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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, also known as Sweeney Todd 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.
The musical is based on the 1990 film Pretty Woman. [3] The film was produced on a budget of just $14 million, [ 4 ] earning over $463 million in global box office receipts. [ 5 ] Written by J. F. Lawton , and directed by Garry Marshall , the musical centers around Vivian Ward, a free spirited Hollywood prostitute who lives with her sarcastic ...
Leonard Joseph Cariou OC OM (/ ˈ k ær i u /; born September 30, 1939) is a Canadian stage actor, singer and stage director.He gained prominence for his portrayal of Sweeney Todd in the original cast of Stephen Sondheim's musical Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1979) alongside Angela Lansbury for which he won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical.
Betsy Joslyn (born April 19, 1954 in Staten Island, New York) is a Broadway musical and dramatic actress and soprano. Joslyn is best known for her Broadway work, including the original 1979 production of Sweeney Todd. She appeared in the ensemble of the original Broadway production and eventually took over the ingenue role of Johanna after ...
George Hearn (born June 18, 1934) is an American actor and bass-baritone singer, primarily in Broadway musical theatre.. Some of his Broadway credits include Albin in La Cage aux Folles, the title role in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Max von Mayerling in Sunset Boulevard, John Dickinson in 1776, Mr. Otto Frank in The Diary of Anne Frank, and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in Wicked.
Brian Stokes Mitchell (born October 31, 1957) is an American actor and singer. A powerful baritone, he has been one of the central leading men of the Broadway theater since the 1990s. [1]
The Young Girls of Rochefort Jacques Demy's French New Wave musicals with their breezy, quirky, conversational lyrics are an acquired taste. (If you're a fan of La La Land, definitely check them out.
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is a 2007 gothic musical slasher film [7] 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.