Culture critic John Rockwell digs into the bloody, nightmarish visions of Tim Burton's "Sweeney Todd" and the Metropolitan Opera's current production of "Hansel and Gretel."
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Episode Transcript - Demon Barbers and Human Ovens (1/07/08)
For the extended holiday season, Peter Gelb and Tim Burton have chosen to offer us family fare: two shows that include live women being baked alive in ovens, perceived through the glass doors of the oven screaming and disintegrating, and then being turned into grisly meat pies. Now, the phrase ...
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