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Sweeney Todd
Sydney Summer Season 2007
Opera Theatre Sydney Opera House
ABOUT THIS PRODUCTION
Stephen Sondheim's musicals have thrilled audiences on Broadway and in London's West End. Now it is time for one of the funniest creations, Sweeny Todd, to return to Sydney for another hair-raising, rib ticking, stomach-turning run. It might not be opera, but Sondheim's hugely accessible score treats this story of murder and passion - not to mention pies - with an emotional immediacy and comic flair that Mozart himself would applaud.
The murderous Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street, whose victims were baked into pies by his friend Mrs. Lovett, seems an unlikely figure for musical treatment. But Sondheim's extraordinary imagination links the music and drama together so powerfully that an atmosphere of operatic achievement is in the air from the work's first thrilling chords.
Award-winning director Gale Edwards returns bringing her extraordinary gift for potent theatrical imagery to this production. Peter Coleman-Wright performs the title role, and Judi Connelli brings her legendary theatrical charisma to the role of Mrs. Lovett.
An Opera Conference Co-Production.
Sung in English.
Running time: two hours and thirty minutes including one twenty-minute interval
ABOUT THE STORY
The history of the world, my sweet, is who gets eaten and who gets to eat – Sweeney Todd
Business is brisk for barber Sweeny Todd, aka, Benjamin Barker returned convict. But the gentlemen who visit his shop in Fleet Street, just above lovely Mrs. Lovett's Pies, do not realise they are under the knife of a man whose heart is blistered with tragedy. A sharp razor plus a lust for revenge and a shortage of meat downstairs equals blood, and it's not just a shaving cut.
Sweeney Todd
The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
A Musical Thriller
Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Book by Hugh Wheeler
From an Adaptation by Christopher Bond
Originally Directed by Harold Prince
Originally produced on Broadway by Richard Barr,
Charles Woodward, Robert Fryer, Mary Lea Johnson,
Martin Richards
In Association with Dean and Judy Manos
By arrangement with Hal Leonard Australia Pty Ltd Exclusive agent for Music Theatre International (NY)
Composer: Sondheim & Wheeler
Sweeny Todd
Peter Coleman-Wright
Mrs Lovett
Judi Connelli AM
Anthony Hope
Alexander Lewis
Johanna
Antoinette Halloran
Judge Turpin
John Bolton-Wood
Tobias Ragg
Rodney Dobson
Pirelli
Kanen Breen
Beadle
Jamie Allen
Beggar Woman
Rosemarie Arthars
Jonas Fogg
Andrew Moran
Bird Seller
Luke Gabbedy
Opera Australia Chorus
Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra
Conductor
Julia de Plater
Director
Gale Edwards
Choreograhper
Kelly Aykers
Set Designer
Peter England
Costume Designer
Gabriela Tylesova
Lighting Designer
Trudy Dalgleish
Sweeney Todd
Sydney Summer Season 2007
Opera Theatre Sydney Opera House
ABOUT THIS PRODUCTION
Stephen Sondheim's musicals have thrilled audiences on Broadway and in London's West End. Now it is time for one of the funniest creations, Sweeny Todd, to return to Sydney for another hair-raising, rib ticking, stomach-turning run. It might not be opera, but Sondheim's hugely accessible score treats this story of murder and passion - not to mention pies - with an emotional immediacy and comic flair that Mozart himself would applaud.
The murderous Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street, whose victims were baked into pies by his friend Mrs. Lovett, seems an unlikely figure for musical treatment. But Sondheim's extraordinary imagination links the music and drama together so powerfully that an atmosphere of operatic achievement is in the air from the work's first thrilling chords.
Award-winning director Gale Edwards returns bringing her extraordinary gift for potent theatrical imagery to this production. Peter Coleman-Wright performs the title role, and Judi Connelli brings her legendary theatrical charisma to the role of Mrs. Lovett.
An Opera Conference Co-Production.
Sung in English.
Running time: two hours and thirty minutes including one twenty-minute interval
ABOUT THE STORY
The history of the world, my sweet, is who gets eaten and who gets to eat – Sweeney Todd
Business is brisk for barber Sweeny Todd, aka, Benjamin Barker returned convict. But the gentlemen who visit his shop in Fleet Street, just above lovely Mrs. Lovett's Pies, do not realise they are under the knife of a man whose heart is blistered with tragedy. A sharp razor plus a lust for revenge and a shortage of meat downstairs equals blood, and it's not just a shaving cut.
Sweeney Todd
The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
A Musical Thriller
Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Book by Hugh Wheeler
From an Adaptation by Christopher Bond
Originally Directed by Harold Prince
Originally produced on Broadway by Richard Barr,
Charles Woodward, Robert Fryer, Mary Lea Johnson,
Martin Richards
In Association with Dean and Judy Manos
By arrangement with Hal Leonard Australia Pty Ltd Exclusive agent for Music Theatre International (NY)
Composer: Sondheim & Wheeler
Sweeny Todd
Peter Coleman-Wright
Mrs Lovett
Judi Connelli AM
Anthony Hope
Alexander Lewis
Johanna
Antoinette Halloran
Judge Turpin
John Bolton-Wood
Tobias Ragg
Rodney Dobson
Pirelli
Kanen Breen
Beadle
Jamie Allen
Beggar Woman
Rosemarie Arthars
Jonas Fogg
Andrew Moran
Bird Seller
Luke Gabbedy
Opera Australia Chorus
Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra
Conductor
Julia de Plater
Director
Gale Edwards
Choreograhper
Kelly Aykers
Set Designer
Peter England
Costume Designer
Gabriela Tylesova
Lighting Designer
Trudy Dalgleish
