Loyd, who portrayed Sweeney in the 2007 production, is superb here. His performance is somewhat more muted because of the intimacy of the setting — he doesn’t need to do much to convey Sweeney’s fury and pain, or his bitter sense of humor.
In any case, it’s all there in his singing — the contempt in “No Place Like London,” the heartbreak of “The Barber and His Wife,” the renewed sense of life brought about by “My Friends,” the rage in “Epiphany,” the humor at the outrageousness of “A Little Priest.”