[4], Sondheim decided to pair one of the most nightmarish songs (Sweeney Todd's "Epiphany") with the comic-relief of "A Little Priest". Even if you're not a "theatre person," I highly recommend that you see this. Top marks for a wonderful show. I had a feeling it would be a new animal. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is playing at the Lunt-Fontanne Theater, 205 West 46th St. in New York. Hearn and LuPone were joined once again by Harris, Gaines, Aler and Olsen as well as new additions Victoria Clark, Lisa Vroman and Timothy Nolen. As Todd falls dead and Toby drops the razor, Anthony, Johanna and some others break into the bakehouse. It was written by Jonathan Tunick for the 1993 London Production. 'Sweeney Todd' Review: Josh Groban and Annaleigh Ashford Lead a Soaring but Remote Sondheim Revival on Broadway . It was directed by Christopher Ashley with choreography by Daniel Pelzig. Dame. Because of the small scale of the musical, it cost $3.5 million to make, a sum small in comparison to many Broadway musicals and recouped in nineteen weeks. The British native did expect tea (preferred type: Yorkshire Gold) and never coffee during set breaks, Cariou recalled. Alexander Gemignani also played the title role for the Toronto run of the tour in November 2007. This song was moved to after "The Ballad of Sweeney Todd. For other uses, see, "Pretty Women" redirects here. Sweeney Todd has had 32 productions including Broadway which opened in 1979, Broadway which opened in 1979, West End which opened in 1980, US Tour which opened in 1980, US Tour which opened in. And the one with his foot. [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. The director was Lee Blakeley with choreography by Lorena Randi and designs by Tanya McAllin. Our production was larger in scope. Angela Lansbury, star of 'Murder, She Wrote' and 'Beauty and the Beast,' has died at 96 Robert Bianco USA TODAY 0:00 1:25 Angela Lansbury, award-winning star of films like "The Manchurian. Terrified, he flees into the sewers below the bakehouse. It was essentially charming over there because they don't take Sweeney Todd seriously. 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"). 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. On the other hand, it can be seen as a precursor to the later trend of musicals based on horror themes, such as Little Shop of Horrors (1982), The Phantom of the Opera (1986), Jekyll & Hyde (1997) and Dance of the Vampires (1997), which used the description of the trend, "grusical", as its commercial label. With Tenor, maker of GIF Keyboard, add popular Sweeney Todd animated GIFs to your conversations. Despite being cut in previews for reasons of length, these numbers were included on the Original Cast Recording. Previews began February 14, 2017, before officially opening night on March 1. In 1993, the show received its first London revival at the Royal National Theatre. When the lights go down and the curtain goes . And he gave her the key to the character, saying "I want Mrs. Lovett to have a music hall character." Mrs. Lovett frantically denies it, explaining that Lucy did indeed poison herself, but lived, although the attempt left her insane. "[69] Unlike most previous representations of the story, the musical avoids a simplistic view of devilish crimes. 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It included the Judge's "Johanna" and the tooth-pulling contest from Act I, which had been cut in previews. Directed by Jonathan Kent, the cast included Ball as Todd, Staunton as Mrs. Lovett, James McConville as Tobias, John Bowe as Judge Turpin, Robert Burt as Pirelli, Luke Brady as Anthony, Gillian Kirkpatrick as Lucy Barker, Lucy May Barker as Johanna and Peter Polycarpou as Beadle Bamford. [64] McDonald was not announced as the Beggar Woman: she was a surprise, her name only being revealed at the time of the first performance. Movie Info. Lansbury died peacefully at her home in Los Angeles on Tuesday, Oct. 11. In the play, Sweeney Todd's mental collapse and the subsequent plan for Lovett's meat pies take place in less than half a page of dialogue, much too quickly to convey the full psychological impact, in the view of scholar Larry A. The production opened originally at the Cottesloe Theatre on June 2, 1993, and later transferred to the Lyttleton Theatre on December 16, 1993, playing in repertory and closing on June 1, 1994. NYMT took the show, directed by Martin Constantine, out of a conventional theatre space and staged it within a converted Victorian warehouse in the city's East End. The show received over fifteen awards. [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. A corrupt judge who became obsessed with Lucy Barker, and later with her daughter Johanna. [77] It was selected by the National Recording Registry for preservation in 2013. Adrian Lester and Barry James received nominations in the category of Best Supporting Performance In a Musical for their portrayals of Anthony and Beadle Bamford respectively.[24]. A corrupt public official who is Judge Turpin's right-hand man and accomplice. First appearing in the Victorian penny dreadful serial The String of Pearls, it is debated if she was based on an actual person or not. Todd sneers at the audience for a moment and vanishes. 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. A simpleton who works first for con-man Pirelli and then for Mrs. Lovett, but does not trust Todd. Leonard Joseph Cariou OC OM ( / kriu /; born September 30, 1939) is a Canadian actor and stage director, best known for his portrayal of Sweeney Todd in the original cast of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, for which he won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical, and for playing the patriarch Henry Reagan . The production received 5 Ovation Awards including the Franklin Levy Award for Best Musical (Smaller Theatre) and Best Director (Musical) for Dang. Jonathan Tunick was Stephen Sondheim's orchestrator of choice, orchestrating nearly all of his musicals, including Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd, Into the Woods, Passion, and Merrily We Roll Along, plus A Chorus Line, Nine, A Gentleman's Guide, the recent Carousel, West Side Story, and The Music Man.He was Composer/Conductor for six motion pictures, plus the TV . There are opera houses. Angela Lansbury , who played Mrs. Lovett in the Broadway performance, and Stephen Sondheim , the composer and writer for the musical, both died within the last two years, according to an . Hutchins, Michael H. (February 18, 2006). The 24-hour marathon will include some of her most memorable films including Gaslight and The Manchurian Candidate, as well as an airing of the 1982 filmed production of Sweeney Todd. "[75], Donal Henahan wrote an essay in The New York Times concerning the 1984 New York City Opera production: "The difficulty with Sweeney was not that the opera singers were weaklings incapable of filling the State Theater with sound Miss Elias, who was making her City Opera debut, has sung for many years at the Metropolitan, a far larger house. Mrs. Lovett then informs Todd that Toby has found out about their secret and they plot to kill him. Hal Prince gave it an epic sense, a sense that this was a man of some size instead of just a nut case. When Sondheim first played songs from an early version of the show for Judy Prince (wife of the show's director), she told him: "Oh God I didn't know this was what [Sweeney Todd] was about. The original logo for the musical is a modified version of an advertising image from the 19th century,[1] with the sign replaced by a straight razor. On the Saturday performances, Bryonha Marie Parham played the role of the Beggar Woman, while McDonald played it at the other performances. "[8], With Prince absorbed in staging the mammoth production, Lansbury and Cariou were left largely to their own when it came to developing their characters. The Israeli National Opera has performed Sweeney Todd twice. To which Chapin replied: "I would have put it on like a shot if I'd had the opportunity. The Melbourne production toured to Sydney and Brisbane in 1988. Never before or later in his work did Sondheim utilize music in such an exhaustive capacity to further the purposes of the drama. [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. Sondheim also utilizes the ancient "Dies irae" in the ballad that runs throughout the score, later heard in a melodic inversion, and in the accompaniment to "Epiphany". Tobias, Mrs. Lovett, Todd, Customers, "Johanna (Quartet)" Anthony, Todd, Beggar Woman, Johanna, "Wigmaker Sequence"/"The Ballad Of Sweeney Todd: 'Sweeney'd Waited Too Long Before' (Reprise 4)"/"The Letter" Todd, Anthony, Quintet, "Not While I'm Around" Tobias, Mrs. Lovett, "Parlour Songs (Part 1): Sweet Polly Plunkett" Beadle, "Parlour Songs (Part 2): The 12 Bells In Tower of Bray" Beadle, Lovett, Tobias, "Parlour Songs (Part 3): Sweet Polly Plunkett (Reprise)" Lovett, "The Ballad Of Sweeney Todd: 'The Engine Roared, The Motor Hissed' (Reprise 5)"/"Fogg's Asylum"/"City On Fire"/"Searching"/"Ah, Miss (Reprise)"/"Beggar Woman's Lullaby", "The Ballad of Sweeney Todd: 'Attend The Tale Of Sweeney Todd' (Reprise 7)" Company, Todd, Lovett (Full Cast). Angela Lansbury performing "By The Sea" in her Tony winning role as Mrs. Lovett, in "Sweeney Todd" A "Reprise!" [2] Unaware that Johanna is his friend Todd's daughter, Anthony is immediately enamored ("Ah, Miss"), and he pledges to return for her, even after the judge and the Beadle threaten him and chase him away ("Johanna"). [32], The Tooting Arts Club production transferred to Off-Broadway, transforming the Barrow Street Theatre into a working re-creation of Harrington's pie shop. Share to Facebook. As Anthony and Johanna flee, the asylum's freed inmates prophesy the end of the world, while Todd and Mrs. Lovett hunt through the sewers for Toby, and the beggar woman fears what has become of the Beadle ("City on Fire/Searching"). This pair of songs at the end of Act I was the most significant musical addition which Sondheim made to Bond's version of the story. 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. Free shipping for many products! The actors were also friends and admirers, staying in touch after becoming the toasts of Broadway and Tony Award winners in 1979 for Stephen Sondheim's acclaimed musical. Sondheim's version more carefully reveals the developing ideas in Sweeney Todd and Mrs. Lovett's demented minds. He picks up Todd's fallen razor and slits Todd's throat. 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. The ending will give you chills. London's Royal Festival Hall hosted two performances on February 13, 2000, starring Len Cariou as Todd, Judy Kaye as Mrs. Lovett, and Davis Gaines as Anthony. 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. It was also confirmed that the production remains set in the 19th century. [38], The musical was premiered on June 5, 1992, at the Erkel Theater in Budapest, Hungary. Look at you! The production is directed by Thomas Kail, with orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick, musical supervision by Alex Lacamoire and choreography by Steven Hoggett. Mrs. Lovett, the role originated on Broadway by Angela Lansbury, is a warm . The murderous barber's story was turned into a play before the ending had even been revealed in print. They have been restored in subsequent productions. 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. In the interview with The Associated Press, he recalled the concerns they shared about taking on Sweeney Todd, which he described as a pretty bizarre piece., We were both a little trepidatious about it. A version of the John Doyle West End production transferred to Broadway, opening on November 3, 2005, at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre with a new cast, all of whom played their own instruments, as had been done in London. The cast features metal band front singers Nina Osegueda (A Sound of Thunder) as Mrs. Lovett, Andrew Lloyd Baughman (Diamond Dead) as Sweeney Todd, Rob Bradley (Aries and Thrillkiller) as Pirelli, and Irene Jericho (Cassandra Syndrome) as Beggar Woman. Todd has acquired a special mechanical barber's chair that allows him to kill clients and then send their bodies directly through a chute into the pie shop's basement bakehouse. The play was translated into Hungarian by Tibor Mikls and Gyrgy Dnes. Todd assures the Judge that Johanna is repentant, and the judge asks for a quick splash of cologne. Relying heavily on counterpoint and angular harmonies, its compositional style has been compared to Maurice Ravel, Sergei Prokofiev, and Bernard Herrmann. It was based on Brining's previous smaller productions from Dundee Rep in 2010, West Yorkshire Playhouse and Royal Exchange Manchester in 2013. 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. As Anthony leaves, Pirelli and Tobias enter, and Mrs. Lovett takes Toby downstairs for a pie. The ensemble cast, soon joined by the risen Todd and Mrs. Lovett, sing a final reprise of "The Ballad of Sweeney Todd" warning against revenge (though admitting that "everyone does it"). 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. Directed by Steven Stead and designed by Greg King, the production starred Jonathan Roxmouth (Sweeney Todd), Charon Williams-Ros (Mrs Lovett), Michael Richard (Judge Turpin), Jaco van Rensburg (Tobias), Anne Marie Clulow (Beggar Woman), Adam Pelkowitz (Beadle Bamford), Cameron Botha (Anthony), Sanli Jooste (Johanna), Germandt Geldenhuys (Adolfo Pirelli) and Weslee Swain Lauder (Jonas Fogg). [83], The 2005 Broadway revival also was recorded. >>LABEL: RCACATALOG #: CBL2-3379COMPOSER: STEPHEN SONDHEIM / Harold PrinceWORKS: SWEENEY TODD - Original Cast Recording.PERFORMERS: Angela Lansbury, Len Cariou, etc . 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. Pieter Toerien and KickstArt produced a production at the Pieter Toerien Monte Casino Theatre in Johannesburg, which ran from October 10 December 13, 2015, before transferring to the Theatre on the Bay in Cape Town from February 19 April 9, 2016. A cheerful, talkative, but amoral owner/proprietress of a meat pie shop; Todd's former landlady, but enamored of him. LOS ANGELES (AP) 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." The actors were also friends and admirers, staying in touch after becoming the toasts of Broadway and Tony Award winners in 1979 for Stephen Sondheim's acclaimed musical. "Prelude: The Ballad of Sweeney Todd: 'Attend The Tale Of Sweeney Todd'" Full Cast, "No Place Like London" Anthony, Todd, Beggar Woman, "The Ballad Of Sweeney Todd: 'Lift Your Razor High, Sweeney!' 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. "[4], When it came to casting, Sondheim thought stage veteran Angela Lansbury would add some needed comedy to the grim tale as the lunatic Cockney shopkeeper, but Lansbury needed to be convinced. While discussing how to dispose of Pirelli's body, Mrs. Lovett is struck by a sudden idea and suggests that they use the bodies of Todd's victims in her meat pies, and Todd happily agrees ("A Little Priest"). On the stage of the Uris Theater in New York, this tale of horrors was transformed into a mountain of steel in motion. In the other one's face. Todd. Tickets are $152 to $458 . I know she's with Peter (Shaw) now, her husband, who I think she missed terribly. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. [46] The company revived the show in 2011 for the International Youth Arts Festival at the Rose Theatre in Kingston upon Thames. Copy link to clipboard. Share to Twitter. 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. This production was also broadcast on Spanish television. When Sondheim first brought the idea for the show to director Harold Prince, his frequent collaborator, Prince was uninterested, feeling it was a simple melodrama that wasn't very experimental structurally. The cast featured Michael McCarthy as Sweeney Todd and Rosemary Ashe as Mrs Lovett and David Shannon this time as Anthony. After 15 years in exile, Sweeney Todd, an unsettling man with a mysterious past, arrives in a dark and gritty London, hungry for vengeance against the judge who destroyed his life. The play won eight Tonys, including best musical and actress and actor. But other than that, it's all phenomenal-- Angela Lansbury *made* the role of Mrs. Lovette, and she just does it so well. 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. The show was cast extremely well, my only complaint being of Betsy Joscelyn's portrayal of Johanna. [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 character of Sweeney Todd first appeared in a Victorian penny dreadful titled The String of Pearls. Angela Lansbury and Len Cariou were partners-in-crime on stage in Sweeney Todd and crime busters in episodes of TVs Murder, She Wrote., LOS ANGELES -- 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.". 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"). 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