Director: Martyn Knight
Musical Director: Paul Laidlaw
"There's a hole in the world like a great black pit
and the vermin of the world inhabit it
and its morals aren't worth what a pig could spit
and it goes by the name of London."
Sweeney Todd:
The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
22 February - 04 March 2023
York Theatre Royal
One of the darkest musicals ever written, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is the unsettling tale of a Georgian-era barber who returns home to London after fifteen years of exile to take revenge on the corrupt judge who ruined his life.
Noted as composer/lyricist Stephen Sondheim’s most perfect score, York Light Opera Company bring the multi-award winning Sweeney Todd to the stage. A tasty, thrilling, theatrical masterpiece which is sure to both excite and delight audiences.
Music & Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Book by Hugh Wheeler
From an Adaptation by Christopher Bond
Originally Directed on Broadway by Harold Prince
Orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick
Originally produced on Broadway by Richard Barr, Charles Woodward,
Robert Fryer, Mary Lea Johnson, Martin Richards, in association with Dean and Judy Manos
This amateur production is presented by arrangement with Music Theatre International.
All authorised performance materials are also supplied by MTI (www.mtishows.co.uk)