• This high-concept interpretation of Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street is a 2005 revival of Stephen Sondheim’s original 1979 musical.
• The performance features a nine-member cast performing as both actors and the show’s musicians.
• Sweeney Todd tells the tale of a man set on revenge after a malicious judge has taken his wife and child and banished him to the penal colonies in Australia. Returning 15 years later to 19th-century London under an assumed identity, Sweeney Todd conspires with an enterprising pie maker in a cutthroat partnership to slice through London’s upper crust. Soon Todd’s clients are disappearing and somehow becoming the filling for an entirely different kind of pie.
• Sondheim’s original Broadway show starred Len Cariou as Sweeney Todd and Angela Lansbury as Mrs. Lovett. It was nominated for nine Tony Awards and won eight.
