Christopher Bond News

The teaser website for the upcoming Tim Burton Film, Sweeney Todd - The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, has met its end. In its place you will find a brand new site with updated artwork, video, images and downloads.

In a very special BroadwayWorld exclusive, London reporter Nick Hutson provides a very special Q/A series with the cast and creative team of the highly-anticipated new movie-musical Sweeney Todd! Including Johnny Depp, renown composer Stephen Sondheim; plus Alan Rickman, Helena Bonham Carter, and director Tim Burton and Ed Sanders, Jayne Weisner and Jamie Campbell Bower.

The national company of Sweeney Todd arrived in Toronto in fine form. * * * * 1/2 (OUT OF 5)

DreamWorks Pictures and Warner Bros. Pictures Presents a Parkes/MacDonald and Zanuch Company Production, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, directed by Tim Burton.

National tour achieves all the darkness and light of John Doyle's 2005 Tony Award-winning Broadway revival

Alexander Gemignani, who treaded the dark alleys of Fleet Street as the Beadle in the Broadway revival Sweeney Todd, will portray the title role in the national tour beginning November 13, while David Hess is 'on leave from the show to recover from vocal strain,' reports the production spokespersons.

The complete music for the up-coming Tim Burton movie-musical adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd is available now for Pre-Order on Amazon.com. The 2-CD complete soundtrack features bonus content in a specially-packaged deluxe edition with bound booklet. The soundtrack is set for release December 18, 2007 under the Wea/Atlantic/Nonesuch label.

The up-coming Tim Burton movie-musical adaptation of Sweeney Todd will receive an MPAA R-rating due to the amount of violence and gore in the film.

Excerpts from the upcoming film version of Sweeney Todd will reportedly be shown at the Venice Film Festival next month

Sweeney Todd begins its National Tour, with a pre-tour engagement at San Francisco's American Conservatory Theatre (ACT). Previews at ACT begin August 30.

Tim Burton's eagerly anticipated screen version of Stephen Sondheim's classic 1979 musical Sweeney Todd will go in to a limited domestic release on December 21st, 2007, and open in wide release in the U.S. on January 11th, 2008

Tim Burton, the director of the upcoming film version of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's Sweeney Todd, will appear at San Diego's Comic-Con to show clips from the movie musical

BRUCE CAMPBELL STAR OF EVIL DEAD MOVIES COMES TO TORONTO TO CELEBRATE EVIL DEAD: THE MUSICAL'S FINAL EXTENSION

Great cast and energetic production make this return engagment a hit. * * * 1/2 (OUT OF 5)

Olivier Award-winner Maria Friedman and Welsh opera star Bryn Terfel will star in the Royal Festival Hall's production of the macabre Stephen Sondheim-Hugh Wheeler classic Sweeney Todd

Filming for Tim Burton's upcoming film version of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd, starring Johnny Depp in the title role, was completed on May 11th.

The Center Theatre Group's Mark Taper Forum will usher in its 41st season with British favorites The History Boys and The School of Night beginning in November...

Evil Dead: The Musical has announced complete casting for the musical's production at Toronto's Diesel Playhouse, running from Tuesday, May 1st - Saturday, June 23th