham Carter, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, Batman Begins, Johnny Depp, Michael Keaton, Museum of Modern Art, Batman, Jack Nicholson, Entertainment News
Marshall Fine

America (and the world) has spoken: The less-than-mediocre Alice in Wonderland is a hit. Allow me to disagree. Tim Burton is Exhibit A for my unified theory of movies.

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The Higher the Yield, the Greater the Risk

Dan Dorfman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Dan Dorfman

Their message is unmistakable: Investors, clearly running scared, are convinced the bloodbath is far from over.

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Faith! Family! Films! And the Crystal Teddy Goes to...

David Sterritt | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Movie Awards, Dr. Ted Baehr, John Templeton Foundation, Coen Brothers, Film, Hollywood, Tim Burton, Faith, Movies, Family, Dvd, There Will Be Blood, Clean Play Dvds, Social Conservatives, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Morality and Films, Media Censorship, Christian Right, Marley & Me, Sweeney Todd, Religious Right Agenda, Censoring Dvd, Movieguide, Censorship, Religious Agenda, Entertainment News
David Sterritt

What riles me is the business of peddling movies on DVD after scrubbing them squeaky clean, or as we used to say in pre-digital antiquity, censoring them.

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A Rare Interview With Johnny Depp: "I Poisoned Myself For Years"

Rolling Stone | Gavin Edwards | Posted 05.25.2011

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Today Depp meets me in a suite at the Chateau Marmont in Hollywood. His jeans are ripped, and his black shirt is open at the neck to reveal a GONZO ne...

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Sacha Baron Cohen: Killing Borat

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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Borat is dead. Sacha Baron Cohen tells The Daily Telegraph that he's retiring the clueless Kazakh journalist, as well as his alter ego, aspiring rapp...

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Sweeney Tot: Tim Burton And Helena Bonham Carter Welcome Baby #2

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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Helena Bonham Carter and Tim Burton have welcomed their second child, a girl, in London, the actress' representative told a magazine. The star and di...

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Johnny Depp: "I Don't Want To Be A Product"

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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To Johnny Depp, freedom means simplicity and anonymity. "I'm sure it will be a possibility someday again. Maybe when I get old. They get tired of yo...

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Sacha Baron Cohen's Prosthetic "Sweeney Todd" Bulge

E! Online | Marc Malkin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sweeney Todd, Signor Adolfo Pirelli, Tim Burton, Sacha Baron Cohen, Entertainment News

Sacha Baron Cohen has a thing for showing off his privates. Well, what appear to be his privates, that is. We've already been subjected to Borat dres...

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Johnny Depp Can Sing: Sneak Peek At New Movie Musical

Fox News | Roger Friedman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Last night we learned from director Tim Burton that Johnny Depp modeled his "Willy Wonka" hairstyle on Vogue editor Anna Wintour. "He was trying to s...

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Johnny Depp On Daughter's Hospitalization: "Words Are So Small"

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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Johnny Depp says his 8-year-old daughter is now healthy and well following her hospitalization earlier this year. "Now every single millisecond is a ...

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