LOL Magnus! I actually saw Sweeney when I was in NY for the Fest, it was FABULOUS! I highly recommend everyone seeing it! Anyway, you're right, that would have been a great rip-off for DC, but somehow I think Standards & Practices at ABC would have put the kabosh on cannibalism, LOL!
"And when I say that there is no cannibalism WHATSOEVER on the ABC network, I do mean that there is a certain amount..."
I almost saw Sondheim's ST 24 or 25 years ago. My sister had the album and I was listening to it relentlessly except for side four, because I was saving the climax. At the last moment, my sister's boyfriend called me requesting that I not go with them, so that he and she would have a chance to use the evening to fix their relationship. I'm such a nice guy, I agreed. It fell apart, I got poor, and no ST.
That's my kind of musical, the oddball and/or unsettling ones. Cabaret, Paint Your Wagon, Phantom of the Paradise, Rocky Horror...