Sweeney Todd is a piece of theater that should make you lose your appetite. The grisly musical by Stephen Sondheim tells the story of a demonic barber whose clients become the filling for meat pies. Many productions leave the stage soaked in blood. And yet, at the Barrow Street Theatre in New York City earlier this month, theater-goer Mary Alice Kellog eagerly dug into a hot meat pie. It's part of the pre-show experience. Kellog said she's seen every New York production of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street since the show originated in 1979. Knowing what the show is about, she was still willing to eat a meat pie before the show. And she loved it: "The pies are really delicious, they're flaky, they're light, no fingernails in them or anything." The little 130-seat Barrow Street Theatre has been transformed for this production. It is now a near-perfect recreation of Harrington's — one of the oldest working pie shops in London. "The tiles, the kind of yellow, slightly dirty
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