In celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Tisch Drama we present, SWEENEY TODD a Musical Thriller by Hugh Wheeler and Stephen Sondheim from the play by Christopher Bond. Winner of Eight Tony Awards including Best Musical, Eleven Drama Desk Awards and the NY Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Musical. SWEENEY TODD, was described by Sondheim as a dark operetta and a horror movie for the stage. This classic musical melodrama was inspired by the original legend of Sweeney Todd, originating in the "Penny Dreadfuls"; cheap, tabloid newspapers popular in Victorian England. Sweeney grounds for his bloody revenge, unjustly imprisoned by Judge Turpin who covets Sweeney's beautiful wife Lucy, Sweeney returns to find his wife lost and his daughter abducted by the Judge. He vows to avenge his family and destroy the Judge. To enact his revenge he sets up with an accomplice, his old neighbor, Nellie Lovett, proprietor of a failing meat shop... soon made successful thanks to Sweeney's bloody barbering and insatiable need for revenge. Full of Surprises, adventure, hilarious characters, buckets of blood and one of the greatest musical scores ever written, SWEENEY TODD is an exhilarating thrill ride unlike any other! Attend the tale...