Editing Stephen Sondheim (section)

==== ''Sweeney Todd'' ====
''[[Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street]]'' (1979), with a score by Sondheim and a book by [[Hugh Wheeler]], is based on [[Christopher Bond]]'s 1973 stage play derived from the [[Victorian era|Victorian]] original.<ref>Berkvist, Robert. [https://www.nytimes.com/books/98/07/19/specials/sondheim-guignol.html "Stephen Sondheim Takes a Stab at Grand Guignol"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170929044520/http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/07/19/specials/sondheim-guignol.html |date=September 29, 2017 }}. ''The New York Times'', February 25, 1979</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sondheim.com/works/sweeney_todd/|title=Sweeney Todd|publisher=Sondheim.com|access-date=September 28, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141116040932/http://www.sondheim.com/works/sweeney_todd/|archive-date=November 16, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>Wheeler, Hugh; Sondheim, Stephen. "''Sweeney Todd'' script, Introduction by Christopher Bond". Hal Leonard Corporation, 1991, {{ISBN|1-55783-066-5}}, p. 1</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sondheimguide.com/sweeney.html|title='Sweeney Todd' listing" "Based on a Version of "Sweeney Todd" by Christopher Bond|publisher=Sondheimguide.com|access-date=September 28, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160525042858/http://www.sondheimguide.com/sweeney.html|archive-date=May 25, 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>Brown, Larry. [http://larryavisbrown.homestead.com/files/Sondheim/sweeneytodd.htm "'Sweeney Todd' Notes"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090307034807/http://larryavisbrown.homestead.com/files/Sondheim/sweeneytodd.htm |date=March 7, 2009 }}. Larryavisbrown.homestead.com. Retrieved March 22, 2010.</ref> The original production starred [[Angela Lansbury]], [[Len Cariou]], [[Victor Garber]], and [[Edmund Lyndeck]]. Popular songs from the musical include "The Ballad of Sweeney Todd", "The Worst Pies in London", "Pretty Women", "A Little Priest", "[[Not While I'm Around (song)|Not While I'm Around]]", "By the Sea", and "Johanna". The production earned 9 [[Tony Award]] nominations and won 8 awards, including [[Tony Award for Best Musical|Best Musical]], Best Original Score, Best Actress, and Best Actor. Richard Eder of ''[[The New York Times]]'' wrote: "Mr. Sondheim's lyrics can be endlessly inventive. There is a hugely amusing recitation of the attributes given by the different professions—priest, lawyer, and so on—to the pies they contribute to. At other times the lyrics have a black, piercing poetry to them."<ref>{{cite web|url= https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/98/07/19/specials/sondheim-todd.html|title= Stage: Introducing ''Sweeney Todd''|author=[[Richard Eder]]|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|access-date= November 3, 2023}}</ref>

Lansbury's performance was captured alongside [[George Hearn]] in the Los Angeles production, which was filmed and shown on [[PBS]] as part of ''[[Masterpiece Theatre]]''. It later earned five [[Primetime Emmy Award]] nominations. It has been revived on Broadway in 1989, 2005, and 2023. The 2023 production starred [[Josh Groban]], [[Annaleigh Ashford]], [[Jordan Fisher]], and [[Gaten Matarazzo]]. A [[Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007 film)|film adaptation]] was made in 2007 directed by [[Tim Burton]] and starring [[Johnny Depp]], [[Helena Bonham Carter]], and [[Alan Rickman]].