Christopher Bond

Christopher Godfrey Bond (b. 1945) is a British playwright whose 1973 retelling of the Victorian tale Sweeney Todd formed the basis of Stephen Sondheim's musical of the same name, with book by Hugh Wheeler. He currently lives in West Cornwall.

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  • 1945 (age 64 years)
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