I feel like anytime you send in a tape, you should let it roll off your back and just move onto the next one and forget that you even had an audition. I did it over tape, and I didn’t hear back for a few months so I thought that they had gone a different direction. GATEN MATARAZZO: It was just an audition. Filming reportedly begins in June, and while Matarazzo is excited to return to the show, his focus and his pleasure are at the moment on Broadway.ĭEADLINE: Tell me how you got involved with Sweeney Todd. And of course he’ll be seen in the upcoming fifth and final season of Stranger Things on Netflix. The chuckles would evaporate soon enough though, when it became all too clear that Matarazzo and his performance were as serious as a blade sharpened for butchery.įans who can’t make it to the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre anytime soon will be able to hear Matarazzo and the rest of the Sweeney Todd company when a new cast album is released on Reprise Records later this year. Handed the show’s parting lines of spoken dialogue, Toby, drenched in blood, surrounded by corpses, completely mad and brandishing the slain demon barber’s very own razor, Matarazzo was surprised during the early weeks of the run when audiences broke out in nervous laughter. He does the same in Sweeney, sometimes even to his own chagrin. ![]() So yes, expectations are high, and Matarazzo nails it, just as he does sweet Toby’s Chaplin-esque comedy turns, though perhaps that’s less surprising – as the brainy, clever and somewhat goofy Dustin Henderson on Netflix’s Stranger Things, Matarazzo handles a sizable chunk of the sci-fi series’ humor. To say the expectations of Sondheim devotees are high is an understatement – the song has been performed by everyone from Barbra Streisand to Barbara Cook, Mandy Patinkin to Neil Patrick Harris, Angela Lansbury to Melissa Errico, Betty Buckley to Patti LuPone. Within those 25 minutes, Matarazzo performs one of Sondheim’s most beloved songs, “Not While I’m Around,” the tender ballad of devotion – this in a musical not exactly known for tenderness or devotion. Lea Michele Tests Positive For Covid, Out Of 'Funny Girl' Until May 23
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