This Tony Award-winning thriller features music and lyrics by the great Stephen Sondheim and book by Hugh Wheeler. Whitman's innovative production, set in the New York City punk scene of the 1980s, tells the story of Benjamin Barker, a man unjustly sent to prison, who vows revenge on the judge who banished him--for that that cruel punishment, and for the devastating consequences which befell his wife and daughter.
When he returns to reopen his barber shop, Barker becomes Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street, in league with Mrs. Lovett, purveyor of meat pies. He shaves and barbers customers...who never thereafter are heard from again!