The production, which starred Michael Ball as the demonic barber and Imelda Staunton as the pie-making Mrs Lovett, recently ended a run in the West End.
His regular muse, Johnny Depp, with his air of adventurous freakiness, seems equally primed for the part of Sweeney the London barber who slashes the throats of customers and grinds the bodies up to fill the pies of Mrs.