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Sweeney Todd the Demon Barber of Fleet Street May 10 – June 7, 2020 Edu STUDY GUIDES from a NOISE WITHIN A NOISE WITHIN’S 2019-2020 REPERTORY THEATRE SEASON STUDY GUIDE Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street May 10 – June 7, 2020 Edu STUDY GUIDES FROM A NOISE WITHIN A rich resource for teachers of English, reading, arts, and drama education. Dear Reader, We’re delighted you’re interested in our study guides, designed to provide a full range of information on our plays to teachers of all grade levels. 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Alicia Green DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION Cover Image: "The Barbers Shop” by George Elgar Hicks (1824-1914). We are grateful for the additional sponsorship of all student matinees for Sweeney Todd by Anni Frandsden Low, Ph.D. TABLE OF CONTENTS Special thanks to our Dinner On Stage donors Character Map ......................................4 who kept the arts thriving this year by supporting our Student Matinees (SMATs): Synopsis ...........................................5 About the Author: George Dibdin Pitt ...................6 SMAT PERFORMANCE SPONSOR ($5,000 AND ABOVE) About the Adaptors: Richard Green Barbara Lawrence Christopher Bond, Hugh Wheeler, and Stephen Sondheim ...8 Jeanie & Terry Kay Terri Murray William & Priscilla Kennedy Richard & Sally Roberts History of Sweeney Todd: A Timeline ...................10 Sheila & Alan Lamson Change in the Air: The Transition from the SCHOOL SPONSOR ($2,500 AND ABOVE) Industrial Revolution to the Victorian Era ................ 11 Bill & Clarie Bogaard Julie & Lance Markowitz Kathleen & Bruce & Valerie Merritt Pretty Women: James Drummy Lyn Spector The Role of Women in 19th Century England ..............12 Sheila Grether-Marion & Lois Tandy Mark Marion Liz & Rhodes Trussell The Great Divide: Social Inequality in Barbara Henderson Industrial and Victorian England .......................15 CLASS SPONSOR ($1,000 AND ABOVE) Melodrama and Musicals .............................16 Molly Bachmann Eugene Kapaloski The Evolution of the Sweeney Todd Story Meg Huntington Cajero Thomas & Gloria Lang Jack & Becky Doody Jay Lesiger from Melodrama to Musical ..........................18 Fred & Sandy Engler Cynthia Nunes & Themes ...........................................19 Armando Gonzalez Barbara Nye Diane Grohulski Diana Peterson-More Revenge ........................................19 Schuyler & Gail Samuel & Deborah Hollingsworth William Christian Love and Desire ...................................19 Robert & Jennifer Israel Margaret Sedenquist Denise Jay Tribune Direct Freedom and Captivity .............................20 Miranda Johnson-Haddad Vickie Taylor Madness .........................................20 Molly Joseph Ken Booth Lighting Designer .......................... 21 WORKSHOP SPONSOR ($500 AND ABOVE) Robert Cathcart Elyse Klein Pre-Show Preparation: Research .......................22 Cecilia Center Bob Low, in honor of wife Pre-Show Preparation: Activities .......................23 John Cushman Anni Frandsen Low, Julie Daniels Ph.D. Essay Questions ....................................25 Patrick Garcia Alan Miller Sandra Greenstein Julia Rodriguez-Elliott Additional Resources ................................26 Selma Holo & Fred Croton Janet Samuel David Holtz Deborah Strang Forsight Creations Donna Tucker, in memory Jim Kelly of Beverly Parks Tucker A NOISE WITHIN’S EDUCATION PROGRAMS MADE POSSIBLE IN PART BY: Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. Loretta Vigil Jason King Marianne Wallace Ann Peppers Foundation The Green Foundation David & Julia Zuckerman Capital Group Companies Kenneth T. and Eileen L. Norris Foundation BUS SPONSOR ($350 AND ABOVE) Michael J. Connell Foundation Wendy Alden Allan Mohrman The Dick and Sally Roberts Ralph M. Parsons Foundation Anonymous Scott Myers Julie Fox Blackshaw Norma Richman Coyote Foundation Steinmetz Foundation Mary Hacker Edmund Roberts The Jewish Community Dwight Stuart Youth Fund Ilona Linden Daniel Rothmuller Foundation Nancy Macky Chromatic Joan Mills Interactive Media ADDITIONAL DONORS Jerry Gallagher & Jan Sanders Gerard Clarke Linda Saurenman Margaret Grossman Stuart Semigran Margaret Koch Angela Conner & Irene Lacher Kevin Speaks Mark Nelson Sallie Strang 4 A NOISE WITHIN 2019/20 REPERTORY SEASON | Spring 2020 Study Guide Sweeney Todd CHARACTER MAP Mrs. Lovett The owner of a struggling meat pie shop. She knew Sweeney Todd before he was sent to Australia, and she helps him set up a barbershop when he returns to London. Sweeney Todd/Benjamin Barker An English barber formerly known Beggar Woman/Lucy Barker as Benjamin Barker. After spending A woman who has gone mad over 15 years wrongfully incarcerated in time. It is later revealed that the Australia, he has returned to London Beggar Woman is actually Lucy Barker, to seek revenge for the injustice to Benjamin Barker’s wife. which he was subjected. Judge Turpin Anthony Hope Johanna A corrupt judge who was in love with A sailor who rescues Sweeney Todd Sweeney Todd and Lucy Barker’s Lucy Barker, Sweeney Todd’s wife. He from Australia and sails with him daughter. She is now Judge Turpin’s orchestrated a plan to wrongfully send back to London. He falls in love with ward, and against Judge Turpin’s Benjamin Barker to prison in Australia Johanna. wishes, she falls in love with Anthony so that he could marry Lucy. For the Hope. past 15 years, he has been Johanna’s guardian. Adolfo Pirelli Tobias Ragg Jonas Fogg The Beadle An Irishman who has Pirelli’s assistant. He later The owner of a private A corrupt public official, he developed the public persona becomes Mrs. Lovett’s asylum. works closely with Judge of a flashy Italian barber and assistant in the pie shop. Turpin. dentist. He used to work for Benjamin Barker. 5 A NOISE WITHIN 2019/20 REPERTORY SEASON | Spring 2020 Study Guide Sweeney Todd SYNOPSIS After spending 15 years wrongfully incarcerated in the The scene shifts to Judge Turpin. Walking home from British penal colony of Australia, Benjamin Barker, now court with the Beadle, he reveals that he intends to marry known as Sweeney Todd, is finally returning to London. Johanna. However, he describes to the Beadle that when He is travelling with Anthony Hope, a young sailor. The he made his marriage proposal to Johanna, she seemed two arrive in the city and are immediately confronted by hesitant at the idea. The Beadle suggests to Turpin that a beggar woman asking for money. When she approaches he visit Sweeney Todd, as a good shave might make Todd, she thinks she recognizes him. However, Todd Johanna more interested in marrying Turpin. quickly shoos her away. In order to cover-up the murder of Pirelli, Todd and Mrs. Todd makes his way down Fleet Street to a struggling Lovett exact a plan. They decide to bake Pirelli’s body meat pie shop operated by Mrs. Lovett. Mrs. Lovett and the bodies of future barbershop customers into describes how she has a room for rent above her shop Mrs. Lovett’s meat pies—after all, meat is expensive, that no one wants to lease because of the room’s and Todd, angry with all of humanity, has no qualms history—there was a barber who ran his business out of continuing to kill his patrons. the room, Mrs. Lovett tells Todd. The barber had a wife With the new meat pie recipe and a flood of patrons and a young daughter. However, Judge Turpin was in at Todd’s barbershop, Mrs. Lovett’s pie shop becomes love with the barber’s wife. Turpin had the barber sent incredibly popular. She even takes on Tobias to be her to prison in Australia under false charges in order to assistant. However, Tobias soon grows suspicious of give himself an opportunity to woo the barber’s wife. Todd. Nervous about Tobias’ suspicions, Mrs. Lovett After the barber was sent away, Judge Turpin invited the locks Tobias in the bakehouse. While Tobias is in the barber’s wife to a masked ball, where he violated her. bakehouse, the Beadle arrives at the shop, and Todd As she tells the story of the room’s former tenants, Mrs. offers him a shave. During the shave, Todd slits the Lovett realizes that Todd is actually Benjamin Barker—the Beadle’s throat and sends his body down a chute that barber from the tale. Mrs. Lovett lets Todd know that not leads directly to the bakehouse. Tobias, still in the long after the incident at the masked ball, Lucy, Todd’s bakehouse, sees the body and panics. wife, drank arsenic and died. After Lucy’s death, Judge Turpin adopted Johanna, Todd’s daughter, and has since Before Todd addresses Tobias, Anthony and Johanna been raising her as his ward. Hearing this, Todd vows to appear—they are on the run and on their way to elope. exact revenge on Turpin and his assistant, the Beadle, Anthony leaves Johanna in the barbershop while he goes for the wrongs they have committed against him and his to secure a coach to take them out of the city. Johanna, family. Mrs. Lovett fetches Todd’s old razors and says that unsettled by the barbershop, hides in a trunk while Todd he can set up a business in the room above her pie shop. is out of the room. Not long after she does, the Beggar Woman wanders into the shop. Frustrated, Todd slits the Later, in the marketplace, hoping to attract business to Beggar Woman’s throat and sends her body down the his barbershop, Todd challenges Pirelli, a flashy Italian chute. As soon as the woman’s body is gone, the Judge barber, to a shaving contest.
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