A 4-day concert took place in July 2007 at the same venue with Bryn Terfel, Maria Friedman, Daniel Boys and Philip Quast. The score is one vast structure, each individual part meshing with others for the good of the entire musical machine. Because of the small scale of the musical, it cost $3.5 million to make, a sum small in comparison to many Broadway musicals and recouped in nineteen weeks. Casually slitting his customers' necks, Todd despairs of ever seeing Johanna, while Anthony searches London for her ("Johanna Quartet"). The cast included original members like Terfel, Thompson and Quast, as well as new actors like John Owen-Jones and Rosalie Craig. An expanded edition appeared in 1850, an American version in 1852, a new play in 1865. "Prelude: The Ballad of Sweeney Todd: 'Attend The Tale Of Sweeney Todd'" Full Cast, "No Place Like London" Anthony, Todd, Beggar Woman, "The Ballad Of Sweeney Todd: 'Lift Your Razor High, Sweeney!' She recalled, "I just ran with it. Directed by Steven Stead and designed by Greg King, the production starred Jonathan Roxmouth (Sweeney Todd), Charon Williams-Ros (Mrs Lovett), Michael Richard (Judge Turpin), Jaco van Rensburg (Tobias), Anne Marie Clulow (Beggar Woman), Adam Pelkowitz (Beadle Bamford), Cameron Botha (Anthony), Sanli Jooste (Johanna), Germandt Geldenhuys (Adolfo Pirelli) and Weslee Swain Lauder (Jonas Fogg). Sweeney Todd: [singing] Haven't you got poet, or something like that? The Icelandic Opera performed Sweeney Todd in the fall of 2004, the first time in Iceland. Cariou told him he was prepared to give Sondheim a couple of octaves to deal with, and Sondheim immediately replied, "That would be more than sufficient. [80] Opera North's production was also broadcast by the BBC on March 30, 1998, as was the Royal Opera House production in 2003. Tickets are $152 to $458 . Like the 1979 Broadway original, which starred Angela Lansbury and Len Cariou, Kail's production is jaw-dropping in its scale. [47], A major new production opened in April 2011 at the Thtre du Chtelet (Paris), which first gave Sondheim a place on the French stage with their production of A Little Night Music. [31] This production takes place in a pie shop that has been recreated for the occasion in Shaftesbury Avenue and ran from March 19 to May 16, 2015. The Israeli National Opera has performed Sweeney Todd twice. That's what the play's about to him; Sweeney Todd is a product of that age. Tobias, Mrs. Lovett, Todd, Customers, "Johanna (Quartet)" Anthony, Todd, Beggar Woman, Johanna, "Wigmaker Sequence"/"The Ballad Of Sweeney Todd: 'Sweeney'd Waited Too Long Before' (Reprise 4)"/"The Letter" Todd, Anthony, Quintet, "Not While I'm Around" Tobias, Mrs. Lovett, "Parlour Songs (Part 1): Sweet Polly Plunkett" Beadle, "Parlour Songs (Part 2): The 12 Bells In Tower of Bray" Beadle, Lovett, Tobias, "Parlour Songs (Part 3): Sweet Polly Plunkett (Reprise)" Lovett, "The Ballad Of Sweeney Todd: 'The Engine Roared, The Motor Hissed' (Reprise 5)"/"Fogg's Asylum"/"City On Fire"/"Searching"/"Ah, Miss (Reprise)"/"Beggar Woman's Lullaby", "The Ballad of Sweeney Todd: 'Attend The Tale Of Sweeney Todd' (Reprise 7)" Company, Todd, Lovett (Full Cast). It consists of the characters Sweeney Todd and. It was notably set in the 1930s instead of 1846 and restored the oft-cut song "Johanna (Mea Culpa)". Copy embed to clipboard. This production was taped for PBS and broadcast in 2001, and won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Classical Music-Dance Program. There would have been screams and yells but I wouldn't have given a damn. And he gave her the key to the character, saying "I want Mrs. Lovett to have a music hall character." 2014 prog metal version, Landless Theatre Company, Washington, D.C. Knapp, Raymond. just before Todd slashes his throat and sends him hurtling down the chute ("The Judge's Return"). Todd drives Anthony out in a fit of fury and, reminded of the evil he sees in London, resolves to depopulate the city by murdering his future customers since all people deserve to die: the rich to be punished for their corruption, and the poor to be relieved of their misery ("Epiphany"). [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. Elsewhere, Anthony spies a beautiful girl singing at her window ("Green Finch and Linnet Bird"), and the beggar woman tells him that her name is Johanna. She then attempts to drag the beggar woman's body into the oven, but Todd arrives and, through a shaft of light, sees the lifeless face clearly for the first time: the beggar woman was his wife Lucy. The song "The Ballad of Sweeney Todd" and its multiple reprises are titled in some productions by their first lyrics to differentiate them from one another: "The Ballad of Sweeney Todd: Attend the Tale of Sweeney Todd", "The Ballad of Sweeney Todd (Reprise): Lift Your Razor High, Sweeney", "The Ballad of Sweeney Todd (Reprise 2): Sweeney Pondered and Sweeney Planned", "The Ballad of Sweeney Todd (Reprise 3): His Hands Were Quick, His Fingers Strong", "The Ballad of Sweeney Todd (Reprise 4): Sweeney'd Waited Too Long Before", "The Ballad of Sweeney Todd (Reprise 5): The Engine Roared, The Motor Hissed", "The Ballad of Sweeney Todd (Reprise 6): Lift Your Razor High, Sweeney", "The Ballad of Sweeney Todd (Reprise 7): Attend the Tale of Sweeney Todd", Strings: 1 violin, 1 cello, 1 double bass, Woodwinds: Reed 1: clarinet; Reed 2: bassoon, Percussion: bass drum, bell tree, bells, chimes, crotales, rachet, side drum, snare drum, Swiss bell, tam-tam, tambourine, temple blocks, triangle, timpani, vibraphone, whistle, wood block, xylophone, Strings: 2 violins, 1 viola, 1 cello, 1 double bass, Brass: 1 French horn, 2 trumpets, 1 trombone, This page was last edited on 17 April 2023, at 18:50. [77] It was selected by the National Recording Registry for preservation in 2013. Terrified, he flees into the sewers below the bakehouse. The show received over fifteen awards. Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? Share to Reddit. (Reprise 1)" Company, Judge, Beadle, "Ah, Miss" Anthony, Johanna, Beggar Woman, "Pirelli's Miracle Elixir" Tobias, Todd, Mrs. Lovett, Crowd, "The Contest (Part 1): Shaving Scene" Pirelli, "The Contest (Part 2): Tooth-Pulling Scene", "The Ballad Of Sweeney Todd: 'Sweeney Pondered and Sweeney Planned' (Reprise 2)" Company, Beggar Woman, "The Ballad Of Sweeney Todd: 'His Hands Were Quick, His Fingers Strong' (Reprise 3)" Tenor Trio, "Ladies In Their Sensitivities"/"Kiss Me (Quartet)" Beadle, Johanna, Anthony, Judge Turpin, "God, That's Good!" It was produced by Theodore Mann, directed by Susan H. Schulman, with choreography by Michael Lichtefeld. Sweeney Todd: Cris Groenendaal . Toby, now insane and his hair turned white, crawls up from the sewer babbling nursery rhymes to himself. The first London production opened on July 2, 1980, at the West End's Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, starring Denis Quilley and Sheila Hancock along with Andrew C. Wadsworth as Anthony, Mandy More as Johanna, Michael Staniforth as Tobias, Austin Kent as Judge Turpin, Dilys Watling as the Beggar Woman, David Wheldon-Williams as Beadle Bamford, Oz Clarke as Jonas Fogg, and John Aron as Pirelli. 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. Horrified, Todd accuses Mrs. Lovett of lying to him. An alternate orchestration is available from Music Theatre International for a 9 piece orchestra. In 2010, fifty members of the National Youth Music Theatre staged a production at the Village Underground as part of Stephen Sondheim's 80th birthday celebrations in London. There is no one with whom Id rather run a cutthroat business with, Cariou said in accepting the award for Lansbury. Over eighty percent of the production is set to music, either sung or underscoring dialogue. The effect it had at Stratford East in London and the effect it had at the Uris Theater in New York are two entirely different effects, even though it's the same play. WBAL NewsRadio 1090/FM 101.5 - 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." It won the Tony Award for Best Musical and Olivier Award for Best New Musical. The character of Sweeney Todd first appeared in a Victorian penny dreadful titled The String of Pearls. 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. In 2009, Sweeney Todd embarked upon an equity tour of the U.K. and Ireland. (In the film, the name is not Daniel O'Higgins but "Davy Collins".) [38], The musical was premiered on June 5, 1992, at the Erkel Theater in Budapest, Hungary. J. joshscheer. [66] This production transferred to London Coliseum Theatre for 13 performances from March 30 through April 12, 2015. Mrs. Lovett then informs Todd that Toby has found out about their secret and they plot to kill him. [5] After she was formally confirmed in the role, she relished the opportunity, saying that she loved "the extraordinary wit and intelligence of [Sondheim's] lyrics. Alone with Todd, Pirelli drops his Italian accent and reveals that he is really Daniel O'Higgins, Benjamin Barker's former assistant. Panicked at first on learning of Pirelli's murder, Mrs. Lovett swipes his leftover coin purse and then asks Todd how he plans to dispose of the body. Angela Lansbury , who played Mrs. Lovett in the Broadway performance, and Stephen Sondheim , the composer and writer for the musical, both died within the last two years, according to an . Director Terry Hughes Writers Hugh Wheeler Christopher Bond Stars Angela Lansbury George Hearn Cris Groenendaal See production, box office & company info Search on Amazon It was originally produced Off-Broadway by the York Theatre Company at the Church of the Heavenly Rest from March 31, 1989, to April 29, 1989. Several weeks later, Mrs. Lovett's pie shop has become a successful business, and Toby works there as a waiter. 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The director was Lee Blakeley with choreography by Lorena Randi and designs by Tanya McAllin. [19] It was later released on both VHS and DVD.[79]. There are two kinds of men and only two. In the crowded London marketplace, flamboyant Italian barber Adolfo Pirelli and his simple-minded young assistant Tobias Ragg pitch a dramatic cure-all for hair loss ("Pirelli's Miracle Elixir"). It later was released as a feature film in . [82], In 2001, the same concert was held in San Francisco with the same leads and minor cast changes. As talented and admired as she was, he said, she was never demanding. The show receives three 2015 Helen Hayes Awards nominations for Best Musical, Outstanding Director of a Musical (Melissa Baughman), and Outstanding Music Director (Charles W. Johnson). Mrs. Lovett, the role originated on Broadway by Angela Lansbury, is a warm . A cheerful, talkative, but amoral owner/proprietress of a meat pie shop; Todd's former landlady, but enamored of him. "[8], With Prince absorbed in staging the mammoth production, Lansbury and Cariou were left largely to their own when it came to developing their characters. Music Direction by Charles W. Johnson. Dame. [86], The 2012 London revival was recorded and released on April 2, 2012, in the UK[87] and April 10, 2012, in the United States.[88]. The production was eager to disassociate itself with recent West End backlash regarding Stunt Casting and so the tour was cast through an open call audition process. There are opera audiences, and there is an opera sensibility. The Judge recognizes him as "Benjamin Barker!" Ex-Judge Fired for Gay Porn Side-Hustle Fights Back. The production plays at DC's Warehouse Theatre in August 2014. Hutchins, Michael H. (February 18, 2006). The first Broadway revival opened on September 14, 1989, at the Circle in the Square Theatre, and closed on February 25, 1990, after 189 performances and 46 previews. Todd sneers at the audience for a moment and vanishes. The production closed on November 14, 1980. The 1997 Finnish National Opera production premiered on September 19, 1997. The score is just amazing-- by far Sondheim's best, and probably one of the best scores written for a musical ever. Starring Len Cariou and Angela Lansbury and music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Todd and Lovett soon arrive; as part of his plan to establish his new identity, Todd exposes the elixir as a sham, challenges Pirelli to a shaving competition and easily wins ("The Contest"), inviting the impressed Beadle for a free shave ("The Ballad of Sweeney Todd" reprise 2). Mrs. Lovett: George Hearn . Radio programs. [51], In 2015, Victorian Opera's production was performed at the Melbourne Arts Centre. The cast included Timothy Nolen in the title role, Joyce Castle as Mrs. Lovett, Cris Groenendaal as Anthony, Lee Merrill as Johanna, Will Roy as Judge Turpin, and Barry Busse as The Beadle.[59]. She was a star and, as she pointed out to Sondheim, "Your show is not called 'Nellie Lovett', it's called 'Sweeney Todd'. The film was well received by critics and theatregoers and also won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. On 2 July 1994, the Royal National Theatre revival production starring Denis Quilley and Julia McKenzie was broadcast by the BBC. Todd joins forces with Mrs. Lovett, the unhinged proprietress of a failing pie shop, and together they develop a spinetingling plot to exact revenge. Anthony finds Johanna locked away in a private lunatic asylum, but barely escapes being placed under arrest by the Beadle. To which Chapin replied: "I would have put it on like a shot if I'd had the opportunity. First appearing in the Victorian penny dreadful serial The String of Pearls, it is debated if she was based on an actual person or not. Share to iMessage. Angela Lansbury . Adrian Lester and Barry James received nominations in the category of Best Supporting Performance In a Musical for their portrayals of Anthony and Beadle Bamford respectively.[24]. Sweeney Todd: [singing] Awful lot of fat. [68], Stephen Sondheim believed that Sweeney Todd is a story of revenge and how it consumes a vengeful person. Book by Hugh Wheeler. I had a feeling it would be a new animal. Prince's scenic metaphor for Sweeney Todd was a 19th-century iron foundry moved from Rhode Island and reassembled on the stage, which critic Jack Kroll aptly described as "part cathedral, part factory, part prison, that dwarfed and degraded the swarming denizens of the lower orders. Times Is Hard. [32], The Tooting Arts Club production transferred to Off-Broadway, transforming the Barrow Street Theatre into a working re-creation of Harrington's pie shop. Hearn and LuPone were joined once again by Harris, Gaines, Aler and Olsen as well as new additions Victoria Clark, Lisa Vroman and Timothy Nolen. As Anthony and Johanna flee, the asylum's freed inmates prophesy the end of the world, while Todd and Mrs. Lovett hunt through the sewers for Toby, and the beggar woman fears what has become of the Beadle ("City on Fire/Searching"). Morose and vengeful; a barber by profession who has returned to London, after fifteen years of unjust incarceration in an Australian penal colony, to seek revenge first on the corrupt judge and beadle who sent him there, and then on all humanity through his clients. [64] McDonald was not announced as the Beggar Woman: she was a surprise, her name only being revealed at the time of the first performance. 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. Previews began February 14, 2017, before officially opening night on March 1. The musical began previews on February 26 and opened on March 26, 2023, at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, starring Josh Groban as Sweeney Todd, Annaleigh Ashford as Mrs. Lovett, Jordan Fisher as Anthony, Gaten Matarazzo as Tobias, Maria Bilbao as Johanna, Jamie Jackson reprising his role of Judge Turpin, Ruthie Ann Miles as the Beggar Woman, John Rapson reprising his role of Beadle Bamford, and Nicholas Christopher as Pirelli and the standby for Todd. Anthony draws a pistol given to him by Todd, but cannot bring himself to shoot Jonas Fogg, the corrupt asylum owner; Johanna grabs the pistol and kills Fogg. 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 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. [85] This recording was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album. The ending will give you chills. 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. 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. Report. Share to Facebook. "[23] This production received Olivier Awards for Best Musical Revival, Best Actor in a Musical (Armstrong) and Best Actress in a Musical (McKenzie), and Best Director Of A Musical for Donnellan. [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). LOS ANGELES (AP) 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 actors were also friends and admirers, staying in touch after becoming the toasts of Broadway and Tony Award winners in 1979 for Stephen Sondheim's acclaimed musical. In 1993, the show received its first London revival at the Royal National Theatre. Sondheim. [4], Music proved to be a key element behind the impact of Sweeney Todd on audiences. 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. Look at you! In 1995, the Barcelona cast recorded a cast album sung in Catalan. Conducted by John DeMain, the production used scenic designs by Eugene Lee, costume designs by Franne Lee, and lighting designs by Ken Billington. In 2004, John Doyle directed a revival of the musical at the Watermill Theatre in Newbury, England, running from July 27, 2004, until October 9, 2004. The show did a four-week run and ended on June 8, 2008.[45]. There are opera houses. It was well received and most performances sold out. She was 96. Lansbury, who had grown up in British music hall, immediately got it. The stage and screen star may have been known around the world as Murder, She Wrote 's. Nellie Lovett: [singing] It's priest. Stephen Sondheim & Hugh Wheeler's masterpiece, 1979 at the Uris theater on Broadway Directed by Melissa Baughman. Instead, the characters emotional and psychological depths are examined, so that Sweeney Todd is understood as a victim as well as a perpetrator in the "great black pit" of humanity.[70]. Sweeney Todd has its occasional operatic moments, but its music overall has the chest notes, the harmonic language, the muscularity, and the edge of Broadway theater. "Not just music hall but dotty music hall", as she put it. The Melbourne production toured to Sydney and Brisbane in 1988. (AP Photo/Ray Stubblebine, File), Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. The centerpiece of Mimi Lien's shapeshifting scenic design is an . [4], Sondheim has often said that his Sweeney Todd was about obsession and close friends seemed to instinctually agree. And I'm the second banana." Worst Pies In London. 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. An Irish charlatan and former employee of Benjamin Barker who has since developed a public persona as a flashy Italian barber; he attempts to blackmail Todd, but is immediately killed. Director Lonny Price directed a semi-staged concert production of "Sweeney Todd in Concert on May 46, 2000 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center, New York with the New York Philharmonic. A simpleton who works first for con-man Pirelli and then for Mrs. Lovett, but does not trust Todd. 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 is directed by Thomas Kail, with orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick, musical supervision by Alex Lacamoire and choreography by Steven Hoggett. We were very proud of the fact that we were able to do it for a year and not go over the top., We made it our business to get to know one another, he said, lunching together during rehearsal so we could establish some kind of shorthand and get to know one another better, just as people., We had a wonderful time doing it together, he said. The show was a collaboration with West End International Ltd. It was revealed that the production has a budget of $14 million with a cast of 26 and an orchestra of 27. Concert version was performed at Los Angeles' Ahmanson Theatre on March 1214, 1999 with Kelsey Grammer as Todd, Christine Baranski as Mrs. Lovett, Davis Gaines as Anthony, Neil Patrick Harris as Tobias, Melissa Manchester as The Beggar Woman, Roland Rusinek as The Beadle, Dale Kristien as Johanna and Ken Howard as Judge Turpin. The other voices in the cast also were known quantities. This pair of songs at the end of Act I was the most significant musical addition which Sondheim made to Bond's version of the story. 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. The taped production was nominated for five Primetime Emmy Awards in 1985, winning three including Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program (for George Hearn). In the early 2000s, Sweeney Todd gained acceptance with opera companies throughout the United States, Canada, Japan, Germany, Israel, Spain, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and Australia. The original Broadway pit consisted of a 26-piece orchestra. Copy link to clipboard. Directed by Hal Prince and choreographed by Larry Fuller, the scenic design was by Eugene Lee, costumes by Franne Lee and lighting by Ken Billington. Relying heavily on counterpoint and angular harmonies, its compositional style has been compared to Maurice Ravel, Sergei Prokofiev, and Bernard Herrmann. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. Pieter Toerien and KickstArt produced a production at the Pieter Toerien Monte Casino Theatre in Johannesburg, which ran from October 10 December 13, 2015, before transferring to the Theatre on the Bay in Cape Town from February 19 April 9, 2016. This concert also played in San Francisco, from July 1921, 2001, with the San Francisco Symphony. . Leonard Joseph Cariou OC OM ( / kriu /; born September 30, 1939) is a Canadian actor and stage director, best known for his portrayal of Sweeney Todd in the original cast of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, for which he won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical, and for playing the patriarch Henry Reagan . [41], Irish tenor David Shannon starred as Todd in a highly successful Dublin production of the show at the Gate Theatre, which ran from April 2007 through June 2007. The cast featured Bob Gunton (Sweeney Todd), Beth Fowler (Mrs. Lovett), Eddie Korbich (Tobias Ragg), Jim Walton (Anthony Hope) and David Barron (Judge Turpin). Anthony arrives at the asylum to rescue Johanna, but is exposed when Johanna recognizes him. Directed by Gale Edwards, it featured Lyndon Terracini as Todd, Nancye Hayes as Mrs. Lovett and Peter Cousens as Anthony. 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"). Look at me, Mrs Lovett. Once he has the Judge in his chair, Todd soothes him with another conversation on women, but this time he alludes to their "fellow tastes, in women at least". Todd has acquired a special mechanical barber's chair that allows him to kill clients and then send their bodies directly through a chute into the pie shop's basement bakehouse. On September 12, 2015, Sweeney Todd opened at the San Francisco Opera with Brian Mulligan as Todd, Stephanie Blythe as Mrs. Lovett, Matthew Grills as Tobias, Heidi Stober as Johanna, Elliot Madore as Anthony and Elizabeth Futral as the Beggar Woman/Lucy. The cast consisted of Lajos Miller as Sweeney Todd, Zsuzsa Lehoczky as Mrs. Lovett, Sndor Sasvri as Anthony, Mnika Vsri as Johanna, Rbert Rtonyi as Judge Turpin, Tibor Olh as Tobias, Pter Kocsmros as Pirelli, Ildik Kishonti as Lucy/Beggar woman, and Istvn Rozsos as Beadle Bamford. The tour ran for 8 months, starring Barry Howell as Sweeney Todd & Isabell Wyer as Ms. Lovett. When Sondheim first played songs from an early version of the show for Judy Prince (wife of the show's director), she told him: "Oh God I didn't know this was what [Sweeney Todd] was about. She said to me on her last birthday, a year ago, Its just silly being this old.'". The production ran for 349 performances and 35 previews, and was nominated for six Tony Awards, winning two: Best Direction of a Musical for Doyle and Best Orchestrations for Sarah Travis who had reconstructed Jonathan Tunick's original arrangements to suit the ten-person cast and orchestra. Original orchestrator Jonathan Tunick revised his large orchestration for the 1993 London revival, adding a dirtier, grittier texture to the score's arrangements. This number was written for the original London production and first recorded for the 2000 New York Philharmonic concert performance. 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. "[4], When it came to casting, Sondheim thought stage veteran Angela Lansbury would add some needed comedy to the grim tale as the lunatic Cockney shopkeeper, but Lansbury needed to be convinced. 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