In 1846, Benjamin Barker, a barber, arrives in London, accompanied by sailor Anthony Hope. Grossing over $150 million worldwide, the film was praised for the performances of the cast, musical numbers, costume and set design, and faithfulness to the 1979 musical. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street was released in the United States on Decemand in the United Kingdom on January 25, 2008. Zanuck acknowledged was something of a gamble. Depp, not known for his singing, took lessons in preparation for his role, which producer Richard D. Sondheim, although not directly involved, was extensively consulted during production. However, it was not until 2006 that he had the opportunity to realize this ambition, when DreamWorks announced his appointment as replacement for director Sam Mendes, who had been working on such an adaptation. Having been struck by the cinematic qualities of Sondheim's musical while still a student, Burton had entertained the notion of a film version since the early 1980s. Lovett ( Helena Bonham Carter), processes their corpses into meat pies.
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The film retells the melodramatic Victorian tale of Sweeney Todd ( Johnny Depp), an English barber and serial killer who murders his customers with a straight razor and, with the help of his accomplice, Mrs. He shared the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for Drama with Lapine for Sunday in the Park with George, and won an Academy Award for the song "Sooner or Later," one of five tracks written for the 1990 film Dick Tracy, starring Warren Beatty and Madonna.Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is a 2007 musical slasher film directed by Tim Burton and an adaptation of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's Tony Award-winning 1979 musical of the same name. Sondheim claimed eight Tony Awards, a record for a composer, as well as eight Grammy Awards. In 2011, Follies was revived, starring Bernadette Peters. Broadway has continued to host Sondheim classics as well, including the 2009 revivals of West Side Story and A Little Night Music, with the latter starring Catherine Zeta-Jones and Angela Lansbury. Sondheim's work has also been the subject of several revues, including Side by Side by Sondheim in 1976, Putting It Together in 1992 and Sondheim on Sondheim in 2010. Assassins (1990) told the tales of nine presidential assassins in American history and Passion, a 1994 collaboration with Lapine, was a melodramatic romance based on the Italian film Passione d'Amore. Sondheim continued to combine various musical genres with sharp lyrical writing and unexpected subject matter in the 1990s, though some of his work of that decade received less critical and popular acclaim. Later Works and Revivals: 'Passion' to 'Follies' Writing the song lyrics for West Side Story, which opened in 1957, Sondheim thus became part of one of Broadway's most successful productions of all time. Returning to New York, he composed background music for the play The Girls of Summer in 1956. An acquaintance with director Arthur Laurents brought Sondheim into contact with composer Leonard Bernstein and choreographer Jerome Robbins, who were looking for a lyricist for a contemporary musical adaptation of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
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In the early 1950s, Stephen Sondheim moved to Los Angeles, California, and wrote scripts for the television series Topper and The Last Word. Theater Beginnings: 'West Side Story' and 'A Funny Thing Happened' After graduating from the school in 1950, he studied further with avant-garde composer Milton Babbitt and moved to New York City. Sondheim attended Williams College, where he majored in music. Sondheim also worked as an assistant on 1947's Allegro, one of Hammerstein's theater collaborations with composer Richard Rodgers, the experience having long-lasting implications on the young composer's approach to his work. Hammerstein in fact thought the project needed tons of work and offered honest criticism, which his protégé would later see as invaluable. In his teens, Sondheim had penned a satire about his school, the musical By George!, which he thought his mentor would love and thus asked for feedback.