Sweeney Todd

Cast: 3f 7m, plus extras

Performing rights not held by Nick Hern Books

Paperback, 192 pages ISBN: 9781854591081Publication Date:
14 Nov 1991
Size: 198mm x 132mm£12.99 £10.39You save £2.60 (20%)
First Staged:
New York 1979; West End 1980

Sweeney Todd

By Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler

Paperback £12.99£10.39

  • Best Musical, Tony Awards - 1979
  • Best New Musical, Olivier Awards - 1980

The gruesomely fascinating musical about the 'Demon Barber of Fleet Street', one of Sondheim's greatest hits. From the writing partnership behind A Little Night Music.

Victim of a gross injustice that robbed him of his wife and child, Sweeney Todd sets about exacting a terrible revenge on society: slitting the throats of the customers who visit his barbershop.

But things are getting complicated – a romance has developed with Mrs Lovett, the lady who runs the pie shop next door, and the disappearances are starting to cause concern. With the bodies piling up, Sweeney Todd hits upon a novel idea, and starts passing on his 'patrons' to his homely neighbour... Meat pie, anyone?

Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's musical Sweeney Todd opened on Broadway in 1979 and in the West End in 1980. It won the Tony Award for Best Musical and Olivier Award for Best New Musical. It has since had numerous revivals as well as a film adaptation.

Press Quotes

'A masterpiece, perhaps the last truly great American musical. This is, in short, a blood-drenched love letter you are unlikely to forget in a hurry'

Daily Telegraph

'Sondheim has been inching closer and closer to pure opera, and Sweeney Todd is the closest he's come yet'

Newsweek

Cast: 3f 7m, plus extras

Performing rights not held by Nick Hern Books

Paperback,192 pages ISBN: 9781854591081Publication Date:
14 Nov 1991
Size: 198mm x 132mm£12.99 £10.39You save £2.60 (20%)

Also by Stephen Sondheim:

Into the Woods
Assassins
A Little Night Music
Pacific Overtures
Company: The Complete Revised Book and Lyrics
Follies
Road Show
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Passion
Here We Are
Gypsy
Company
Sunday in the Park with George
Getting Away With Murder

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Also by Hugh Wheeler:

A Little Night Music

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