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SWEENEY TODD: Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Act Two closes its sensational 19th season with the 8 time TONY Award winning and world renowned musical, Sweeney Todd, with music and lyrics by the incomparable Stephen Sondheim and book by Hugh Wheeler, Directed by Joshua Cook with Musical Director Tim Clark.  In this musical thriller set in London Benjamin Barker, a respected barber, loving husband and new father is exiled and wrongfully imprisoned in Australia for 15 years by the evil Judge Turpin.  He returns to London, assuming the name Sweeney Todd, to discover his wife is dead and his daughter is a ward of the very man who imprisoned him.  Todd enlists his former landlady and local pie shop owner Mrs. Lovett to once again set up his shop above her failing business with only one mission...revenge. 


Please note that Sweeney Todd may not be suitable for younger audiences.


October 26, 27 & 28
November 2, 3 & 4
Showtimes at 8:00pm | Sunday matinees at 2:00pm

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Sweeney Todd Ticket Prices are $16 for Students and Seniors and $20 for Adults

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