Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street: Quick Facts

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Awards And Honors	Tony Awards (1979) • Grammy Award (1979)

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Rod Gilfry as Sweeney Todd stands behind John Graham-Hall as Beadle Bamford, who is seated and draped in a barber's cloth, during a dramatic stage scene with a large window backdrop.

Informal black and white head and shoulders portrait of Stephen Sondheim, wearing a light turtleneck and looking slightly to the side.

Johnny Depp as Sweeney Todd kneels on the floor holding a straight razor, with Helena Bonham Carter as Mrs. Lovett leaning over him in a dim, attic-like room from Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.

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