Sweeney Todd review – Sondheim’s demon barber is still a cut above

Birmingham Rep With tremendous singing from Ramin Karimloo and Meow Meow, Joe Murphy’s superb staging of the story is full of dark gothic humour Stephen Sondheim was drawn to fairytales – and not just in the storybook theme of Into the Woods . The origins of Sweeney Todd, the demon barber of Fleet Street, lie in Victorian melodrama, but in the hands of the composer, working with book writer Hugh Wheeler in response to a play by Christopher Bond, it is steeped in the tropes of folklore. The story of a serial killer who provides the grisly contents for his landlady’s pies is ripe with the kind o

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