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3 days ago · Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is a 1979 musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Hugh Wheeler. It is based on the 1970 play Sweeney Todd by Christopher Bond. The character of Sweeney Todd first appeared in a Victorian penny dreadful titled The String of Pearls.
14 hours ago · SALISBURY — Forget the bells and whistles. Piedmont Players’ production of “Sweeney Todd,” the musical thriller by Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler, is storytelling, pure and simple ...
3 days ago · Book: Book by Hugh Wheeler based on the 1973 play Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street by Christopher Bond. Premise: Benjamin Barker, a London barber banished to Botany Bay on a trumped-up charge, returns to the city 15 years later as Sweeney Todd to wreak his revenge on the Judge and Beadle who sent him down.
Jun 28, 2024 · Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s delightful musical A Little Night Music is is an adaptation of the Bergman’s 1955 film Smiles of a Summer Night, a droll story of sexual musical chairs among the middle- and lower-classes in provincial Sweden at the turn of the last century.
2 days ago · In June 1857 the sepoys there rebelled and laid siege to Major-General Sir Hugh Wheeler’s garrison. Wheeler had retreated to an entrenchment outside the city. Nana Sahib, a local ruler who had suffered from the British seizure of his estate, led the rebels.
Jun 20, 2024 · Dixon Hall. Indulge in the sinister splendor of Sweeney Todd, the Tony Award-winning sensation that has captivated audiences worldwide. Stephen Sondheim's and Hugh Wheeler's delectable masterpiece weaves a tale of vengeance, love, and culinary chaos that will leave you spellbound.
Jun 26, 2024 · Sondheim agreed, and resisted a later offer from Prince and Hugh Wheeler to create a musical version starring Angela Lansbury. This occurred several years before a musical version was produced by Andrew Lloyd Webber .
