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Adam Barruch’s “exploration” of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street premieres Friday, September 25, and Saturday, September 26, at 8 p.m., at the Lobero Theatre (33 E. Canon Perdido St.). For tickets and information, call 963-0761 or visit lobero.com.
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For those intrepid theatergoers who plan to join the DANCEworks audience on Friday or Saturday night for Sweeney Todd at the Lobero, here’s what to expect. You will not get the whole play but rather a fair sample of its important musical numbers, including many songs you probably already know and love, including the beautiful “Green Finch and Linnet Bird,” the scary “Epiphany” of Fleet Street’s demon barber, and McFadden’s dazzling, fully sung and performed version of Barruch’s original “Worst Pies in London” routine, the bit that got the show rolling in the first place. You will witness awe-inspiring movement and song from some of the most talented young performers in the world, and perhaps be present at the creation of a whole new direction for the musical, and that’s not an exaggeration. After all, Adam Barruch’s restlessness in the face of business as usual on Broadway is widespread, yet interest in the canon, as can be seen by the preponderance of revivals on Broadway this season, has never been greater. What DANCEworks has brought us could be the new way to reveal the depth of musical theater’s greatest compositions that everyone’s been looking for.
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come from New York after appearing in a very unusual and successful show called Sleep No More. This immersive adaptation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, which has been running continuously in New York’s McKittrick Hotel since 2011, may be the single most talked-about nontraditional theater event of the decade. Audiences enter the five stories and 100 rooms of the “theater” through a speakeasy and choose which characters to follow and which rooms to observe for themselves throughout the evening, with each spectator thus creating his or her own experience of the play. Actors lucky enough to get caught up in the Sleep No More juggernaut of sold-out nights and ecstatic reviews were understandably eager to take more risks with form and presentation, and through Barruch’s preexisting creative partnership with Bonosky, who was also in the show, a new ensemble was born. The actor playing Sweeney in this production, Popp, had a big hand in the creative process of Sleep No More, and he is just as excited about this role, citing the chance to “sing at full voice while moving at full velocity” as the opportunity that brought him to commit to Barruch’s project. Popp’s enthusiasm reflects something larger that permeates the ensemble — a deep seriousness of purpose and authenticity that allows them to give Sondheim’s larger-than-life characters and fantastic mise en scène the kind of integrity required. Because, let’s face it, as great as Sweeney Todd is, no one wants to see a weak production of this difficult and often histrionic work. Talking to the Friday Club audience on September 11, Barruch cited the efforts of music director Kacey Link as key to the cast’s collective response to a situation that, in his words, “takes a challenging score full of trick notes, key changes, and tongue twisters and asks that the actors integrate singing it with the intense physicality of modern dance.”
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