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'SWEENEY TODD' LITE: TASTES GREAT, LESS CHILLING.(LA.COM)

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From: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Date: 20080314
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Byline: Evan Henerson

Theater Critic

It's rather astonishing what can be achieved when an imperiled virgin is given a cello.

Save your punch lines. Enacting the lusted-after ward Johanna, Lauren Molina plays that instrument quite adeptly, bow-ing away with a look of absolute rapture as gobstruck sailor Anthony Hope (played by Benjamin Magnuson) ascends to her window and promises, in lovely melody, "I'll steal you, Johanna."

OK, so there's no window. Molina's perched atop a raised coffin-shaped box, and Magnuson is serenading her while standing on a ladder. When ...

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