Charles Dickens, like Shakespeare, is such an inherent part of popular culture that filmmakers and actors salivate on getting their hands on the stories again and again. I imagine, like Lady Macbeth, …
Unlike many of my friends, I am not a Broadway fiend. I had no reference to the original Broadway production of Sweeney Todd by Stephen Sondheim in my head when I sat down in the theater. Heck, afterw…