Broadway’s Hamilton - Opening Number Homage to Sweeney Todd

At the 30th annual Easter Bonnet Competition, the company of Hamilton took top honors for transforming their opening number into an homage to Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd. Lin-Manuel Miranda chillingly portrayed the “demon barber of Fleet Street” as his fellow cast members retold the dark, twisted tale. The bonnet on Jonathan Groff’s head represents a slice of meat pie, in homage to Sweeney Todd. It was designed by Scott Westervelt. Easter Bonnet 2016: The Fleet Street Remix by Lin-Manuel Miranda LESLIE How does a master’s gore-filled sumptuous score and a plot skimmed Hot from a British novel involvin’ a convict, hopped on conflict, Washed up in London harbor grow up to be a bloody demon barber? ANTHONY The mean barber used to bein’ Benjamin Barker Got a lot darker by bein’ a lot odder By seein’ a lot of trauma, by seein’ his baby mama Swiped from the scene, sent screaming away from his wife and daughter DAVEED And every day while shaves were bein’ flaunted and sauntered away By Italian knaves, h