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	BBC - Drama - Sweeney Todd
		Sweeney is repelled by the presence of his former abuser, and realises he has a chance to take revenge.
		Sweeney is portrayed as a real man, someone whose own history was full of suffering and whose life becomes a kind of paradigm for the darkness of his age.
		Sweeney is portrayed as a man capable of great compassion and love, but whose only ability to exert power over the world was to murder.
	www.bbc.co.uk /drama/sweeneytodd (857 words)

	Sweeney Todd - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		According to the tale, Todd was tried at the Old Bailey and hanged at Tyburn in January 1802, before a large crowd.
		This new element of Sweeney Todd being motivated by vengeance was Bond’s way of grafting dramatic themes from The Revenger's Tragedy onto George Dibdin Pitt’s stage plot.
		The phrase "Sweeney Todd" is also Cockney rhyming slang for the Flying Squad, giving rise to the shortened form "The Sweeney" (the British 1970's Thames Television TV police show The Sweeney took the name from this form).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sweeney_Todd (1319 words)

	Musical Cyberspace: Sondheim's Sweeney Todd (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The two say goodbye and Todd heads for Fleet Street, where Mrs Lovett, the slovenly and conniving owner of a grubby meat pie shop, is busy shooing flies away from her main source of income.
		Mrs Lovett concludes her tale with the news that the wife died and the daughter, Johanna, was taken in as Judge Turpin's ward.
		As Todd mourns his dead wife, Tobias, who has gone stark raving mad, seizes the razor and slits Todd's throat, bringing the tale to the point at which the audience arrived (THE BALLAD OF SWEENEY TODD).
	www.geocities.com /joecable1997/sweeneytodd.html (1439 words)

	Sweeney Todd
		Sweeney's exploits reached a greater public when the prolific George Dibdin Pitt in March 1847 presented "The String of Pearls, or the Fiend of Fleet Street" as a melodrama at the Royal Britannia Saloon, where it soon became a long-running success.
		The old Sweeney was an object of boos and hisses; Bond's Sweeney divides the audience's emotions, for he is both a pitiable creature and an abomination.
		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” (interview).
	www.larryavisbrown.homestead.com /files/Sondheim/sweeneytodd.htm (4234 words)

	Sweeney Todd (Sondheim) - Guide to Musical Theatre
		Sweeney Todd echoes that sentiment but for different reasons: London is a hell hole, a fl pit in which all the vermin of the earth are gathered.
		Todd is cruelly abusive, to the surprise of Anthony, who has only known him as kind and gentle.
		The smoke from the chimneys has also drawn the attention of the crazy beggar woman, who shrieks her warning of City on Fire as Todd's scheme races to its conclusion: Johanna is rescued by Anthony, the Judge joins the Beadle in the furnace, as does the foolish madwoman.
	www.nodanw.com /shows_s/sweeney_todd.htm (1294 words)

	First Year Players Website
		One of those is that the first appearance of Sweeney Todd in print was in November, 1846 in The People's Periodical and Family Library, which was called a Penny Dreadful - a short weekly newspaper (not unlike current Tabloids) which printed romantic stories, letters and the like, usually intended for women.
		Dramatized the next year on the stage of the Britannia Theatre in London, Todd began to emerge as a more significant character, and through the next few years, different authors and playwrights continued to plagiarize the original story, ultimately making the story entirely about Sweeney Todd, and his neighbor Mrs.
		Todd becomes a sympathetic character, a victim of society only driven to his acts because of injustice.
	www.firstyearplayers.org /shows/sweeney91/director.php (488 words)

	Sweeney Todd
		Sweeney Todd Closed 5 February 2005- the demon barber of Fleet Street is a Musical by Stephen Sondheim with book by Hugh Wheeler, from an adaptation by Christopher Bond.
		Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is based on a 19th century legend of a half-mad London barber, who is driven to crime when a malevolent judge takes his wife and child from him.
		Sweeney Todd Closed 5 February 2005 This wonderfully fresh and fierce, small-scale version directed and designed by John Doyle, which originated at Newbury's Watermill Theatre, has landed in London for a run at the Trafalgar Studios...
	www.londontheatreticketweb.co.uk /the_sweeney_todd.htm (352 words)

	Stephen Sondheim Stage: Sweeney Todd - Some Ethical Perspectives
		Todd is the honest man driven mad by grief and his overwhelming desire for revenge, Mrs.
		Todd's situation calls into question the very nature of justice: Todd, a working-class citizen, was unjustly sent to prison, his wife raped, and his daughter committed to an insane asylum, all by Judge Turpin, the representative of justice and law.
		In Sweeney Todd he creates a world which is strongly Hobbesian in its outlook, with echoes of the nihilism of Nietschze and the existentialism of Kierkegaard and others (like Sartre and Beckett).
	www.sondheim.com /shows/essay/sweeney.html (2086 words)

	National Initiatives: Great American Voices Military Base Tour - Sweeney Todd
		After Sweeney chases away an old beggar woman, he tells Anthony the story of a barber who was unjustly arrested and taken from his wife by Judge Turpin and his beadle.
		All this notwithstanding, Sweeney Todd is deeply rooted in a style of music drama more characteristic of the opera house than of Broadway or Hollywood, and for all its wonderfully (one is tempted to say "deliciously") comic moments, it has next to nothing to do with the Rodgers-and-Hammerstein tradition in which Sondheim was raised.
		Needless to say, Sweeney Todd continues to be produced as a musical, most recently (and impressively) as part of the Kennedy Center's Sondheim Celebration, but I am increasingly inclined to think that it makes its strongest effect when sung and played by classically trained artists capable of rising to its near-operatic musical challenges.
	arts.endow.gov /national/gav/sweenytodd.html (2993 words)

	"Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd..."
		The script plays Sweeney much kinder than he actually was, not that his character is that warm either.
		There is no evidence of Sweeney Todd ever being married, or a Judge he personally had contact with during the murders, let alone was out to kill.
		Sweeney Todd kills people, in the play, whom he feels are greedy, selfish, and self serving, only out to hurt and swindle others.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/learn_from_classics/85276/2 (432 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Sweeney Todd: DVD: Ray Winstone,Essie Davis,David Warner,Tom Hardy,David Bradley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Based on a real-life serial killer from 18th century London, Sweeney Todd tells the story of the murderous barber of Fleet Street, east London, who slashes the necks of his unsuspecting victims whilst they are sat in his chair.
		Body parts begin to appear in the Fleet River and with the threat of capture upon him Sweeney Todd is unable to run away from the monster inside and his murderous spree intensifies, threatening the lives of all around him.
		The journey sweeney todd takes from a man seemingly disgruntled at the injustices in society to someone who can`t stop killing his customers is entralling but not for the faint hearted.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Sweeney-Todd-Ray-Winstone/dp/B000CZ0O2W (787 words)

	When Barbers Attack - The Tech
		Seeing “Sweeney Todd” without knowing the plot beforehand is like plunging headfirst into a Wizard of Oz-esque tornado, a surprising whirlwind of the macabre and filth of 19th-century London.
		Cursed with having a beautiful wife, barber Sweeney Todd loses her and his daughter to a sexually sadistic judge who exiles him for life.
		The most bone-chilling part of “Sweeney,” however, is enduring the hellish and ear-straining screams of the children at the insane asylum.
	www-tech.mit.edu /V125/N37/37sweeneytodd.html (672 words)

	San Diego Playbill - Local Reviews
		This darkly humorous Stephen Sondheim masterpiece tells the tale of Sweeney Todd — a barber who is sent unjustly to the Botany Bay penal colony in Australia while his wife is raped by the evil Judge Turpin who sent Sweeney away.
		Driving Sweeney even further towards the brink of insanity, he soon learns that Turpin is thinking of turning his ward into his wife.
		Sweeney can “shave” the undesirables out of London society and she can pack her meat pies with a filling far fresher than the stuff she’s been using.
	www.sandiegoplaybill.com /reviews/reviews_sweeneytodd_rss.html (666 words)

	Sweeney Todd (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		It tells the story of a barber named Sweeney Todd who is driven to crime after a malevolent judge takes his wife and child from him.
		Taken from a 19th century British legend, Sweeney Todd tells the story of a barber who returns to London after a long (and false) imprisonment to seek revenge on the cruel judge who sentenced him to jail, and who stole his wife and daughter in the process.
		Wheeler’s book—one of Broadway’s finest—also deserves mention for effortlessly juggling several complicated subplots (which include the potential rescue of Sweeney’s daughter by a lovestruck sailor, the nagging presence of a ubiquitous beggar woman, and the appearance of a rival Italian barber and his simpleton sidekick), and striking the perfect balance of dialogue and song.
	www.nytheatre.com /nytheatre/sweeney1863.htm (1352 words)

	PBS - Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street
		Sweeney Todd's first known appearance in print was in an 1846 "penny dreadful," a type of horror tale of the era published in serial form, The People's Periodical.
		No public records substantiate the existence of a London barber named Todd in the late 18th century or, for that matter, of a barber shop located on Fleet Street.
		And Thomas Prest, the writer who first set down Sweeney Todd's name in print, was known to hunt regularly through newspapers for his story ideas.
	www.pbs.org /kqed/demonbarber/penny (427 words)

	The New Yorker : critics : theatre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Sweeney, who was transported to Australia for fifteen years on a trumped-up charge by a judge who lusted after his wife, returns to London in disguise to find his wife apparently dead and his beloved daughter the ward of the very judge who sent him away.
		For instance, when Sweeney learns that the judge has consigned Johanna to a madhouse for “safe-keeping,” Johanna, on the other side of the stage, draws her bow across her cello in a single tremulous punishing note that suggests the howling inmates.
		In Doyle’s “Sweeney Todd,” novelty is supported by substance; in Michael John LaChiusa’s “See What I Wanna See” (at the Public), the substance is novelty itself.
	www.newyorker.com /critics/theatre/articles/051114crth_theatre (1597 words)

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		BII Winds Demon Barber Todd de Towih is a solidly built, solid fawn boy who will be two years old in July, 2005.
		Sweeney went on to the Best in International Invitational runs and was drawn with Montu the Pharaoh hound and Elley the Rhodesian Ridgeback.
		Sweeney continued pushing for the rest of the course, never slowing down and making a whippet finish on his back and head before popping back to his feet with the lure in his mouth.
	www.toddbirchfield.com /sweeney.aspx (447 words)

	Amazon.com: Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1979 Original Broadway Cast): Music: Stephen ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In this macabre extravaganza, Lansbury's Nellie Lovett is the accomplice of Len Cariou's Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.
		Len Cariou as Sweeney Todd may feel a bit underpowered at times, but it all goes to underscore the differences between the Todd character's outward appearances and inward struggle.
		A puppet to the whimsy of those around him, Todd's mental instability rears its ugly head in the form of murder when he elects to dispose of those who take a seat in his chair for a shave and haircut.
	www.amazon.com /Sweeney-Barber-Street-Original-Broadway/dp/B000002W4L (2054 words)

	village voice > theater > Feingold reviews Sweeney Todd by Michael Feingold (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Sweeney Todd is a man who, thwarted in his desire for personal revenge, becomes an urban terrorist, taking revenge on anonymous folk indiscriminately; Mrs.
		Sweeney's lethal new barber chair is a child's white coffin.
		The physical staging is largely static (have to be careful of those instruments), the overall atmosphere one of careful efficiency, rather than either the extreme passion of melodrama or the eerieness that you would expect the haunted-asylum concept to evoke.
	www.villagevoice.com /theater/0545,feingold,69746,11.html (896 words)

	Sweeney Todd (musical) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street is a musical (also considered by many to be an English language opera due to the form and the construct of the show) with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Hugh Wheeler.
		The musical is based on the 19th century legend of Sweeney Todd, and specifically upon the 1973 play by Christopher Bond.
		Todd rushes downstairs to find his partner dragging the Beggar woman to the huge oven in which she cooks her pies.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sweeney_Todd_(musical) (4149 words)

	Amazon.com: Sweeney Todd - The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street: DVD: Angela Lansbury,George Hearn,Cris Groenendaal,Sara ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Stephen Sondheim's Victorian horror thriller Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is generally considered his greatest work, macabre but darkly humorous with a viscerally powerful score that has found a home both on Broadway and in opera houses.
		But Sweeney Todd is an especially compelling experience in this 1982 version, complete with the clever staging tricks (e.g., the barber's chair) and as close to the original cast as we're likely to see.
		If you must see a Sweeney on DVD at present, (and for those who are seeing the piece for the first time) the San Francisco live performance is a more exciting experience.
	www.amazon.com /Sweeney-Todd-Demon-Barber-Street/dp/B00005JL6V (2763 words)

	Talkin' Broadway Review: Sweeney Todd
		Jonathan Tunick's orchestrations made sharp distinctions between the darkest moments, such as when Sweeney loses his mind after failing to kill the judge who sent him away and raped his wife, and the instances of invigorating comedy, such as the first-act finale in which Sweeney and his cohort Mrs.
		When Sweeney's now-grown daughter Johanna and her secret beau Anthony scheme to escape the Judge's clutches, their gorgeous romantic duet "Kiss Me" (sung in counterpoint with the Judge chit-chatting with his corrupt Beadle) is perfunctory, not even hinting at the near-orgasmic release so integral to the original scoring.
		Most notable: During the face-off between Sweeney and Pirelli, she parades downstage, blasting on her shiny tuba (where did the institution get that?), and wriggling her ample (and heavily padded) posterior in the most glamorously distracting of scene-stealing ways.
	www.talkinbroadway.com /world/STodd.html (1194 words)

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		The earliest version of a Sweeney Todd story was in the novel “A String of Pearls” by British writer George Dibdin-Pitt (1799-1855), a melodramatic account in 1847 of Todd’s arrest, trial and execution.
		Until recently, Pitt was called the inventor of the fictional Sweeney Todd, a cartoonish boogeyman.
		At the end of his crime spree, Sweeney Todd was tried in 1801 and then hanged in 1802.
	www.mauinews.com /story.aspx?id=18494 (1441 words)

	Show Information: Sweeney Todd: Music Theatre International - MTI - Musical Theatre Broadway Shows Available for ...
		Sophisticated, macabre, visceral and uncompromising, “Sweeney Todd” nevertheless has a great sense of fun, mixing intense drama with howlingly funny moments of dark humor: audiences find themselves laughing hysterically one moment and gasping in surprise the next.
		At the show’s core is a challenging score of epic proportion with two tasty tour de force roles in Sweeney and his comic female accomplice Mrs.
		Although it has been extremely popular with opera companies and in concert presentation, “Sweeney Todd” is equally effective as an intimate chamber musical.
	www.mtishows.com /show_home.asp?ID=000075 (460 words)

	Sweeney Todd Broadway (BroadwayWorld.com)
		Sweeney Todd is my favorite show of all time.
		Sweeney Todd is what opened me up to musical theatre when I watched George Hearn and Patti LuPone live on PBS from San Francisco.
		During the hauntingly beautiful final "Ballad of Sweeney Todd," Manoel Felciano (Tobias) has come to the lip of the stage while the entire murdered cast comes to join him in a line, each with their instruments and blood-soaked lab coats.
	www.broadwayworld.com /showinfo.cfm?showid=957 (854 words)

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