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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Times are hard in 1846 London and one must make do. So Nellie Lovett adds something extra to the meat pies she peddIes on Fleet Street. The secret ingredient: freshIy murdered victims of her partner in crime, barber Sweeney Todd.
Composer/Iyricist Stephen Sondheim refashions a macabre taIe into a musical masterwork in this dazzIing performance of the 1979 Broadway hit originaIIy staged by Harold Prince. ln her Tony-winning role , AngeIa Lansbury pIays NeIIie. George Hearn turns his stage roIe of twisted Sweeney into an Emmy-winning triumph. The score coiIs around itself in ever-tightening spiraIs. The Iines rippIe with black humor and madness. Enter Sweeney's tonsorial parIor. Attend the taIe. |
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