Lovett then confesses her love for him, and promises she would be a better wife than Lucy ever was. Lovett, who confesses that Lucy survived drinking the poison but was driven insane, reduced to begging. In the story's climactic "Final Sequence", Todd murders Beadle Bamford, Turpin and a beggar woman, who he later discovers was actually Lucy. She also dreams of marrying Todd, who is completely uninterested in her. She and Todd take in an orphan, Tobias Ragg, to whom she becomes like a mother. She then uses the flesh to bake meat pies, which make her business very successful. Lovett initiates a plan for Todd to send the corpses of his victims down a chute that leads to her bakehouse. Seeking vengeance, Todd reopens his shaving parlour above the shop, and slits the throats of his customers. She informs him that his wife, Lucy, was sexually abused by Judge Turpin, who had exiled Todd on a false charge, and informs Todd that Lucy was so distraught that she poisoned herself with arsenic. Lovett recognizes him as her former tenant, Benjamin Barker, with whom she was (and is) secretly in love. Lovett's pie shop below his old home after 15 years in exile, seeking information about his lost family. In Stephen Sondheim's 1979 stage musical Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street and Tim Burton's 2007 film adaptation, Todd pays a visit to Mrs. Whether their relationship is platonic, romantic, or merely sexual also varies according to interpretation. Her age is also differing in many adaptations though it is never specifically stated in any versions, there are some (most noticeably in Sondheim's musical) where she is older than Todd, often by a difference of over fifteen years and others where she is around his age. Her physical appearance varies from a slim and alluring beauty, to a plump, homely lunatic.
Lovett commits suicide when their crimes are discovered, while in others, Todd kills her himself or she is arrested and escapes execution by turning King's Evidence against Todd. Lovett's character and role in the story are similar in each version, certain details vary according to the story's interpretation.
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In the original "penny dreadful" serial and George Dibdin Pitt's 1847 stage play, The String of Pearls or, The Fiend of Fleet Street, however, this soft side does not extend to her "assistants", whom she imprisons in the bakehouse and often works to death.Īlthough Mrs. In the Bond play and Sondheim musical, she takes in the young orphan Tobias Ragg and considers taking in Todd's daughter Johanna, as well. While she feels no remorse about using the bodies of Todd's victims in her pies, she is sometimes shown to have a softer side to those in need. In Christopher Bond's 1973 play Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street and Stephen Sondheim's 1979 musical adaptation, before she goes into business with Todd she is living in poverty in a filthy, vermin-infested flat, and laments that her pies are the worst in London. Lovett's past history is not stated, usually she is depicted as a childless widow, although in some rare depictions, Mr. While in most versions of the Sweeney Todd story Mrs. She makes and sells meat pies made from Todd's victims. Lovett is the business partner and accomplice of barber/ serial killer Sweeney Todd in some versions, she is also his lover. In every version of the story in which she appears, Mrs. The character also appears in modern media related to Sweeney Todd including the Stephen Sondheim musical and its 2007 film adaptation.
She makes meat pies from Todd’s victims.įirst appearing in the Victorian penny dreadful serial The String of Pearls, it is debated if she was based on an actual person or not. Lovett is an accomplice and business partner of Sweeney Todd, a barber and serial killer from Fleet Street. Her first name is most commonly referred to as Nellie, although she has also been referred to as Amelia, Margery, Maggie, Sarah, Shirley, Wilhelmina, Mary and Claudetta. Lovett is a fictional character appearing in many adaptations of the story Sweeney Todd. Lea Salonga (2019 Manila, 2019 Singapore) Siobhán McCarthy (2014 West End, 2017 Off-Broadway) Patti LuPone (2000 concert, 2005 Broadway) Julia McKenzie (1993 West End, 1994 BBC Radio) Lovett as portrayed by Helena Bonham Carter
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