Birmingham Rep have announced the full cast for their upcoming production of Stephen Sondheim’s musical masterpiece Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.

Directed by The Rep’s Artistic Director Joe Murphy and designed by award-winning designer Elin Steele, the production plays on The House stage between Saturday 4 July – Sunday 9 August 2026.

As previously announced West End, Broadway and international musical theatre star Ramin Karimloo (Phantom of The Opera, Les Misérables, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Addams Family) will play the title role of Sweeney Todd; award-winning radical entertainer, Meow Meow (Emma Rice’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Guys and Dolls) will play the iconic part of Mrs. Lovett; and three-time Olivier Award winning actor David Bedella (& Juliet, In The Heights, Jerry Springer: The Opera) plays Judge Turpin.

They are joined by Shem Omari James as Anthony Hope, Jo Stephenson as Johanna, Julius D’Silva as Beadle, Jack Gibson as Tobias Ragg, Florence Andrews as Beggar Woman, Silas Wyatt-Barke as Adolfo Pirelli, Emily Ivan Hawkins as Ensemble, and Hadrian Delacey as Ensemble.

First performed on Broadway in 1979, Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler‘s 12-time Tony Award winning masterpiece is considered one of the greatest musicals ever written.

Wrongfully imprisoned for 15 years, Benjamin Barker returns to Victorian London as the mysterious barber, Sweeney Todd. Upon finding out he’s lost everything he ever loved, Sweeney swears revenge and so begins a chilling tale of murder, macabre and Mrs Lovett’s pies!

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street comes to The Rep from Saturday 4 July – Sunday 9 August. To book, visit birmingham-rep.co.uk