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Join us as we
revisit the 1989 York Mainstage Revival of the 1979 Tony Award-winning Best
Musical Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street with
music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Hugh Wheeler, based on an adaptation by Christopher Bond.
Presented by The
York, Sweeney Todd received its first New York revival
production at The Church
of the Heavenly Rest on March 31, 1989 where it continued through
April 29, 1989. Upon receiving critical acclaim, the production transferred
to Broadway where it played 188 performances at Circle in the Square from
September 14, 1989 through February 25, 1990. The Circle in the Square
production received 4 Tony Award nominations. The production was referred
to as "Teeny Todd" when parodied by the Off-Broadway revue Forbidden
Broadway.
The cast featured
Broadway veterans Bob Gunton as The Demon Barber of Fleet Street and
Beth Fowler as the conniving Mrs. Lovett (pictured above; photo
credit Martha Swope.)
Sweeney Todd has become a worldwide success. Stephen
Sondheim's and Hugh Wheeler's tasty, thrilling, theatrical treat has
simultaneously shocked, awed and delighted audiences across the world.
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...and the carnage has only just begun!
York’s James
Morgan and theater historian Charles Wright will be joined by Paul
Libin (producer), Susan H. Schulman (director), David Krane (music
director), Beba Shamash (costume designer), Mary Jo Dondlinger
(lighting designer), Perry Cline (Production Stage Manager), and cast
members Bob Gunton, Beth Fowler, SuEllen Estey, Ted Keegan, Eddie
Korbich, Annie McGreevey, and Jim Walton. www.yorktheatre.org
PLEASE NOTE:
This is a panel discussion of The York / Circle in
the Square
production, NOT a performance.
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