: San Francisco Giants first baseman-outfielder Mark Sweeney, who spent 2003 and 2004 with the Rockies, said, " You wonder if some people are going along with it just to keep their jobs.

* The 1979 musical " Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street " written by Stephen Sondheim and based upon Christopher Bond's 1973 play of the same name, begins with its protagonist, Sweeney Todd, returning to London in 1846 having spent fifteen years in an unnamed British penal colony in Australia.

Sweeney asserts that Derek has spent his life pursuing answers, and then asks: " Has anything you've done made your life better?

According to the deli's owner, a Maplewood politician, Thomas Sweeney, returned from a vacation in Cuba, where he spent time at a bar named Sloppy Joe's -- from which the Key West bar obtained its name.

She spent most of 1996 on the road, acting as the public face of the AFL-CIO and the Sweeney administration's primary shock trooper.

In preparing for the role of Shoeless Joe Jackson, D. B. Sweeney, a former Tulane University outfielder, spent a season training with the Class-A Kenosha Twins of the Midwest League.

In Britain rhyming slang had a resurgence of popular interest beginning in the 1970s resulting from its use in a number of London-based television programmes such as Steptoe and Son, Mind Your Language, The Sweeney ( the title of which is itself rhyming slang —" Sweeney Todd " for " Flying Squad ", a rapid response unit of London ’ s Metropolitan Police ), Minder, Citizen Smith, Only Fools and Horses, and EastEnders.

In addition, the Flying Squad were Hammersmith-based in the 1970s TV series The Sweeney.

Despite creating a number of hugely popular musicals in the late 1970s and 1980s such as The Phantom of the Opera, Sweeney Todd, and Evita, Prince had his first artistic failure with Stephen Sondheim in 1981 with Merrily We Roll Along.

The Flying Squad's work was dramatised in the 1970s British television series The Sweeney, and two theatrically released feature film spin-offs, Sweeney!

The Sweeney is a 1970s British television police drama focusing on two members of the Flying Squad, a branch of the Metropolitan Police specialising in tackling armed robbery and violent crime in London.

In the 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s he made appearances in a wide variety of television series such as Softly, Softly, The Sweeney, The Professionals, Minder, Bergerac and Casualty.

He is best known for his creation of the popular 1970s police drama series The Sweeney, produced by Euston Films for Thames Television, which ran on the ITV network from 1975 to 1978.

They also produced sets for The Amazing Spider-Man ( the 1970s series ), Tim Burton's Batman, James Bond 007 1960's, Knight Rider, Starsky and Hutch, The Italian Job ( 2003 ), Top Gear, The Sweeney and The Dukes of Hazzard.

Yet, with the exception of the ' Klansmen ' episode – wherein racist terms were a necessary part of the story – in comparison to, for example, the 1970s police television programme The Sweeney, use of racist terms in The Professionals was scarce, reflecting the increasing " political correctness " of broadcasters.

Two years later, Harris wrote the book Dreams Die Hard about his experiences throughout the 1960s and 1970s with Lowenstein and Sweeney and about the events leading up to the shooting.

During the 1970s, he appeared in various TV series, including episodes of Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads ?, Porridge and The Sweeney.

Robbery also became influential in the genre of British film and TV police / crime thrillers through the 1970s, such as The Sweeney and The Long Good Friday.

As well as these comic roles, he assumed various straight roles in some of the major British television shows of the 1960s and 1970s: including Minder, The Sweeney, Z-Cars, Return of the Saint, Murder Most English, The Avengers, Dixon of Dock Green and the Doctor Who story The Visitation.

His numerous TV appearances include the 1970s programme Get This which he co-presented with Harry Fowler, as well as roles in Celebrity Squares, Mooncat & Co., Room at the Bottom and Curry & Chips, as well as minor parts in Z-Cars, The Sweeney, Til Death Us Do Part and Treasure Hunt.

She also appeared in straight theatre, becoming interested in political themes, and acted in one of the first episodes of police drama The Sweeney.

Sarah Rice is an American theatre actress known for her work in the Stephen Sondheim productions Sweeney Todd and A Little Night Music, the former of which won her a Theatre World Award in 1979.

Sweeney returned to musical theatre in 2011, playing both ' The Girl ' in a national tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Tell Me on a Sunday and replacing fellow Liverpudlian Liz McClarnon, as Paulette, in the first UK tour of Legally Blonde the musical.

In March 1997, Riggs sold the theatre to new owners John Sweeney, Jenni Lilledahl, and Mark Bergren ( Bergren left the BNW in 1999 to pursue other interests ).

Dwyer left ITV Play in June 2006, after accepting the job as main presenter on ITV's 60 Minute Makeover, taking over from fellow Loose Women star Claire Sweeney who left to join a theatre production.

The theatre company strives to be integral part of the cultural life of the city, and has sought to develop new writing through its biennial Corcadorca Playwright Award, and by commissioning new work from more established writers (" Disco Pigs ", Enda Walsh, and " Bruen's Twist ", Eamonn Sweeney ).

Despite his considerable success in the theatre, he was and remains a television dramatist, no different from when he said in 1976 that " I simply cannot understand socialist playwrights who do not devote most of their time to television .... hat if for every Sweeney that went out, a Bill Brand went out, there would be a real struggle for the popular imagination .... nd people would be free to make liberating choices about where reality lies.

* Three productions, all musicals, have won all " big six " awards for their category: South Pacific ( 1950 awards ), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street ( 1979 awards ) and Hairspray ( 2003 awards ); each won the Best Musical, Best Score, Best Book, Best Performance by a Leading Actor, Best Performance by a Leading Actress and Best Direction awards.

She expanded her repertoire to Broadway musicals and television in the 1950s and was particularly successful in Broadway productions of Gypsy, Mame and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.

Recent productions include West Side Story, Cabaret, Gypsy, Sweeney Todd, and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.

LuPone has performed in numerous New York concert productions of musicals including Pal Joey with Peter Gallagher and Bebe Neuwirth, Annie Get Your Gun with Peter Gallagher, Sweeney Todd with George Hearn in both New York and San Francisco, Anything Goes with Howard McGillin, Can-Can with Michael Nouri for City Center Encores !, Candide with Kristin Chenoweth, Passion with Michael Cerveris and Audra McDonald and Gypsy with Boyd Gaines and Laura Benanti for City Center Encores !.

Harris had previously worked with LuPone in the 2000 and 2001 concert productions of Sweeney Todd.

Their association spawned a long string of productions, including Company ( 1970 ), Follies ( 1971 ), A Little Night Music ( 1973 ), Pacific Overtures ( 1976 ), and Sweeney Todd ( 1979 ).

On February 8, 2007 at the Disney Investor Conference, Disney-ABC Television Group President Anne Sweeney, announced that they would rebrand Touchstone Television to ABC Television Studio in order to tie its successful productions more closely with the ABC brand.

Recent productions have included Harbison's The Great Gatsby ( 2000 – 2001 ), Weill's Street Scene ( 2001 – 2002 ), and Floyd's Susannah and Sondheim's Sweeney Todd ( 2002 – 2003 ), and John Adams ' Doctor Atomic directed by Peter Sellars.

Recent productions have included the multi-award winning production of John Doyle's Sweeney Todd which subsequently transferred to Broadway, Ying Tong-A Walk with the Goons, Someone Who'll Watch Over Me, Journey's End and the world première of Kate Betts ' On the Third Day which won the Channel 4 television series The Play's the Thing.

Later productions included Movin ' Out, Hairspray, Jesus Christ Superstar, Sweeney Todd, and Stomp.

In 2005 and 2006, Sweeney appeared in pantomime productions of Snow White and Aladdin at Theatre Royal, Nottingham.

The most famous Euston Films productions include Van der Valk ( 1972 – 1973, 1977, 1991-1992 ), The Sweeney ( 1975-1976, 1978 ), Minder ( 1979 – 1980, 1982-1985, 1988-1989, 1991, 1993-1994 ), Quatermass ( 1979 ), and Reilly: Ace of Spies ( 1983 ).

Other productions of note include Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street, Bugsy Malone, David Copperfield, Aladdin, Jesus Christ Superstar, A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum, The Wind In The Willows, Prince Caspian and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Treasure Island, Lord of the Rings and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat.

This team is responsible for Watermill productions of ' Pinafore Swing ', ' A Star Danced ' and ' Ten Cents a Dance ', and more recently with the highly successful Sweeney Todd and Mack and Mabel both of which have gone on from the Watermill to tour the UK and transfer to the West End.

Having many close ties to theater, he has conducted nearly 100 different theatrical productions for the Majorie Lyons Playhouse of Centenary College, Shreveport Opera, the Greenbriar Theater of Ohio and other theaters throughout the U. S, with repertoire ranging from 1776 to Sweeney Todd.

The first was Jerome Kern's Show Boat ( in collaboration with the Royal Shakespeare Company ) in 1989, and productions of Gershwin's Of Thee I Sing and Sondheim's Sweeney Todd followed in 1998.

In 2006, Sweeney and the BNW performed over 200 keynote speeches, training workshops, and custom entertainment productions for Fortune 500 clients.

Ken was also commissioned for productions of Sweeney Todd, Little Shop Of Horrors, and a Narnia Trilogy.

The Broadway Theatre League brought in National Touring productions of Cats ( musical ), Annie, Evita, Sweeney Todd, and Barnum.