Sweeney Todd – the Victorian Melodrama review

“Admirably ambitious”

ReviewsApr 26, 2023by David BenedictWilton’s Music Hall, London

Sweeney Todd – the Victorian melodrama at Wilton’s Music Hall, London. Photo: Andy Paradise

Opera della Luna take The Demon Barber of Fleet Street back to its original stage source: a 19th-century play by George Dibdin Pitt with music by an array of composers

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David Benedict has been a daily columnist and theatre editor on the Independent and arts editor of the Observer. He is chief London critic of Variety, a regular guest on the BBC, and is currently writing the authorised biography of Stephen Sondheim. Read David's columns for The Stage every Wednesday.

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