Yes, Stephen Sondheim really did give the quirky and risque Landless Theatre Company permission to adapt the score of his most commercially successfully musical as a prog-metal piece, leaving the lyrics and Hugh Wheeler’s book intact. What is prog-metal? “Prog-metal is actually a very complex, a very precise, almost classically based metal,” Landless’s Melissa Baughman … Continue reading Heavy metal, slit throats: Sweeney Todd goes “prog metal”