Hamilton Musical Theatre is set to provide thrills, horror and surprises with a bit of humour when it brings Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street to Riverlea Theatre.
It won’t be a feel-good fluffy musical, but Sweeney Todd is considered to be a true Stephen Sondheim masterpiece that has also been turned into a Tim Burton movie with Johnny Depp as Sweeney Todd and Helena Bonham-Carter as Mrs Lovett.
The musical tells the story of Sweeney Todd, an unjustly exiled barber, who returns to 19th-century London, seeking vengeance against the lecherous judge who framed him and ravaged his young wife.
The road to revenge leads Todd to Mrs Lovett, the owner of a failing pie shop, above which he opens a new barber practice.
Mrs Lovett’s luck sharply shifts when Todd’s thirst for blood inspires the integration of an ingredient into her meat pies that has the people of London lining up.