Word: turpin
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...many reprises of the opening number tirelessly remind us, the infamous nineteenth century "demon barber of Fleet Street." Back in London after serving 15 years of a life sentence in Australia for a crime he did not commit, Sweeney (Jonathan Tolins) seeks revenge on corrupt Judge Turpin (Adam Wolman), who framed him in order to steal away Sweeney's wife. He starts up his barbershop again above the pie shop of his old landlady, Mrs. Lovett (Rhonda Edwards), who tells him that shortly after his exile, Sweeney's wife poisoned herself, and his infant daughter Joanna became Turpin's ward...
Sweeney hopes to exact his revenge on Turpin and his henchman, Beadle Bamford (Wayne Johnson), by luring them to his barber chair, then slitting their throats. In fact, he decides to kill everyone, rich or poor, who sits in his chair--the rich because they are evil and the poor because they are miserable. Mrs. Lovett thinks this is a fine plan, since the pie business has been slow, and meat is scarce... Karl Marx, meet the Leatherface family...
...course, there are complications. Mainly, Anthony (Pier Carlo Talenti), Sweeney's sailor friend, and the now-grown Joanna (Ginna Carter) have fallen in love with each other. But Turpin, responding to his own semiincestuous feelings for Joanna, decides to marry her himself and shut her away from the outside world...
MARRIED. Luci Baines Johnson, 36, daughter of the late President Lyndon B. Johnson; and Ian Turpin, 38, a Scottish banker based on Grand Cayman Island; both for the second time; at the L.B.J. Ranch in Stonewall, Texas. Her 1966 marriage to Patrick Nugent ended in divorce 13 years later. This time 300 friends were invited to the reception. "It was small from our perspective," said the bride...
ENGAGED. Luci Baines Johnson, 36, daughter of the late President Lyndon B. Johnson; and Ian Turpin, 38, a British banker based on Grand Cayman Island; both for the second time; in Austin. Her 1966 marriage to Patrick Nugent ended in divorce 13 years later...