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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 .
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007), a movie directed by Tim Burton, adapted from Sondheim's musical. It features Johnny Depp as Sweeney Todd, Helena Bonham Carter as Mrs. Lovett, Alan Rickman as Judge Turpin, Jamie Campbell Bower as Anthony, and Ed Sanders as Toby.
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Before looking at who or what the tale of Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street, was based on, let’s look a little more closely at the first literary rendering of the story in the 1840s. The tale of Sweeney Todd was first published in work called The String of Pearls: A Domestic Romance, which appeared in a serialized format in the Penny D...
Given the emergence of these common motifs of cannibalistic chefs making pies out of human flesh in seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth-century England and France, we might ask if Sweeney Todd was based on a real-life person. Several theories have been put forward to suggest that he might have been. For instance, in the 1800s, the chief of the ...
What we can be sure of, though, is the psychology that made Sweeney Todd’s story so popular at the time. In the first half of the nineteenth-century English society had profoundly changed. Hundreds of thousands of people had left their villages in the countryside and migrated to the towns. Here, rather than buying bread and meat from their village’...
Peter Haining, Sweeney Todd: The Real Story of the Demon Barber of Fleet Street(London, 1993). J. Robert Bradgate and Geraint G. Howells, ‘Food Law in the United Kingdom’, in Food, Drug, Cosmetic Law Journal, Vol. 46, No. 3 (May, 1991), pp. 447–466.
In 1830, George Dibden-Pitt penned the story of the fictitious "Sweeney Todd," which was published in a London "penny dreadful," similar to today's tabloids. Like the present day version, this story followed a mad barber who slit his customers' throats before his landlady baked them into pies.
Jan 1, 2001 · Based on a 1970 play by Christopher Bond, this retelling of the story of the Demon Barber of Fleet Street first appeared in 1979 and boasts a terrific book by Hugh Wheeler and glorious music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim.
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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.
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. Director. Tim Burton. Writers.
