String of Pearls (dramatic reading)
- Length
- 11 h 11 min
- Chapters
- 39
- Language
- English
Todd is a barber who murders his customers and turns their remains into meat pies, sold at the pie shop of his partner in crime: Mrs. Lovett; Todd's barber shop is situated in Fleet Street, London, next to St. Dunstan's church, and is connected to Lovett's bakers shop in nearby Bell Yard by means of an underground passage. Todd dispatches his victims by pulling a lever while they are in his barber chair, which makes them fall backward down a revolving trapdoor, generally causing them to break their necks or skulls. In the event they are alive, he goes to the basement and "polishes them off" by slitting the victim's throat with his straight razor. Todd has a young assistant named Tobias Ragg. Summary by Wikipedia
Cast List:
Narrator: MaryAnn and Larry Wilson
Sweeney Todd: ToddHW
Tobias Ragg: TenorBoy
Mrs. Ragg: Beth Thomas
Mrs. Lovett: Linette Geisel
Jaravis Williams: Carolyn Agee
Johanna: Kristin Gjerløw
Mr. Oakley: Jason in Panama and Patrick Saville
Mrs. Oakley: CJ Plog
Ben: Mike Harris
Sam the Shop Boy: Dillon McFarlane
Colonel Jeffery: Sam Isaacson
Sir Richard (Blunt): Anna Vos
Mr. Fogg: Mike Harris
Watson: Brian Lornie
Mr. Lupin: Alan Winterrowd
The Lapidary: Leanne Yau
Captain Raithbone: TriciaG
Churchwarden: Mike Harris
Porter: Newgatenovelist
Mary: Sonia
Various other roles read by: Anna Vos, Charlotte Duckett, Eva Davis, Joseph Tabler, Leanne Yau, Linette Geisel, Lydia. Mark Crowle-Groves , MaryAnn, Mike Harris, Nemo, Newgatenovelist, Sam Isaacson, Sonia, Tomas Peter, TriciaG, Vera Sticker
Edited by: Linette Geisel
Proof listener: Brian Lornie
Chapters
From LibriVox, read by volunteers and in the public domain. LibriVox page (opens librivox.org), the text (opens victorianlondon.org), all files on the Internet Archive (opens archive.org).