SWEENEY TODD
Opened: March 1, 1979 and ran for 557 performances. Closed June 29 1980
Book By: Hugh Wheeler
Muisc By: Stephen Sondheim
Lyrics By: Stephen Sondheim
Directed By: Harold Prince
Music Director: Paul Gemignani
Choreography By: Larry Fuller
Released By:
Show Status: Closed
Based on: a play by Christopher Bond.
Synopsis:
Benjamin Barker returns from prison and assumes the name of Sweeney Todd. But when he finds out that a judge is tormenting his wife and daughter, Sweeney decides it's time to cut more than just the judge's hair. Mrs. Nellie Lovett, the downstairs neighbor who concocts a scheme that will give both of them what they want.
Original Broadway Cast:

Anthony Hope - Victor Garber
Sweeney Todd - Len Cariou
Beggar Woman - Merle Louise
Mrs. Lovett - Angela Lansbury
Judge Turpin - Edmund Lyndeck
Beadle Bamford - Jack Eric Williams
Johanna - Sarah Rice
Tobias Ragg - Ken Jennings
Pirelli - Joaquin Romaguera
Jonas Fogg - Robert Ousley
Songs:

Act One

Prologue "The Ballad of Sweeney Todd" - Company
"No Place Like London" - Anthony, Sweeney, Beggar Woman
"The Barber and His Wife" - Sweeney
"The Worst Pies in London" - Mrs. Lovett
* "Poor Thing" - Mrs. Lovett
"My Friends" - Sweeney, Mrs. Lovett
* "Green Finch and Linnet Bird" - Johanna
* "Ah, Miss" - Anthony, Beggar Woman
"Johanna" - Anthony
* "Pirelli's Miracle Elixir" - Tobias, Sweeney, Mrs. Lovett, Company
* "The Contest" - Pirelli
* "Wait" - Mrs. Lovett
* "Kiss Me" - Johanna, Anthony
* "Ladies in Their Sensitivities" - The Beadle
"Kiss Me/Ladies in Their Sensitivities [Quartet]" - Johanna, Anthony, The Beadle, Judge Turpin
"Pretty Women" - Sweeney, Judge Turpin
"Epiphany" - Sweeney
"A Little Priest" - Sweeney, Mrs. Lovett
Act Two

"God, That's Good" - Tobias, Mrs. Lovett, Sweeney, Beggar Woman, Company
"Johanna" - Anthony, Sweeney, Johanna, Beggar Woman
"By the Sea" - Mrs. Lovett
* Wigmaker Sequence - Sweeney, Anthony, Company
* "The Letter" - Sweeney, Company
"Not While I'm Around" - Tobias, Mrs. Lovett
* "Parlor Songs" - The Beadle, Mrs. Lovett, Tobias
Final Sequence
* "City on Fire!" - Lunatics, Johanna, Anthony
* "Searching"- Mrs. Lovett, Sweeney, Beggar Woman, Anthony, Johanna
"The Judge's Return" - Sweeney, Beggar Woman, Judge Turpin
Final Scene - Mrs. Lovett, Sweeney, Tobias
Epilogue "The Ballad of Sweeney Todd" - Company
Albums:
Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1979 Original Broadway Cast)
Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Highlights from the 1979 Original Broadway Cast)
DVD & VHS:
Sweeney Todd - The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street DVD
Sweeney Todd in Concert DVD
The Stephen Sondheim Collection
Sweeney Todd - The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street VHS
Sweeney Todd in Concert VHS
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