Presented by Paper Moon Theatre
A Musical Thriller
https://nac-cna.ca/en/event/36471
In-person event
Paper Moon Theatre gloriously resurrects multi-time Tony award winner and the darkest musical ever written Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street – A Musical Thriller. In the infamous tale, Sweeney Todd; an unjustly exiled barber, returns to nineteenth century London, seeking vengeance against the lecherous judge who framed him and ravaged his young wife. The road to revenge leads Todd to Mrs. Lovett, a resourceful proprietress of a failing pie shop, above which he opens a new...
Babs Asper Theatre,1 Elgin Street,Ottawa,Canada“It would be a shame to waste an opportunity for fresh meat” Broadwayworld.com
Paper Moon Theatre gloriously resurrects multi-time Tony award winner and the darkest musical ever written Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street – A Musical Thriller.
In the infamous tale, Sweeney Todd; an unjustly exiled barber, returns to nineteenth century London, seeking vengeance against the lecherous judge who framed him and ravaged his young wife. The road to revenge leads Todd to Mrs. Lovett, a resourceful proprietress of a failing pie shop, above which he opens a new barber… practice. Mrs. Lovett's luck sharply shifts when Todd's thirst for blood inspires the integration of an ingredient into her meat pies that has the people of London lining up... the carnage has only just begun.
Sweeney Todd:The Demon Barber of Fleet Street has become a bloody, worldwide success since its Broadway premiere. Stephen Sondheim's and Hugh Wheeler's tasty, thrilling, theatrical treat has simultaneously shocked, awed and delighted audiences across the world. Regarded as composer/lyricist Stephen Sondheim's most perfect score, Sweeney Todd is lush, operatic and full of soaring beauty, pitch black comedy and stunning terror.
Music and Lyrics by Book by Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler
From an Adaptation by Christopher Bond
Originally Directed On Broadway by Harold Prince
Orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick
Originally Produced on Broadway by Richard Barr, Charles Woodward, Robert Fryer, Mary Lea Johnson, Martin Richards in Association with Dean and Judy Manos
Sweeney Todd is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI.