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Sweeney Todd
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In this adaptation of the classic musical, Sweeney Todd (Johnny Depp) is a barber who is sent to prison for a crime he didn't commit. After his release years later, Sweeney opens up a new shop and plots revenge against the judge (Alan Rickman) who sent him behind bars. But, before he does, he practices his knife skills on unsuspecting customers who have their necks cut along with their hair. The bodies of his victims then fall into the possession of Sweeney's girlfriend, Mrs. Lovett (Helena Bonham Carter), who carves them into delicious meat pies that become the talk of the town.
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This Oxford edition of the original story of Sweeney Todd is the movie tie-in edition for the winter 2007 film version starring Johnny Depp and directed by Tim Burton. While the story of Sweeney Todd has been told many times, perhaps most notably in the musical with lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, this edition is the first time the original tale has been reprinted since it was serialized in The People's Periodical in 1846-7. The story of murder and pie-making, this is a classic of British horro writing.
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Sweeney Todd, a resident barber of London, has an urge inside of him to kill. As it grows and grows, he comes to fancy a young woman whom he cannot have -- both because she is married and because he is not physically capable. As they grow closer, he lets her in on his secret and a macabre friendship is born -- one a butcher and the other a maker of meat pies.
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In the early 2000s, Sweeney Todd gained acceptance with opera companies throughout the United States, Canada, Japan, Germany, Israel, Spain, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and Australia. Bryn Terfel, the popular Welsh bass-baritone, performed the title role at Lyric Opera of Chicago in 2002. It was performed at the Royal Opera House in London as part of the Royal Opera season (December 2003-January 2004). The Israeli National Opera has performed Sweeney Todd twice. The Icelandic Opera performed Sweeney Todd in the fall of 2004, the first time in Iceland.
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Attend the history of Sweeney Todd: Stephen Sondheim is only the latest in a long line of playwrights exploiting one of London’s seediest legends. The infamous barber’s first British appearance was in an 1846 “penny dreadful”–one of those serialized Victorian horror stories–under the title "The String of Pearls: A Romance,” by Thomas Prest. He probably borrowed from a (purportedly) true French account of a Parisian barber and his baker accomplice. Pulp playwright George Dibdin Pitt soon lifted himself, turning it into a melodrama subtitled The Fiend of Fleet Street. The next century saw dozens of theatrical productions, a movie version, even a ballet–and Christopher Bond’s straight play Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, which Stephen Sondheim first saw in 1973.
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Sweeney Todd Waste Disposal was started in July 1995 by dentist Hugh Parsons and his wife Judith. It is based in Lara near Geelong and has 10 trucks and a customer service vehicle servicing clients all over Victoria, and now into South East South Australia.
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