Book by Hugh Wheeler
Music by Stephen Sondheim
Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Special Performance on October 31st at 8:00PM. COSTUME CONTEST!
Thursday - Saturday: all shows 8:00pm
Sunday: all shows 3:00pm
Please arrive 15 minutes before curtain time.
The rare instance of a musical thriller, Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's chilling, suspenseful, heart-pounding masterpiece of murderous barber-ism and culinary crime tells the infamous tale of the unjustly exiled barber who returns to 19th century London seeking revenge against the lecherous judge who framed him and ravaged his young wife.
"A work of such scope and such daring that it dwarfs every other Broadway musical that even attempts to invite comparison." - Rex Reed, New York Daily News
CAST:
Will Ragland - Sweeney Todd
Mary Freeman - Mrs. Lovett
Patrick Osteen - Anthony Hope
Chelsea Rudisill - Johanna
Brady Smith - Tobias Ragg
Christian Elser - Judge Turpin
Jonathan Kilpatrick - Beadle Bamford
Miranda Notus - Beggar Woman
Jim Broussard - Adolfo Pirelli
Bruce Meahl - Jonas Fogg
Victoria Adams - Ensemble
Tina Batchelder-Schwab - Ensemble
Holly Caprell - Ensemble
Brittany Dail - Ensemble
Boyd Galloway - Ensemble
Chase McAbee - Ensemble
Christopher Rose - Ensemble
Melanie Ann Wiliford - Ensemble
Director: David Sims
David Sims is thrilled to be given the opportunity to direct his absolute favorite piece of musical theatre, Sweeney Todd. His last visit to Centre Stage was to direct Frederick Knott’s Wait Until Dark. Before and since then he has directed Amadeus, Frozen, and The Book of Liz at the Warehouse Theatre, where he served in the first ever Journeyman class and currently serves on the Board of Directors. In the daytime Mr. Sims can be found at Christ Church Episcopal School, where after 11 years of teaching, he is beginning his first year as the Director of the Arts. David is also Editor of Upstate Onstage, a website devoted to professional, amateur, and educational theater in the Upstate. He also writes music; most recently for Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolfe and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at the Warehouse, and in 2009 released a CD of original music, Fences. David would like to thank his wife Christian, and two daughters Dylan and Ellison.
Music Director: Jeff Lewis
Professional musical director and master teacher of musical theatre and singing technique at NCSA. Musical director for the off-Broadway production of “Street Scene” at the Equity Library Theatre. At the Great Lakes Theater Festival, musical director for “Blood Wedding,” co-directed by Gerald Freedman and Graciela Daniele, and “Mother Courage,” starring Olympia Dukakis. Numerous Chicago credits include “The Dead” for which he received a Joseph Jefferson Award for Musical Direction, and “Side Show,” “The Great Gatsby,” “Goblin Market,” “Assassins,” and “Quilters,” all nominated for the Jefferson Musical Direction Award. Other Chicago credits include “Little Me,” “Brigadoon” and “Gypsy” at Marriott’s Lincolnshire Theatre, all winners of the Joseph Jefferson Best Musical Award; and “Merrily We Roll Along,” “Pacific Overtures,” “The Frogs” and “Anyone Can Whistle,” all recipients of the Jefferson Citation for Musical Direction. B.M.E. from Indiana University and M.M. from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.
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