"""Sweeney Todd"", jointly produced by DreamWorks and Warner Bros., was released on December 21, 2007. Tim Burton directed from a screenplay by John Logan. It stars Johnny Depp as Todd (Depp received an Oscar nomination and a Golden Globe Award for his performance), Helena Bonham Carter as Mrs. Lovett, Alan Rickman as Judge Turpin, Sacha Baron Cohen as Signor Pirelli, Jamie Campbell Bower as Anthony Hope, Laura Michelle Kelly as The Beggar Woman, Jayne Wisener as Johanna, Ed Sanders as Toby, and Timothy Spall as Beadle Bamford. The film was well-received by critics and theatregoers and also won the Golden"
"vocal performance, despite being criticized as lacking certain musical qualities, was generally thought by critics to suit the part. ""Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street"" was released in the United States on December 21, 2007 and in the United Kingdom on January 25, 2008 to largely positive reviews from critics. The film was chosen by National Board of Review as one of the top ten films of 2007 and won a number of awards, including Golden Globes for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy and Best Actor – Musical or Comedy, as well as the Academy Award"
"kill Mrs. Lovett, a vengeful Toby emerges from the sewers, where he was hiding, and slashes Todd's throat with his own razor. In the stage musical, Toby is portrayed as a mentally handicapped adult; Ken Jennings, who originated the Broadway role, was 31 on opening night, and Neil Patrick Harris was 27. In the 2007 movie, he is a child, portrayed by 14-year-old Ed Sanders. In the 2013 novel ""Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street"", Tobias is a minor character, a young orphan wrongly imprisoned for murder and rape, later freed by Inspector Baxter. In the musical Tobias"
"played Mrs. Lovett, Sweeney Todd's (Johnny Depp) amorous accomplice in the film adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's Broadway musical, """", directed by Tim Burton. Bonham Carter received a nomination for the Golden Globe for Best Actress for her performance. She won the Best Actress award in the 2007 Evening Standard British Film Awards for her performances in ""Sweeney Todd"" and ""Conversations With Other Women"", along with another Best Actress award at the 2009 Empire Awards. Bonham Carter also appeared in the fourth ""Terminator"" film entitled ""Terminator Salvation"", playing a small but pivotal role. Bonham Carter joined the cast of Tim Burton's"
"was released on October 21, 2008. An HD DVD release was announced for the same date, but due to the discontinuation of the format, Paramount canceled this version in preference for international distribution of the Blu-ray release. The DVD was released on April 1, 2008 and has thus far sold approximately 1,892,489 copies, bringing in more than $38 million in revenue. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007 film) Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (also known simply as Sweeney Todd) is a 2007 British-American musical period slasher film directed by Tim Burton and an adaptation"
"difficulties could also be the movie's greatest strengths."" Warner Bros. felt it should take a similar approach to marketing as with ""The Departed"", with little early exposure and discouraging talk of awards. ""Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street"" officially opened at the United States box office on December 21, 2007 in 1,249 theatres, and took $9,300,805 in its opening weekend. Worldwide releases followed during January and February 2008, with the film performing well in the United Kingdom and Japan. The film grossed $52,898,073 in the United States and Canada, and $99,625,091 in other markets, accumulating a worldwide total"
"of shaving cream. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1936 film) Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is a 1936 British drama horror film produced and directed by George King, and written by Frederick Hayward, H.F. Maltby, and George Dibdin-Pitt. The film features actor Tod Slaughter in one of his most famous roles as the barber Sweeney Todd. The film starts in 1936 as a barber tells a patron the story of the infamous Sweeney Todd. Sweeney Todd (Tod Slaughter) is a barber with a shop near the docks of London. One day, as the mercantile"
"Tony-nominated role as Mrs. Lovett in the new 2005 Broadway production of ""Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street"", her Tony-nominated role as Lucia in the 2010 original Broadway production of ""Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown"", and her Tony-nominated role as Helena Rubenstein in the 2017 original Broadway production of ""War Paint"". She also won two Grammy Awards for the recording of the 2007 Los Angeles Opera production of ""Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny"" in categories of Best Classical Album and Best Opera Recording. On television, she starred in the drama series ""Life"
"cost $3.5 million to make, a sum small in comparison to many Broadway musicals and recouped in nineteen weeks. A national tour based on Doyle's Broadway production began on August 30, 2007 with Judy Kaye (who had temporarily replaced LuPone in the Broadway run) as Mrs. Lovett and David Hess as Todd. Alexander Gemignani also played the title role for the Toronto run of the tour in November 2007. Michael Ball and Imelda Staunton starred in a new production of the show that played at The Chichester Festival Theatre, running from September 24 to November 5, 2011. Directed by Jonathan"
"Her age is also differing in many adaptations; though it is never specifically stated in any versions, there are some (most noticeably in Sondheim's musical) where she is older than Todd, often by a difference of over fifteen years and others where she is around his age. Whether their relationship is platonic, romantic or merely sexual also varies according to interpretation. In Stephen Sondheim's 1979 stage musical ""Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street"" and Tim Burton's , Todd pays a visit to Mrs. Lovett's pie shop below his old home after 15 years in exile, seeking information about"
"character of Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street, originated in an 1846–47 penny dreadful entitled ""The String of Pearls"". In 1847, George Dibdin Pitt adapted the story for a stage melodrama. A directed by George King was the first screen version. Christopher Bond's 1973 stage adaptation was musicalized by Stephen Sondheim in 1979. Schlesinger's film is a dramatic departure from the previous narratives. It dispenses with all the characters except Todd and Lovett, adds the plotline involving the missing diamonds, and offers a completely different reason for Todd's murder spree. The Victorian era locales were filmed in Dublin,"
"Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1936 film) Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is a 1936 British drama horror film produced and directed by George King, and written by Frederick Hayward, H.F. Maltby, and George Dibdin-Pitt. The film features actor Tod Slaughter in one of his most famous roles as the barber Sweeney Todd. The film starts in 1936 as a barber tells a patron the story of the infamous Sweeney Todd. Sweeney Todd (Tod Slaughter) is a barber with a shop near the docks of London. One day, as the mercantile ship The Golden"
"include: (* Edited for 2007 film)<br> Mrs. Lovett Mrs. Lovett is a fictional character appearing in many adaptations of the story ""Sweeney Todd"". She is most commonly referred to as Nellie, although Margery, Maggie, Sarah, Shirley, Wilhemina and Claudetta are other names she has been given. First appearing in the penny dreadful serial ""The String of Pearls"", it is debated if she was based on an actual person or not. The character also appears in modern media related to ""Sweeney Todd"" including the Stephen Sondheim and its 2007 . In every version of the story in which she appears, Mrs."
"runs in 1986 and 2004. Notably the 2004 production starred Elaine Paige as Mrs Lovett. The show was also performed by Opera North in 1998 in the UK starring Steven Page and Beverley Klein, directed by David McVicar and conducted by James Holmes. In the early 2000s, ""Sweeney Todd"" gained acceptance with opera companies throughout the United States, Canada, Japan, Germany, Israel, Spain, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and Australia. Bryn Terfel, the popular Welsh bass-baritone, performed the title role at Lyric Opera of Chicago in 2002, with Judith Christian, David Cangelosi, Timothy Nolen, Bonaventura Bottone, Celena Shaffer and Nathan"
"as Mrs. Lovett. Having been struck by the cinematic qualities of Sondheim's musical while still a student, Burton had entertained the notion of a film version since the early 1980s. However, it was not until 2006 that he had the opportunity to realize this ambition, when DreamWorks announced his appointment as replacement for director Sam Mendes, who had been working on such an adaptation. Sondheim, although not directly involved, was extensively consulted during production. Depp, not known for his singing, took lessons in preparation for his role, which producer Richard D. Zanuck acknowledged was something of a gamble. However, Depp's"
"good for this room. I'm too good for this song...but I'm not too good for this dress!"" At the 38th Annual Tony Awards ceremony in 1984, Loudon performed ""Broadway Baby"" from ""Follies"". In ""The New York Times"", John O'Connor said of her performance, ""Miss Loudon has developed the art of mugging into something of a hyperactive disease."" In 1980, Loudon succeeded Angela Lansbury as Mrs. Lovett in Stephen Sondheim's ""Sweeney Todd"". In reviewing her performance for the ""Christian Science Monitor"", David Sterritt said, ""Her body sways like a reed in the emotional storms of her own scatter-brained creation, and her"
"2016. Directed by Steven Stead and designed by Greg King, the production starred Jonathan Roxmouth (Sweeney Todd), Charon Williams-Ros (Mrs Lovett), Michael Richard (Judge Turpin), Jaco van Rensburg (Tobias), Anne Marie Clulow (Beggar Woman), Adam Pelkowitz (Beadle Bamford), Cameron Botha (Anthony), Sanli Jooste (Johanna), Germandt Geldenhuys (Adolfo Pirelli) and Weslee Swain Lauder (Jonas Fogg), with an ensemble comprising Candice van Litsenborgh, Luciano Zuppa, Pauline du Plessis, Claire Simonis, Megan Rigby, Schoeman Smit and Earl Gregory. The musical director for the show was Rowan Bakker, with costume designs by Neil Stuart Harris and lighting by Tina le Roux. The Tooting Arts"
"Ryder. The DreamWorks/Warner Bros. production was released on December 21, 2007. Burton's work on ""Sweeney Todd"" won the National Board of Review Award for Best Director, received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Director and won an Academy Award for Best Art Direction. Helena Bonham Carter won an Evening Standard British Film Award for her portrayal of Mrs. Lovett, as well as a Golden Globe nomination. The film blends explicit gore and Broadway tunes, and was well received by critics. Johnny Depp was nominated for the Best Actor Oscar for the role of Sweeney Todd. Depp also won the Golden"
"Blythe as Mrs. Lovett, Matthew Grills as Tobias, Heidi Stober as Johanna, Elliot Madore as Anthony and Elizabeth Futral as the Beggar Woman/Lucy. A ""Reprise!"" Concert version was performed at Los Angeles' Ahmanson Theatre on March 12–14, 1999 with Kelsey Grammer as Todd, Christine Baranski as Mrs. Lovett, Davis Gaines as Anthony, Neil Patrick Harris as Tobias, Melissa Manchester as The Beggar Woman, Roland Rusinek as The Beadle, Dale Kristien as Johanna and Ken Howard as Judge Turpin. London's Royal Festival Hall hosted two performances on February 13, 2000, starring Len Cariou as Todd, Judy Kaye as Mrs. Lovett, and"
"Sally Phillips Sally Elizabeth Phillips (born 10 May 1969) is an English actress, television presenter and comedian. She co-created and was one of the writers of sketch comedy show ""Smack the Pony"". She is also known for her main role in ""Miranda"" as Tilly, ""I'm Alan Partridge"" as Sophie, ""Parents"" as Jenny Pope and ""Set the Thames on Fire"" as Colette in 2015. Phillips also co-starred in ""Pride and Prejudice and Zombies"", as Mrs Bennet, and the role of Sharon in all three films of the ""Bridget Jones"" franchise. Since 2004, Phillips has played the title role in the BBC"
"Mrs. Lovett Mrs. Lovett is a fictional character appearing in many adaptations of the story ""Sweeney Todd"". She is most commonly referred to as Nellie, although Margery, Maggie, Sarah, Shirley, Wilhemina and Claudetta are other names she has been given. First appearing in the penny dreadful serial ""The String of Pearls"", it is debated if she was based on an actual person or not. The character also appears in modern media related to ""Sweeney Todd"" including the Stephen Sondheim and its 2007 . In every version of the story in which she appears, Mrs. Lovett is the business partner and"
"Bloodthirsty Butchers (film) Bloodthirsty Butchers (1970) is a horror film directed by Andy Milligan. It is an adaptation of the notorious story of Sweeney Todd. An updated version of the Sweeney Todd legend, this melodrama tells the tale of a murderous barber, Sweeney Todd, who supplies raw meat for his neighbor, Mrs. Lovett, who runs a pie shop. Amid the resulting carnage is a romantic sub-plot, although the film focuses mainly on the gore. The film stars Annabella Wood as Johanna, Berwick Kaler as Tobias, Jane Helay as Mrs. Lovett, and John Miranda as Sweeney Todd. The film premiered on"
"Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is a 1979 musical thriller with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book 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 in 1979 and in the West End in 1980. It won the Tony Award for Best Musical and Olivier Award for Best New Musical. It has since had numerous revivals as well as a . The character of Sweeney Todd had its origins"
"place on 3 December 1963 where she played Aksinya in Shostakovich's ""Katerina Ismaillova"". In all she was in 77 performances with the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden. On 10 December 1959 Howitt appeared in the musical ""The Demon Barber"", adapted from George Dibdin Pitt's play of Sweeney Todd. She played the part of Mrs. Lovett to Roy Godfrey's portrayal of Sweeney Todd. As Howitt played primarily secondary characters, she generally received scant mention in published reviews. Reviewing her debut as Rosina, a critic mentioned both Howitt and Gwent Lewis (playing Almaviva) sang the ""contour"" of florid passages rather than"
"Club production transferred to Off-Broadway, transforming the Barrow Street Theatre into a working re-creation of Harrington's pie shop. Previews began February 14, 2017 before officially opening night on March 1. Like the London production, the transfer was directed by Bill Buckhurst, designed by Simon Kenny and produced by Rachel Edwards, Jenny Gersten, Seaview Productions, and Nate Koch, executive producer, in association with Barrow Street Theatre. The opening night cast featured four members of the London cast: Jeremy Secomb as Sweeney Todd, Siobhan McCarthy as Mrs. Lovett, Duncan Smith as the Judge and, Joseph Taylor as Tobias, alongside Brad Oscar as"
"version"" of ""Sweeney Todd"", the first rock orchestration of the score. The production plays at DC's Warehouse Theatre in August 2014. Directed by Melissa Baughman. Music Direction by Charles W. Johnson. Prog Metal Orchestration by The Fleet Street Collective (Andrew Lloyd Baughman, Spencer Blevins, Charles Johnson, Lance LaRue, Ray Shaw, Alex Vallejo, Andrew Siddle). The cast features metal band front singers Nina Osegueda (A Sound of Thunder) as Mrs. Lovett, Andrew Lloyd Baughman (Diamond Dead) as Sweeney Todd, Rob Bradley (Aries and Thrillkiller) as Pirelli, and Irene Jericho (Cassandra Syndrome) as Beggar Woman. The show receives three 2015 Helen Hayes"
"Michael Fassbender — Shame Saoirse Ronan — Hanna Chris O'Dowd — Bridesmaids """"'Fionnula Flanagan — ""The Guard"" Bernadette: Notes on a Political Journey — Lelia Doolan Corp + Anam – Paddy Hayes The Boy in the Bubble – Kealan O'Rourke Foxes – Lorcan Finnegan Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Ryan Gosling — ""Drive"" Glenn Close — ""Albert Nobbs"" ""Love/Hate"" — Suzanne McAuley, Steve Mattews David Caffrey — Love/Hate Stuart Carolan — Love/Hate Aidan Gillen — Love/Hate Ruth Negga — Shirley Tom Vaughan-Lawlor — Love/Hate Denise McCormack — Love/Hate Consolata Boyle — The Iron Lady Seamus McGarvey — We Need to Talk"
"orchestra from twenty-seven musicians to seventy-eight. The ""Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Deluxe Complete Edition"" soundtrack was released on December 18, 2007. Johnny Depp's singing was described by a ""New York Times"" reviewer as ""harsh and thin, but amazingly forceful"". Another critic adds that, though Depp's voice ""does not have much heft or power"", ""his ear is obviously excellent, because his pitch is dead-on accurate... Beyond his good pitch and phrasing, the expressive colorings of his singing are crucial to the portrayal. Beneath this Sweeney's vacant, sullen exterior is a man consumed with a murderous rage that"
"Gunn. It was performed at the Royal Opera House in London as part of the Royal Opera season (December 2003-January 2004) starring Sir Thomas Allen as Todd, Felicity Palmer as Mrs. Lovett and a supporting cast that included Rosalind Plowright, Robert Tear and Jonathan Veira as Judge Turpin. The Finnish National Opera performed Sweeney Todd in 1997-98. The Israeli National Opera has performed ""Sweeney Todd"" twice. The Icelandic Opera performed Sweeney Todd in the fall of 2004, the first time in Iceland. On September 12, 2015, ""Sweeney Todd"" opened at the San Francisco Opera with Brian Mulligan as Todd, Stephanie"
"the Café Carlyle. She can be heard on many cast recordings; and has released several solo albums including ""Maria Friedman"", ""Maria Friedman Live"", ""Now and Then"", and ""Maria Friedman Celebrates The Great British Songbook"". Friedman has won three Laurence Olivier Awards and been nominated for seven. In 2010, Friedman appeared as a soloist in the BBC Proms tribute to Stephen Sondheim at the Royal Albert Hall, London. She sang the role of Mrs. Lovett in ""Sweeney Todd"" opposite Bryn Terfel. In 2012 she directed a revival of Sondheim's Merrily We Roll Along. In October 2014, Friedman joined the cast of"
"hewn set and the stark minimalism of Rick Fisher's lighting suggest a self-conscious edginess, with Shannon's stylised make-up, long leather coat and brooding countenance only adding to the feeling."" When a character died, flour was poured over them. The 2008 Gothenburg production premiered on May 15, 2008 at The Göteborg Opera. The show was a collaboration with West End International Ltd. The cast featured Michael McCarthy as Sweeney Todd and Rosemary Ashe as Mrs Lovett and David Shannon this time as Anthony. The show did a four-week run and ended on June 8, 2008. In 2010, fifty members of the"
"Music"". The director was Lee Blakeley with choreography by Lorena Randi and designs by Tanya McAllin. The cast featured Rod Gilfry and Franco Pomponi (Sweeney Todd) and Caroline O'Connor (Mrs Lovett). Directed by Joseph Fowler with staging by Cressida Carre and designs by Jamie Todd. The cast featured Simeon Truby as (Sweeney Todd) and Natacza Boon (Mrs Lovett) The Lyric Stage Company of Boston produced a run in September and October 2014 with the company's Artistic Director Spiro Veloudos staging and directing the show. The cast included Christopher Chew as Sweeney Todd and Amelia Broome as Mrs. Lovett. Quebec City-based"
"had been presented in the commercial West End. It starred Paul Hegarty as Todd, Karen Mann as Mrs. Lovett, Rebecca Jackson as The Beggar Woman, Sam Kenyon as Tobias, Rebecca Jenkins as Johanna, David Ricardo-Pearce as Anthony and Colin Wakefield as Judge Turpin. This production closed February 5, 2005. In spring 2006, the production toured the UK with Jason Donovan as Todd and Harriet Thorpe as Mrs. Lovett. A version of the John Doyle West End production transferred to Broadway, opening on November 3, 2005 at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre with a new cast, all of whom played their own"