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TONY COUPLES

LEN CARIOU AND ANGELA LANSBURY, SWEENEY TODD, 1979

He was the Demon Barber of Fleet Street, dispatching his victims via razor to revenge the brutal treatment of his wife at the hands of an evil judge. She was Mrs. Lovett, purveying the best--and worst--meat pies in London, their ingredients
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a little priest, a touch of the poet, a case of lawyer, a bag of the grocer. And all of them a symbol of "man devouring man" in Sweeney Todd, Stephen Sondheim, Hugh Wheeler and Harold Prince's Grand Guignol, blood-filled epic take on the horrors of the Industrial Revolution in 19th-century London.

Len Cariou, as Sweeney, won his first Tony; Angela Lansbury, as Mrs. Lovett, won her fourth (Mame, Dear World and Gypsy), tying her with Gwen Verdon for most by an actress in a musical. Douglas Watt in the Daily News said Cariou was magnificently obsessed; he added that Lansbury was "the grandest, funniest, most bewitching witch of a fairy-tale fright you're ever likely to encounter."

Both stars saw the musical, with its difficult and unpleasant subject matter and Eugene Lee's monumental factory of a set, as an enormous challenge.

Cariou still remembers vividly the matinee performance when the set's steel crossbridge fell to the deck. "I heard it rattling around and I saw it moving, and I made sure Angela and I were downstage of it," he says. "It took forever to fall, thank God. And just as it landed, the orchestra was playing, 'Nothing's gonna harm you, not while I'm around.' I thought it was extremely funny."

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JOHN RUBINSTEIN AND PHYLLIS FRELICH, CHILDREN OF A LESSER GOD, 1980

It was a year the Longacre Theatre was filled with the sounds of silence. They were prize-winning sounds.

The play was Mark Medoff's Children of a Lesser God, the story of the stormy relationship between a speech therapist and a deaf student who becomes his wife. When the curtain came down every matinee and evening, there was much applause and cheering for the play's two stars. But only one of them could hear it.

Medoff had written the play especially

MASTER THEATRE QUIZ--#6
On what show did Karin Baker serve as the assistant choreographer? (a) Damn Yankees (b) Me and My Girl (c) Angel in the Wings

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