Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd! His skin was pale and his eye was odd! And the demon barber of Fleet Street is coming to Melbourne. After receiving critical acclaim from around the country, the Tony Award-winning musical by Stephen Sondheim is coming to town this spring. Find Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street A Musical Thriller at the Arts Centre Melbourne Playhouse. This production by Victorian Opera will run from Saturday September 14 to Saturday September 21.
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street A Musical Thriller
The murderous musical tells the tale of a barber in London who returns from wrongful imprisonment driven by a mad desire for revenge. Expect blood, gore and violence aplenty.
Ben Mingay will play the role of the iconic villain, Sweeney Todd, with Antoinette Halloran in the role of Mrs. Lovett. If you don’t know much about Sweeney Todd, let’s just say good meat pies were hard to come by in London at the time, and the two leads had to find creative ways to make some.
“I love this piece,” said director Stuart Maunder AM. “The terror, the thrills. For all its melodrama, blood and gore this masterpiece of music theatre tells a universal human story, revenge, obsession, and lust, yes – but also pain, yearning, and even love. This is Sondheim at his most powerful, moving, and terrifying. And what a cast, I am in awe.”
To learn more about the play and find tickets to this thrilling production, click here.