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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street -  (Sweeney Todd)

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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Sondheim

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Music & Lyrics by Stephen SondheimBook by Hugh WheelerIt's time. Book now: http://www.wno.org.uk/sweeney

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★★★★★ ‘The show is a full-blooded triumph’ The Stage
★★★★ ‘Brilliant....A razor-sharp show in every sense’ The Times
★★★★ The Sunday Telegraph

It's time. Book now: http://www.wno.org.uk/sweeney

Until 29 November.

WNO | Sweeney Todd | The Ballad of Sweeney Todd

The Demon Barber of Fleet Street – sioe gerdd gyffrous

Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim

Book by Hugh Wheeler
From an adaptation by Christopher Bond 
Originally directed by Harold Prince 
Original orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick

After 15 years of wrongful imprisonment, barber Sweeney Todd returns to London in search of his wife and daughter. He loses his mind when pie-shop owner Mrs Lovett reveals their respective murder and mistreatment at the hands of a sinister Judge. His grizzly quest for revenge leads to a heartbreaking discovery.

Sweeney Todd fills a void with a bloody and blind quest for vengeance. Those who enter his shop get more than a close shave. The unlucky ones ending up in Mrs Lovett’s rather unsavoury pies, proving you are what you eat. 

Sondheim’s masterpiece is by turns hugely funny, terrifying and deeply sad. It works on a number of different levels, is complex but always engaging. In a scene of high comedy, Mrs Lovett explains why hers are ‘The worst pies in London’. In another, Sweeney is reunited with the razor blades he left behind when he was wrongfully imprisoned. There are few scenes like it. On one hand it is disturbing – he regards the razors as his friends and begins to be distanced from the real world – but it is also strangely moving. The musical’s finale is devastating but also hugely cathartic. 

James Brining’s thrilling production is set in the late 1970s/early 1980s. It emphasises Sondheim’s message that it’s not just Sweeney who is insane. Through its corruption and inequality, society is totally mad. See Sweeney Todd and you’ll find that it buries itself in your consciousness and refuses to leave. Sweeney Todd has all the emotional impact of the greatest operas. It deserves to be performed by the forces of our Chorus and Orchestra.

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