Last night I saw Sondheim's "Sweeney Todd" at a local 'community' theater, the Connecticut Theater Company. There were no members of Actors Equity in the cast. They could not afford an orchestra. The theater had 181 seats. The cost per ticket was $25. Yet, it was almost as good a production as that I saw on Broadway years ago. Ditto for the production of Sondheim's "Company" at the Little Theater of Manchester which I saw a month or two ago.
Sondheim's plays are not simple to produce and perform. But these small, amateur companies did a very good job.
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