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Niamh Perry (born 10 June 1990) is an Irish singer and actress who competed as one of the finalists in the BBC talent show-themed television series I'd Do Anything in 2008 and played Fleck in the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Love Never Dies.
Born in Bangor, County Down, Perry attended Our Lady and St. Patrick's College, Knock but left during her A-Levels in early 2008 and moved to London to compete in I'd Do Anything.
In 2007 she achieved a Distinction in her Grade eight classical singing examination, for which she won the South Eastern Education and Library Board (SEELB) Outstanding Achievement Award for Contribution to the Arts She was a member of Music Theatre for Youth (MT4UTH) from when the company was founded in 2005 and she was also a member of the MT4UTH Showcase group, Footlighters. She performed with MT4UTH in productions of Sweet Charity, in which she played the lead role of Charity,Oliver!, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Guys and Dolls and West Side Story.[citation needed] She also sang a solo at the re-opening of the Grand Opera House in Belfast.[citation needed] She participated in two Cinemagic productions under the direction of Suranne Jones, including Wicked and she gained lead roles in both productions.[citation needed]
Sweeney Todd is a fictional character who first appeared as the murderer of the Victorian penny dreadful The String of Pearls (1846–1847) and he was later introduced as an antihero of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street and its film adaptations. Claims that Sweeney Todd was a historical person are strongly disputed by scholars, although there are possible legendary prototypes.
In the original version of the tale, Todd is a barber who dispatches his victims by pulling a lever while they are in his barber chair, which makes them fall backward down a revolving trapdoor into the basement of his shop, generally causing them to break their necks or skulls. Just in case they are alive, he goes to the basement and "polishes them off" (slitting their throats with his straight razor). In some adaptations, the murdering process is reversed, with Todd slitting the throats of his customers before they are dispatched into the basement via the revolving trapdoor. After Todd has robbed his dead victims of their goods, Mrs. Lovett, his partner in crime (in some later versions, his friend and/or lover), assists him in disposing of the bodies by baking their flesh into meat pies, and selling them to the unsuspecting customers of her pie shop. Todd's barber shop is situated at 186 Fleet Street, London, next to St. Dunstan's church, and is connected to Mrs. Lovett's pie shop in nearby Bell Yard by means of an underground passage. In most versions of the story, he and Mrs. Lovett hire an unwitting orphan boy, Tobias Ragg, to serve the pies to customers.
It's getting warm,
The night is young but you walk alone once again
See the sights, familiar faces seem to walk on by
Hand in hand
I think of you what you would look like in
discovereing truth and, how I feel
Could this be true
Cause I've been thinking about you, about you
I thought I saw you in the summer sky
You looked at me and I saw the stars in your eyes
I thought I heard you, was I out of line?
Or is this love, and maybe we'll find our light
So step aside, was this a feeling
When she walked on by, did I fail to see?
It makes sense, my heart dreams because I dream of
And I dream of what could be
I thought I saw u in the summer sky
You looked at me and I saw the stars in your eyes
I thought i heard you, was I out of line?
Or is this love, and maybe we'll find our light
Maybe we'll find our light.
So here I go, my hands are shaking as I walk so slow to
Is this the end? Or just beginning?
So special my friend, it's me and you
Me and you
I thought I saw you in the summer sky
You looked at me and I saw the stars in your eyes
I thought i heard you, was I out of line?
Or is this love, and maybe we'll find our light
Maybe we'll find our light