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Sweeney Todd

Feb 9 – Apr 4, 2010
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The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is back! The first musical ever presented at Signature gets a brand new environmental staging in the MAX Theatre as part of our 20th anniversary season.

No one's work better represents Signature than composer/lyricist Stephen Sondheim's. And Sweeney Todd is Sondheim's masterpiece - with all its gothic gore, lush songs, and romantic melodrama. It's a grand musical that has all the stuff of a classic horror story - betrayer, revenge, madness, and murder.

The "meat" pies will be baking and the blood will be flowing in this thriller musical comedy featuring a celebrated cast of Signature Theatre favorites.

Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Book by Hugh Wheeler
Based on the play by Christopher Bonds
Music Direction by Jon Kalbfleisch
Musical Staging by Matthew Gardiner
Directed by Eric Schaeffer

The Cast

Michael Bunce

Pirelli

SIGNATURE: Beaches, Urinetown, Pacific Overtures, Sweeney Todd. NATIONAL TOURS: The Scarlet Pimpernel, Victor/Victoria (with Toni Tennille). INTERNATIONAL: 42nd Street (Troika Moscow). DC AREA: Ford’s Theatre: 110 In the Shade, Our Town, A Christmas Carol, 1776, Liberty Smith, Meet John Doe, One Destiny; Olney Theatre Center: 1776, Anything Goes; Kennedy Center: Regina (with Patti LuPone); Rep Stage: The Fantasticks, Cumberland: Dirty Blonde, The Full Monty, Camping with Henry and Tom.  REGIONAL: Geva: Camelot; Barrington: South Pacific.

Jean Cantrell

Ensemble

SIGNATURE: Wings, Into the Woods, Passion, A Little Night Music, The Fix, You’re Gonna Love Tomorrow, Sweeney Todd (1999). SIGNATURE IN THE PARK: Company, Mack & Mabel. OFF BROADWAY: Bells are Ringing. DC AREA: Kennedy Center: Kennedy Center Honors, Of Thee I Sing; Washington Opera: Chorus; Olney: The Fifth Season. REGIONAL: Brooklyn Academy of Music: Of Thee I Sing; George Street Playhouse: A Little Night Music, Cinderella, Pinocchio; Music Theatre of Wichita: Mame, George M, The Music Man, Desert Song, Pajama Game, Little Me, Annie Get Your Gun, Carousel, Brigadoon, Pippin, Camelot, Show Boat, New Moon, Fiddler on the Roof, Hello Dolly, The Unsinkable Molly Brown; Coachlight (CT): The King & I, Gigi, Pirates of Penzance. EDUCATION: Master of Performing Arts, Oklahoma City University.

Matt Conner

Ensemble

SIGNATURE: The Fix (Frankie/Ensemble), Elmer Gantry (Art Nichols), The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (Rufus/Senator Wingwoah), Hairspray (Male Authority Figure), Sunset Boulevard (Manfred), Sweeney Todd (Bird Seller/Jonas Fogg), Show Boat (Windy), Les Miserables (Thenardier, Pimp), Kiss of the Spider Woman (Aurelio), Merrily We Roll Along (Scottie), The Witches of Eastwick (Toby), Into the Woods (Steward), My Fair Lady (Cockney), Assassins (Hinckley), Pacific Overtures (Tamate, Lion Dancer), A Funny Thing…Forum (Protean). DC AREA: Olney Theatre Center: West Side Story (Riff); Synetic Theatre: Oscar Wilde’s Salome (Page of Herodias); ATW: Naked Boys Singing; Open Circle Theatre: Jesus Christ Superstar (Judas). COMPOSITIONS: Signature: Silver Belles, Crossing, The Hollow, Nevermore, Partial Eclipse; Regional: Night of the Living Dead, Turn of the Screw, Monsters of the Villa Diodati.
Erin Driscoll

Erin Driscoll

Johanna

she/her SIGNATURE: Titanic, Road Show, Sunday in the Park with George, The Threepenny Opera, Miss Saigon, Spin, Company, The Best Little Whorehouse…, Brother Russia, Hairspray (Helen Hayes Award, Outstanding Ensemble), [title of show], Sweeney Todd, Kiss of the Spider Woman, The Witches of Eastwick, Into the Woods, Assassins (Helen Hayes Award, Outstanding Resident Musical), Urinetown (2006 Helen Hayes Award, Outstanding Actress). DC AREA: Arena Stage: My Fair Lady; Ford’s Theatre: Into the Woods, Violet, Our Town, Parade, A Christmas Carol; Olney Theatre: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Cinderella, Anything Goes; Round House Theatre: A Year with Frog and Toad; Kennedy Center: Regina (w/ Patti LuPone). REGIONAL: Arden Theatre: A Year with Frog and Toad, Candide. EDUCATION: James Madison University, BM. AWARDS: 2006 Roger Sturtevant Award.
Sherri L. Edelen

Sherri L. Edelen

Mrs. Lovett

SIGNATURE: Into the Woods, Jesus Christ Superstar, Midwestern Gothic, Gypsy, Cake Off, Sweeney Todd, Les Misérables.  NATIONAL TOURS: Me and My Girl, Nunsense, Big. NEW YORK: Disney Theatricals: Freaky Friday; Fringe Festival: Citizen Ruth. DC AREA: Kennedy Center: Sunday in the Park with George, Merrily We Roll Along; Arena Stage: DAVE (pre-Broadway), Cabaret, My Fair Lady, Vanya...Spike; Shakespeare Theatre: Design for Living; Folger Theatre: Romeo and Juliet; Round House Theatre: The Diary of Anne Frank; Theatre J: Copenhagen. REGIONAL: Arden Theatre Company: Caroline, or Change; Philadelphia Theatre Company: The Light in the Piazza, Elegies; Fusion Theatre Company: Outside Mullingar; Stages St. Louis:  Annie Get Your Gun. DIRECTING: Riverside Center for the Performing Arts: Steel Magnolias, On Golden Pond (starring Joyce DeWitt). AWARDS: Helen Hayes, Barrymore.

Sam Ludwig

Tobias Ragg

Sam Ludwig SIGNATURE: A Little Night Music, Jesus Christ Superstar, Midwestern Gothic, Titanic (Helen Hayes nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Musical), The Hollow, [title of show], Sweeney Todd, Show Boat, Partial Eclipse, Les Misérables. DC AREA: Olney Theatre Center: How to Succeed... (Helen Hayes Award, Lead Actor in a Musical), Avenue Q, Big River, 1776; Theatre J: Sons of the Prophet; Ford’s Theatre: 1776; 1st Stage: The Farnsworth Invention (Helen Hayes nomination for the Robert Prosky Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Play), Proof; MetroStage: Jacques Brel is Alive...; Rep Stage: Speech and Debate; Theatre J: Sons of the Prophet; Creative Cauldron: Monsters of the Villa Diodati (Helen Hayes nomination for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Musical); 3D Theatricals: The Secret Garden.
Sean-Maurice Lynch

Sean-Maurice Lynch

Ensemble

SIGNATURE: Dreamgirls, Brother Russia, Hairspray, [title of show], Sweeney Todd, Show Boat. DC AREA: Arena Stage: Toni Stone, Jubliee; Ford’s Theatre: Twelve Angry Men, Ragtime, Parade; Washington National Opera: Lost in the Stars; Everyman Theater: Ruined; Studio Theatre: Pop!, Passing Strange; Adventure Theatre: A Year with Frog & Toad.

Gregory Maheu

Anthony

SIGNATURE: Passion, Sunday in the Park...; Hello, Dolly! (co-production with Ford’s Theatre); Chess; Sweeney Todd. NEW YORK: Lincoln Center: I Am Harvey Milk; Momentum Rep.: Assassins; NYMF: Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice; The Toymaker. DC AREA: Olney Theatre Center: Once; Ford's Theatre: Ragtime; 110 in the Shade; Freedom's Song; Violet; A Christmas Carol; 1776; Liberty Smith; Kennedy Center: Ragtime; Adventure Theatre: Big. REGIONAL: MGR Playhouse: Austen's Pride; Studio Tenn: West Side Story; The Wizard of Oz; Les Misérables; Hangar Theatre: Hair. EDUCATION: BFA, Elon University.
Kevin McAllister

Kevin McAllister

Ensemble

SIGNATURE: Blackbeard, Grand Hotel, Ain’t Misbehavin’ (Helen Hayes nomination), A Little Night Music, Titanic, SCKBSTRD, Brother Russia, The Break, Show Boat, Sweeney Todd. BROADWAY: Caroline, or Change; Come from Away. DC AREA: Round House Theatre: Next to Normal; Washington National Opera: Lost In The Stars; Ford’s Theatre: The Wiz, Ragtime (Helen Hayes winner, Best Actor in a Musical), 110 In The Shade, Freedom’s Song, …Spelling Bee, Violet (Helen Hayes nomination), Our Town, Parade (Helen Hayes nomination), The Civil War; Arena Stage: Five Guys Named Moe; Olney: The World Goes Round, Annie (Helen Hayes nomination), Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella; Kennedy Center: 2013 Gala, James and the Giant Peach, The Phantom Tollbooth; CenterStage: Expanding the Cycle Series; Toby’s: Rent, Dreamgirls, Ragtime (Helen Hayes winner, Best Actor in a Musical); Teatro 101: Brooklyn, Side Show, The Wild Party; Artistic Director, ArtsCentric, Inc. REGIONAL: Sacramento Music Circus: Ragtime. AWARDS: 2016 and 2018 Helen Hayes Award, Best Lead Actor in A Musical; Broadway World’s Performer of The Decade (2020).

Katie McManus

Ensemble

SIGNATURE: Chess, Sweeney Todd, The Happy Time, The Break. DC AREA: Creative Cauldron: Ruthless!, And the World Goes ‘Round, Jacques Brel is Alive and Well…; NextStop: City of Angels, Into the Woods, Seussical; Keegan: RENT, 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, A Man of No Importance, Man of La Mancha, National Pastime; Studio Theatre: Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson; Shakespeare Theatre: Two Gentlemen of Verona: a Rock Opera; Ford’s Theatre: Violet (swing). CABARET: The Divine Miss McM. OTHER: Kennedy Center: Songs of My Family (Guest Soloist, Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, DC).

Channez McQuay

Beggar Woman

SIGNATURE: See What I Wanna See (The Medium and Aunt Monica), Les Misérables (Helen Hayes Award, Outstanding Ensemble), Kiss of the Spider Woman (Molina’s Mother), Into the Woods (Stepmother), My Fair Lady (Mrs. Eynsford-Hill), Nevermore (Muddy), Pacific Overtures (Ensemble). DC AREA: Ford’s Theatre: Meet John Doe (Betty); Studio Theatre: The Adding Machine (Quartet), The Gifts of the Magi (City Her), Reefer Madness (Mae), Oil City Symphony (Ginger); Olney: Jacques Brel..., Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella (Joy), The Doll Makers Dilemma (Gertrude); Rep Stage: Falsettos (Charlotte); Toby’s: Ragtime (Emma, Helen Hayes nomination), Gypsy (Rose), Funny Girl (Fanny), Little Shop of Horrors (Audrey), Fiddler on the Roof (Golde), Pippin (Berthe), Beauty and the Beast (Mrs. Potts).
Christopher Mueller

Christopher Mueller

Ensemble

he/him SIGNATURE: Pacific Overtures, She Loves Me, Simply Sondheim, Assassins, Blackbeard, Passion, Titanic, The Fix, Crossing, Miss Saigon, Spin, Brother Russia, Chess, Sweeney Todd, The Hollow, The Boy Detective Fails, Giant, Kiss of the Spider Woman. NEW YORK: LaGuardia Arts: Chess in Concert. DC AREA: Ford’s Theatre: Little Shop of Horrors, Into the Woods, A Christmas Carol, Ragtime; The Kennedy Center: Camelot in Concert, My Fair Lady in Concert; Olney Theatre Center: My Fair Lady, Carousel, Godspell, Spring Awakening; Shakespeare Theatre Company: Two Gentlemen of Verona (a rock opera); Arena Stage: Redhand Guitar Workshop, Skindiver Reading; Imagination Stage: Dr. Doolittle, Disney's Mulan; Adventure Theatre: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer; Keegan Theatre: The 25th Annual Putnum County Spelling Bee, RENT. EDUCATION: The Catholic University of America; The London Dramatic Academy. IG: @christopher_mueller

Chris Sizemore

Beadle

SIGNATURE: Midwestern Gothic, Titanic, Crossing, Miss Saigon, Spin, Crossing in concert, Spin, Chess, Sweeney Todd, Show Boat (Helen Hayes nomination for Outstanding Ensemble), Les Misérables (Helen Hayes nomination for Supporting Actor, Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Ensemble). NATIONAL TOUR: Kennedy Center: Roald Dahl's Willy Wonka. DC AREA: Arena Stage: Fiddler; Ford's Theatre: Freedom’s Song, Violet, 1776, Parade, The Civil War (Helen Hayes nomination for Outstanding Ensemble); Shakespeare Theatre: Two Gents...Rock Opera, Candide (Helen Hayes nomination for Outstanding Ensemble); Olney Theatre Center: 1776, Fiddler, Cinderella; Toby's: Miss Saigon, Beauty & The Beast, Grease, Seussical. REGIONAL: Serenbe Playhouse: Miss Saigon.

Russell Sunday

Ensemble

SIGNATURE: Elmer Gantry, Brother Russia, The Boy Detective Fails, The Hollow, Chess, Sweeney Todd, Les Misérables (Helen Hayes Award, Outstanding Ensemble). DC AREA: Studio Theatre: Jerry Springer: The Opera (Helen Hayes nomination, Outstanding Ensemble); MetroStage: Closer than Ever, The Musical of Musicals (The Musical!); Theatre J: David in Shadow and Light; Toby’s Dinner Theatre: Jekyll and Hyde (2003 Helen Hayes nomination for Outstanding Male Lead), Sweeney Todd, Titanic, Aida, Miss Saigon, Kiss Me, Kate, Beauty and the Beast, Damn Yankees, Annie Get Your Gun, Carousel.

Chris Van Cleave

Judge Turpin

LONDON WEST END: Les Misérables, Chess, Bernadette. BRITISH NATIONAL TOUR: Jesus Christ Superstar. US NATIONAL TOURS: Hair, Jesus Christ Superstar. REGIONAL: Flat Rock Playhouse: Keep On The Sunny Side, The Rainmaker, Sanders Family Christmas; Mountain Playhouse: Smoke On The Mountain; Heritage Repertory: Return To The Forbidden Planet, How To Succeed In Business…; Yoder Barn: Children of Eden; Theater at Lime Kiln: Stonewall Country, Macbeth, Smoke on the Mountain. TELEVISION: A Haunting, Untold Stories of the Navy Seals, Secret Life of Charles Lindbergh. RECORDING: Paramount Records: The Friend Ship; six independent CDs. ORIGINAL SHOWS COMPOSED: The Davidson Affair performed in U.S., U.K., and Holland; Troubadour Knight at UVA; Presence TBA. EDUCATION: University of Virginia, MFA in Acting.

Hannah Willman

Ensemble

SIGNATURE: Show Boat, Les Misérables (Helen Hayes Award, Outstanding Ensemble ), Anyone Can Whistle in Concert, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas Reading, Open House. DC AREA: Shakespeare Theatre: Will Award gala performance; Imagination Stage: Heidi Workshop; Open Circle Theatre: Evita; Rockville Music Theatre: Into the Woods (WATCH Award), Broadway Treasures, Past and Present; Kensington Arts Theatre: Urinetown, A Funny Thing… Forum; Inaugural Capital Fringe Festival: When I Wake Up. REGIONAL: Astor’s Beechwood Mansion, Newport, RI. EDUCATION: Indiana University, Bloomington, 2004, Vocal Performance and Arts Administration.

Weslie Woodley

Ensemble

SIGNATURE: Revenge of the Understudies 2, Partial Eclipse Cabaret, See What I Wanna See (u/s), Les Misérables (Helen Hayes Award, Outstanding Ensemble), Anyone Can Whistle in Concert, Kander & Ebb Overtures Cabaret, Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (Staged Reading), Overtures 2007. DC AREA: Keegan Theatre: Rent (Maureen), Studio Theatre 2ndStage: Jerry Springer: The Opera; The Kennedy Center: The Phantom Tollbooth (u/s); American Music Stage: South Pacific. REGIONAL: Civic Light Opera of South Bay Cities: Into The Woods; Hollywood Playhouse: InConcert!. FILM: Meet the Fockers, Thank You For Smoking. 

Creative Team

Jon Kalbfleisch

Music Director

SIGNATURE (Resident Music Director) Ragtime, Sweeney Todd, Into the Woods, She Loves Me, Broadway in the Park (Wolf Trap), Simply Sondheim, A Chorus Line, Assassins, Passion, Crazy for You, A Little Night Music, West Side Story, Cabaret, Sunday in the Park, Gypsy, Company, Hairspray, Saturday Night, Side by Side, Sunset Boulevard, Show Boat, Anyone Can Whistle, Spider Woman, Merrily, Into the Woods, Pacific Overtures, Elegies, Allegro, Follies, 110 in the Shade, Putting It Together, Forum, Sweeney Todd, Wings. BROADWAY: Ambassador Theatre: The Visit (Actor's Fund Benefit), Marius Company: Les Misérables (Associate Conductor). DC AREA: Kennedy Center: First You Dream; National Theatre, Warner Theatre, Round House Theatre, Everyman Theatre. OTHER: Carnegie Hall, Lawton Philharmonic Orchestra, New Jersey Symphony. TV: Celebration of the Arts (Executive Producer), Good Morning America. AWARDS: Grammy nomination; Bernstein MASS, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, pianist; Anderson-Hopkins Award; ten Helen Hayes Awards and 30 nominations; Distinguished Alumni Award, Cameron University. EDUCATION: Master of Music, Southern Methodist University.

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