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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.
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.
Stephen Sondheim circa 1970. Stephen Sondheim was an American composer and lyricist whose most acclaimed works include A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962), Company (1970), Follies (1971), A Little Night Music (1973), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1979), Sunday in the Park with George (1984), and Into the Woods (1987).
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.
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Nicholas Christopher (born August 16, 1990) is an American stage actor and singer. He made his Broadway debut in the ensemble of Motown: The Musical and later go on to star in the Broadway revival of Miss Saigon and replace Christopher Jackson in Hamilton . [ 1 ]
A look at 'Metamorphoses,' the ambitious new production from A Noise Within that re-examines Greek myths, and the logistics of building a body of water on a small stage.
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His real name turns out to be Daniel O'Higgins ("Alf Spiral" in the original Christopher Bond play and "Davy Collins" in the film), and he was Sweeney Todd's apprentice as a boy. Pirelli knows Todd's true identity as Benjamin Barker and threatens to expose him unless Todd pays him half of his profits.