When you start regularly going to a barber- you know when the "testing-you-out-to-see-if-my-hairline-is-straight-and-my-fade-is-actually-blended-and-not-blockie" stage is complete- barber culture provides that you stick with that person.
There's plenty of chemistry when ghoul meets ghoul in Christopher Ashley's staging of "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street," the inaugural production of the wonderfully ambitious Stephen Sondheim Festival that continues through Aug. 25 at the Kennedy Center here.
This would have been insufferably smug, if not for the tableau presented before the encore: after leaving the stage, Sting settled into a barber's chair backstage, preposterously, for a shave and a manicure.
In the present study, we established a practical and cost-effective whole-organism assay for the in vitro-screening of compounds for activity against parasitic stages of the nematode Haemonchus contortus (barber's pole worm).
Stage blood: Shocking plays Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street This bloodthirsty musical tale of a barber who slits his customers' throats has run since 1979.
One of the season's most eagerly awaited offerings was a staging of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street that was a co-production with the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris and the Houston Grand Opera.
But it would be difficult to imagine a more perfect marriage of role, voice and stage personality than his performance of the Demon Barber of Fleet Street.
His best works have dazzlingly original premises (he sees a London staging of a potboiler called "Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street" and brilliantly envisions a Grand Guignol ballad opera).
Bernini-inspired columns are found throughout the floor plan, which includes a formal living room with a double-high fireplace, a barber shop, a media room with stage, 10 bedrooms and 10 bathrooms in 29,000 square feet of living space.
"Hamlet" was staged simply and sparely -- the only props a barber chair and spinning ceiling fans -- with part of it sung Peking opera style, including costumes and makeup.
