Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street
- ISBN-10
- 1557830657
- ISBN-13
- 9781557830654
- Series
- Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street
- Category
- Performing Arts / Theater / Broadway & Musicals
- Pages
- 234
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1991
- Publisher
- Applause Theatre Book Publishers
- Authors
- Stephen Sondheim, Hugh Wheeler
Description
(Applause Books). Book by Hugh Wheeler Introduction by Christopher Bond "Mr. Sondheim fearlessly explores psychic caverns where civilized people are not dying to go ... A naked Sweeney Todd stands revealed as a musical of naked rage, chewing up everyone in its path as it spits out blood and tears." Frank Rich, The New York Times * "A work of such scope and such daring that it dwarfs every other Broadway musical that even attempts to invite comparison." Rex Reed, New York Daily News
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Other editions
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- 1981
- 389 pages
- Paperback
- Revelation Music Publishing Corporation & Rilting Music
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