At one end stands the shop where the demon barber dispenses bloody murder.
The music urges us to see the demon barber of Fleet Street as a man driven to crime by vicious injustice.
Sweeney's name pronounces him of the lineage of a man who sold human flesh for butchermeat, a 'demon barber'.
At one point in "Sweeney Todd," the demon barber baldly announces, "We all deserve to die."
This button-hole-size musical is so small that the actors keep bumping into one another while the demon barber savagely wields a Bic throwaway razor.
If you don't count Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street, she may be right.
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (production executive, 2007).
The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1936)
Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1970)
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1936 film)