"Sweeney Todd"
music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
book by Hugh Wheeler
based on a version of "Sweeney Todd" by Christopher
Bond
Todd, a barber in 19th century London, has been
unjustly exiled by a lecherous judge who is covetous of Todd's
wife. He returns home to exact his revenge. With the aid of the
cheerfully amoral Mrs. Lovett, proprietress of the struggling
meat pie shop located beneath his parlor, Sweeney wreaks vengeance,
slitting the throats of customers and sending them downstairs
to fill Mrs. Lovett's meat pies. A frighteningly fun, suspenseful
melodrama.