Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, Book by Hugh Wheeler, based on the novel by Christopher Bond
The infamous tale of Sweeney Todd, an unjustly exiled barber, returning to nineteenth century London to seek vengeance against the lecherous judge who framed him and ravaged his young wife. The road to revenge leads Todd to Mrs. Lovett, a resourceful proprietress of a failing pie shop, above which he opens a new barber practice. Mrs. Lovett’s luck sharply shifts when Todd’s thirst for blood inspires the integration of an ingredient into her meat pies that has the people of London lining up… and the carnage has only just begun!
