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PLAYBILL VAULT'S Today in Theatre History: JULY 16 by David Gewirtzman and Ernio Hernandez and Robert Viagas

1924 Broadway premiere of George Dibdin-Pitt's Sweeney Todd, one of numerous adaptations of the penny-dreadful tale of murder and cannibalism that would later be adapted as a musical of the same title. Robert Vivian stars as Sweeney; Raffaella Ottiano as Mrs. Lovett. It runs 67 performances.

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM on July 16, 2012

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