“Swing your razor wide, Sweeney!”
Wrongfully imprisoned for 15 years, Benjamin Barker returns to Victorian London as the mysterious barber, Sweeney Todd.
Upon finding out he’s lost everything he ever loved, Sweeney swears revenge and so begins a chilling tale of murder, macabre and Mrs Lovett’s pies!
First performed on Broadway in 1979, Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler‘s 12-time Tony Award-winning masterpiece is considered one of the greatest musicals ever written.
Musical Theatre royalty Ramin Karimloo (Phantom of The Opera, Les Misérables, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Addams Family) stars as Sweeney Todd, alongside Award-winning global cabaret performer, Meow Meow (Emma Rice’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Guys and Dolls) as Mrs. Lovett.
A razor-sharp story of retribution, this darkly comic and dramatic musical is a must-see in this new version by Rep Artistic Director, Joe Murphy.
Venue

Presented by
Birmingham Rep
Presented by arrangement with Music Theatre International.
Music & Lyrics by
Stephen Sondheim
Book by
Hugh Wheeler
From an adaptation by
Christopher Bond
Directed by
Joe Murphy
Designed by
Elin Steele
Musical Supervisor
Dr. John Rigby
Casting Director
Abby Galvin CDG
Price
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Access Performances
Audio Described: Sat 1 Aug at 2pm (described by Caroline Burn)
A Free Touch Tour is available to book at 12.30pm before the Audio Described performance.
BSL Interpreted: Tue 21 Jul 7pm (interpreted by Karen Ward-Welch)
Captioned: Sat 25 Jul 2pm & 7pm (captioned by Cara Lawless)
Chilled: Thu 30 Jul 2pm
Running Time
Approximately 2 hours 40 minutes including an interval
Age Guidance
14+
Please note, no under 5s will be admitted to the auditorium.
Cast
Ramin Karimloo
Most recently Ramin played the Pirate King in Pirates! The Penzance Musical for the Roundabout Theatre Company at the Todd Haimes Theater on Broadway.
Stage credits include: Yoska in Roam (Shaftesbury Theatre, London), Guido Contini in Nine the Musical (Lowry Theatre, Manchester). Freddie Benson in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (London Palladium & Theater Orb, Tokyo), Lonesome Rhodes in A Face In The Crowd (Young Vic), Piquillo in Songbird (Washington National Opera), Gomez Addams in The Addams Family (London Palladium), Nicky Arnstein in Funny Girl (August Wilson Theatre, NYC), Shams in Rumi: The Musical (London Coliseum), Anatoly in Chess (Umeda Arts Theatre, Osaka & Tokyo International Forum), Judas in Jesus Christ Superstar (Theatre Orb, Tokyo), Che in Evita (Theatre Orb, Tokyo & Vancouver Opera), Gleb Vaganov in Anastasia (Broadway, NYC), Archibald Craven in The Secret Garden (Lincoln Centre), Jean Valjean in Les Miserables (Toronto, London & NYC, Tony Award Nominee), The Phantom in The Phantom of the Opera (London, Italy & Monte Carlo) & The Phantom in Love Never Dies (London, Olivier Award Nominee).
Film/TV credits include: Your Friends & Neighbours (Apple TV+), Bound (Paralysis Productions), Holby City (BBC1), Jesus: His Life (History Channel), Nativity Rocks (Mirrorball Films), Life’s Too Short (BBC), Blue Bloods (CBS), The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall: 25th Anniversary, Les Miserables in Concert: 25th Anniversary. Ramin has also performed as part of the Festival of Remembrance for BBC1 two years running.
In addition to his stage credits, Ramin has toured the world performing concerts both as a solo artist and with his band, Ramin Karimloo & The Broadgrass Band. He has released five solo albums on Sony Records: From Now On, Human Heart, The Road to Find Out: East, The Road to Find Out: South and The Road to Find Out: North.
Meow Meow
Meow Meow’s unique brand of subversive and sublime entertainment has hypnotized, inspired and seduced audiences worldwide from London’s West End to Carnegie Hall, to the Hollywood Bowl, to the Sydney Opera House. Her original music theatre works have played from Berlin to Berkeley, to Edinburgh to Shanghai and have been presented by David Bowie, Pina Bausch and Mikhail Baryshnikov amongst others.
The stage-diving tragi-comedienne has performed her solo “orchestrated chaos” with The London Philharmonic, Sydney, Melbourne, Seattle, Bergen Norway, Oregon, Vancouver and San Francisco Symphonies amongst others and she is a frequent guest and collaborator with the “little orchestra” Pink Martini including at the Berlin Philharmonic, Royal Albert Hall London and with the LA Philharmonic at Disney Hall and at Hollywood Bowl. With symphonies she often specialises in Weimar and French chanson repertoire as well as jump-cut explorations of Schubert and Schumann and contemporary and original work.
Her latest album Hotel Amour with Pink Martini’s Thomas Lauderdale was ranked in the Times UK top 100 albums of 2019.
Meow Meow’s theatre credits include Titania (Emma Rice’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Shakespeare’s Globe), Miss Adelaide in Guys and Dolls (Royal Philharmonic at Royal Albert Hall), La Maîtresse – a role created for her in Michel Legrand and Kneehigh’s The Umbrellas of Cherbourg on London’s West End, Jenny in Die Dreigroschen Oper (with the London Philharmonic in London and Paris), and Anna 1 and 2 in Die Sieben Todsünden at the Berlin Konzerthaus under Vladimir Jurowski, and at Melbourne’s Hamer Hall with Orchestra Victoria, Victorian Opera, and in San Francisco under Edwin Outwater. She has performed as “Pegleg” in Tom Waits’ The Black Rider with Orchestra Victoria, Sitwell/Walton’s Facade at Berlin Konzerthaus, cond Jurowski and Louis Andriessen’s de Materie at Disney Hall with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Her work also includes the narration of Stravinsky’s Soldier’s Tale for Melbourne Symphony and she curated their orchestral programme: The 20’s And All That Dissonance. She has been presented by Renée Fleming at the Kennedy Center, DC. Meow Meow is the recipient of numerous international theatre and performance awards and in 2025 was made a Fellow of New York University’s Center for Ballet.
She has made numerous award-winning original music-theatre works which have been presented at Southbank Centre London, Sydney Opera House, UK tours and Edinburgh International Festival, including Vamp, Meow’ s Little Match Girl, Meow’s Little Mermaid. She has created numerous “fantastical history” song cycles for crumbling theatres in Australia and the UK, and bespoke civic events – for instance in Liverpool UK for the 50th anniversary of the Beatles’ Sgt Pepper album involving the city’s brass bands, a three day “riot” and a requiem in a graveyard. Her recent music theatre work Apocalypse Meow was presented at Southbank Centre London, had a return season at Shakespeare’s Globe London, Malthouse Theatre Melbourne and at BAM’s Next Wave Festival in NYC. In 2024 she also collaborated with choreographer/director Arthur Pita, Olivier-Award winning former Royal Ballet Principal Edward Watson MBE, composer Frank Moon and Oxford Kafka Research Programme to perform Kafka’s A Hunger Artist, commissioned by Oxford Cultural Programme and the Royal Ballet.
Meow Meow has toured the concert halls of Australia, the UK and the US with The Australian Chamber Orchestra and Barry Humphries’ acclaimed Weimar programme, including an extended return season at the Barbican in London. She is guest artist with Pina Bausch Tanztheater in Todsünden/Songs since 2008, and has just had her Carnegie Hall solo debut with her programme: “Sequins and Satire, Divas and Disruptors : the Wild Women of the Weimar Republic”. Her most recent UK performance was an extensive season of her new show “It’s come to this” at Soho Theatre London,and she has just completed a new work “Meow Meow’s Red Shoes”, the third in her HC Andersen trilogy, with director Kate Champion of DV8 and Force Majeure companies, commissioned by Belvoir St Theatre, Malthouse Theatre, Black Swan State Theatre Company. It is currently nominated for 6 Green Room Awards including Best New Production and Best Performer.
Creative Team
Director
Joe Murphy
Joe Murphy
Designer
Elin Steele
Elin Steele
Musical Supervisor
John Rigby
John Rigby
Casting Director
Abby Galvin CDG
Abby Galvin CDG
Sweeney Todd
All Tickets £25