The demon barber of Fleet Street in residence at school
ONE of the darkest musicals ever written, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, is set to be performed in Burton later this month.
Burton Musical Theatre Company will be telling the unsettling tale of a Victorian-era barber who returns home to London after 15 years of exile to take revenge on the corrupt judge who ruined his life.
When revenge eludes him, Todd swears vengeance on the entire human race, murdering as many people as he can, while his business associate Mrs Lovett bakes the bodies into meat pies and sells them to the unsuspecting public.
Perhaps composer/lyricist Stephen Sondheim’s most perfect score, Sweeney Todd is lush, operatic and full of soaring beauty, pitch-black comedy and stunning terror.
It is one of the signal achievements of the American musical theatre of the last 50 years, and it’s the high water mark of Sondheim’s six remarkable collaborations with director Harold Prince.
Featuring Andy Last as Sweeney Todd, Sharon Plummer as Mrs Lovett and directed by Oly Wright, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street will perform from Tuesday, October 30 until Saturday, November 3 at The de Ferrers Academy in Harehedge Lane, Burton.
Tickets are available via the website at www. burtonmusicaltheatre.co.uk