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Williams Opera Workshop The Demon Barber of Fleet Street A Musical Thriller

Music and Lyrics by Book by STEPHEN SONDHEIM ’50 HUGH WHEELER

From an Adaptation by CHRISTOPHER BOND

Originally Directed On Broadway by HAROLD PRINCE

Orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick

Originally Produced on Broadway by Richard Barr, Charles Woodward, Robert Fryer, Mary Lea Johnson, Martin Richards in Association with Dean and Judy Manos

Prelude Prologue: The Ballad of Sweeney Todd ...... Todd, Company Act I Scenes: 1. A street by the London docks: No Place Like London ...... Anthony, Todd, Beggar Woman 2. Mrs. Lovett’s Pie Shop: Worst Pies in London ...... Mrs. Lovett My Friends ...... Todd, Mrs. Lovett Ballad of Sweeney Todd, Reprise ...... Company 3. ’s House: Green Finch and Linnet Bird ...... Johanna (Part 1 & 2) ...... Anthony 4. St. Dunstan’s marketplace: Pirelli’s Entrance ...... Pirelli The Contest (Part 1) ...... Pirelli 5. Sweeney Todd’s Tonsorial Parlor: Pirelli’s Death ...... Pirelli 6. Outside Judge Turpin’s house: Kiss Me (Part 1) ...... Johanna, Anthony Ladies in their Sensitivities ...... Beadle 7. Sweeney Todd’s Tonsorial Parlor: Pretty Women (Part 1) ...... Judge, Todd Pretty Women (Part 2) ...... Todd, Judge, Anthony Epiphany ...... Todd, Mrs. Lovett 8. Mrs. Lovett’s Pie Shop: A Little Priest ...... Mrs. Lovett, Todd

Continued on reverse side Tuesday, January 24, 2017 7:00 p.m. Chapin Hall Williamstown, Massachusetts

The videotaping or other video or audio recording of this production is strictly prohibited. Act 2 9. The streets of London: Johanna—Act 2 Sequence ...... Anthony, Todd, Johanna, Beggar Woman 10. Mrs. Lovett’s Pie Shop: Not While I’m Around ...... Tobias, Mrs. Lovett 11. Sweeney Todd’s Tonsorial Parlor: Searching ...... Anthony, Johanna, Beggar Woman The Judge’s Return ...... Todd, Judge 12. Mrs. Lovett’s bake house: Final Scene (Part 1) ...... Todd, Mrs. Lovett Final Scene (Part 2) ...... Todd The Ballad of Sweeney Todd ...... Company

Cast of Characters (In Order of Appearance)

Anthony Hope ...... Harold Theurer ’17 Sweeney Todd ...... Jack Romans ’20 Beggar Woman ...... Caroline Fairweather ’20 Mrs. Lovett ...... Evelyn Mahon ’18 Judge Turpin ...... Jordan LaMothe ’17 The Beadle ...... Brandon Hilfer ’20 Johanna ...... Nicole Jones ’20 ...... Teague Morris ’17 ...... Kurt Pfrommer ’18

The Company Mia Herrong-Sampong ’20, Woogie Jung ’19 Christine Pash ’18, Julia Randall ’19

Stage Director ...... Erin Nafziger Musical Director ...... Keith Kibler Orchestra Director ...... Derek Galvin ’18 Lighting Designer ...... Kurt Pfrommer ’18 Costume Designer ...... Evelyn Mahon ’18 Rehearsal Pianist ...... Qiana Yang ’20

Orchestra Calvin Ludwig ’18, flute/picc Timothy Suh ’18, clarinet Yitong Tseo ’17, cello Harrison Dilthey, double bass Hannah Goodrick ’18, violin Leonard Bopp ’19, trumpet Sofie Netteberg ’20, bassoon Tiku Majumder, horn Qiana Yang ’20, piano

SWEENEY TODD Is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also suppled by MTI. www.MTIShows.com

Our heartfelt thanks go out to: Barbara Bell, Corissa Bryant, Marjorie Hirsch, Robin Kibler, Evelyn Mahon ’18, Jonathan Myers, Samantha Patterson, Kurt Pfrommer ’18, Michelle Picard, Emily Rea, Kerry Ryer-Parke, Marlene Walt, Brad Wells, Qiana Yang ’20, and The Williams College Theater Department. Without their support, this production would not have been possible.