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Sweeney Todd is a fictional character who first appeared as the villain of the penny dreadful serial The String of Pearls (1846–1847). The original tale became a feature of 19th-century melodrama and London legend.
Dec 21, 2007 · Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. The legendary tale of a barber who returns from wrongful imprisonment to 1840s London, bent on revenge for the rape and death of his wife, and resumes his trade while forming a sinister partnership with his fellow tenant, Mrs. Lovett.
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is a 1979 musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Hugh Wheeler. It is based on the 1970 play Sweeney Todd by Christopher Bond. The character of Sweeney Todd first appeared in a Victorian penny dreadful titled The String of Pearls.
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is a 2007 musical slasher film directed by Tim Burton from a screenplay by John Logan, based on the stage musical of the same name by Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler, which in turn is based on the 1970 play Sweeney Todd by Christopher Bond.
Attend the Tale. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street played its final Broadway performance on May 5, 2024. Directed by Tony Award ® winner Thomas Kail ( Hamilton) and choreographed by Olivier Award winner Steven Hoggett ( Once, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child ), Sweeney Todd was hailed as a New York Times Critic’s Pick, “a ...
Dec 21, 2007 · Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. What to Know. Critics Consensus. Full of pith and Grand Guignol grossness, this macabre musical is perfectly helmed and highly...
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Feb 28, 2018 · Starring: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman Directed By: Tim Burton Synopsis: The infamous story of Benjamin Barker, aka Sweeney Todd, who sets up a barber shop in London which is...
Sep 12, 1982 · Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street: Directed by Terry Hughes. With Angela Lansbury, George Hearn, Cris Groenendaal, Sara Woods. Barber Sweeney Todd returns to London to uncover the past, along the way meeting pie shop owner Mrs. Nellie Lovett, and begins to start his life of crime.
After fifteen years in exile, Benjamin returns to London under the new identity of Sweeney Todd, seeking revenge against Turpin. He meets the widow Mrs. Lovett who is the owner of a meat pie shop who tells him that Lucy swallowed arsenic many years ago, and Turpin assigned himself tutor of Johanna.
May 30, 2023 · Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street returns to Broadway starring Josh Groban as Sweeney Todd and Annaleigh Ashford as Mrs....
