Review: "Sweeney Todd"

"Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street" has been given something of a trim. The 1979 Stephen Sondheim-Hugh Wheeler musical with Angela Lansbury and Len Cariou, had a huge cast and orchestra.

The new version, in which ten actors play all the parts — and all the instruments — won two Tony Awards in 2006.

It has just opened at the Colonial Theatre in Boston, where "Morning Edition" critic at large Ed Siegel caught the show.