Chapter Summary: The Ballad Of Sweeney Todd

The introduction starts with the choir singing “The Ballad of Sweeney Todd" it is year 1846, a sailor named Anthony Hope has rescued Sweeney Todd , and the two are riding a ship to London. When they land, Todds bad mood is made worse by a crazy Beggar Woman who asked both men for money, and appears to recognize Todd degrades Todd’s bad mood. Then the two men sing "No Place Like London". Todd soon goes to an old meat pie store on Fleet Street, where the shop's resigns, Mrs. Nellie Lovett, complains about the challenging times. She sings "Worst Pies in London". Then Todd asks about her empty upstairs apartment, she reveals that its old resident, the barber Benjamin Barker, was sentenced to life of prison on false charges by the corrupt Judge

Lovett's pie shop has become a booming business, and Toby is working for Lovett as a waiter the choir sings "God, That's Good!". Todd and Mrs. Lovett gets a specially-designed mechanical barber's chair that allows Todd to kill his client and send the body through a chute into the pie shop's basement for Mrs. Lovett to cook up. Todd has familiarized himself to having lost Johanna, and spends his time slitting his customers' throats, while Anthony searches the city for Joanna and the Beggar Woman screams against the nasty smelling smoke that is coming from Mrs. Lovett's baking house by singing "Johanna–Quartet". Anthony finds Johanna when he hears her singing from an insane asylum, but he is chased away by the Beadle. After a long day of work, Mrs. Lovett tries to draw Todd away to the seaside by singing "By the Sea"; but he remains set on his revenge. Anthony begs Todd for help to free Johanna from the asylum, and Todd comes up with a plan to rescue her by having Anthony pose as a wigmaker who would like to purchase inmates' hair and sings "Wigmaker Sequence" and "The Ballad. Todd grows annoyed while waiting on the Beadle's arrival, despite Mrs. Lovett's attempts to calm him down by singing, "Wait". Anthony tells Todd of his plan to ask Johanna to run away with him, and requests to use Todd's barbershop as a safe house for the girl; and Todd, impatient to reunite with his daughter, agrees. When Anthony leaves, Todd sends a secret note to let the Judge know of Anthony's strategy, hoping to get the Judge to his shop. The contents of the letter are sung aloud by the choir "The Letter." In the pie shop, Toby worries against Todd and his own desire to protect Mrs. Lovett by singing "Not While I'm Around". When he recognizes Pirelli's coin purse in Mrs. Lovett's control, she distracts him by showing him the bake house in the basement, ordering him to work the meat grinder and the oven, and then locking him alone in the basement. Upstairs, she meets the