Sweeney Todd

Lovett is so drunk on this man that when he returns to London, starts calling himself by the name Sweeney Todd, and quits cutting hair—choosing to slit throats instead—she doesn’t just stand by her man, she concocts an ingenious plan to dispose of his victims: She’ll bake the cadavers into pies.

Theater Geek Mickey Rapkin 2010

The movie opens with Barker returning to London after being in prison for 15 years, taking up the new name Sweeney Todd and vowing revenge.

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Fred Perry 2008

The movie opens with Barker returning to London after being in prison for 15 years, taking up the new name Sweeney Todd and vowing revenge.

Archive 2008-01-01 Fred Perry 2008

Taking on the alias Sweeney Todd, Barker's initial straight-line revenge scheme is derailed, but he makes up for it by slicing his way through the city's not-likely-to-be-missed, depositing the bodies into the waiting grinder of pie shop proprietress Mrs. Lovett (Nicole Robert), who is as glad for the fresh meat as for Todd's company.

Vue Weekly David Berry / david@vueweekly.com 2010

Taking on the alias Sweeney Todd, Barker's initial straight-line revenge scheme is derailed, but he makes up for it by slicing his way through the city's not-likely-to-be-missed, depositing the bodies into the waiting grinder of pie shop proprietress Mrs. Lovett (Nicole Robert), who is as glad for the fresh meat as for Todd's company.

Vue Weekly David Berry / david@vueweekly.com 2010

The show is based on a 1968 play by Christopher Bond, in turn based on a 19th-century English "penny dreadful" horror story: Handsome barber Benjamin Barker, alias Sweeney Todd, returning to London after 15 years in an Australian penal colony on false charges, seeks revenge on Judge Turpin, who set him up in order to steal his wife.

'Sweeney Todd' Is a Cut Above Judy Fayard 2011

I want to be excited at the idea of Sweeney Todd winning will it?

Some Harmless Fun 2008

I want to be excited at the idea of Sweeney Todd winning will it?

Archive 2008-02-01 2008

We saw a number of great shows in Manhattan this trip, namely Sweeney Todd, Air Guitar and The Further Cuteness of Hank and Lucy.

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We saw a number of great shows in Manhattan this trip, namely Sweeney Todd, Air Guitar and The Further Cuteness of Hank and Lucy.

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