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- The play was made into a major film starring Johnny Depp in 2007. The musical was praised for its laconic lyrics, operatic singing, and a rousing musical score by Stephen Sondheim (who also wrote for Into the Woods and West Side Story).
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In The String of Pearls we learn that Sweeney Todd is a barber whose shop is on Fleet Street in London. The story is based in 1785 and concerns the disappearance of an English mariner, Lieutenant Thornhill.
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.
Jan 19, 2008 · As Tim Burton's new film version of Sweeney Todd is released, Louise Welsh looks back at the Victorian 'blood and thunder books' in which the demon barber first captured the public's...
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. A Musical Thriller (1979), is a musical adaptation of Bond's play by Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler . The show began on Broadway in 1979 and in London's West End in 1980.
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.
Oct 30, 2019 · In 1993, controversial author Peter Haining published Sweeney Todd: The Real Story of the Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Historians have debunked Haining’s research, saying what he called nonfiction is a hoax with made-up sources.
The genre reached its peak in England during the nineteenth century, partly due to the rising popularity of the Gothic novel. Works by authors like Scott, Dickens, and Wilkie Collins were...
