New Sondheim musical – it’s a date.

The Washington Post: Last weekend, Stephen Sondheim, 86, demonstrated once again that he is a showman to the core. Speaking to a paying audience at the Glimmerglass Festival between matinee and evening performances of his “Sweeney Todd,” he let drop the projected opening date of his next musical, which has been under discussion for several years: it will open, he said, in 2017, at the Public Theater in New York. The Public Theater confirmed that the project was in development, but say that no set date has been confirmed for its performance.