Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street (2001)

Returning to Victorian London after an exile of 15 years, an unhinged barber (George Hearn) seeks a violent revenge on the unscrupulous judge (Timothy Nolen) who separated him from his family, freedom and sanity. Teaming with a smitten pie making shop owner (Patti Lupone), he plots to lure the judge into his recently opened tonsorial parlor. Based on the musical (some refer to it an an opera) by Stephen Sondheim and directed by Lonny Price (COMPANY). This is a true concert production done in San Francisco with the San Francisco symphony orchestra. No sets, almost no props or costumes with almost all the action "suggested". So it's left to Sondheim's iconic score and the glorious voices of its cast to carry the production. It all plays out beautifully and this is a satisfying production of what some consider the greatest musical of the 20th century. With Neil Patrick Harris, Victoria Clark, Davis Gaines, Lisa Vroman and John Aler.