The run closed September 3, 2006
- Opened
- 2005
- Closed
- September 3, 2006
- Performances
- 349
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- —
Of the 395 productions we hold that opened in the 2000s and record a performance count, this is the 65th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street 3 more that season
| 1979 | Uris Theatre Original · Harold Prince | 557 perf. |
| 2000 | Transfer Transfer | |
| 2023 | Lunt-Fontanne Theatre Revival · Thomas Kail | 464 perf. |
Who was in it4 named
4 of these 4 names have a person record behind them and link to one. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Characters9 roles recorded
Michael Cerveris Sweeney Todd
Patti LuPone Mrs. Lovett
Benjamin Magnuson Anthony Hope
Lauren Molina Johanna Barker
Manoel Felciano Tobias Ragg
Mark Jacoby Judge Turpin
Alexander Gemignani Beadle Bamford
Diana DiMarzio The Beggar Woman
Donna Lynne Champlin Adolfo Pirelli
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Creative team
- Director
- John Doyle, John
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
Around this production
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (often referred to simply as Sweeney Todd) is a 1979 musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, 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. 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 been revived in many productions and inspired a film adaptation. The original logo for the musical is a modified version of an advertising image from the 19th century, with the sign replaced by a straight…
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What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No recording is held for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street at all.
- No show page for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. The work is here as a title and a year, and nothing more has been gathered about it.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.