The cast consisted of Constantino Romero as Sweeney Todd, Vicky Pea as Mrs. Lovett, Maria Josep Peris as Johanna, Muntsa Rius as Tobias, Pep Molina as Anthony, Xavier Ribera-Vall as Judge Turpin & Teresa Vallicrosa as The Beggar Woman. By the 1870s, Sweeney Todd was a familiar character to most Victorians. [81] This recording was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album. That's what the play's about to him; Sweeney Todd is a product of that age. Panicked at first on learning of Pirelli's murder, Mrs. Lovett swipes his leftover coin purse and then asks Todd how he plans to dispose of the body. To convince her, Sondheim "auditioned," writing a couple of songs for her, including the macabre patter song, "A Little Priest." In June 2019, for the show's 40th anniversary, a limited run of the production presented by Life Like Company was performed at Her Majesty's Theatre, Melbourne and Darling Harbour Theatre, ICC Sydney. 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Len Cariou. Tearing off their costumes, the company exits. [37] While the production was still in preview performances, the run was extended through January 2024. A corrupt public official who is Judge Turpin's right-hand man and accomplice. [48], The Lyric Stage Company of Boston produced a run in September and October 2014 with the company's Artistic Director Spiro Veloudos staging and directing the show. She then attempts to drag the beggar woman's body into the oven, but Todd arrives and, through a shaft of light, sees the lifeless face clearly for the first time: the beggar woman was his wife Lucy. He also infused into it plot elements from Jacobean tragedy and The Count of Monte Cristo. Hearing the Judge outside, a frantic Todd kills the beggar woman, sending her body down the chute barely a moment before the Judge bursts in. Lansbury died Oct. 11. And he gave her the key to the character, saying "I want Mrs. Lovett to have a music hall character." When Todd asks after the empty upstairs apartment, she reveals that its former tenant, Benjamin Barker, was transported for life based on false charges by Judge Turpin, who, along with his servant, Beadle Bamford, then lured Barker's wife Lucy to a masked ball at the Judge's home and raped her ("Poor Thing"). Johanna hears the beggar woman entering and hides in a trunk in the barbershop. Todd sneers at the audience for a moment and vanishes. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (often referred to simply as Sweeney Todd) is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by Hugh Wheeler. In autumn 2015 the Welsh National Opera and Wales Millennium Centre produced a co-production with West Yorkshire Playhouse and the Royal Exchange Manchester as part of the WNO's "Madness" season. The show did a four-week run and ended on June 8, 2008.[45]. The show received over fifteen awards. Angela Lansbury performing "By The Sea" in her Tony winning role as Mrs. Lovett, in "Sweeney Todd" There are two kinds of men and only two. Nellie Lovett: [singing] Only where it sat. The cast consisted of: Patti LuPone (Mrs. Lovett/Tuba/Percussion), Michael Cerveris (Todd/Guitar), Manoel Felciano (Tobias/Violin/Clarinet/Piano), Alexander Gemignani (Beadle/Piano/Trumpet), Lauren Molina (Johanna/Cello), Benjamin Magnuson (Anthony/Cello/Piano), Mark Jacoby (Turpin/Trumpet/Percussion), Donna Lynne Champlin (Pirelli/Accordion/Flute/Piano), Diana DiMarzio (Beggar Woman/Clarinet) and John Arbo (Fogg/Double bass). It's the story of your [own] life."[3]. Barber Sweeney Todd returns to London to uncover the past, along the way meeting pie shop owner Mrs. Nellie Lovett, and begins to start his life of crime.Barber Sweeney Todd returns to London to uncover the past, along the way meeting pie shop owner Mrs. Nellie Lovett, and begins to start his life of crime.Barber Sweeney Todd returns to London to uncover the past, along the way meeting pie shop owner Mrs. Nellie Lovett, and begins to start his life of crime. It was written by Jonathan Tunick for the 1993 London Production. Todd assures the Judge that Johanna is repentant, and the judge asks for a quick splash of cologne. Mrs. Lovett stalls the Beadle with "Parlor Songs" until Todd returns to offer the Beadle his promised "free shave"; Mrs. Lovett loudly plays her harmonium to cover the Beadle's screams above as Todd dispatches him. To which Chapin replied: "I would have put it on like a shot if I'd had the opportunity. It was essentially charming over there because they don't take Sweeney Todd seriously. Share to Twitter. Suddenly, the judge enters; Todd quickly seats him and lulls him with a relaxing conversation ("Pretty Women"). Over eighty percent of the production is set to music, either sung or underscoring dialogue. Said Sondheim, "Hal's metaphor is that the factory turns out Sweeney Todds. Relying heavily on counterpoint and angular harmonies, its compositional style has been compared to Maurice Ravel, Sergei Prokofiev, and Bernard Herrmann. [57][58], The first opera company to mount Sweeney Todd was the Houston Grand Opera in a production directed by Hal Prince, which ran from June 14, 1984, through June 24, 1984, for a total of 10 performances. ANN MARIE BALDONADO, BYLINE: Josh Groban first auditioned for the role of Sweeney Todd back in high school for a summer camp production of the musical. This production was notable for having no orchestra, with the 10-person cast playing the score themselves on musical instruments that they carried onstage. The effect it had at Stratford East in London and the effect it had at the Uris Theater in New York are two entirely different effects, even though it's the same play. Full of despair and in shock, Todd embraces the dead Lucy. As talented and admired as she was, he said, she was never demanding. It was notably set in the 1930s instead of 1846 and restored the oft-cut song "Johanna (Mea Culpa)". This production was taped for PBS and broadcast in 2001, and won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Classical Music-Dance Program. The show was a collaboration with West End International Ltd. The production debuted in October at The Theater at Solaire. Sweeney Todd GIF SD GIF HD GIF MP4. [28] The production received positive reviews from both critics and audience members and transferred to the Adelphi Theatre in the West End in 2012 for a limited run from March 10 to September 22, 2012. Conducted by John DeMain, the production used scenic designs by Eugene Lee, costume designs by Franne Lee, and lighting designs by Ken Billington. In 2004, John Doyle directed a revival of the musical at the Watermill Theatre in Newbury, England, running from July 27, 2004, until October 9, 2004. Original Language: English. [2], The musical was based on Christopher Bond's 1973 play Sweeney Todd, which introduced a psychological backstory and motivation to Todd's crimes. Angela Lansbury, who crooned as a teapot in Beauty and the Beast and solved mysteries as Jessica Fletcher in Murder, She Wrote, died October 11 at the age of 96, just days shy of her 97th. Sondheim once observed, It had a weight to it because [Bond] wrote certain characters in blank verse. Translated by Juice Leskinen[40], As part of the Kennedy Center Sondheim Celebration, Sweeney Todd ran from May 10, 2002, through June 30, 2002, at the Eisenhower Theatre, starring Brian Stokes Mitchell as Sweeney Todd, Christine Baranski as Mrs. Lovett, Hugh Panaro as Anthony, Walter Charles (a member of the original cast), as Judge Turpin, Celia Keenan-Bolger as Johanna, Mary Beth Peil as The Beggar Woman, Mark Price as Tobias Ragg, Ray Friedeck as Beadle Bamford and Kevin Ligon as Pirelli. In 1995, the Barcelona cast recorded a cast album sung in Catalan. [39], In 1994, East West Players in Los Angeles staged a revival of the show directed by Tim Dang, featuring a largely Asian Pacific American cast. She was a star and, as she pointed out to Sondheim, "Your show is not called 'Nellie Lovett', it's called 'Sweeney Todd'. Anthony arrives to beg Todd for help to free Johanna, and Todd, revitalized, instructs Anthony to rescue her by posing as a wigmaker intent on purchasing inmates' hair ("Wigmaker Sequence" and "The Ballad" reprise 4). The State Opera of South Australia presented Australia's first professional production in Adelaide in September 1987. In his proper place. Like the 1979 Broadway original, which starred Angela Lansbury and Len Cariou, Kail's production is jaw-dropping in its scale. [27], Michael Ball and Imelda Staunton starred in a new production of the show that played at The Chichester Festival Theatre, running from September 24 to November 5, 2011. Based off of a play of the same name by Christopher Bond (which, in turn, had been based off of an old London legend), Sondheim did a wonderful job bringing it to the musical theatre stage. There is also a woman wearing a blood-stained dress and holding a rolling pin next to the man. Copy embed to clipboard. Alexander Gemignani also played the title role for the Toronto run of the tour in November 2007. [47], A major new production opened in April 2011 at the Thtre du Chtelet (Paris), which first gave Sondheim a place on the French stage with their production of A Little Night Music. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Concert version was performed at Los Angeles' Ahmanson Theatre on March 1214, 1999 with Kelsey Grammer as Todd, Christine Baranski as Mrs. Lovett, Davis Gaines as Anthony, Neil Patrick Harris as Tobias, Melissa Manchester as The Beggar Woman, Roland Rusinek as The Beadle, Dale Kristien as Johanna and Ken Howard as Judge Turpin. [2] Because it is an opera. Book by Hugh Wheeler. This song is an optional verse of "Sweet Polly Plunkett.". I know she's with Peter (Shaw) now, her husband, who I think she missed terribly. He picks up Todd's fallen razor and slits Todd's throat. Look at you! Todd awaits the Beadle's arrival with mounting impatience, but Mrs. Lovett tries to soothe him ("Wait"). The director was Declan Donnellan and the Cottesloe Theatre production starred Alun Armstrong as Todd and Julia McKenzie as Mrs. Lovett, with Adrian Lester as Anthony, Barry James as Beadle Bamford and Denis Quilley (who had originated the title role in the original London production in 1980) as Judge Turpin. A modern American opera."[3]. Todd's beautiful young daughter, raised by Judge Turpin as his ward. Promising to keep his secret, Mrs. Lovett explains that Lucy poisoned herself with arsenic and that their then-infant daughter, Johanna, became the Judge's ward. Sweeney Todd has its occasional operatic moments, but its music overall has the chest notes, the harmonic language, the muscularity, and the edge of Broadway theater. Top marks for a wonderful show. Have a little priest. Cariou played the title character in the macabre Sweeney Todd, a London barber who dispatches customers with a razor and turns their bodies over to Lansbury's Mrs. Lovett, a baker who repurposes them for meat pies. WBAL NewsRadio 1090/FM 101.5 - Angela Lansbury and Len Cariou were partners-in-crime on stage in "Sweeney Todd" and crime busters in episodes of TV's "Murder, She Wrote." For other uses, see, "Pretty Women" redirects here. [4], Sondheim decided to pair one of the most nightmarish songs (Sweeney Todd's "Epiphany") with the comic-relief of "A Little Priest". [83], The 2005 Broadway revival also was recorded. The original production premiered on Broadway at the Uris Theatre on March 1, 1979, and closed on June 29, 1980, after 557 performances and 19 previews. In 1984 the show was presented by the New York City Opera. [74], In his essay for the 2005 cast album, Jeremy Sams finds it most relevant to compare Sondheim's work with operas that similarly explore the psyche of a mad murderer or social outcast, such as Alban Berg's Wozzeck (1925, based on the play by Georg Bchner) and Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes (1945). The concert was again filmed for broadcast on PBS as part of their Live from Lincoln Center[65] series and was first aired on September 26, 2014. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Original Cast Recording) This song is the Act 1 finale of Sondheim's musical Sweeney Todd. It was revealed that the production has a budget of $14 million with a cast of 26 and an orchestra of 27. [52] The production was revived for New Zealand Opera in 2016, visiting Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch. An Irish charlatan and former employee of Benjamin Barker who has since developed a public persona as a flashy Italian barber; he attempts to blackmail Todd, but is immediately killed. Angela Lansbury, one of the most beloved and respected performers in show business, passed away October 11. Directed by Hal Prince and choreographed by Larry Fuller, the scenic design was by Eugene Lee, costumes by Franne Lee and lighting by Ken Billington. When the show transferred to the Lyttleton, Quilley replaced Armstrong in the title role. The production was nominated for nine Tony Awards, winning eight including Best Musical. The show receives three 2015 Helen Hayes Awards nominations for Best Musical, Outstanding Director of a Musical (Melissa Baughman), and Outstanding Music Director (Charles W. Johnson). Like the London production, the transfer was directed by Bill Buckhurst, designed by Simon Kenny and produced by Rachel Edwards, Jenny Gersten, Seaview Productions, and Nate Koch, executive producer, in association with Barrow Street Theatre. The food is very popular ("God, That's Good!"). Meanwhile, Johanna and Anthony plan their elopement ("Kiss Me"), while the Beadle recommends Todd's grooming services to the Judge so that the judge may better win Johanna's affections ("Ladies in Their Sensitivities"). The murderous barber's story was turned into a play before the ending had even been revealed in print. Mrs. Lovett then tells Todd she loves him and would be a better wife than Lucy ever could have been. The cast was completed by Alex Priat as Anthony, John Atkins as Judge Turpin, Carol Gizzard as Johanna, Sharian Wood as The Beggar Woman, Jack Leager as Beadle Bamford, Enrielos Hetares as Pirelli and Michael Greene & James Feldere who shared the role of Tobias. 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