Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street A barber named Benjamin Barker (George Hearn) is unjustly sentenced to serve a prison term in Australia because the judge in his case lusts after his wife. Upon returning to London, the barber assumes the name Sweeney Todd and cuts the throats of customers who come to his shop. Angela Lansbury also stars in Stephen Sondheim's darkly comic Broadway musical based on the book Sweeney Todd by Christopher Wood and the play Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street by Christopher Bond. NPR praises "As unsettling as it is riveting. Sondheim aficionados will see the story with fresh eyes, unless those eyes are covered."
