DATE: 1-3 September 2017
VENUE: Empire Theatres, Toowoomba
Sweeney Todd is the unsettling tale of a Victorian-era barber who returns home to London after fifteen years of exile. Taking revenge on the corrupt Judge Turpin, who ruined his life and lusted after his wife Lucy who poisoned herself. Turpin also had Todd’s daughter Johanna locked away intending to force her to marry him. 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. In the midst of this darkness, the beautiful Johanna is pursued and rescued by the young sailor Anthony Hope. But as Sweeney descends deeper into insanity, the cover up story begins to unravel when suspicions arise and hidden truths are uncovered.
Featuring songs such as The Worst Pies in London, Johanna, By the Sea, Not While I’m Around, Green Finch and Linnet Bird and The Ballad of Sweeney Todd, Sweeney Todd is perhaps composer/lyricist Stephen Sondheim’s most perfect score.
Billing
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
Licensed exclusively by Music Theatre International (Australasia). All performance materials supplied by Hal Leonard Australia
Creative Team
Director – Mary Quade
Musical Director – Shane Tooley
Choreographer – Daniel Erbacher
Set Design – Madeliene Barlow
Costume Design – Debra Nairn
Vocal Coach/ Repetiteur – Anne Gralow
Stage Manager – Harrison Paroz
Producer – Rebecca Cherry
Associate Producers – Matt Cherry, Sonia Deakin-Schelberg
Principal Cast
Sweeney Todd – Kyle Dever
Mrs Lovett – Vicki Bravery
Anthony Hope – Justin Tamblyn
Johanna Barker – Shannon Gralow
Tobias Ragg – Gabe Tiller
Judge Turpin – Jon Maskell
Beggar Woman – Catherine Carter
Beadle Bamford – Joel Philippe
Adolfo Pirelli – Matt Collins
Mr Fogg – Richard Chiverrell
