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The String of Pearls: A Domestic Romance (alternatively titled The Sailor's Gift) is a story first published as a penny dreadful serial from 1846 to 47. The main character of the story is Sweeney Todd, "the Demon Barber of Fleet Street". The story was the character's first literary appearance.
The play was produced on Broadway during 1924 at the Frazee Theatre, featuring Robert Vivian as Sweeney Todd and Rafaela Ottiano as Mrs. Lovett. [15] Sweeney Todd, the Barber of Fleet Street: or the String of Pearls (c. 1865), a dramatic adaptation written by Frederick Hazleton which premiered at the Old Bower Saloon, Stangate Street, Lambeth. [7]
In the original version of the tale, the penny dreadful The String of Pearls (1846–7), her name is Johanna Oakley and she has no relation to 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 ...
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A String of Pearls, a 1912 film directed by D. W. Griffith; The String of Pearls, an 1846 serial novel that introduced the character Sweeney Todd; String of Pearls, a 1991 album by Deborah Conway, or the title song; String of Pearls: A Greatest Hits Collection, a 2000 album by Prairie Oyster
George Dibdin Pitt (born George Pitt, 30 March 1795 – 16 February 1855) was an English actor, stage manager and prolific playwright, specializing in melodrama.He was the first playwright to dramatize the fictional character Sweeney Todd, in his 1847 play The String of Pearls; or, The Fiend of Fleet Street.
The fictional Sweeney Todd, the subject of both a successful musical by Stephen Sondheim and a feature film by Tim Burton, first appeared in an 1846/1847 penny dreadful titled The String of Pearls: A Romance by James Malcolm Rymer and Thomas Peckett Prest. [27] The penny dreadfuls inspired the British comics that began to emerge in the 1870s. [28]
A story called The String of Pearls was published in a weekly magazine during the winter of 1846–47. Set in 1785, the story featured as its principal villain a certain Sweeney Todd and included all the plot elements used in later versions. The murderous barber's story was turned into a play before the ending had even been revealed in print.