‘Sweeney Todd’ Star Jordan Fisher on Conquering Sondheim Lyrics and Recovering From His Eating Disorder: ‘I Would Go Days Without Food’
variety.comRebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter Jordan Fisher savors those 7 p.m. showtimes. It’s not that there’s a huge difference on the nights that Broadway’s revival of “Sweeney Todd” starts at 8 p.m.
But the extra hour of freedom after curtain call at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre means he gets more time to spend with his family. “I’ll get to bed an hour early and get up with my son so we can hang and have a little bit more time to chill in the morning,” Fisher says over espresso at a swanky bar in Manhattan’s theater district.
He got married during the pandemic, and the couple welcomed their first child in last June. “A lot of my mornings are dictated by how late I go to bed.
With a schedule like this, we go to work hours after people clocked out of their offices. My body has to get used to it.” Despite the late nights, Fisher is still giddy at returning to the stage — opposite Josh Groban and Annaleigh Ashford — in Stephen Sondheim’s grim classic “Sweeney Todd.” He’s the first actor of color on Broadway to play Anthony Hope, a young sailor who befriends the demon barber of Fleet Street and falls in love with Todd’s daughter Johanna Barker.
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