The play won eight Tonys, including best musical and actress and actor. The libretto was adapted by Roser Batalla Roger Pena, and was directed by Mario Gas. Alexander Gemignani also played the title role for the Toronto run of the tour in November 2007. Lansbury, who had grown up in British music hall, immediately got it. [56], Produced by Atlantis Theatrical Entertainment Group and directed by Bobby Garcia with musical direction by Gerard Salonga, it starred Jett Pangan as Sweeney Todd, Lea Salonga as Mrs. Lovett, Gerald Santos as Anthony Hope, Nyoy Volante as Adolfo Pirelli, Mikkie Bradshaw-Volante as Johanna, Ima Castro as the Beggar Woman, Andrew Fernando as Judge Turpin, Luigi Quesada as Tobias, Arman Ferrer as Beadle, and Dean Rosen as Jonas Fogg. Lansbury, Angela, 1925-Motion pictures Motion picture actors and actresses Singers Audiotapes. Sweeney Todd opened on Broadway in 1979 and in the West End in 1980. When Sondheim first brought the idea for the show to director Harold Prince, his frequent collaborator, Prince was uninterested, feeling it was a simple melodrama that wasn't very experimental structurally. The Tale of Sweeney Todd is a 1997 American crime-drama/horror television film directed by John Schlesinger and starring Ben Kingsley and Joanna Lumley. ANN MARIE BALDONADO, BYLINE: Josh Groban first auditioned for the role of Sweeney Todd back in high school for a summer camp production of the musical. "[5], It is said that on opening night Harold Clurman, the doyen of American theatre critics, rushed up to Schuyler Chapin, former general manager of the Metropolitan Opera, demanding to know why he had not put it on at the Met. The production debuted in October at The Theater at Solaire. A young, nave sailor who has rescued Todd and falls in love with Johanna Barker. Adapted from the play Sweeney Todd-The Demon Barber of Fleet Street by Christopher Bond. The look of the production was quite abstract. The murderous barber's story was turned into a play before the ending had even been revealed in print. Mrs. Lovett: George Hearn . Oct. 12, 2022, at 6:14 p.m. Lansbury's 'Sweeney Todd' Co-Star Reflects on 'Great Artist' FILE - Actors Angela Lansbury, left, and Len Cariou, right, who starred in the musical "Sweeney. 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It starred Anthony Warlow as Sweeney Todd, Gina Riley as Mrs. Lovett, Debra Byrne as the Beggar Woman, Michael Falzon as Adolfo Pirelli, Jonathan Hickey as Tobias Ragg, and Daniel Sumegi as Judge Turpin. Book by Hugh Wheeler. For other uses, see, "Pretty Women" redirects here. The show ran for 157 performances. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (often referred to simply as Sweeney Todd) is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by Hugh Wheeler. [48], 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. London's Royal Festival Hall hosted two performances on February 13, 2000, starring Len Cariou as Todd, Judy Kaye as Mrs. Lovett, and Davis Gaines as Anthony. And the one with his foot. In autumn 2015 the Welsh National Opera and Wales Millennium Centre produced a co-production with West Yorkshire Playhouse and the Royal Exchange Manchester as part of the WNO's "Madness" season. [52] The production was revived for New Zealand Opera in 2016, visiting Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch. Mrs. Lovett frantically denies it, explaining that Lucy did indeed poison herself, but lived, although the attempt left her insane. Todd's beautiful young daughter, raised by Judge Turpin as his ward. On the Saturday performances, Bryonha Marie Parham played the role of the Beggar Woman, while McDonald played it at the other performances. An alternate orchestration is available from Music Theatre International for a 9 piece orchestra. Previews began February 14, 2017, before officially opening night on March 1. An original Broadway cast recording was released by RCA Red Seal in 1979. The score is one vast structure, each individual part meshing with others for the good of the entire musical machine. The Finnish National Opera performed Sweeney Todd in 199798. This performance would later be repeated on Showtime and PBS (the latter as part of its Great Performances series);[19] It was later released on home video through Turner Home Entertainment, and on DVD from Warner Home Video. When Todd asks after the empty upstairs apartment, she reveals that its former tenant, Benjamin Barker, was transported for life based on false charges by Judge Turpin, who, along with his servant, Beadle Bamford, then lured Barker's wife Lucy to a masked ball at the Judge's home and raped her ("Poor Thing"). The cast included original members like Terfel, Thompson and Quast, as well as new actors like John Owen-Jones and Rosalie Craig. Despite receiving mixed reviews, the production won the Olivier Award for Best New Musical in 1980. "[75], Donal Henahan wrote an essay in The New York Times concerning the 1984 New York City Opera production: "The difficulty with Sweeney was not that the opera singers were weaklings incapable of filling the State Theater with sound Miss Elias, who was making her City Opera debut, has sung for many years at the Metropolitan, a far larger house. NYMT took the show, directed by Martin Constantine, out of a conventional theatre space and staged it within a converted Victorian warehouse in the city's East End. She was a great artist, Cariou said. The ensemble cast, soon joined by the risen Todd and Mrs. Lovett, sing a final reprise of "The Ballad of Sweeney Todd" warning against revenge (though admitting that "everyone does it"). Mrs. Lovett, the role originated on Broadway by Angela Lansbury, is a warm . [25] This marked the first time in nearly ten years that a Sondheim show had been presented in the commercial West End. It was filmed at the end of a ten-month road tour of the show, with George Hearn in the title role playing opposite Lansbury. The character Sweeney Todd originated in serialized Victorian popular fiction, known as penny dreadfuls. Directed by Gale Edwards, it featured Lyndon Terracini as Todd, Nancye Hayes as Mrs. Lovett and Peter Cousens as Anthony. Todd. A young innocent (Selina Boyack) and the dashing inspector (Campbell Scott) who tries to solve the murders . Top marks for a wonderful show. The 24-hour marathon will include some of her most memorable films including Gaslight and The Manchurian Candidate, as well as an airing of the 1982 filmed production of Sweeney Todd. Angela Lansbury, star of 'Murder, She Wrote' and 'Beauty and the Beast,' has died at 96 Robert Bianco USA TODAY 0:00 1:25 Angela Lansbury, award-winning star of films like "The Manchurian. Movie Info. [22] This production received four Tony Award nominations: for Best Revival of a Musical, Best Actor in a Musical, Best Actress in a Musical and Best Direction of a Musical, but failed to win any. Upstairs, she encounters the Beadle at her harmonium; he has been asked by Lovett's neighbors to investigate the strange smoke and stench from the pie shop's chimney. Directed by Jonathan Kent, the cast included Ball as Todd, Staunton as Mrs. Lovett, James McConville as Tobias, John Bowe as Judge Turpin, Robert Burt as Pirelli, Luke Brady as Anthony, Gillian Kirkpatrick as Lucy Barker, Lucy May Barker as Johanna and Peter Polycarpou as Beadle Bamford. A simpleton who works first for con-man Pirelli and then for Mrs. Lovett, but does not trust Todd. Angela Lansbury, who crooned as a teapot in Beauty and the Beast and solved mysteries as Jessica Fletcher in Murder, She Wrote, died October 11 at the age of 96, just days shy of her 97th. Downstairs, Mrs. Lovett is struggling with the dying Judge, who claws at her. Barber Sweeney Todd returns to London to uncover the past, along the way meeting pie shop owner Mrs. Nellie Lovett, and begins to start his life of crime.Barber Sweeney Todd returns to London to uncover the past, along the way meeting pie shop owner Mrs. Nellie Lovett, and begins to start his life of crime.Barber Sweeney Todd returns to London to uncover the past, along the way meeting pie shop owner Mrs. Nellie Lovett, and begins to start his life of crime. Sondheim once observed, It had a weight to it because [Bond] wrote certain characters in blank verse. [28] The production received positive reviews from both critics and audience members and transferred to the Adelphi Theatre in the West End in 2012 for a limited run from March 10 to September 22, 2012. Angela Lansbury performing "By The Sea" in her Tony winning role as Mrs. Lovett, in "Sweeney Todd" The play won eight Tonys, including best musical and actress and actor. "[6], Canadian actor and singer Len Cariou was Sondheim's personal choice to play the tortured barber. The Israeli National Opera has performed Sweeney Todd twice. It was essentially charming over there because they don't take Sweeney Todd seriously. Lansbury died Oct. 11. [74], In his essay for the 2005 cast album, Jeremy Sams finds it most relevant to compare Sondheim's work with operas that similarly explore the psyche of a mad murderer or social outcast, such as Alban Berg's Wozzeck (1925, based on the play by Georg Bchner) and Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes (1945). He also infused into it plot elements from Jacobean tragedy and The Count of Monte Cristo. It later was released as a feature film in . The cast featured Rod Gilfry and Franco Pomponi (Sweeney Todd) and Caroline O'Connor (Mrs Lovett). Angela Lansbury and Len Cariou were partners-in-crime on stage in Sweeney Todd and crime busters in episodes of TVs Murder, She Wrote., LOS ANGELES -- Angela Lansbury and Len Cariou were partners-in-crime on stage in "Sweeney Todd" and crime busters in episodes of TV's Murder, She Wrote.". The Canadian-born Cariou appeared in seven episodes, airing between 1985 and 1992, in the recurring role of former British intelligence agent Michael Hagarty. In April 2017, five of the cast members left the show, replaced by Norm Lewis as Sweeney Todd, Carolee Carmello as Mrs. Lovett, John-Michael Lyles as Tobias, Stacie Bono as The Beggar Woman and Pirelli, and Jamie Jackson as Judge Turpin. The cast consisted of: Patti LuPone (Mrs. Lovett/Tuba/Percussion), Michael Cerveris (Todd/Guitar), Manoel Felciano (Tobias/Violin/Clarinet/Piano), Alexander Gemignani (Beadle/Piano/Trumpet), Lauren Molina (Johanna/Cello), Benjamin Magnuson (Anthony/Cello/Piano), Mark Jacoby (Turpin/Trumpet/Percussion), Donna Lynne Champlin (Pirelli/Accordion/Flute/Piano), Diana DiMarzio (Beggar Woman/Clarinet) and John Arbo (Fogg/Double bass). It was produced by Theodore Mann, directed by Susan H. Schulman, with choreography by Michael Lichtefeld. In contrast to the original Broadway version, the production was designed on a relatively intimate scale and was affectionately referred to as "Teeny Todd." A "Reprise!" But other than that, it's all phenomenal-- Angela Lansbury *made* the role of Mrs. Lovette, and she just does it so well. The original production premiered on Broadway at the Uris Theatre on March 1, 1979, and closed on June 29, 1980, after 557 performances and 19 previews. [84] The producers originally planned only a single-disk "highlights" version; however, they soon realized that they had recorded more music than could fit on one disk and it was not financially feasible to bring the performers back in to re-record. Sondheim also utilizes the ancient "Dies irae" in the ballad that runs throughout the score, later heard in a melodic inversion, and in the accompaniment to "Epiphany". However, once Anthony has departed, Todd sends a letter informing the Judge that Anthony will bring Johanna to his shop just after dark, and that he will hand her over ("The Letter") in order to lure him back to the shop. Anthony arrives to beg Todd for help to free Johanna, and Todd, revitalized, instructs Anthony to rescue her by posing as a wigmaker intent on purchasing inmates' hair ("Wigmaker Sequence" and "The Ballad" reprise 4). She was 96. This production subsequently transferred to the West End's Trafalgar Studios and then the Ambassadors Theatre. Cariou played the title character in the macabre "Sweeney Todd," a London barber who dispatches customers with a razor and turns their bodies over to Lansbury's Mrs. Lovett, a baker who repurposes them for meat pies. This production closed February 5, 2005. As Anthony leaves, Pirelli and Tobias enter, and Mrs. Lovett takes Toby downstairs for a pie. Four roles (Todd, Lovett, Johanna, and Turpin) were double-cast or triple-cast in the NYCO production, with the two/three actors in each role singing alternate performances. In June 2019, for the show's 40th anniversary, a limited run of the production presented by Life Like Company was performed at Her Majesty's Theatre, Melbourne and Darling Harbour Theatre, ICC Sydney. There are opera houses. Unaware that Johanna is his friend Todd's daughter, Anthony is immediately enamored ("Ah, Miss"), and he pledges to return for her, even after the judge and the Beadle threaten him and chase him away ("Johanna"). I had a feeling it would be a new animal. The original logo for the musical is a modified version of an advertising image from the 19th century,[1] with the sign replaced by a straight razor. The production plays at DC's Warehouse Theatre in August 2014. [77] It was selected by the National Recording Registry for preservation in 2013. Hutchins, Michael H. (February 18, 2006). Barber Sweeney Todd returns to London to uncover the past, along the way meeting pie shop owner Mrs. Nellie Lovett, and begins to start his life of crime. Report. The cast includes Renaud Paradis as Sweeney Todd, Katee Julien as Mrs. Lovett, Jean Petitclerc as Judge Turpin, Sabrina Ferland as the Beggar Woman, Pierre-Olivier Grondin as Anthony Hope, Andrane Bouladier as Johanna, David Nol as Tobias, Jonathan Gagnon as Beadle and Mathieu Samson as Pirelli.[50]. Genre: Crime, Drama. 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. After a day of hard work, while Todd remains fixated on his revenge, Mrs. Lovett envisions a seaside retirement ("By the Sea"). In the pie shop, Toby tells Mrs. Lovett of his skepticism about Todd and his own desire to protect her ("Not While I'm Around"). Have a little priest. The production was extended and closed on August 26, 2018.[34][35][36]. The Judge recognizes him as "Benjamin Barker!" This concert also played in San Francisco, from July 1921, 2001, with the San Francisco Symphony. [44], The 2008 Gothenburg production premiered on May 15, 2008, at The Gteborg Opera. There would have been screams and yells but I wouldn't have given a damn. Horrified, Todd accuses Mrs. Lovett of lying to him. Music Direction by Charles W. Johnson. [17], The first national U.S. tour started on October 24, 1980, in Washington, D.C. and ended in August 1981 in Los Angeles, California. George Hearn and Angela Lansbury star as Sweeney Todd and Mrs. Lovett in the musical, which features music and lyrics by Sondheim and book by Hugh Wheeler.Filmed at the conclusion of a ten-month . [67], A feature film adaptation of Sweeney Todd, directed by Tim Burton with a screenplay by John Logan, was released on December 21, 2007. Nellie Lovett: [singing] Only where it sat. [38], The musical was premiered on June 5, 1992, at the Erkel Theater in Budapest, Hungary. The Tony Award-winning actor starred in the Broadway musicals Mame, Gypsy and S weeney Todd, as well as the TV series Murder, She Wrote. Jonathan Tunick was Stephen Sondheim's orchestrator of choice, orchestrating nearly all of his musicals, including Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd, Into the Woods, Passion, and Merrily We Roll Along, plus A Chorus Line, Nine, A Gentleman's Guide, the recent Carousel, West Side Story, and The Music Man.He was Composer/Conductor for six motion pictures, plus the TV . George Hearn was a good replacement for Len Cariou in the title role, and Ken Jennings gives a great performance as Tobias. Set in 1785, the story featured as its principal villain a certain Sweeney Todd and included all the plot elements used in later versions. There is also a woman wearing a blood-stained dress and holding a rolling pin next to the man. A corrupt public official who is Judge Turpin's right-hand man and accomplice. She was a star and, as she pointed out to Sondheim, "Your show is not called 'Nellie Lovett', it's called 'Sweeney Todd'. 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