Details

Description

1 videodisc (139 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Note

Filmed before a live audience at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles during the 1982 National tour.

Based on a version of "Sweeney Todd" by Christopher Bond; original play by George Dibdin Pitt.

Credits

Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim; book by Hugh Wheeler; directed for the stage by Harold Prince; production designer, Eugene Lee; lighting, Ken Billington; costumes, Franne Lee; musical director, Paul Gemignani; dance and movement, Larry Fuller; cameras, Lew Adams ... [et al.]; editors, Jimmy B. Frazier, Ken Laski.

Cast

Angela Lansbury, George Hearn, and the original Broadway cast

Summary

Times are hard in 1846 London and one must make do. So Nellie Lovett adds something extra to the meat pies she peddles on Fleet Street. The secret ingredient: freshly murdered victims of her partner in crime, barber Sweeney Todd.

Audience

MPAA rating: Not rated.

System Details

DVD; Dolby digital surround 5.1 (English).

Language

In English with optional subtitles in English, French, and Spanisih.

Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.

Note

GMD: videorecording.

Subject

Musicals.

Film adaptations.

Genre/Form

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Added Author

Hughes, Terry.

Burns, Bonnie, 1949-

Lansbury, Angela, 1925-

Hearn, Hearn.

Sondheim, Stephen.

Wheeler, Hugh, 1912-1987.

Prince, Harold, 1928-2019

Bond, C. G. (Christopher Godfrey), 1945-

RKO Nederlander.

Entertainment Channel.

Turner Home Entertainment (Firm)

Warner Home Video (Firm)

Added Title

Demon barber of Fleet Street

Barber of Fleet Street

ISBN

078064669X

Standard No.

053939675023

Music No.

WART6750 Turner Home Entertainment

T6750 Turner Home Entertainment