Details

Sondheinm's musical noir based on Christopher Bond's play tells the tale of a barber transported for life for a crime he didn't commit so that the Judge and Beadle can have their wicked way with his beautiful wife. Escaping and returning to London under the name of Sweeney Todd he plots his revenge with the help of Mrs Lovett who runs the failing pie shop under his old business. Recognised by a rival who attempts to blackmail him, Todd kills and Lovett, ever one for a bargin, hatches the plot to dispose of the body and make her little business a success - such lovely pies, such tasty gravy. The Captian who brought him home falls for a beautiful girl who, it turns out, is Todd's daughter now the ward (and intended) of the Judge so the planned revenge must be more swiftly enacted - but in his haste Todd, kills more than he intended and no one wins in the end. Staged concert production.

Cast/Performers

Bryn Terfel (Sweeney Todd), Emma Thompson (Mrs Lovett), Matthew Seadon-Young (Anthony Hope), Katie Hall (Johanna Barker), Philip Quast (Judge Turpin), Jack North (Tobias Ragg), Alex Gaumond (Beadle Bamford), Rosalie Craig (Beggar Woman), John Owen Jones (Pirelli), Madeleine Harland (Ensemble), Lydia Gerrard (Ensemble), Leah Penston (Ensemble), Frankie Jenna (Ensemble), Verity Quade (Ensemble), Susannah Van den Berg (Ensemble), Anna O'Byrne (Ensemble), Molly Lynch (Ensemble), Emily Bull (Ensemble), Gaia Wise (Ensemble), Alexandra Grierson (Ensemble), Vicki Lee Taylor (Ensemble), Katie Kerr (Ensemble), Ffion Emyr (Ensemble), Nancy Hill (Ensemble), Edd Campbell Bird (Ensemble), Alastair Brookshaw (Ensemble), Kane Oliver Parry (Ensemble), Scott Cripps (Ensemble), John Barr (Ensemble), Aaron Lee Lambert (Ensemble), Gary Tushaw (Ensemble), Ashley Robinson (Ensemble), Jeff Nicholson (Ensemble), Joseph Prouse (Ensemble), Gavin James (Ensemble), Marc Akinfolarin (Ensemble), Jacob Chapman (Ensemble), Ian Caddick (Ensemble), Adam Vaughan (Ensemble)

Creatives/Company

Music: Stephen Sondheim
Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim
Book by: Hugh Wheeler
Adapted by: Christopher Bond
Producer: English National Opera Productions Ltd (in association with The GradeLinnit Company)
Conductor: David Charles Abell
Director(s): Lonny Price, Matt Cowart (associate director)
Design: James Noone
Costume: Tracy Christensen
Lighting: Mark Henderson