Melbourne is due for a visit from the Demon Barber and we're getting one this September, courtesy of the Victorian Opera. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is coming to the Playhouse at Arts Centre Melbourne after citically acclaimed seasons around the country. In fact, Time Out Sydney gave the operatic musical five stars when it played at the Opera House last year.
The Tony Award-winning show was adapted from the original penny dreadful – cheap and nasty Victorian-era comics for the masses that dealt in wickedly wonderful grotesqueries – and there’s an operatic scale to its comic horror. You'll be transported to Victorian era London, where the titular barber-turned-homicidal-maniac explores the depths of human vengeance.
This production of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s gruesome story stars Ben Mingay (ABC’s Frayed, Shrek the Musical) and Helpman award nominee Antoinette Halloran (Macbeth, Mary and Max). Directed by celebrated Australian opera and musical theatre director Stuart Maunder, Sweeney Todd will leave you on the razor’s edge of your seat.
Tickets for Sweeney Todd start from $39 and you can find them here.
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