Mr Sondheim, who penned the dark, operatic piece in 1979, has been checking out the production and has pronounced the two leads – Michael Ball as the vengeful, razor-happy demon barber of Fleet Street, and Imelda Staunton as his pie-making accomplice Mrs Lovett – as "remarkable".
Happy birthday, Demon King!
(Sometimes hailed as Asia's Andy Warhol, Murakami has made a fortune with happy- or demon-faced product lines in pictures and sculpture — the imagery veering between smiley flowers and atom-bomb clouds — and with designs for Louis Vuitton).
Sometime before noon the next morning, he drifted off to sleep and then out of existence, remembering a time when he and we were happy, when his only demon was an imaginary girl named Billie Jean, and he danced on the floor in the round.
Admittedly this episode was a bit light on isolated funny incidents... but Randall's director-speak was a solid throughline, and I'm always happy to see more demon politics".
Let's try this again: from my pure homo heart to your demon-happy spirit, happy Alleluia Festival.
Otherwise healthy people with every reason to be happy are found wrestling with private demons.
But after Paterno disappeared into his house to wrestle with his own private demons, the assembled citizenry of Happy Valley took to the streets and vented theirs.
My self-analysis forced me to confront some demons that lay fat and happy deep within the bowels of my unconscious.
I am happy he got to get rid of some demons.
He said things like, 'Whatever makes you happy.' Or, 'You never know another man's demons.' So I dropped it.
