Ken Jennings originated the role of Tobias in the original Broadway performance of Sondheim's musical in 1979.Len Jones played Tobias in the 1970 television adaptation of the George Dibdin Pitt play on Mystery and Imagination.John Singer played Tobias in the 1936 film version of Sweeney Todd.In the film, the character's last name was spelled "Wragg". Brian Glenny played Tobias in the 1928 film.In the 2007 movie, he is a child and not mentally ill, portrayed by 14-year-old Ed Sanders. In the stage musical, Toby is portrayed as a mentally handicapped adult Ken Jennings, who originated the Broadway role, was 31 on opening night, and Neil Patrick Harris was 27.
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In Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, a 2007 film adaptation of the musical directed by Tim Burton, Toby's role in mostly the same. Lovett, a vengeful Toby emerges from the sewers, where he was hiding, and slashes Todd's throat with his own razor. Lovett to bake into meat pies, he goes insane with horror and shock.
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However, when he discovers that Todd has been killing customers for Mrs. The character expresses this in one of the final songs in the play, " Not While I'm Around". Lovett, thinking of her as a surrogate mother. Lovett after Todd kills Pirelli, who threatened to blackmail him. Pirelli pretends to be Italian, and sells some fake potions for hair, made of "piss and ink".
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In the Stephen Sondheim musical Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Toby is the apprentice of Signor Adolfo Pirelli and a tenor/boy soprano, a barber who was once an apprentice of Todd. Tobias Ragg was also the young apprentice of Todd in the 1936 film version of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. He eventually escapes, is involved in Todd's arrest, and as the story ends goes into the service of Johanna's husband-to-be Mark Ingestrie. Sweeney Todd has him committed to a lunatic asylum after Tobias finds proof of Todd's guilt and decides to contact the police. In the penny dreadful The String of Pearls, Tobias Ragg is the apprentice of Sweeney Todd, a barber who murders his customers. Toby participates in multiple songs in the play and movie, having a solo in " Not While I'm Around". Various actors have portrayed Toby, most notably Ken Jennings, the original actor in the 1979 Broadway production, Neil Patrick Harris in the 2001 concert version of the musical, Manoel Felciano in the 2005 revival of the musical, and Edward Sanders in the 2007 film of the musical. He ultimately kills Todd after Todd kills Lovett and Lucy Barker, along with multiple others. Later, Tobias discovers that they have a joint venture to cook the men Todd shaves into meat pies. Lovett, helping the latter out in her meat pie shop. The character is apprentice to the abusive barber Pirelli, until Pirelli is murdered by Todd. Tobias Ragg (also spelled as Tobias Wragg and sometimes referred to as Toby) is a fictional character who appears in various adaptations of the story Sweeney Todd. Joseph Taylor/John-Michael Lyles/Zachary Noah Piser (2017 Off-Broadway Revival)
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Michael Staniforth (original 1980 London cast)Įddie Korbich (1989 Off-Broadway Revival)Īdrian Lewis Morgan (1993 National Theatre Revival/1994 BBC Radio production) Ken Jennings ( original 1979 Broadway cast) The film is directed by Tim Burton from a screenplay by John Logan, music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, based on his Tony Award-winning musical “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street”.Brian Glenny ( 1928 film, as Tobias Wragg) Lovett’s pie-making premises, and sets his sights on Judge Turpin (Alan Rickman) who, with help from his nefarious henchman Beadle Bamford (Timothy Spall), shipped him off on a trumped-up charge in order to steal his wife, Lucy (Laura Michelle Kelly), and his baby daughter from him. Nellie Lovett.Īdopting the guise of Sweeney Todd, Barker returns to his old barber shop above Mrs. From visionary filmmaker Tim Burton (“Batman,” “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”) and starring Academy Award® and Golden Globe nominee Johnny Depp (“Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” the “Pirates of the Caribbean” trilogy) comes the new dramatic thriller, “Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street,” a compelling and original vision based on the award-winning musical sensation.ĭepp stars as Benjamin Barker, a man unjustly imprisoned for 15 years on the other side of the world, who escapes back to London with a vow of revenge, opposite Helena Bonham Carter as his obsessively devoted accomplice, Mrs.