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• ThisWeekly Blast focuses on Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd:
A) an ESSAY about the second part of my April Broadway trip, in which I saw Sweeney Todd and Camelot;
B) PETER FILICHIA on Sweeney Todd: Peter talks about the identity of the author who almost wrote the book, and Sondheim’s attitude toward the film with Johnny Depp;
C) a GAME with possible slogans for Sweeney Todd “merch” (T-shirts and mugs);
D) a Broadway Maven YouTube GEM that’s a one-minute version of Sweeney Todd;
E) a SURVEY on the quality of the Tim Burton film of Sweeney Todd; and