Tag: Angela Lansbury

Sweeney Todd – March 2017

Walking out of Harrington’s Pie and Mash Shop at the Barrow Street Theatre last night, all I could keep saying was “wow.” I have quite the way with words, I know. Last fall, Matt Doyle, an actor I follow on…

Sweeney Todd – January 1981

I was 12 years old in 1981 and most of my family worked in the theaters in Boston. Among other theaters, my uncle was the food and beverage manager at the Metropolitan Center (now the Boch Center-Wang Theatre) and my…

The Manchurian Candidate – 1962

I’m not usually one to watch the remake of a movie before I watch the original, but in this case I did.  I watched the Denzel Washington version the year it came out without knowing any real specifics of the…