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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.
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 Street: Sweeney Todd in a production of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street: Matt Cavenaugh, Jenn Colella, Laura Osnes and Bobby Steggert
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.
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]
Cris Groenendaal is a retired American musical theatre actor and opera singer. He has performed in the original Broadway productions of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Sunday in the Park with George, The Phantom of the Opera and Passion, as well as appearing in the original cast of the 1996 Broadway revival of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.
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]
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 ...