Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is adapted from a Christopher Bond play.
 Burton said of the character Sweeney Todd, "We always saw him as a sad character, not a tragic villain or anything
"He cut the show's famous opening number, "The Ballad of Sweeney Todd", explaining, "Why have a chorus singing about 'attending the tale of Sweeney Todd' when you could just go ahead and attend it?" Sondheim acknowledged that, in adapting a musical to film, the plot has to be kept moving, and was sent MP3 files of his shortened songs by Mike Higham, the film's music producer, for approval

