'Sweeney Todd' Died After Final Performance in Derby ; Tod Slaughter Played Sweeney Todd More Than 4,000 Times Before Being Found Dead in His Boarding House After Performing His Last Show On the Stage of the Derby Hippodrome. John Stonehouse Worked There at the Time. Now Living in France, He Thought Readers Might Be Interest in the Tale.

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Tod Slaughter played Sweeney Todd more than 4,000 times before being found dead in his boarding house after performing his last show on the stage of the Derby Hippodrome. John Stonehouse worked there at the time. Now living in France, he thought readers might be interest in the tale.

The launch of the new film, Sweeney Todd - The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, starring Johnny Depp, brought back a part of my past.

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'Sweeney Todd' Died After Final Performance in Derby ; Tod Slaughter Played Sweeney Todd More Than 4,000 Times Before Being Found Dead in His Boarding House After Performing His Last Show On the Stage of the Derby Hippodrome. John Stonehouse Worked There at the Time. Now Living in France, He Thought Readers Might Be Interest in the Tale.

One of the last shows I worked on at the Hippodrome, in Derby, was ...

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