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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 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.
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is a 2007 musical slasher film 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. The legendary tale of a barber who returns from wrongful imprisonment to 1840s London, bent on revenge for the rape and death of his wife, and resumes his trade while forming a sinister partnership with his fellow tenant, Mrs. Lovett.
Sweeney Todd has been transformed from a sorrowful Victorian barber into a hollow-eyed ghoul with silly hair. Tobias is not an intellectually-disabled 20-year-old, but a sharp and spunky preteen...
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Sweeney Todd: Directed by David Moore. With Ray Winstone, Essie Davis, David Warner, Tom Hardy. A BBC adaptation of the Victorian "penny dreadful" tale of 18th century "demon barber" Sweeney Todd, of Fleet Street, who cuts the throats of unsuspecting clients in his London shop.
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street: Directed by Terry Hughes. With Angela Lansbury, George Hearn, Cris Groenendaal, Sara Woods. Barber Sweeney Todd returns to London to uncover the past, along the way meeting pie shop owner Mrs. Nellie Lovett, and begins to start his life of crime.
Dec 20, 2007 · The infamous story of Benjamin Barker, a.k.a Sweeney Todd, who sets up a barber shop down in London which is the basis for a sinister partnership with his fellow tenant, Mrs. Lovett.
Sweeney Todd is a musical from 1979 by Stephen Sondheim which was adapted in the 2007 Tim Burton film. Benjamin Barker had been transported from London and imprisoned for 15 years in an Australian labor camp before the musical begins.
Sweeney Todd, formerly known as Benjamin Barker, is the main protagonist and titular character of the Broadway musical and its film adaptation. Barker is married to Lucy Barker and together they have a daughter, Johanna.
