Rucker-directed ‘Sweeney Todd’ is a dark and tasty tale
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“) Were it not for its subject manner of serial killings, revenge and cannibalism, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street might be be considered the most clever conceit of a musical for Stephen Sondheim, whose music and lyrics worked like a dream to advance the book…