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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.
Everyday a Little Death (from A Little Night Music) — The Wife, The Younger Woman; Everybody Ought to Have a Maid (from A Funny Thing Happened On The Way to the Forum) — The Wife, The Observer; Have I Got a Girl for You (from Company) — The Younger Man, The Husband; Pretty Women (from Sweeney Todd) — The Younger Man, The Husband
Barbra Streisand recorded the song in 1985 for her bestselling The Broadway Album, blended in a medley with Sondheim's "Pretty Women" from Sweeney Todd (1979). Anna Kendrick covered the song in the 2003 film Camp. Alan Cumming has performed the song numerous times, including a 2013 reading. [11]
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street: The Motion Picture Soundtrack is a soundtrack to the film of the same name, released on December 18, 2007.. In a change from the original, Sondheim cut the show's famous opening number, "The Ballad of Sweeney Todd", explaining, "Why have a chorus singing about 'attending the tale of Sweeney Todd' when you could just go ahead and attend it?"
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).
1997: The Tale of Sweeney Todd is a T.V. movie by Showtime, starring Ben Kingsley. It uses the characters Sweeney Todd and Mrs. Lovett and the general premise, but is an original story. 2016: In Salem, Thomas is a Sweeney Todd-like character who is a barber and mortician. He has implied that he uses human meat in his meat pies.
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Mazzie: Played Clara in the original production of Passion; was a replacement for Rapunzel in the original production of Into the Woods: Victoria Clark "Don't Laugh" Hot Spot: Played Sally Durant Plummer in two productions of Follies; the Beggar Woman in Sweeney Todd in Concert. [5] Nathan Gunn "Johanna" Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet ...