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In the 2007 film Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Lucy Barker is the wife of Benjamin Barker, a barber in London's Fleet Street. They are happily married and have a new baby, Johanna. They are happily married and have a new baby, Johanna.
Sweeney Todd is a fictional character who first appeared as the villain of the penny dreadful serial ... has raped his young wife Lucy and adopted Todd's daughter ...
Judge Turpin (also known as Lord Turpin) is a fictional character in Christopher Bond's 1973 play of the story of Sweeney Todd, as well as later adaptations.He is the main antagonist, a cruel and corrupt judge who imprisons Benjamin Barker on false charges, rapes Barker's wife Lucy, and takes Barker's daughter Johanna in as his ward.
After arriving in London, Todd begins seeking revenge on Judge Turpin (Alan Rickman) who wrongfully convicted and exiled him in order to steal his wife. Sweeney Todd commits serial murders on his customers and, with the help of his accomplice, Mrs. Lovett (Helena Bonham Carter), processes their corpses into meat pies.
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.
A baker from London, Mrs. Lovett is an accomplice and business partner of Sweeney Todd, a barber and serial killer from Fleet Street. She makes meat pies from Todd’s victims. First appearing in the Victorian penny dreadful serial The String of Pearls, it is debated if she was based on an actual person or not. [2]
Sweeney himself originated as the villain in 1846 in a series of Penny Dreadfuls titled "The String of Pearls." Monticello Opera House: Tallahassee actor slices into bucket list role with Sweeney Todd
In the original version of the tale, the penny dreadful The String of Pearls (1846–7), her name is Johanna Oakley and she is no relation of Todd. [1] In the popular musical adaptation by Stephen Sondheim, inspired by Christopher Bond's play Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1973), she is the daughter of Benjamin Barker and his ...