Sondheim's "Sweeney Todd"
Fresh out of jail, the "demon barber of Fleet Street" cooks up a macabre revenge scheme in this gripping 1979 winner of eight Tony Awards
- May 10 - Jun 30, 2002
- Eisenhower Theater
- $20.00 - $79.00
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About the Program
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Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Book by Hugh Wheeler
From an adaptation by Christopher Bond
In Victorian England, a vengeful Sweeney Todd has just been released from jail
for a crime he did not commit. With his dazzlingly demented accomplice, Mrs.
Lovett, the "demon barber of Fleet Street" cooks up a hilariously
macabre revenge scheme in this crafty, comedic, and captivating musical, which
stars Broadway favorites and Tony Award winners Brian Stokes Mitchell (Kiss
Me, Kate, Ragtime, King Hedley II) and Christine Baranski (The
Real Thing, Rumors, TV's "Cybill"). The show won eight 1979 Tony
Awards, including Best Musical, and also captured the 1979 Grammy for best cast
album.
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Watch and Listen
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Listen to "The Worst Pies in London" from Sweeney Todd
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Listen to "Johanna" from Sweeney Todd
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Listen to "Pretty Women" from Sweeney Todd
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Listen to "A Little Priest" from Sweeney Todd
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Listen to "Not While I'm Around" from Sweeney Todd
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Additional Resources
About the Kennedy Center The Sondheim Celebration Series
About the Kennedy Center Theater Series
'The Art of Making Art'
KC News
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Sondheim Celebration Cast List : View the star-studded cast list for all six of the Sondheim Celebration musicals
The Smithsonian Associates' course: "Six by Sondheim." : Learn more about the Sondheim Celebration shows through these Smithsonian classes
Reviews and Articles
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NY Times Love, as any Harlequin romance will tell you, makes a woman beautiful. And as brilliantly embodied by Christine Baranski, Mrs. Lovett, the cannibal pie maker of Stephen Sondheim's "Sweeney Todd," is definitely a woman in love. Read More...
Washington Post In 'Sweeney Todd,' Actress Sinks Her Teeth Into a Singing Role Read More...
NY Times Looming over the Potomac, with its faux-monumental 1960's architecture, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts doesn't look much like Richard Wagner's wooden theater in Bayreuth, in bucolic Upper Bavaria. But this summer it has become a pilgrimage sit Read More...
NY Times Foolish love. Obsessive love. They're not quite the same, but it helps when you have a Stephen Sondheim on hand to explain the differences. As the Kennedy Center's indispensable, nearly four-month Sondheim Festival draws to a close, the contrast betwe Read More...
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