Musicals Based on Secular Traditions - Into the Woods, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Cinderella, Camelot, Bat Boy: The Musical (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 33. Chapters: Into the Woods, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Cinderella, Camelot, Bat Boy: The Musical, Once Upon a Mattress, Honk , Cinder Ellen up too Late, The Catch of the Season, The New Aladdin, Galatea, or Pygmalion Reversed, Mr. Cinders, Monkey Business, Which Witch, Isabel's a Jezebel, Spread a Little Happiness. Excerpt: Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street is a 1979 musical thriller with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and libretto by Hugh Wheeler. The musical is based on the 1973 play Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street by Christopher Bond. Sweeney Todd opened on Broadway at the Uris Theatre on March 1, 1979 and ran for 557 performances. It was directed by Harold Prince with musical staging by Larry Fuller. It starred Len Cariou as Sweeney Todd and Angela Lansbury as Mrs. Lovett. The musical tells the story of Benjamin Barker, alias Sweeney Todd, who returns to London after 15 years' transportation on false charges. When he learns from his former landlady Mrs. Lovett that his wife poisoned herself after being raped by the judge who wrongly transported him (Judge Turpin by name), he vows revenge. George Hearn as Sweeney Todd in the 1982 taping in the My Friends sequence.The company-citizens of London-assembles to perform a no-frills burial, dumping a body in a sack into a shallow grave. The company sings "The Ballad of Sweeney Todd," introducing the tale of "Demon Barber of Fleet Street." They continue to appear throughout the show to comment on the action. Sweeney Todd rises from the grave as if called forth, telling the audience to "attend the tale of Sweeney Todd" as the actual play begins. The year is 1846. A young sailor named Anthony Hope rides a ship into London. Despite Hope's enthusiasm, his friend and shipmate Sweeney Todd is grim and uneasy. This mood is worsened by ...