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It was then published in book form in 1850 as The String of Pearls, subtitled "The Barber of Fleet Street.

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Lloyd published another, lengthier, penny part serial during 1847–1848, with 92 episodes. It was in this alternative version of the tale, rather than the original, that Todd acquired his catchphrase: "I'll polish him off". During February/March 1847, before the serial was even completed, George Dibdin Pitt adapted The String of Pearls as a melodrama for the Britannia Theatre in Hoxton, east London. Hingston, George Macfarren, and Albert Richard Smith. It was probably written by James Malcolm Rymer, though Thomas Peckett Prest has also been credited with it possibly each worked on the serial from part to part. This penny dreadful was published in 18 weekly parts, in Edward Lloyd's magazine The People's Periodical and Family Library, issues 7–24, published 21 November 1846 to 20 March 1847. Sweeney Todd first appeared in a story titled The String of Pearls: A Romance. Lovett hire an unwitting orphan boy, Tobias Ragg, to serve the pies to customers. In most versions of the story, he and Mrs. Lovett's pie shop in nearby Bell Yard by means of an underground passage. Dunstan's church, and is connected to Mrs. Todd's barber shop is situated at 186 Fleet Street, London, next to St. Lovett, his partner in crime (in some later versions, his friend and/or lover), assists him in disposing of the bodies by baking their flesh into meat pies and selling them to the unsuspecting customers of her pie shop. After Todd has robbed his dead victims of their goods, Mrs. In some adaptations, the murdering process is reversed, with Todd slitting his customers' throats before dispatching them into the basement through the revolving trap door. In case they are alive, Todd goes to the basement and "polishes them off" (slitting their throats with his straight razor). His victims fall backward through a revolving trap door into the basement of his shop, generally causing them to break their necks or skulls. įor the original version of the tale, Todd is a barber who kills his victims by pulling a lever as they sit in his barber chair. Ĭlaims that Sweeney Todd was a historical person are disputed strongly by scholars, although possible legendary prototypes exist. The tale has been retold many times since in various media. Lovett, his partner in crime, who bakes their flesh into meat pies. A barber from Fleet Street, Todd murders his customers with a straight razor and gives their corpses to Mrs. The original tale became a feature of 19th-century melodrama and London legend. Sweeney Todd is a fictional character who first appeared as the villain of the penny dreadful serial The String of Pearls (1846–47). Johanna Barker (Bond play and musical version) Lucy Barker ( Bond play and musical version) Jett Pangan (2019 Manila, 2019 Singapore)īenjamin Barker (Bond play and musical version) Jeremy Secomb (2015 London revival, 2017 Off-Broadway revival)

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Mikhail Gorshenev (album 2011, album 2012, zong-opera 2012-2013)īryn Terfel (2014 New York concert, 2015 London concert) Robert Mammana (2010 episode of The Office) Kelsey Grammer (1999 Los Angeles concert)īrian Stokes Mitchell (2002 Kennedy Center)

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George Hearn (1980 Broadway, 2000 New York concert, 2001 San Francisco concert)ĭenis Quilley (1980 London cast, 1993 London revival, 1994 BBC Radio) Len Cariou ( 1979 Broadway, 2000 London concert)

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Penny dreadful serial titled The String of Pearls (1846–47) Sweeney Todd murdering a victim, from the penny dreadful serial The String of Pearls.











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