The dark, witty and Tony Award-winning musical tale of love, murder and revenge set against the backdrop of 19th century London. Rated R

Music & lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Book by Hugh Wheeler

Journey to 1846 London, as a young sailor, Anthony (Jonnie Carpathios), arrives on the docks with a strange man he saved while at sea. The man, Sweeney Todd (Robert Newman), was wrongfully banished by a crooked judge who lusted after his wife. Mrs. Lovett (Penelope Alex), the unkempt owner of a meat pie shop that makes “The Worst Pies in London”, informs Sweeney Todd that his wife, Lucy (Melissa Cotton Hunter), poisoned herself. His daughter, Joanna (First year apprentice Cosette Smith), is now in possession of the dastardly Judge Turpin (John Jay Espino). With the help of Mrs. Lovett, Todd plots his revenge against Judge Turpin and his servant Beadle Bamford (Patrick Hunter), who helped Turpin lure Todd’s poor wife to the judge’s den. Accompanied by a chilling score written by renowned Broadway composer Stephen Sondheim, Sweeney Todd is out for blood. No one is safe from the wrath of the demon barber of Fleet Street. This production is rated R.

The original production of Sweeney Todd premiered on Broadway at the Uris Theatre on March 1, 1979. The production was nominated for nine Tony Awards, winning eight including Best Musical. There have been several revivals, most recently an Off-Broadway production starring Norm Lewis and Carolee Carmello that took place in an actual pieshop.