2010 is the 10th anniversary year for the Dundee Rep Ensemble and The Gentleman's Groom Room were glad to help out when we got a call from the production team looking for some advice and tips for their forthcoming performance. With Ian Thomson the proprietor showing the actor how to wield an open razor in preparation for his latest role, as the world's most infamous barber Sweeney Todd! David who is to play Sweeney then returned to the store with a co star in the production and the director of the show, who was shaved with an open blade for the first time! With the actors taking notes on the procedure. The Award-winning Dundee Rep Ensemble will present the musical Sweeney Todd by Stephen Sondheim, book by Hugh Wheeler from an adaptation by Christopher Bond.
Presented by arrangedment with JOSEF WEINBERGER LIMITED on behalf of MUSIC THEATRE INTERNATIONAL of New York.
SWEENEY TODD
Returning to the greedy streets of London after being wrongly exiled Benjamin Barker AKA Sweeney Todd is gripped by revenge, blinded by rage and desperate for the throat of Judge Turpin who ravaged his wife after unjustly sending him away. With the amorous pie-shop owner Mrs Lovett whispering in his ear, Sweeney embarks upon a murderous campaign to right the wrongs he has endured, re-opening his Fleet Street barber shop and slitting the throats of his customers before they are turned into London's tastiest pies. This large-scale musical is the latest and most ambitious yet served up by award-winning Dundee Rep Ensemble. The power of Sondheim's music, played live by a nine-piece band, his glitteringly witty and unashamedly macabre lyrics and the murderous tale itself driven by love, retribution, obsession and lust means you can't afford to miss this show.
