Sweeney Todd Educator Materials

Music and Lyrics By Stephen Sondheim | Book by Hugh Wheeler
Sung in English with English supertitles

Synopsis

Wrongly exiled by a corrupt judge, a 19th-century London barber exacts his grisly revenge with the help of a creative culinary accomplice.

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Cast

Sweeney Todd	Brian Mulligan
Mrs. Lovett	Stephanie Blythe
Johanna	Heidi Stober
Beggar Woman	Elizabeth Futral
Anthony Hope	Elliot Madore ^*
Tobias Ragg	Matthew Grills
Judge Turpin	Wayne Tigges
Adolfo Pirelli	David Curry ^*
Beadle Bamford	AJ Glueckert
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Creative

Conductor	Patrick Summers
Conductor	James Lowe ^*1
Director	Lee Blakeley ^*
Production Designer	Tanya McCallin ^*
Lighting Designer	Rick Fisher
Chorus Director	Ian Robertson
Choreographer	Lorena Randi
All Creative Staff Bios	PDF

Co-production with Houston Grand Opera. This production premiered at the Théâtre du Châtelet on April 22, 2011.

Company Premiere

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.