Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of death and graphic violence.

Mrs. Lovett’s Pie Shop becomes widely successful, allowing her to expand the shop with an outdoor eating area (“God, That’s Good!”). Mrs. Lovett’s newfound wealth also allows her to buy fancier clothes, which she wears as she works around the shop. Tobias works at the shop as well, waiting tables and barking on the street. The descriptions of Mrs. Lovett’s sumptuous meat pies draw new customers, and the quality of the pies satisfies them. Mrs. Lovett keeps a close eye on the shop, ordering Tobias to chase freeloaders for payment and shoo the beggar woman away.

Todd is anxious about the delivery of a new barbershop chair. When it finally arrives, he calls Mrs. Lovett up to look at it. He modifies the chair to send customers down a trapdoor to Mrs. Lovett’s bakehouse after he slashes their throats. He and Mrs. Lovett agree on a system in which Todd will signal that he is sending someone down by pounding three times on the floor. She will respond with three knocks to indicate that she has received the corpse. They practice this procedure, though Mrs.