# Sweeney Todd Tags: #literature ## Metadata * Author: [Stephen Sondheim](https://www.amazon.comundefined) * ASIN: B001C6GUKK * Reference: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001C6GUKK * [Kindle link](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B001C6GUKK) ## Highlights For me there is only one rule in the theater: Does it work? And by that I don't mean will the show run for twenty years or make X million dollars, but have I come out of the theater feeling more alive than when I went in? Has my imagination been fired, my emotions been aroused, my brain kick-started into life? Is my heart pounding and my mind racing; and, if the show is a musical, do a series of discordant and Neanderthal groans issue from my mouth? (This is known as Chris hums the score.) When I see Sweeney Todd all these things usually happen. — location: [20](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B001C6GUKK&location=20) ^ref-14844 ---