sweeney todd [sondheim]
[10/2008]
music director | IAN WEINBERGER
choreographer | NATALJA AICARDI
scenic designer | ROBERT SHOQUIST
costume designer | IZUMI INABA
lighting designer | LEE FISKNESS
sound designer | JOSH HORVATH
photographer | LEE FISKNESS
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The story takes place in an abandoned warehouse, where the ensemble use found objects to tell Sweeney's tale...
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...and perform a ritual dance to conjure up Sweeney's spirit.
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Those obsessed with Sweeney Todd (Eric Dean Wilson) shout an invocation and release him from his container.
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Mrs. Lovett (Laura Huizenga) admits to Sweeney that she makes 'The Worst Pies in London'.
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Sweeney's wife Lucy is raped by Judge Turpin (Matt Edmonds) in an animalistic orgy.
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Encouraged by Mrs. Lovett, Sweeney sings to his razors, 'His Friends', as the ensemble celebrate with him.
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Johanna (Emma Rosenthal) imagines other women to be as trapped as she in 'Green Finch and Linnet Bird'.
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Tobias (Will Skrip) hawks his master's 'Miracle Elixir'...
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...while Pirelli (Katherine Docimo) amazes the ensemble with her verbal wit.
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The Judge fantasizes about Johanna as a dominatrix.
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Mrs. Lovett's products, with new ingredients, become worthy of a pie-eating contest.
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Mrs. Lovett's fantasy 'By the Sea' becomes real.
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Anthony (Steve McQuown) invades Mrs. Fogg's (Katherine Docimo) Madhouse in order to rescue Johanna.
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Sweeney kills the Beggar Woman (Maggie Donnelly) in his barbershop, using a dolly and an freight elevator as his chair.
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Sweeney comes back to life for the opera's finale.