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Title: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (TV Movie 1982)
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| Angela Lansbury | ... | Nellie Lovett | |
| George Hearn | ... | Sweeney Todd | |
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Cris Groenendaal | ... | Anthony Hope |
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Sara Woods | ... | Beggar Woman |
| Edmund Lyndeck | ... | Judge Turpin | |
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Calvin Remsberg | ... | The Beadle |
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Betsy Joslyn | ... | Johanna |
| Sal Mistretta | ... | Pirelli | |
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Spain Logue | ... | Birdseller |
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Walter Charles | ... | Passerby |
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Michael Kalinyen | ... | Jonas Fogg |
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Roy Gioconda | ... | Company |
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Skip Harris | ... | Company |
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Duane Morris | ... | Company |
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Patricia Parker | ... | Company |
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It's 1846. Sweeney Todd and Anthony Hope, greeted only by a crazed beggar woman, sail into London, where Todd implies he has been before but not in quite some time. Todd heads to his old stomping grounds of Fleet Street, where he runs across the pie shop belonging to Mrs. Nellie Lovett, who professes to make the worst meat pies in London due to the high cost of meat. The upstairs of her building has sat empty since no one wants to rent a space that is considered haunted by its long ago tenant, barber Benjamin Barker who was falsely accused and ultimately sentenced by the sadistic Judge Turpin and who was shipped away to prison in Australia, leaving his wife Lucy and infant daughter Johanna alone in the world. Todd comes to an agreement with Mrs. Lovett to rent the upstairs of her building so that he can open his own barber shop. A series of incidents, including one with rival barber Senor Pirelli, make Todd change his focus slightly away from having a choice encounter with Judge ... Written by Huggo
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12 September 1982 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Sweeney Todd See more »Filming Locations:
Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles County Music Center - 135 N. Grand Avenue, Downtown, Los Angeles, California, USACompany Credits
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Man: [singing] Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd. His skin was pale and his eye was odd. He shaved the faces of gentlemen who never thereafter were heard of again. He trod a path that few have trod, Did Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street.
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Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Performed by Kenneth Jennings and Angela Lansbury
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Original Broadway Cast members in this taping include Angela Lansbury (Mrs.Lovett) , Kenneth Jennings (Toby), Edmund Lyndeck (Judge Turpin), and Betsy Joslyn (Johanna) and Cris Groenendaal (Anthony) who played Members of the Company and understudied for Sarah Rice and Victor Garber as Johanna and Anthony, respectively. See more »Goofs
As the company gathers in front of the oven in "The Ballad of Sweeney Todd", the camera catches Sweeney moving into position for his entrance. See more »Quotes
[first lines]Man: [singing] Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd. His skin was pale and his eye was odd. He shaved the faces of gentlemen who never thereafter were heard of again. He trod a path that few have trod, Did Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street.
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Not While Im AroundMusic and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Performed by Kenneth Jennings and Angela Lansbury
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I have only praise for this film. From start to finish it captured the brilliance of Stephen Sondheim's musical. I am not a big fan of musicals most of them are very overdone. This one however changed my mind. I am an actor myself and have actully played Sweeney and I know how hard this role is. George Hearn gave a stunning, masterful and rounded performance worthy of the highest awards that we can give him (He won an Emmy and that's something.) Everything he does he turns to gold. He is so good it will blow your mind why he's not in films winning oscars. Lansbury is also very good and very funny. Sara Woods is creepy and wonderful as the Beggar Woman. All in all a great video. Pick it up if you can.