You haven't bored me! As for the revival... yeah, I'm with you. It just didn't work for me. And I loved the barber's chair!!! I'd much rather have to original. I first discovered Sweeney when I was in high school in a musical theatre class (I went to a performing arts high school... we were exposed to a bit more than your average drama geeks) and I fell in love with it instantly. It was like nothing else I'd seen or heard and it was dark and perversely funny. What teenager wouldn't love it! It was the catalyst for my worshipping at the alter of Sondheim for the rest of my life. But the revival was just too stripped down, it didn't carry any of the charm the original production had... and I wasn't a fan of the orchestra/cast thing either. But hey, if it turned some youngsters on to musical theatre, fab!
... Am I ranting a bit?