Sweeney Todd

The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

A Musical Thriller

Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim  Book by Hugh Wheeler

  From an Adaptation by

CHRISTOPHER BOND

Originally Directed On Broadway by HAROLD PRINCE

Orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick

Originally Produced on Broadway by Richard Barr,

Charles Woodward, Robert Fryer, Mary Lea Johnson, Martin Richards

in Association with Dean and Judy Manos

Sweeney Todd is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI).
All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI.

Sweeney Todd has become a bloody, worldwide success since being awarded eight Tony’s, (including Best Musical), for its Broadway premiere. Stephen Sondheim’s and Hugh Wheeler’s tasty, thrilling, theatrical treat has simultaneously shocked, awed and delighted audiences across the world.

An infamous tale, Sweeney Todd, an unjustly exiled barber, returns to nineteenth century London, seeking vengeance against the lecherous judge who framed him and ravaged his young wife. The road to revenge leads Todd to Mrs. Lovett, a resourceful proprietress of a failing pie shop, above which, he opens a new barber practice. Mrs. Lovett’s luck sharply shifts when Todd’s thirst for blood inspires the integration of an ingredient into her meat pies that has the people of London lining up… and the carnage has only just begun!