Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is a 1982 musical thriller film directed by Terry Hughes and Harold Prince.
Terry Hughes is a British Emmy Award-winning television director. Hughes has produced or directed BBC TV variety shows such as Val Doonican, Harry Secombe and Kenneth Williams and series such as Ripping Yarns. He is probably best known for being the producer and director of The Two Ronnies from... 1971-76. In America, he has produced and directed The Golden Girls, 3rd Rock from the Sun and Friends. In 1972 he was producer for the 1972 Eurovision Song Contest . Other than television Hughes has also directed films such as Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl and The Butcher's Wife. Hughes now lives in Texas.more
Harold Smith "Hal" Prince is an American theatrical producer and director associated with many of the best-known Broadway musical productions of the past half-century. He has garnered twenty-one Tony Awards, more than any other individual, including eight for directing, eight for producing the... year's Best Musical, two as Best Producer of a Musical, and three special awards. Prince wasCole was her born in New York City to Milton A. Prince, a stockbroker, and Blanche Stern. He entered the University of Pennsylvania at age 16, where he followed a liberal arts curriculum and graduated three years later. He later served two years with the United States Army in post-WWII Germany. Prince began work in the theatre as an assistant stage manager to theatrical producer and director George Abbott. Along with Abbott, he co-produced The Pajama Game, which won the 1955 Tony Award for Best Musical. He went on to direct his own productions in 1962 beginning with A Family Affair and hit a series of unsuccessful productions. He almost gave up musical theater right before he hit success with Cabaret in 1966.more