A corrupt judge who became obsessed with Lucy Barker, and later with her daughter Johanna. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (often referred to simply as Sweeney Todd) is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by Hugh Wheeler. Johanna hears the beggar woman entering and hides in a trunk in the barbershop. They have been restored in subsequent productions. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (often referred to simply as Sweeney Todd) is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by Hugh Wheeler. In 2004, John Doyle directed a revival of the musical at the Watermill Theatre in Newbury, England, running from July 27, 2004, until October 9, 2004. They worked together on all their scenes, both of them creative actors who were experienced in giving intense performances. Anthony draws a pistol given to him by Todd, but cannot bring himself to shoot Jonas Fogg, the corrupt asylum owner; Johanna grabs the pistol and kills Fogg. The murderous barber's story was turned into a play before the ending had even been revealed in print. Jonathan Tunick was Stephen Sondheim's orchestrator of choice, orchestrating nearly all of his musicals, including Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd, Into the Woods, Passion, and Merrily We Roll Along, plus A Chorus Line, Nine, A Gentleman's Guide, the recent Carousel, West Side Story, and The Music Man.He was Composer/Conductor for six motion pictures, plus the TV . However, Prince soon discovered a metaphor in which to set the show, making what Sondheim had originally envisioned as "a small horror piece" into a colossal portrait of the Industrial Revolution, and an examination of the general human condition of the time as it related to men like Sweeney Todd. Cariou played the title character in the macabre Sweeney Todd, a London barber who dispatches customers with a razor and turns their bodies over to Lansbury's Mrs. Lovett, a baker who repurposes them for meat pies. Angela Lansbury, one of the most beloved and respected performers in show business, passed away October 11. The following month, Melbourne Theatre Company's version opened at the Playhouse in Melbourne, directed by Roger Hodgman with Peter Carroll as Sweeney Todd, Geraldine Turner as Mrs. Lovett and Jon Ewing as Judge Turpin. On April 5, 1995, it premiered in Catalan at the theater Poliorama of Barcelona (later moving to the Apollo), in a production of the Drama Centre of the Government of Catalonia. Todd enters and tries to force her to leave as she again seems to recognize him ("Beggar Woman's Lullaby"). Concert version was performed at Los Angeles' Ahmanson Theatre on March 1214, 1999 with Kelsey Grammer as Todd, Christine Baranski as Mrs. Lovett, Davis Gaines as Anthony, Neil Patrick Harris as Tobias, Melissa Manchester as The Beggar Woman, Roland Rusinek as The Beadle, Dale Kristien as Johanna and Ken Howard as Judge Turpin. It was also the first time the show had been presented in an intimate house (Equity 99-seat). A simpleton who works first for con-man Pirelli and then for Mrs. Lovett, but does not trust Todd. "[4], When it came to casting, Sondheim thought stage veteran Angela Lansbury would add some needed comedy to the grim tale as the lunatic Cockney shopkeeper, but Lansbury needed to be convinced. It included the Judge's "Johanna" and the tooth-pulling contest from Act I, which had been cut in previews. This song is an optional verse of "Sweet Polly Plunkett.". Rather, it seemed to me that the attempt to actually sing the Sondheim score, which relies heavily on a dramatic parlando or speaking style, mainly showed how far from the operatic vocal tradition the work lies. [56], Produced by Atlantis Theatrical Entertainment Group and directed by Bobby Garcia with musical direction by Gerard Salonga, it starred Jett Pangan as Sweeney Todd, Lea Salonga as Mrs. Lovett, Gerald Santos as Anthony Hope, Nyoy Volante as Adolfo Pirelli, Mikkie Bradshaw-Volante as Johanna, Ima Castro as the Beggar Woman, Andrew Fernando as Judge Turpin, Luigi Quesada as Tobias, Arman Ferrer as Beadle, and Dean Rosen as Jonas Fogg. Adrian Lester and Barry James received nominations in the category of Best Supporting Performance In a Musical for their portrayals of Anthony and Beadle Bamford respectively.[24]. [57][58], The first opera company to mount Sweeney Todd was the Houston Grand Opera in a production directed by Hal Prince, which ran from June 14, 1984, through June 24, 1984, for a total of 10 performances. It is based on the 1970 play of the same name by Christopher Bond. It was essentially charming over there because they don't take Sweeney Todd seriously. Cariou played the title character in the macabre "Sweeney Todd," a London barber who dispatches customers with a razor and turns their bodies over to Lansbury's Mrs. Lovett, a baker who repurposes them for meat pies. The other voices in the cast also were known quantities. Upstairs, she encounters the Beadle at her harmonium; he has been asked by Lovett's neighbors to investigate the strange smoke and stench from the pie shop's chimney. He asserted, "what the show is really about is obsession. [41], Irish tenor David Shannon starred as Todd in a highly successful Dublin production of the show at the Gate Theatre, which ran from April 2007 through June 2007. Anthony Hope: Sara Woods . "[23] This production received Olivier Awards for Best Musical Revival, Best Actor in a Musical (Armstrong) and Best Actress in a Musical (McKenzie), and Best Director Of A Musical for Donnellan. 1980 musical by Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler, This article is about the 1979 musical. Director Lonny Price directed a semi-staged concert production of "Sweeney Todd in Concert on May 46, 2000 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center, New York with the New York Philharmonic. [53], The production starred Teddy Tahu Rhodes as Sweeney Todd, Antoinette Halloran as Mrs. Lovett, Phillip Rhodes as Judge Turpin, Kanen Breen as Beadle Bamford (later replaced by Andrew Glover during the New Zealand tour), David Rogers-Smith as Adolfo Pirelli (replaced by Robert Tucker in New Zealand), Ross Hannaford as Tobias Ragg (replaced by Joel Grainger in New Zealand), Blake Bowden as Anthony Hope (replaced James Benjamin Rodgers in New Zealand), Amelia Berry as Johanna, Dimity Shepherd as the Beggar Woman (replaced by Helen Medlyn in New Zealand), and Jeremy Kleeman as Jonas Fogg.[54][55]. In his proper place. But other than that, it's all phenomenal-- Angela Lansbury *made* the role of Mrs. Lovette, and she just does it so well. The show did a four-week run and ended on June 8, 2008.[45]. [31] This production takes place in a pie shop that has been recreated for the occasion in Shaftesbury Avenue and ran from March 19 to May 16, 2015. Whilst it remained unclear if the casting of predominantly unknown actors helped the tour, the production was applauded for its use of emerging performers and played to almost exclusively sold-out venues. [68], Stephen Sondheim believed that Sweeney Todd is a story of revenge and how it consumes a vengeful person. The following songs were cut: "Wigmaker Sequence", "The Letter", "Parlor Songs", "City on Fire", and half of the final sequence (which includes "The Judge's Return"). "[8], With Prince absorbed in staging the mammoth production, Lansbury and Cariou were left largely to their own when it came to developing their characters. Brown. The cast included Christopher Chew as Sweeney Todd and Amelia Broome as Mrs. [38], The musical was premiered on June 5, 1992, at the Erkel Theater in Budapest, Hungary. Leaving Anthony, Todd enters a meat pie shop on Fleet Street, where the owner, the slatternly widow Mrs. Lovett, laments the scarcity of meat and customers ("Worst Pies in London"). In the basement, Toby discovers hair and fingernails in a pie he has been eating, just as the Beadle's fresh corpse comes tumbling through the chute. Not to be confused with, Artwork from the original Broadway production. This production was taped for PBS and broadcast in 2001, and won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Classical Music-Dance Program. Hal Prince gave it an epic sense, a sense that this was a man of some size instead of just a nut case. Like the London production, the transfer was directed by Bill Buckhurst, designed by Simon Kenny and produced by Rachel Edwards, Jenny Gersten, Seaview Productions, and Nate Koch, executive producer, in association with Barrow Street Theatre. Todd kills O'Higgins by slitting his throat ("Pirelli's Death" and "The Ballad of Sweeney Todd" reprise 3) and temporarily hides his body. The 1982 taped stage version of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, starring Angela Lansbury and George Hearn, will air on Turner Classic Movies March 21 at 1 PM ET; check local . This production was notable for having no orchestra, with the 10-person cast playing the score themselves on musical instruments that they carried onstage. A mad crone whose interjections go unheeded, eventually identified as Benjamin Barker's wife, Lucy, who was raped by Judge Turpin. On September 12, 2015, Sweeney Todd opened at the San Francisco Opera with Brian Mulligan as Todd, Stephanie Blythe as Mrs. Lovett, Matthew Grills as Tobias, Heidi Stober as Johanna, Elliot Madore as Anthony and Elizabeth Futral as the Beggar Woman/Lucy. Share to Pinterest. Todd has acquired a special mechanical barber's chair that allows him to kill clients and then send their bodies directly through a chute into the pie shop's basement bakehouse. 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It was brought back for limited runs in 1986 and 2004. Because of the small scale of the musical, it cost $3.5 million to make, a sum small in comparison to many Broadway musicals and recouped in nineteen weeks. The show receives three 2015 Helen Hayes Awards nominations for Best Musical, Outstanding Director of a Musical (Melissa Baughman), and Outstanding Music Director (Charles W. Johnson). Sondheim felt that the addition of music would greatly increase the size of the drama, transforming it into a different theatrical experience, saying later: What I did to Chris' play is more than enhance it. When Todd asks after the empty upstairs apartment, she reveals that its former tenant, Benjamin Barker, was transported for life based on false charges by Judge Turpin, who, along with his servant, Beadle Bamford, then lured Barker's wife Lucy to a masked ball at the Judge's home and raped her ("Poor Thing"). It was also confirmed that the production remains set in the 19th century. Todd awaits the Beadle's arrival with mounting impatience, but Mrs. Lovett tries to soothe him ("Wait"). A baker from London, Mrs. Lovett is an accomplice and business partner of Sweeney Todd, a barber and serial killer from Fleet Street. To convince her, Sondheim "auditioned," writing a couple of songs for her, including the macabre patter song, "A Little Priest." Sweeney Todd: [singing] Is it really good? [77] It was selected by the National Recording Registry for preservation in 2013. Todd assures the Judge that Johanna is repentant, and the judge asks for a quick splash of cologne. An original Broadway cast recording was released by RCA Red Seal in 1979. A beggar woman sexually solicits them, appearing to recognize Todd for a moment ("No Place Like London"), and Todd shoos her away. (AP Photo/Ray Stubblebine, File), Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. CAPTION. The Canadian-born Cariou appeared in seven episodes, airing between 1985 and 1992, in the recurring role of former British intelligence agent Michael Hagarty. Todd. The production was extended and closed on August 26, 2018.[34][35][36]. The score is one vast structure, each individual part meshing with others for the good of the entire musical machine. The director was Lee Blakeley with choreography by Lorena Randi and designs by Tanya McAllin. [7] In preparation for the role, Cariou (who was studying with a voice teacher at the time) asked Sondheim what kind of range he needed to have in the role. Lansbury died peacefully at her home in Los Angeles on Tuesday, Oct. 11. [61] The same production played at the Ravinia Festival in Chicago on August 24, 2001, with most of the cast from the preceding concerts, except for Plishka and Clark, who were replaced by Sherrill Milnes and Hollis Resnik. He was able to take all these disparate elements that had been in existence rather dully for a hundred and some-odd years and make them into a first-rate play.[4]. That's what the play's about to him; Sweeney Todd is a product of that age. Sweeney Todd earned Tony Awards for both its leading stars Lansbury and Carious as well as designers Eugene and Franne Lee, director Prince and took home the honors for Best Book, Score and. I think it's not. [47], A major new production opened in April 2011 at the Thtre du Chtelet (Paris), which first gave Sondheim a place on the French stage with their production of A Little Night Music. The Tale of Sweeney Todd: Directed by John Schlesinger. The cast features metal band front singers Nina Osegueda (A Sound of Thunder) as Mrs. Lovett, Andrew Lloyd Baughman (Diamond Dead) as Sweeney Todd, Rob Bradley (Aries and Thrillkiller) as Pirelli, and Irene Jericho (Cassandra Syndrome) as Beggar Woman. [5] After she was formally confirmed in the role, she relished the opportunity, saying that she loved "the extraordinary wit and intelligence of [Sondheim's] lyrics. Sweeney Todd: [singing] Awful lot of fat. Tearing off their costumes, the company exits. WBAL NewsRadio 1090/FM 101.5 - Angela Lansbury and Len Cariou were partners-in-crime on stage in "Sweeney Todd" and crime busters in episodes of TV's "Murder, She Wrote." This is the video of the 3 Emmy-winning first national touring company of the 8 Tony Award-winning Sweeney Todd, which was originally shown on PBS, and boasts Angela Lansbury in her Tony Award-winning performance as Mrs. Lovett, and George Hearn, in the defining performance of Sweeney. 2014 prog metal version, Landless Theatre Company, Washington, D.C. Knapp, Raymond. just before Todd slashes his throat and sends him hurtling down the chute ("The Judge's Return"). It starred Paul Hegarty as Todd, Karen Mann as Mrs. Lovett, Rebecca Jackson as The Beggar Woman, Sam Kenyon as Tobias, Rebecca Jenkins as Johanna, David Ricardo-Pearce as Anthony and Colin Wakefield as Judge Turpin. [78], A performance of the 1980 touring company was taped before an audience in 1981 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles during the first national tour, with additional taping done in an empty theatre for a television special. A "Reprise!" Angela. First appearing in the Victorian penny dreadful serial The String of Pearls, it is debated if she was based on an actual person or not. The food is very popular ("God, That's Good!"). Princeton University Press. [3], Bond's sophisticated plot and language significantly elevated the lurid nature of the tale. The production plays at DC's Warehouse Theatre in August 2014. Sondheim grants DC's Landless Theatre Company permission to orchestrate a "prog metal version" of Sweeney Todd, the first rock orchestration of the score. There is no one with whom Id rather run a cutthroat business with, Cariou said in accepting the award for Lansbury. She said to me on her last birthday, a year ago, Its just silly being this old.'". The 1997 Finnish National Opera production premiered on September 19, 1997. [33] The opening night cast featured four members of the London cast: Jeremy Secomb as Sweeney Todd, Siobhan McCarthy as Mrs. Lovett, Duncan Smith as the Judge and, Joseph Taylor as Tobias, alongside Brad Oscar as the Beadle, Betsy Morgan as Pirelli and the Beggar Woman, Matt Doyle as Anthony and Alex Finke as Johanna. "[6], Canadian actor and singer Len Cariou was Sondheim's personal choice to play the tortured barber. The fictional tale of the murderous nineteenth century barber (Sir Ben Kinglsey) who sold his kills to a neighboring butcher (Joanna Lumley) for her renowned meat pies. The Tale of Sweeney Todd is a 1997 American crime-drama/horror television film directed by John Schlesinger and starring Ben Kingsley and Joanna Lumley. After Norm Lewis left, he was replaced by Hugh Panaro in the titular role. Anthony finds Johanna locked away in a private lunatic asylum, but barely escapes being placed under arrest by the Beadle. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Sweeney Todd - Rare Vintage VHS - Broadway Musical - Angela Lansbury - 1982 at the best online prices at eBay! To which Chapin replied: "I would have put it on like a shot if I'd had the opportunity. Sweeney Todd- The Original Broadway Production. Original Language: English. Todd swears revenge on the Judge and the Beadle, and Mrs. Lovett presents Todd with his old collection of sterling silver straight razors, which persuades Todd to take up his old profession ("My Friends" and "The Ballad of Sweeney Todd" reprise). Translated by Juice Leskinen[40], As part of the Kennedy Center Sondheim Celebration, Sweeney Todd ran from May 10, 2002, through June 30, 2002, at the Eisenhower Theatre, starring Brian Stokes Mitchell as Sweeney Todd, Christine Baranski as Mrs. Lovett, Hugh Panaro as Anthony, Walter Charles (a member of the original cast), as Judge Turpin, Celia Keenan-Bolger as Johanna, Mary Beth Peil as The Beggar Woman, Mark Price as Tobias Ragg, Ray Friedeck as Beadle Bamford and Kevin Ligon as Pirelli. Notably the 2004 production starred Mark Delavan and Elaine Paige. [80] Opera North's production was also broadcast by the BBC on March 30, 1998, as was the Royal Opera House production in 2003. No, we all . Lovett. Angela Lansbury . Then again, they don't commit sins of the flesh, so it's pretty fresh. "Not just music hall but dotty music hall", as she put it. It was notably set in the 1930s instead of 1846 and restored the oft-cut song "Johanna (Mea Culpa)". [39], In 1994, East West Players in Los Angeles staged a revival of the show directed by Tim Dang, featuring a largely Asian Pacific American cast. The music helps to give it that dimension. Todd obliquely relates some of his troubled past to Anthony: he was a nave barber, "removedfrom his plate" by a corrupt judge who lusted after Todd's wife ("The Barber and His Wife"). [52] The production was revived for New Zealand Opera in 2016, visiting Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch. The production received 5 Ovation Awards including the Franklin Levy Award for Best Musical (Smaller Theatre) and Best Director (Musical) for Dang. Because it is an opera. Sweeney Todd is a man bent on personal revenge, the way we all are in one way or another, and it has nothing whatsoever to do with the time he lived in, as far as I'm concerned.[4] However, Sondheim accepted Prince's vision as a different way to do the show, and as an opportunity to do the show on a large scale, knowing that small-scale productions could be done at any time. The first Broadway revival opened on September 14, 1989, at the Circle in the Square Theatre, and closed on February 25, 1990, after 189 performances and 46 previews. The character Sweeney Todd originated in serialized Victorian popular fiction, known as penny dreadfuls. Mrs. Lovett, the role originated on Broadway by Angela Lansbury, is a warm . Depending on how and where the show is presented, it is sometimes considered an opera. There are two kinds of men and only two. Meanwhile, Johanna and Anthony plan their elopement ("Kiss Me"), while the Beadle recommends Todd's grooming services to the Judge so that the judge may better win Johanna's affections ("Ladies in Their Sensitivities"). After 15 years in exile, Sweeney Todd, an unsettling man with a mysterious past, arrives in a dark and gritty London, hungry for vengeance against the judge who destroyed his life. "The American Musical and the Performance of Personal Identity (2009)". Times Is Hard. The effect it had at Stratford East in London and the effect it had at the Uris Theater in New York are two entirely different effects, even though it's the same play. Anthony arrives to beg Todd for help to free Johanna, and Todd, revitalized, instructs Anthony to rescue her by posing as a wigmaker intent on purchasing inmates' hair ("Wigmaker Sequence" and "The Ballad" reprise 4). Hearn and LuPone were joined once again by Harris, Gaines, Aler and Olsen as well as new additions Victoria Clark, Lisa Vroman and Timothy Nolen. Todd's reaction reveals that he is himself Benjamin Barker. Cariou played the title character in the macabre "Sweeney Todd," a London barber who dispatches customers with a razor and turns their bodies over to Lansbury's Mrs. Lovett, a baker who. Sweeney Todd opened on Broadway in 1979 and in the West End in 1980. The show received over fifteen awards. Over eighty percent of the production is set to music, either sung or underscoring dialogue. Once he has the Judge in his chair, Todd soothes him with another conversation on women, but this time he alludes to their "fellow tastes, in women at least". Sondheim praised Donnellan for the "small 'chamber' approach to the show, which was the composer's original vision for the piece. [26] A national tour based on Doyle's Broadway production began on August 30, 2007, with Judy Kaye (who had temporarily replaced LuPone in the Broadway run) as Mrs. Lovett and David Hess as Todd. Casually slitting his customers' necks, Todd despairs of ever seeing Johanna, while Anthony searches London for her ("Johanna Quartet"). It was originally produced Off-Broadway by the York Theatre Company at the Church of the Heavenly Rest from March 31, 1989, to April 29, 1989. Stephen Sondheim & Hugh Wheeler's masterpiece, 1979 at the Uris theater on Broadway Angela Lansbury and Len Cariou were partners-in-crime on stage in Sweeney Todd and crime busters in episodes of TVs Murder, She Wrote., LOS ANGELES -- Angela Lansbury and Len Cariou were partners-in-crime on stage in "Sweeney Todd" and crime busters in episodes of TV's Murder, She Wrote.". 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