It is the story of a man named Barker who returns to London under a new name after spending 15 years in Australia due to wrongful imprisonment. He finds out that the judge who convicted him raped his wife, who later poisoned herself, and also adopted his daughter. Barker swears revenge and begins to slit his clients' throats while his neighbor turns their bodies into meat 
It is the story of a man named Barker who returns to London under a new name after spending 15 years in Australia due to wrongful imprisonment. He finds out that the judge who convicted him raped his wife, who later poisoned herself, and also adopted his daughter. Barker swears revenge and begins to slit his clients' throats while his neighbor turns their bodies into meat pies. With music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim this is, for ten points, what musical about "the demon barber of fleet street".
It is the story of a man named Barker who returns to London under a new name after spending 15 years in Australia due to wrongful imprisonment.
{Sweeney Todd}, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street