This is Fresh Air. I'm David Beancouli, professor of television studies at Rowan University in New Jersey,

sitting in for Terry Gross.

Broadway dimmed its lights last Saturday evening,

in tribute to Angela Lansbury.

The acclaimed film and musical actress and star of the TV series Murder She Wrote died last week.

She was 96.

Lansbury delivered unforgettable performances for her starring roles in the Broadway musical's

Mame, Gypsy, and Swini Todd.

Her work on stage earned her five Tony Awards, plus a Lifetime Achievement Tony Award earlier this year.

In Swini Todd, Lansbury played Mrs. Love It, who runs an unsuccessful bakery in London in the Victorian era,

and is inspired to team up with a local barber named Swini Todd.

Todd is a serial killer driven by rage, intent on murdering many of his customers.

In the song A Little Priest, Mrs. Love It suggests a particularly gruesome partnership.

Her meat pie business needs a lift, and she and Swini imagine how profitably they can recycle the bodies that are piling up,

and the variety of meat pies they can offer their customers.

Loease, rather nice.

If it's for price.

Order something else though to follow since no one should swallow it twice.

Have you any dean?

Now that if you're British and loyal, you might enjoy royal marine.

Anyway, it's clean.

Though, of course, it tastes of whatever it's been.

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