![]() ![]() Alex McMorran hurls himself into the title role with bone-chilling fury and pitch-black wit. It’s amazing that director Ryan Mooney has been able to cast this non-Equity production so successfully. The characters who deliver this material positively glisten with eccentricity. In “A Little Priest”, Todd and Lovett get giddy imagining the contents of their pies: “Here’s the politician, so oily/It’s served with a doily.” Musically, these numbers are devilishly difficult to perform full of tricky intervals and demanding rhythms, some require an almost operatic range. Stephen Sondheim’s songs are darkly savoury. But Turpin has creepy sexual designs of his own. As the conventions of musical theatre would have it, Todd’s young sailor friend, Anthony, falls in love with Johanna. Lovett tells Todd that, after his wife killed herself, Turpin raised Todd’s daughter Johanna as his ward. Lovett hit upon an ingenious method of disposal: they’ll bake them into meat pies and sell them. As the bodies start to pile up, Todd and his cohort Mrs. Fifteen years later, Barker returns to London, changes his name to Sweeney Todd, and aims his glistening razor at Turpin and other hypocrites. Benjamin Barker was a naive barber when the corrupt Judge Turpin sent him off to Australia on trumped-up charges so that Turpin could seduce-some might say rape-Barker’s wife. Sweeney Todd is the big musical you’ll want to see this season. At the Jericho Arts Centre on Thursday, October 14. Presented by Fighting Chance Productions. ![]()
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