Joanne Whalley stars as Mrs Lovett and Martin Jarvis as barber Sweeney Todd in this masterly, rediscovered, horror-thriller. Based on the novel by Thomas Prest.
Following this production, Sweeney Todd, the Barber of Fleet Street: or the String of Pearls, premiered at the Old Bower Saloon, Stangate Street, Lambeth circa 1865, in a dramatic adaptation ...
The story of Sweeney Todd comes from a penny dreadful called The String of Pearls, which was published in a weekly magazine during the winter of 1846–47. The landmark musical is based on an ...
In the weeks leading up to Bozeman’s first professional production of “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street,” discussion among the Opera Montana production team kept coming back to ...