Sweeney Todd – reviews of 'thrilling' pie-shop revival

Sondheim's grimly comic musical staged in London's oldest pie shop is 'brilliantly atmospheric'

Sweeney Todd
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A revival of Sweeney Todd has opened at Harrington's Pie and Mash Shop, Tooting Broadway. The Tooting Arts Club have adapted Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's 1979 musical, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, for Harrington's 106 year old pie and mash shop (London's oldest).

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