SWEENEY TODD

About the show

Widely regarded as Stephen Sondheim's masterwork — Sweeney Todd is a bitingly brilliant black comedy: bloody, gothic and wickedly funny with a soaring score that's as thrilling as its brutal body count! Wrongfully convicted and exiled by a corrupt judge, Sweeney Todd returns to the grim streets of Victorian London with one thing on his mind: revenge. But payback can be hungry work, and Sweeney finds an unlikely - and equally cutthroat - business partner in Mrs Lovett, whose bakery beneath his barbershop is about to become very popular with customers and suppliers alike... Since its 1979 debut Sondheim’s ripper musical has collected eight Tony Awards, nine Drama Desk Awards, an Olivier, and multiple award-winning Broadway and West End revivals. Nearly fifty years on, audiences, like Sweeney, still have a taste for piping hot pies and their just desserts. Rockhampton-lad-turned-musical-theatre star Andy Conaghan makes his QTC Mainstage Debut as Sweeney Todd alongside beloved leading lady Naomi Price (Calamity Jane) as Mrs Lovett.