| SWEENEY
TODD opened on Thursday, November 3 and BroadwayWorld was there to
capture the after-party at the Copacabana. Tony Award winners Patti
LuPone and Michael Cerveris lead a ten member cast in the Broadway
production of SWEENEY TODD, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. SWEENEY
TODD has music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by Hugh Wheeler
from an adaptation by Christopher Bond. The production is directed
and designed by John Doyle, with music supervision and orchestrations
by Sarah Travis. SWEENEY TODD opened at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre
on Thursday, November 3.
Rounding out the ten member cast are: John Arbo (Jonas Fogg), Donna
Lynne Champlin (Pirelli), Diana DiMarzio (Beggar Woman), Manoel
Felciano (Tobias Ragg), Alexander Gemignani (The Beadle), Mark Jacoby
(Judge Turpin), Benjamin Magnuson (Anthony Hope), Lauren Molina
(Johanna). This production of SWEENEY TODD arrives on Broadway from
a highly successful London engagement originally staged by the Watermill
Theatre, which transferred first to the Trafalgar Studios in London
in July 2004 to wide critical acclaim, then into the West End where
it ran for a limited engagement closing on February 5, 2005.
The performance
schedule during previews is: Monday - Saturday at 8pm, Wednesday
& Saturday at 2pm. The performance schedule starting the week
of November 7 is: Tuesday at 7pm, Wednesday - Saturday at 8pm, Wednesday
& Saturday at 2pm and Sunday at 2pm. Please note that there
is no performance on Friday, November 4 and that a performance has
been added on Sunday, November 6 at 2pm.
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