Sweeney Todd
Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Book by Hugh Wheeler
Based on the play by Christopher Bond.
Low-priced Previews Mar 18 - Mar 26, 2010
Stephen Sondheim’s (A Little Night Music) chilling, suspenseful, heart-pounding masterpiece of murderous barber-ism and culinary crime is a mix of macabre, visceral drama with howlingly funny dark humor. Sweeney Todd, a barber seeking revenge and the proprietress of the pie shop downstairs, Mrs. Lovett, soon have the people of 19th century London lining up for meat pies! “More fun than a graveyard on the annual Skeleton’s Ball.” Daily News