Sweeney Todd

The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Jonathan Roxmouth and Charon Williams-Ros will be starring in Sweeney Todd, when Pieter Toerien brings this Stephen Sondheim’s iconic musical thriller to the Montecasino Theatre from 9 October 2015 till 13 December 2015.

Featuring sublime theatrics, a thrilling, chilling story, suspense, passion, deliciously dark humour, with a score and lyrics that have taken on iconic status, directed and designed by the award-winning KickstArt team of Steven Stead and Greg King, and starring Jonathan Roxmouth and Charon Williams-Ros… it doesn’t get any better than Sondheim’s SWEENEY TODD!

SWEENEY TODD features an all-star South African cast that includes our Audrey from Little Shop of Horrors – Candice van Litsenborgh – alongside Michael Richard, Jaco van Rensburg, Anne Marie Clulow, Adam Pelkowitz, Luciano Zuppa, Wesley Swain Lauder, Cameron Botha, Pauline du Plessis, Sanli Jooste, Claire Simonis, Megan Rigby, Schoeman Smit and a very special welcome back to our stage after many years touring overseas in CATS – our very own Earl Gregory! MD for the show is Rowan Bakker. Costume designs by Neil Stuart Harris. Lighting is by Tina le Roux.

This musical thriller by American theatrical genius, Stephen Sondheim, features one of the greatest musical theatre scores ever written. It tells the outlandish tale of urban legend, Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street, who famously murdered his clients in his barber chair, where after his whacky neighbour, and partner in crime, Mrs Lovett, turned them into much sought after meat pies. Set in 19th century England, SWEENEY TODD looks at what drives a man to this sort of extreme revenge and obsession, and considers what tragedy lies in his dark and mysterious past.  This gripping musical features the classic songs ‘Pretty Women’; ‘Johanna’; ‘Not While I’m Around’; ‘By the Sea’; ‘A Little Priest’, and ‘The Ballad of Sweeney Todd’.

SWEENEY TODD won both the Tony Award and the Olivier Award for BEST New Musical when it was first produced in 1979, and is now also a major motion picture by Tim Burton, starring Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham-Carter, Alan Rickman and Sacha Baron Cohen delicious as the sly fop Pirelli. Cameron Mackintosh has called Sondheim “possibly the greatest lyricist ever”. Johannesburg audiences are urged to book early for this ultimate Musical Theatre treat!

 

Booking is through Computicket (011) 340 8000 or Theatre Box Office (011) 511 1818.

Tickets cost R350, R250, R150 & R100

Performances: Wed – Fri @ 8pm, Sat @ 4pm & 8pm, Sun @ 3pm

 

“Attend the tale of SWEENEY TODD. His skin was pale and his eye was odd. He shaved the faces of gentlemen who never thereafter were heard of again. He trod the path that few have trod, did SWEENEY TODD, the demon barber of Fleet Street.”