Exactly what it says in the summary. Reviews are appreciated!
Without Anthony, Sweeney Todd would never have returned to London. But let's say someone else picked him up. No Place Like London never happens, but Sweeney Todd is back.
Life goes on. He meets Mrs Lovett and gets his razors back.
Johanna sings to the birds, but without the strange boy singing outside her window, she is left without hope. Or Hope.
We don't learn how evil the judge is until later, but I think we can all agree to live with that.
Toby presents the elixir, the shave-off occurs, and the Beadle promises to come.
Sweeney Todd is impatient and Mrs Lovett tells him to wait. Nobody bursts in to tell him of Johanna.
Soon, Pirelli and Toby come for a visit. Pirelli (or Davie) dies.
Only a few minutes later, the judge (who we have now learned is evil) enters. They sing. When nobody bursts in yelling about Johanna (who is growing lonely and desperate), Sweeney kills Turpin in a flash of silver, a spray of blood.
A couple of hours later, the Beadle comes to see why the judge has not returned. Sweeney, brushing away his concerns with a few lies, lures him into the barber chair.
Vengeance.
The pair dead, and somehow shoved into the trunk alongside Pirelli, Sweeney sets off to the judge's house to fetch Johanna and explain. Outside the house, a very persistent beggar woman demands his attention…
Mrs Lovett is distraught by Lucy's return, but pretends she's not and continues with her work.
The dead bodies in the trunk disappear without Sweeney touching them. Mrs Lovett's pies increase in quality for a few days.
Toby and Mrs Lovett keep the pie shop running while the Barkers restart their happy life upstairs.
So, would have been better without Anthony. Although the best songs, Epiphany and A Little Priest, don't happen. Neither do all the 'Johanna's.