“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 macabre murder 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.
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.
Musical theatre legend Ramin Karimloo (Phantom of The Opera, Les Misérables, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Addams Family) stars as Sweeney Todd.
Joining him is award-winning singing sensation, Meow Meow (Emma Rice’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Guys and Dolls) as Mrs. Lovett alongside three-time Olivier Award-winning actor David Bedella (& Juliet, In the Heights, Jerry Springer: The Opera) as Judge Turpin.
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
Special Offers
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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.
David Bedella
Theatre credits include: Love Beyond The Musical (Cadogan Hall); Daniel’s Husband (Marylebone Theatre); Little Piece Of You (Theatre Royal Drury Lane); Lance Dubois in & Juliet (Broadway, Stephen Sondheim Theatre and West End, Shaftesbury Theatre); Frank-N-Further in The Rocky Horror Show (50th Anniversary Production Australian Tour); Kevin in In The Heights (Kings Cross Theatre & Southwark Play-house); Satan/Warm-up Man in Jerry Springer The Opera (Edinburgh Festival; Royal National Theatre & West End); Roger Debris in The Producers (National Tour); Sweeney in Sweeney Todd (Twickenham Theatre); Putting It Together (St James Theatre); Arnold in Torch Song Trilogy; Wilson Misner in Road Show (Menier Chocolate Factory); Billy Flynn in CHICAGO (West End); Molokov in Chess In Concert (Royal Albert Hall); Hedwig in Hedwig And The Angry Inch London; Frank-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror Show (National tour, West End and 2015 Live Broadcast from the Playhouse Theatre)
Television credits include: Charlton Gibber V in Mobland Series 2 (Paramount +); Mayor Santos in Twenty Twenty Six (BBC); Moctezuma in Civilisations (BBC); General Perez in The Undeclared War 2 (Playground Entertainment); Hank Sawyer in Sister Boniface Mysteries 4 (BBC/BritBox); Herod in Jesus: Crown of Thorns (Nutopia); Clyde in Big Mood (Channel 4); Tony Diamond in Sexy Beast (Paramount+); President Bachler in Jack Ryan 4 (Amazon); Senator Moreno in Treasure of the Black Swan (Movistar); Steve Tilson in Deep State (BBC); Luis in By Any Means; Frankie in Inside No. 9; Quentin in Ben Elton’s Blessed; and series regular Dr. Carlos Fashola in Holby City.
Film credits include: Leonard in Argylle; Drew Favreau opposite Thandie Newton in All The Old Knives; Alexander for Oliver Stone, opposite Anthony Hopkins; Batman Begins for Chris Nolan, opposite Christian Bale; Red Light Runners opposite Harvey Keitel and Jerry Springer The Opera for BBC Film.
Awards include: 2020 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Musical for & Juliet. 2016 Laurence Olivier Award & What’s On Stage Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in a Musical for In The Heights. 2015 London Cabaret Awards for Best Ongoing Production for Bedella & Friends. 2004 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical for Jerry Springer The Opera and the Joseph Jefferson Award for Best Actor in a Musical for A Chorus Line.
Shem Omari James
Theatre credits include: CATS The Musical (International Tour), White Christmas (The Mill Sonning), Jesus Christ Superstar (UK Tour), Dreamgirls (No. 1 UK Tour; Black British Theatre Award nominated), Vanara (Hackney Empire), The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber (Curve), Songs For A New World (London Palladium); ‘Personality’- the Lloyd Price Musical (Southbank Centre)
Television credits include: Sky Arts Awards (Sky)
Film credits include: Wicked (Universal Studios)
Jo Stephenson
Theatre credits include: Les Miserables (World Tour Arena Spectacular & West End), The Pirate Queen (London Coliseum), Intermissions Live with Alice Fearn (Vaudeville Theatre), The Best of the West End (Royal Albert Hall)
Jo is thrilled to be part of this production and would like to thank her family, friends and loved ones for their continued support.
Julius D’Silva
Previously at The Rep: Lord Allworthy in What’s New Pussycat?
Theatre credits include: Frank in Educating Rita (Reading Rep); Molotov in Churchill in Moscow (Orange Tree Theatre); Farm Hall (UK Tour & Theatre Royal Haymarket); & Juliet (Shaftesbury Theatre & Regent Theatre, Melbourne); Alone in Berlin (Royal & Derngate); Made In Dagenham (Adelphi Theatre); Max Bialystock in The Producers (Manchester Royal Exchange); The Cherry Orchard (Bristol Old Vic/Manchester Royal Exchange); Anne Boleyn, Macbeth (Shakespeare’s Globe); Richard II (Steven Berkoff). Oliver! (Theatre Royal Drury Lane); Henry IV Parts I&II, Henry V, Henry VI Parts I, II & III, Richard III, Great Expectations, Dog in the Manger, Tamar’s Revenge, House of Desires, Pedro the Great Pretender (Royal Shakespeare Company).
Television credits include: Bridgerton (Netflix); The Crown Series 1&2 (Netflix); The Ten Commandments (Hallmark); Highlander (Gaumont).
Radio credits include: Thomas Hardy’s Jude The Obscure (BBC Radio 4); Van Gogh: The Letters (BBC Radio 4).
Jack Gibson
Training/Education: Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts.
Theatre credits include: Four Play (DEM Productions) and Reverberation (Bristol Old Vic and Glass Half Full Productions).
Film credits include: The Way of The Runner (Potluck Productions)
Florence Andrews
Trainng: Guildhall School of Music and Drama
Theatre credits include: Rosalie Mullins in School of Rock (Gillian Lynne Theatre, Original West End Cast); Candy Johnson in Miss Atomic Bomb (St James Theatre, London); Salome in Dandy Dick, (Brighton Theatre Royal and UK Tour); Glinda in The Wizard of Oz (The London Palladium); Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Yum-Yum in The Mikado (Stephen Joseph, Scarborough) Wicked, (Victoria Apollo), Annie Get Your Gun (The Young Vic, London); A Little Night Music (Menier Chocolate Factory and Garrick Theatre, London), Once (Phoenix Theatre, West End).
TV credits include: Emma Pearce in EastEnders (BBC1).
Radio credits include: Magic at the Musicals (MAGICFM) and Friday Night is Music Night (BBC Radio 3).
Film credits include: Jenny Gucci in House of Gucci (Scott Free Productions/MGM).
Recordings include: Cinderella Soundtrack (Sony Pictures), CATS Soundtrack (Working Title Films) Solo track on ALW Unmasked (Andrew Lloyd Webber), GALAVANT Soundtrack (ABC).
Instagram: @_florence_andrews
Silas Wyatt-Barke
Training/Education: Rose Bruford College.
Theatre credits includes: Bronco Billy (Charing Cross Theatre), Saving Grace (Riverside Studios), The False Servant (Orange Tree Theatre), The Prince of Egypt (Dominion Theatre, West End), Twelfth Night (Young Vic), As You Like It (Regent’s Park), Much Ado About Nothing (Rose Theatre, Kingston), Dr Seuss’ The Lorax (Old Vic Theatre and Royal Alexandra Theatre, Toronto), Forty Years On (Chichester Festival Theatre), The Emperor and the Nightingale (Theatre by the Lake, Keswick), The Go Between (Apollo Theatre, West End), Sunny Afternoon (Harold Pinter Theatre, West End).
Film credits includes: Benjamin (Open Palm Films)
Instagram: @silasbarke
Emily Ivana Hawkins
Training: Guildford School of Acting
Theatre credits include: Alice: Return To Wonderland (Sherman Theatre); Housemates (Hijinx/Sherman Theatre); A Christmas Carol (Sherman Theatre); O.G Prince of Wales (Sherman Theatre) and Sweet Henry V (Birmingham Rep).
Concerts include: Soloist/Choir Member in West End Does Hollywood (Cadogan Hall)
Credits whilst training include: Florika in Hunchback of Notre Dame; Lula Buffington/Music Hall Singer in Violet; Dana in Soho Cinders: Penelope Pennywise in Urinetown.
Hadrian Delacey
Training & Education: Bristol Old Vic Theatre School
Theatre credits include: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (UK Tour), Archie in Fisherman’s Friends: The Musical (UK Tour), Joseph Buquet in Phantom of the Opera (Her Majesty’s Theatre), Oliver! (UK Tour), Inspector Collins in Fings Ain’t Wot They Used To Be (Union Theatre), Major Shelley in The Secret Garden (Toronto), Knife Grinder in Oliver! (Theatre Royal Drury Lane), Mr Marks in The Producers (Theatre Royal Drury Lane & UK Tour), Marvin in Jerry Springer The Opera (Royal National Theatre & Cambridge Theatre), Romeo & Juliet (Piccadilly Theatre), King Herod in Jesus Christ Superstar (UK Tour), Annas in Jesus Christ Superstar (International Tour), Jesus Christ Superstar (Lyceum Theatre), Evita (UK Tour), Brujon & cover Valjean in Les Misérables (Palace Theatre), Captain Shultz in Miss Saigon (Theatre Royal Drury Lane), Policeman in Me and My Girl (Adelphi Theatre)
TV credits include: Larry Buckland in Professor T (ITV)
Film credits include: Les Misérables (Working Title)
Creative Team
Director
Joe Murphy
Joe Murphy
Designer
Elin Steele
Elin Steele
Musical Supervisor
Dr John Rigby
Dr John Rigby
Lighting Designer
Rory Beaton
Rory Beaton
Rory is a two-time Broadway World Award winner. He was awarded Best Lighting Design for his work on “Jesus Christ Superstar” and “The Lord of the Rings” respectively. His work on the West End musical “The Time Traveller’s Wife” also earned him a WhatsOnStage Award nomination.
Sound Designer
Kelsh Buckman-Drage
Kelsh Buckman-Drage
Movement Director
Tinovimbanashe Sibanda
Tinovimbanashe Sibanda
Casting Director
Abby Galvin CDG
Abby Galvin CDG
Musical Director
Leo Munby
Leo Munby
Associate Conductor
Christopher Mundy
Christopher Mundy
Orchestral Management
David Gallagher
David Gallagher
Sweeney Todd
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