SWEENEY TODD
|
Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
Opened on Broadway: March 26, 2023 Performances: 169 (as of 9/10/23) Director: Thomas Kail Choreographer: Steven Hoggett Book: Hugh Wheeler Music & Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim Runtime: 2hr. 45min. (1 Intermission) Opening Night /Current Cast: Josh Groban..................Sweeney Todd Annaleigh Ashford........Mrs. Lovett Jordan Fisher.................Anthony Hope Gaten Matarazzo...........Tobias Ragg Ruthie Ann Miles...........Beggar Woman Maria Bilbao.................Johanna Jamie Jackson..............Judge Turpin John Rapson.................Beadle Bamford Nicholas Christopher...Adolfo Pirelli Current Cast: Josh Groban..................Sweeney Todd Annaleigh Ashford........Mrs. Lovett Daniel Yearwood...........Anthony Hope Gaten Matarazzo...........Tobias Ragg Ruthie Ann Miles...........Beggar Woman Maria Bilbao.................Johanna Jamie Jackson..............Judge Turpin John Rapson.................Beadle Bamford Nicholas Christopher...Adolfo Pirelli Understudies: For Sweeney: Nicholas Christopher For Mrs. Lovett: Jeanna de Waal For Beggar Woman: Jeanna de Waal |
Synopsis:
One of the darkest musicals ever written, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is the unsettling tale of a Victorian-era barber who returns home to London after fifteen years of exile to take revenge on the corrupt judge who ruined his life. When revenge eludes him, Sweeney swears vengeance on the entire human race, murdering as many people as he can, while his business associate Mrs. Lovett bakes the bodies into meat pies and sells them to the unsuspecting public. Perhaps composer/lyricist Stephen Sondheim’s most perfect score, Sweeney Todd is lush, operatic, and full of soaring beauty, pitch-black comedy and stunning terror. It’s one of the signal achievements of the American musical theater of the last fifty years, and it’s the high water mark of Sondheim’s six remarkable collaborations with director Harold Prince.
One of the darkest musicals ever written, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is the unsettling tale of a Victorian-era barber who returns home to London after fifteen years of exile to take revenge on the corrupt judge who ruined his life. When revenge eludes him, Sweeney swears vengeance on the entire human race, murdering as many people as he can, while his business associate Mrs. Lovett bakes the bodies into meat pies and sells them to the unsuspecting public. Perhaps composer/lyricist Stephen Sondheim’s most perfect score, Sweeney Todd is lush, operatic, and full of soaring beauty, pitch-black comedy and stunning terror. It’s one of the signal achievements of the American musical theater of the last fifty years, and it’s the high water mark of Sondheim’s six remarkable collaborations with director Harold Prince.