Sweeney
Todd

An infamous tale of love, murder, and revenge set against the smoke and gaslight of nineteenth-century London.

Sweeney Todd, an unjustly exiled barber, returns to London seeking vengeance against the lecherous judge who framed him and ravaged his young wife. The road to revenge leads Todd to Mrs. Lovett, a resourceful proprietress of a failing pie shop, above which he opens a new barber practice. Mrs. Lovett’s luck sharply shifts when Todd’s thirst for blood inspires the integration of an ingredient into her meat pies that has the people of London lining up — and the carnage has only just begun.

Winner of eight Tony Awards (including Best Musical) for its 1979 Broadway premiere, Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s Sweeney Todd is widely considered one of the greatest works of the American musical theater — a tasty, thrilling, theatrical treat that has simultaneously shocked, awed, and delighted audiences across the world.

This School Edition has been masterfully adapted, working directly with Mr. Sondheim to retain the dark wit and grand scope of the original, with a few lyric and key changes to facilitate high school performers. At its core: a challenging score of epic proportion with two tour-de-force roles in Sweeney and his comic accomplice, Mrs. Lovett.