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Today, the second part of our extended conversation with Broadway’s original Sweeney Todd, and A Little Night Music’s original Fredrik, Len Cariou. Here, Mr. Cariou discusses Elizabeth Taylor, the experience of watching other actors play Sweeney Todd, Sondheim’s Shakespearean stature, and how he reflects on Sondheim today, five years after his passing.It’s been really special to bring you this conversation — and we have some BRILLIANT guests coming your way very soon, too. Make sure to subscribe to our Substack newsletter. You don’t need an account (just an email address) and you can subscribe for free. The link to this conversation, and to subscribe, is in our bio! 💌Photos: Stephen Mosher and Martha Swope#lencariou #sweeneytodd #alittlenightmusic #sondheim #stephensondheim by @thesondheimhub

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Ahead of Part 2 of our interview with original Sweeney Todd LEN CARIOU, here he is singing “Epiphany” in 2012, a full 33 years after creating the role! This performance was part of the 28th annual Southland Theatre Artists Goodwill Event, a benefit for AIDS Project Los Angeles, one of the largest non-profit AIDS service organizations in the United States.Tomorrow, in part 2 of our conversation, Mr. Cariou discusses meeting Elizabeth Taylor, the experience of watching other actors play Sweeney Todd, the extraordinary circumstances surrounding his casting in A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC, and how he reflects on Stephen Sondheim in 2026, 5 years after his passing.Make sure you’re signed up to our newsletter (free, at the link in our bio) and you’ll be able to read both parts of this extended interview. 💌🎥: auroraspiderwoman on YT#lencariou #sweeneytodd #sondheim #stephensondheim #musicaltheatre by @thesondheimhub

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Today we continue our look at site-specific and site-responsive Sondheim productions with a focus on INTO THE WOODS. 🌲🪾Read the full piece at the link in our bio. 💌Photos by Joan Marcus and Grace Copeland#intothewoods #sondheim #stephensondheim #musicaltheatre #theatre by @thesondheimhub

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Today, it is an extraordinary privilege to welcome SWEENEY TODD’s original barber, and A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC’s original Fredrik, to The Sondheim Hub. In the first part of our extended and wide-ranging conversation, Mr. Cariou speaks with wit, love, and candor about the birth of Sweeney Todd, his collaborators both onstage and off, and being in the room with Sondheim at the height of his powers.Read the full interview at the link in our bio 👉 @thesondheimhub Photos by Martha Swope and Henry Grossman#sondheim #stephensondheim #sweeneytodd #lencariou #musicaltheatre by @thesondheimhub

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New today: a look at site-specific Sondheim through the lens of SWEENEY TODD and THE FROGS. 🩸🐸It’s a tale of pies, pools, and spilling blood on Sondheim himself… Read the full piece at the link in our bio. 💌Today’s feature benefits hugely from the firsthand accounts and insight of two of our brilliant past guests: Jeremy Secomb, who we spoke to in 2024, and John Rapson, who we spoke to last year. You can find those interviews at thesondheimhub.com too!Pictured: the Tooting Arts Club company of SWEENEY TODD at Harrington’s Pie and Mash Shop, with Sondheim himself#sondheim #sweeneytodd #thefrogs #broadway #musicaltheatre by @thesondheimhub

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Our guest this week is @charlotteenglish__, who was recently crowned Stephen Sondheim Society Student Performer of the Year. It was so good to welcome Charlotte to The Sondheim Hub, to discuss the competition, her passion for Passion, and her deep and longstanding love of Sondheim’s work more generally. 👑Read our full interview at the link in our bio 👉 @thesondheimhub by @thesondheimhub

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He’s the archetypal man beneath the window. He’s a light in the London gloom. But he is — or can be — so much more than that. Today, we meet ANTHONY, the young man named Hope. ⛵️This is the latest in our series of features looking at one character in detail, through the voices & perspectives of actors who have lived the role on stage.Immensely grateful to our wonderful contributors to this piece: @nick_gundrum @patrickjosephmullen @declanfeldhusen @rosemarys.other.baby @quinn.welder @cathalwalsh_ & Lucius Wagner.Read the full piece at the link in our bio! 👉 @thesondheimhub by @thesondheimhub

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As A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC opens at @capetownopera, it was a treat to talk to @jroxmouth about playing Fredrik, the intricacies of this show, and his Sondheim journey more generally. Read the full interview at the link in our bio 👉 @thesondheimhub by @thesondheimhub

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“The Ben I’ll never be, who remembers him?”Every choice we’ve ever made excludes. To be in one place is not to be in another. To marry one person is not to marry someone else. To devote years to one ambition is to leave other abilities undeveloped, other skills unhoned, other lives unlived.To become anyone is an act of subtraction.Today, a look at “The Road You Didn’t Take,” and what Sondheim has to say about those lives we’ll never lead. They couldn’t make you sing, could they? Could they? Could they?Read the full essay at the link in our bio. Subscribe (free) to our Substack newsletter at that same link: you’ll receive an essay & interview each week, direct to your inbox. 💌#sondheim #follies #musicaltheatre #theatre #broadway📸: Johan Persson by @thesondheimhub

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Earlier this month, Pope Leo blessed Sagrada Família’s tallest tower. In his words, an idea that Sondheim and Lapine understood: that great art lives most fully in the act of its creation. In the work, the desire, itself. In the limitless possibility of that blank page or canvas.Today, an essay on towers, trees, and sacred works in progress. We begin in Barcelona and end in Paris, in a small suburban park on an island in the river.Read the full essay at the link in our bio! 💌#sundayintheparkwithgeorge #sondheim #stephensondheim #musicaltheatre #broadway by @thesondheimhub

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New today: an extended interview with MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG’s original Franklin Shepard, Jim Walton. Jim talks about Merrily then and now, the health of Broadway today, and much more. Read the full conversation at the link in our bio 👉 @thesondheimhub #merrilywerollalong #sondheim #stephensondheim #musicaltheatre #broadway by @thesondheimhub

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Today, our 5-part series on “Please Hello” reaches its dramatic conclusion. The French Admiral, the promise of “détente,” and the imperial logical of “unending please hello.” All this and more in today’s essay! 🇫🇷Read in full at the link in our bio. Subscribe at that same link and you’ll never miss a new essay or interview. 💌Please goodbye for now! 🌊#pacificovertures #pleasehello #sondheim #stephensondheim #musicaltheatre by @thesondheimhub

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