Len Cariou

On stage 16 productions, 42 years

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Worked with more than once12 names

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Also credited on1 work

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

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In the literature8 passages

• Bitter at his imprisonment and at the world in general, Sweeney Todd (Len Cariou) returns to London and sets up as a barber. But he is no ordinary barber. He slits his customers’ throats and turns their bodies over to his friend, Mrs. Lovett (Angela Lansbury), who bakes them into pies. He even succeeds in murdering the venal judge who sen…ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt
• Original cast (1973) : Len Cariou, Glynis Johns, Hermione Gingold, Victoria Mallory, Laurence Guittard, Patricia Elliott, Mark Lambert, Harold Hastings (conductor). Columbia KS 32265.ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt
• FILM (Hen’s Tooth Video 1977) : Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Diana Rigg, Len Cariou, Lesley-Anne Down, Hermione Gingold, Laurence Gittard, Christopher Guard, Chloe Franks, Heinz Maracek, Lesley Dunlop. Screenplay by Hugh Wheeler. Produced by Elliott Kastner. Directed by Harold Prince. [120 minutes]ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt
• Original Cast (1979) : Len Cariou, Angela Lansbury, Victor Garber, Sarah Rice, Edmund Lyndeck, Paul Gemignani (conductor). RCA 3379–2-RC.ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt
• One of my fondest theatre memories is of attending an audition in which Charles Strouse, Alan Jay Lerner and members of the cast, including Len Cariou, George Rose and Lerner's wife, Liz Robertson, performed the material for an audience of the ladies who book theatre parties. Strouse, an enormously winning performer of his own material, w…ebooks/Engel, Lehman/Words with Music_ Creating the Broadway Musical Libretto - Lehman Engel.txt
• LEN CARIOU: I got the script for Sweeney Todd when I was back home in Winnipeg. During my lunch hour, I began reading it, and I came to the lyric “There’s a hole in the world like a great black pit / And it’s filled with people who are filled with shit.”ebooks/Frommer, Myrna Katz & Frommer, Harvey/It Happened on Broadway_ An Oral History of the Great White Way - Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer.txt

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