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2006-08-28 17:00:51 · 8 answers · asked by sunflower 1 in Arts & Humanities Performing Arts

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In some verisons Sweeny Todd is a Barber, and some he is a butcher. He either kills them with his razor blade or butcher knife. Then he grinds them up into meat patties with his downstairs neighbor who owns the butcher shop (or a butcher shop). It kind of varies within the 2 different musical/plays but the storyline is basically the same.
Thankfully, he is just a fictional character. Ffew! Well i cannot wait for the movie version with Johnny Depp directed by you guessed it -Tim Burton. It should be great, they start filming the end of this year and it will be out sometime in 2007.

2006-08-28 17:24:54 · answer #1 · answered by Norah 6 · 0 0

Sweeny Todd is a musical theater character who kills people via barber shop.
Sweeney Todd is a fictional villain. A barber and serial killer, the character appears in various English language works starting in the mid-19th century. His weapon of choice is a straight razor, with which he cuts his victim's throats; in some versions of the story his friend and accomplice, Margery (sometimes Nellie) Lovett, bakes the carcasses into meat pies.

Johnny Depp will be playing the character in the movie version.

2006-08-28 17:05:39 · answer #2 · answered by ballerina_kim 6 · 0 0

Canada's Sweeney Todd is the glam-like outfit that gave rise to the peculiar pop skills of electric dreamer Nick Gilder, a towering magical imp, and meat-and-potatoes professional Bryan Adams. Born in London and raised in Vancouver, Gilder joined Rasputin with high school friend and guitarist Jim McCulloch. The band evolved into Sweeney Todd, an obviously theatrical para-pop 10cc-type-unit that quickly ensnared a local following. Producer Martin Shaer caught the act at a high school gymnasium and soon London Records signed and released Sweeney Todd in 1975. Thanks to the delectable groupie-ode "Roxy Roller," written by Gilder and McCulloch, Sweeney Todd quickly ruled the Great White North. Chrysalis Records wooed Gilder and McCulloch to Los Angeles and the duo bolted, leaving Sweeney Todd without a creative impetus. Clark Perry took over the lead role and the band recorded a different rendering of "Roxy Roller" before Perry was replaced by a 16-year-old Bryan Guy Adams who had pestered Shaer into an audition. Adams sang on yet another "Roxy Roller" and accepted a Juno on behalf of the Gilder version. Sweeney Todd's If Wishes Were Horses features the earliest Bryan Adams' songs, as well as holdovers from Gilder and McCulloch (including the excellent "Tantalize"). "Song for a Star" details Adams' attempts at mimicking the Bolan-like-brainiac Gilder: "Stepping in time with your pace, though we never yet met face to face." Gilder released a fourth rendition of "Roxy Roller" on his solo debut, You Know Who You Are. His second LP, the legendary City Nights, yielded the immortal one-hit-wonder "Hot Child in the City." Meanwhile, Adams fell out of favor with Sweeney Todd after exhaustive touring in support of If Wishes Were Horses, and split to return to high school. A year later, in 1978, Adams happened upon his soon-to-be songwriting partner, Prism's Jim Vallance, in a music store. The duo penned songs for a plethora of established stars until Adams reached solo superstar status in the mid-'80s. Sweeney Todd labored on with new manager Ron Wright until 1978. Gilder re-formed the band in the late '90s. ~ Doug Stone, All Music Guide

2006-08-28 20:39:00 · answer #3 · answered by Dahs 3 · 0 0

He was a really bad hairdresser in Fleet Street in London

But then, he could ave' been a policeman, Tweeney Todd = Plod

2006-09-01 09:25:38 · answer #4 · answered by How e' ye Horse 2 · 0 0

The title role of a musical by Steven Sondheim about a murderous barber. Creepy but very good.

2006-08-28 17:04:31 · answer #5 · answered by shycello 3 · 0 0

He was the Demon Barber of Fleet St in London, many centuries ago.

2006-08-28 17:04:34 · answer #6 · answered by Thom Thumb 6 · 0 0

all i know is it is a play that they had in Jersy Girl, and it was kinda cool in a creppy way. musical right?

2006-08-28 17:04:01 · answer #7 · answered by Jeny L 1 · 0 0

im mystery

2006-08-28 17:03:37 · answer #8 · answered by sixfoot8bkr 3 · 0 0

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