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Harrington's Pie and Mash Shop 3 Selkirk Road Tooting, London Harrington’s Pie and Mash Shop 3 Selkirk Road Tooting, London. Open for business since 1908. RACHEL EDWARDS JENNY GERSTEN SEAVIEW PRODUCTIONS NATE KOCH, Executive Producer FIONA RUDIN BARROW STREET THEATRE JEAN DOUMANIAN REBECCA GOLD “A Customer!” present My name is Rachel Edwards and I am the originating producer of Tooting Arts Club’s Sweeney The Tooting Arts Club production of Todd. On behalf of myself, and my producing partners Jenny Gersten, Greg Nobile, Jana Shea and Nate Koch, it is our pleasure to welcome you to Harrington’s Pie and Mash Shop! In the spring of 1908, number 3 Selkirk Road Tooting, London, became the home of Harrington’s Pie and Mash shop when it was bought by Bertie Harrington and his wife Clara. Little has changed in this tiny Tooting eatery since it first opened for business some 109 years ago. The Harrington fam- ily still run the shop, the original green tiles still adorn the walls and the menu remains unchanged since the days of Queen Victoria. A Musical Thriller Music and Lyrics Book by The idea to stage Sweeney Todd in London’s oldest pie and mash shop was one which I lived with for several years before I dared to say it out loud. It felt too outrageous, too complicated, in essence – it felt impossible. A simple ‘yes’ from Beverley Mason – owner of Harrington’s, and great STEPHEN SONDHEIM HUGH WHEELER grand-daughter of Bertie and Clara – changed everything. Subsequently, an unforgettable collabora- tion was born that set in motion a chain of events that was nothing short of extraordinary. Nothing From an adaptation by CHRISTOPHER BOND was ever a problem ‘Can we replace your fridge with a piano?’ Of course you can. ‘Stand on your with counter?’ Go ahead. ‘Sorry about the blood!’ Don’t worry about it. This generosity, coupled with the sheer skill and enthusiasm of the creative team, our pie-shop Sweeney began to take shape. JEREMY SECOMB SIOBHÁN McCARTHY We stayed at Harrington’s for a wonderful six weeks in the winter of 2014 before setting up shop in MATT DOYLE ALEX FINKE BETSY MORGAN BRAD OSCAR DUNCAN SMITH JOSEPH TAYLOR London’s West End courtesy of Sir Cameron Mackintosh, where Harrington’s opened for business COLIN ANDERSON MONET SABEL on Shaftesbury Avenue for thirteen weeks during the spring of 2015. And now, to New York City, and Greenwich Village. Needless to say it is a tremendous honour for Designer Lighting Designer Sound Designer Music Director us to be bringing Sweeney Todd to the town of its birth and we are delighted to have found our SIMON KENNY AMY MAE MATT STINE MATT AUMENT new home at the Barrow Street Theatre within the walls of Greenwich House, and are very grateful General Manager Production Management Production Stage Manager for the hospitality and understanding shown to us as we set-about rebuilding Harrington’s tile by KATE MORROW IRON BLOOM CREATIVE PRODUCTION RICHARD A. HODGE tile. What you see here today is what you would see if you were to visit Harrington’s in Tooting. The menu, the benches, the tiles, the original Victorian stained glass, and the much-loved galleons that Fight Director Vocal and Dialect Coach Prop Master Chef & Pie Maker adorn the walls. BRYCE BERMINGHAM BEN FUREY RAY WETMORE BILL YOSSES One thing that has changed - we have a new chef! David Johnson, Harrington’s original pie-maker Associate Director Associate Choreographer is needed back in Tooting, but we are delighted to have a new pie-maker-in-chief, no other than the ANDREW SCOVILLE YASMINE LEE ‘Crustmaster’ himself, Mr Bill Yosses. Thanks to Bill, pre-show pie and mash will once again be the order of the day. Press Representative Casting Advertising Social Media BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN TELSEY + COMPANY AKA MARATHON LIVE Finally, I would to take this opportunity to extend my sincere and heartfelt thanks to Stephen Sond- CESAR A. ROCHA, CSA ENTERTAINMENT heim for the support he has shown this production from its early days in Tooting. Music Supervisor & Arranger All that remains to be said is, bon appétit and enjoy the show! BENJAMIN COX Choreographer GEORGINA LAMB With all good wishes, Directed by BILL BUCKHURST Originally directed on Broadway by HAROLD PRINCE Rachel Jenny Greg Jana Nate Originally produced on Broadway by RICHARD BARR, CHARLES WOODWARD, ROBERT FRYER, MARY LEA JOHNSON, MARTIN RICHARDS in association with DEAN & JUDY MANOS Barrow Street Theatre, 27 Barrow Street NYC Tom Wirtshafter, Executive Director Scott Morfee, Managing Director CAST MUSICAL NUMBERS In order of speaking ACT ONE Sweeney Todd………………………………………………JEREMY SECOMB THE BALLAD OF SWEENEY TODD……………………………Company Anthony Hope………………………………………………… .MATT DOYLE NO PLACE LIKE LONDON………………Todd, Anthony, Beggar Woman Mrs. Nellie Lovett………………………………… . .SIOBHÁN McCARTHY WORST PIES IN LONDON………………………………………Mrs. Lovett Beggar Woman/Adolfo Pirelli…………………………… . BETSY MORGAN POOR THING………………………………………………………Mrs. Lovett Judge Turpin…………………………………………………DUNCAN SMITH MY FRIENDS……………………………………………Todd and Mrs. Lovett Johanna Barker……………………………………………………ALEX FINKE GREEN FINCH AND LINNET BIRD………………………………Johanna Beadle Bamford…………………………………………………BRAD OSCAR AH, MISS………………………………………………………………Anthony Tobias Ragg…………………………………………………JOSEPH TAYLOR JOHANNA……………………………………………………………Anthony PIRELLI’S MIRACLE ELIXIR……Tobias, Todd, Mrs. Lovett and Company Harrington’s Pie and Mash Shop THE CONTEST…………………………………………………………Pirelli JOHANNA…………………………………………………………Judge Turpin Shop Manager……………………………………………COLIN ANDERSON WAIT…………………………………………………………………Mrs. Lovett Shop Manager………………………………………………… MONET SABEL KISS ME…………………………………………………Johanna and Anthony LADIES IN THEIR SENSITIVITIES…………………………………Beadle MUSICIANS KISS ME (Reprise)………………Beadle, Johanna, Anthony and Judge Turpin PRETTY WOMEN……………………………………Todd and Judge Turpin Music Director/Piano……………………………………… .MATT AUMENT EPIPHANY……………………………………………………………Todd Violin………………………………………………… .TOMOKO AKABOSHI A LITTLE PRIEST…………………………………Sweeney and Mrs. Lovett Clarinet…………………………………………………MICHAEL FAVREAU STANDBYS ACT TWO for Anthony Hope, Tobias Ragg & Beadle Bamford: COLIN ANDERSON GOD THAT’S GOOD………………Tobias, Mrs. Lovett, Todd and Company for Sweeney Todd & Judge Turpin: DAVID MICHAEL GARRY JOHANNA………………………Todd, Anthony, Johanna and Beggar Woman for Mrs. Nellie Lovett: LIZ PEARCE BY THE SEA………………………………………………………Mrs. Lovett for Johanna Barker, Beggar Woman/Adolfo Pirelli: MONET SABEL WIGMAKER SEQUENCE……………………Todd, Anthony and Company NOT WHILE I’M AROUND…………………………Tobias and Mrs. Lovett PARLOUR SONGS………………………………………………………Beadle THERE WILL BE ONE 20-MINUTE INTERMISSION DURING WHICH PRETTY WOMEN (Reprise)………………Todd, Judge Turpin and Company THE PIE SHOP WILL BE CLOSED THE BALLAD OF SWEENEY TODD……………………………Company The use of any recording device, either audio or video, and the taking of photographs, either with or without flash, is strictly prohibited Jeremy Secomb, Siobhán McCarthy, Duncan Smith and Joseph Taylor are appearing with the permission of Actors’ Equity Association. 2 3 WHO’S WHO WHO’S WHO JEREMY SECOMB (Sweeney Todd). gela, Wonderful Tennessee. Television: claimed production of Carousel at Are- DUNCAN SMITH (Judge Turpin). Theatre: West End: Javert: Les Miser- “Bad Girls”, “All or Nothing at All”, na Stage. She has spent over a decade Born in Scotland, Duncan trained at ables, Sweeney Todd: Sweeney Todd, “The Big Battalions”, “Horse Opera” by working with Michael John LaChiusa, the Royal Scottish Academy of Mu- Piangi and standby The Phantom: The Stewart Copland. originating the roles of Tricia Nixon sic and Drama. Recent theatre in- Phantom of the Opera, Lend Me a Tenor, and Susan Ford in First Daughter Suite cludes: The Sound of Music (UK Tour); Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Evita, The MATT DOYLE (Anthony Hope). The (Public Theater, OCR), Louisa in Rain Sweeney Todd (Tooting Arts Club at Woman in White, Jerry Springer – The Book of Mormon (Elder Price), War (Old Globe), and Leslie in Giant (Sig- Harrington’s Pie Shop, London); The Opera. Other Theatre: Sweeney Todd: Horse (Billy Narracott), Spring Awak- nature). Original Broadway companies Phantom of the Opera (Her Majesty’s Sweeney Todd, Joseph and his Amazing ening (Hanschen), Bye Bye Birdie include The King and I (2015 revival), Theatre);La Cage Aux Folles (Playhouse Technicolor Dreamcoat (UK tour), A (Hugo Peabody). National Tour: Spring Les Misérables (2014 revival), A Little Theatre); Marguerite (Theatre Royal, Grand Night for Singing (Australia), The Awakening (Melchior). Off-Broadway: Night Music (2009 revival, OCR), The Haymarket); Anything Goes (National Phantom of the Opera (Australia/New Brooklynite (Trey), Jasper in Deadland Little Mermaid (OCR), and High Fi- Theatre & Theatre Royal, Drury Lane); Zealand, UK tour). Workshops: Love (Jasper). Regional: West Side Story at delity (OCR). Original Off-Broadway Calamity Jane (Shaftesbury Theatre); Never Dies, Bumblescratch, Gulliver’s Paper Mill Playhouse (Tony), Jasper in companies include Found (Atlantic The Secret Garden (RSC & Aldwych Travels. Concerts: Jesus Christ Superstar, Deadland at the 5th Avenue Theater in Theater), The Fantasticks (2006 reviv- Theatre); and UK tours of Chitty Chit- 2014 and 2015 Playing Our Part char- Seattle ( Jasper), Giant at Dallas Theater al), and Bernarda Alba (Lincoln Cen- ty Bang Bang and Kiss Me Kate. Addi- ity concerts, Salvation Army Christmas Center ( Jordy Jr). Film/TV: Recurring ter). Betsy recreated the role of Fan- tional West End credits: Spend! Spend! at the Royal Albert Hall. Other: Voice on “Gossip Girl” (Jonathan),“Private tine in the 25th Anniversary Tour of Spend! (Piccadilly Theatre);
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