Sweeney Todd News

We hope he'll be worth that kind of paycheck. Ali G Sacha Baron Cohen has just gotten himself signed onto a really sweet deal.

A collaborative ensemble of a conductor, a piano accompanist and more than 10 singers, took to the McCray Recital Hall stage Friday and Saturday night to perform scenes from 10 operas.

Tim Burton is the master of the macbre. His style and vision has created some of the best gothic masterpieces to hit the silver screen in the past 25 years.

This new trailer for Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland , presented by SpikeTV , doesn't deserve as much hype as it's getting because it's basically a remix or rehash of the original teaser trailer first put out in July.

Drama students at Exeter High School perform the opening scene of the musical "Sweeney Todd" at the school auditorium.

No Broadway musical is more appropriate for Halloween viewing than Stephen Sondheim's masterpiece, Sweeney Todd - the tale of a vengeful barber, a lecherous judge, some slashed throats and pies filled with mysterious meat.

A lifelong Johnny Depp fan has launched an internet campaign to get the Hollywood movie star to turn on Portishead's Christmas lights.

Back during Comic Con we saw the first teaser for Tim Burton 's Alice in Wonderland , which will be released in 3D in March 2010.

Award-winning Leeds writer Garry Lyons has adapted a classic novel for the West Yorkshire Playhouse.

Submitted by PSUthespians on Sat, 2009-10-24 10:48. The longest continually student-run club on campus, The Penn State Thespians, are bringing the Tony Award-winning musical Sweeny Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street to Schwab Auditorium on Penn State's University Park campus this Halloween weekend.

Director Tim Burton on the set of Sweeney Todd, with one of his favourite actresses, Helena Bonham Carter.

The Hollywood A-lister is reportedly in talks to play guitar with one of his favourite British bands at London's Hoxton Square Bar and Kitchen in November Johnny Depp is lined up to jam with Babybird in London.

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ISLAND girl Laura Michelle Kelly is starring in a new Broadway production of Mary Poppins.

He once likened his singing voice to "the mating call of a rutting stag." But Johnny Depp did not let it get in the way of arguably his most challenging film role yet -- an all-singing turn as the serial-killing barber Sweeney Todd in a remake of the Stephen Sondheim musical.

Genre great Clive Barker is the star of Spain's Sitges ongoing movie orgy today , as both his new productions, BOOK OF BLOOD and DREAD, will be unveiled back-to-back at 12:30 a.m. Barker himself will be receiving the event's prestigious Time Machine award for career excellence and conducting a "Master Class" for festival goers the next day.

Broadway's new "practically perfect" nanny in Mary Poppins will be the show's original London star, Olivier Award winner Laura Michelle Kelly, who will fly into the New Amsterdam Theatre on Oct.

Stephen Sondheim's musical thriller has received wide-ranging interpretations since its original 1979 Broadway run, including John Doyle's controversial minimalist staging and Tim Burton's bloodcurdling film version.

The character and story of Sweeney Todd has donned many faces since the shadow of the demon barber appeared in stories dating as far back as 1795.