Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Tooting Arts Club) NYC Reviews and Tickets

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(805 Ratings)

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Members say

Great singing, Great staging, Absorbing, Clever, Entertaining

About the Show

Tooting Arts Club's immersive staging of Sondheim and Wheeler’s iconic musical thriller transfers from London to NYC's Barrow Street Theatre. Now starring Tony nominee Carolee Carmello.

After being wrongfully imprisoned by the corrupt Judge Turpin, escapee Benjamin Barker uses the alias Sweeney Todd to resume work in his barber shop above Mrs. Lovett’s struggling pie shop. He swears vengeance against the judge that tore his family apart, and hatches a plot with Mrs. Lovett that leads them down a dangerous, thrilling path with deadly consequences. Instead of a traditional theater setting, this revival is set inside a 360-degree replica environment of Harrington's Pie & Mash shop. The action takes place downstairs on and around the shop’s service counter and four nearby tables. While there is no formal audience participation, certain seats are very close to the players. Pie and mash is served beginning one hour prior to each performance.

Show-Score Member Reviews (805)

Clever, Intense

See it if you're ready for a pared down (only 8 performers), immersive version of the show. Great singing, great acting, fun staging of the show.

Don't see it if dark subject matter turns you off. (What?!? Cannibalism bums you out?!?)

Entertaining, Great singing, Great staging, Immersive, Must see

See it if This is real New York Theatre. The Village, small theater, amazing performers and immersive. Such a treat for musical theatre nerds!

Don't see it if you believe the earth is flat and that Ted Nuggent is a real human being.

Funny, Delightful, Great staging, Great acting, Entertaining

See it if You would love an show with no semblance of sanity but performed over the top with laughter galore see it before it closes-BTW have dinner 2

Don't see it if Your sense of humor runs to the more sophisticated, if you prefer big staging and lavish sets

Great staging, Epic, Riveting, Intense, Immersive

See it if If you're looking for a more intimate, immersive take on a thrilling musical that includes a complex score, close up staging, and violence;

Don't see it if If you're looking for a larger scale production, or a happy go-lucky musical;

Absorbing, Clever, Delightful, Entertaining, Great acting

See it if you love Sweeney Todd (I would see any production!), if you enjoy inventive/immersive staging, you like scaled-down musicals. It is fun!

Don't see it if you are expecting a production like the original or need to see a large cast/orchestra. Especially don't if you don't "get" Sweeney Todd!

Exquisite, Great singing, Great staging, Great writing, Must see

See it if You want to experience an excellent production of Sweeney Todd intamitely staged where the audience is part of the production.

Don't see it if You don’t like the musical Sweeney Todd or don’t like immersive staging. Read more

Inventive, Great score, Must see, Riveting, Dark

See it if you want to see an inventive, lively, powerful staging of a Sondheim masterwork in an intimate (if slightly gimmicky) theatre-cum-pie shop.

Don't see it if you can't abide the very dark themes, vengeful characters & on-stage violence. [But just see it... and get the "best pies in the Village".] Read more

Absorbing, Riveting, Great staging

See it if You love Sondheim. This is the best production of Sweeney Todd I have seen.

Don't see it if If you do not like to be part of the show. Depending on your seat, you might be right in the action.

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