Todd confides in Nellie Lovett, the owner of a local meat pie shop, and the two become partners, as Todd swears revenge on those that have wronged him and decides to take up. Johanna is now the ward of Judge Turpin, who has his own incompatible wants with her. In 1846, Anthony Hope sails into London with the mysterious Sweeney Todd, a once-naive barber whose life and marriage was uprooted by a corrupt justice system. Meanwhile, upon sighting each other, Anthony and Johanna fall in love at first sight.
Lovett believes this change can only help her pie shop.
A series of incidents, including one with rival barber Senor Pirelli, make Todd change his focus slightly away from having a choice encounter with Judge Turpin and his equally sadistic henchman Beadle Bamford, which was one of the reasons he returned to London. Lovett to rent the upstairs of her building so that he can open his own barber shop. This is maybe not as well known as the Johnny Depp musical a few years ago, but it is absolutely one to watch. The upstairs of her building has sat empty since no one wants to rent a space that is considered haunted by its long ago tenant, barber Benjamin Barker who was falsely accused and ultimately sentenced by the sadistic Judge Turpin and who was shipped away to prison in Australia, leaving his wife Lucy and infant daughter Johanna alone in the world. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is an old story, and there have been many telling of it both in film and Broadway. Nellie Lovett, who professes to make the worst meat pies in London due to the high cost of meat. Todd heads to his old stomping grounds of Fleet Street, where he runs across the pie shop belonging to Mrs. Sweeney Todd and Anthony Hope, greeted only by a crazed beggar woman, sail into London, where Todd implies he has been before but not in quite some time. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street