Back Alley Barbers ROCKABILLY—With a Sweeney Todd-inspired aesthetic and a lead singer—“Queen Pirate”—who looks like a punk rock Elvira, Portland’s Back Alley Barbers rock a surprisingly successful mash-up of punk, soul and rockabilly. Queen Pirate’s powerful pipes rival Gwen Stefani’s—in fact, the band sounds like No Doubt if the album Tragic Kingdom had actually been, […]
Sweeney Todd
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Cannibal: The Musical
2nd Street’s Sweeney Todd fills the belly
Sweeney Todd is just your average comedic/dramatic thriller about vengeance, insanity, murder and cannibalism. Yeah, as if that’s a genre! Actually, Sweeney Todd has always been one of the weirdest—and most enduring—shows ever to grace the stages of Broadway or the West End as it swings wildly between camp, comedy, drama and outright horror. Part […]