daughter. He at first plans to kill Turpin, but when his prey escapes, he swears vengeance on humanity in general and begins to slash his customers' throats. He goes into business with Mrs. Lovett, his former landlady, who bakes his victims' flesh into pies. At the end of the play, he finally gets his revenge by killing Turpin, but then unknowingly kills his own wife, who Mrs. Lovett had misled him into believing had died. After learning the truth, he kills Mrs. Lovett, but is in turn killed by Mrs. Lovett's assistant and surrogate son Tobias Ragg, who slits Todd's throat with his own razor. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. A Musical Thriller (1979), is a musical adaptation of Bond's play by Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler. The show began on Broadway in 1979 and in London's West End in 1980. The show won multiple awards including the Tony Award for Best Musical and the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Musical. There have since been several revivals in the West End, on Broadway and elsewhere. TODD (2012), a rock musical by the Russian horror punk band Korol i Shut. Sweeney Todd (2022-2023), musical adaptation Korean version play by Lee Kyu-hyung. The other Korean version of musical also played by Cho Seung-woo and Yang Jun-mo in 2016 Dance Sweeney Todd (1959), a ballet version performed by the Royal Ballet with music by Malcolm Arnold and choreography by John Cranko. Movies Sweeney Todd (1926), the first movie version of the story, a 15-minute British silent movie featuring G.A. Baughan in the title role, directed by George Dewhurst. The movie is now lost. Sweeney Todd (1928), a British silent movie featuring Moore Marriott as Sweeney Todd and Iris Darbyshire as Amelia Lovett. This is the earliest surviving movie adaptation. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1936), a movie version of the 19th-century melodrama featuring Tod Slaughter as Sweeney Todd and Stella Rho as Mrs. "Lovatt". Bloodthirsty Butchers (1970), a horror movie with John Miranda as Sweeney Todd and Jane Helay as Maggie Lovett, directed by Andy Milligan. In Jersey Girl (2004), Ollie Trinke (Ben Affleck), as Sweeney Todd, and his daughter Gertie (Raquel Castro), as Mrs. Lovett, sing "God, That's Good!!" from the Sondheim version for her school play, accompanied by Ollie's love interest Maya (Liv Tyler) as Tobias. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street