Post by Mrs Lovett on Dec 24, 2007 18:07:34 GMT -5
In the marketplace, the barber Adolfo Pirelli and his drum-beating tout, Tobias, try to sell a cure-all for hair loss. Sweeney, after exposing the elixir as fraud, challenges Pirelli to a shaving competition and wins. Sweeney invites the Beadle to drop by for a shave at his salon.
Later, at the salon, Todd impatiently waits for the Beadle's arrival, and Mrs. Lovett urges him to be patient. Pirelli appears and reveals that he has deduced Sweeney's real identity, and attempts to blackmail Todd. Todd kills him.
Judge Turpin is tormented by his lust for his ward and announces he will marry her. This causes Anthony and Johanna to secretly plot an elopement. Meanwhile, the Beadle suggests that the Judge spruce himself up at Todd's barbershop to better win Johanna's affections.
With Turpin at his shop, Todd prepares to exact his revenge. But before his razor can do its work, Anthony arrives to tell Sweeney about the elopement, accidentally informing the outraged Judge. Todd, furious, becomes entirely unhinged and broadens the target of his vengeance to all of society. Mrs. Lovett, always alert to a business opportunity, figures that Pirelli's body won't be the last corpse to pass through the shop and suggests that they use the meat of Todd's victims in her pies. Todd, inspired by the practicality and poetry of the idea, agrees.
Still plenty of characters needed!
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