RCM: Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd in Concert
Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Book by Hugh Wheeler
From an Adaptation by Christopher Bond
Originally Directed on Broadway by Harold Prince
Orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick
Originally Produced on Broadway by Richard Barr,
Charles Woodward, Robert Fryer, Mary Lea Johnson, Martin Richards
in Association with Dean and Judy Manos
Directed by Richard Ouzounian
Conducted by Paul Sportelli
Broadway in concert returns to Koerner Hall! Director Richard Ouzounian and Music Director Paul Sportelli reunite with the Royal Conservatory Orchestra for this in concert staging of Sondheim’s macabre masterpiece starring a who’s who of Canadian theatre, TV, and opera talent, including Ben Carlson, Deborah Hay, Robert Markus, Thom Allison, Elena Howard Scott, Jason Howard, Jeigh Madjus, and more to be announced soon!
Sweeney Todd has become a bloody, worldwide success since being awarded eight Tony Awards (including Best Musical) for its Broadway premiere. Stephen Sondheim’s and Hugh Wheeler’s (A Little Night Music, Pacific Overtures) tasty, thrilling, theatrical treat has simultaneously shocked, awed, and delighted audiences across the world.
An infamous tale, Sweeney Todd, an unjustly exiled barber, returns to nineteenth century London, seeking vengeance against the lecherous judge who framed him. The road to revenge leads Todd to Mrs. Lovett, a resourceful proprietress of a failing pie shop, above which he opens a new barber practice. Mrs. Lovett’s luck sharply shifts when Todd’s thirst for blood inspires the integration of an ingredient into her meat pies that has the people of London lining up … and the carnage has only just begun!
ARTISTIC TEAM
Richard Ouzounian, director
Paul Sportelli, music director
David Atkinson, associate music director & piano
Arun Srinivasan, lighting designer
Alexandra Herzog, choreographer
Lesley Abarquez Bradley, stage manager
Ellie Koffman, costume designer
SWEENEY TODD
Is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI).
All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI.
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