'Sweeney Todd' is Sharpening His Knives This Weekend
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McQuaid Jesuit High School's performance of "Sweeney Todd: the Demon Barber of Fleet Street" is getting a big boost, thanks to Geva Theatre.
Geva is donating the set it used for its own performance last spring. The McQuaid students challenged themselves with the show's difficult music and the large production. Because of its size, the orchestra actually plays in a separate room during the show, using TV monitors for its director cues.
"It's basically a barber who has been sent to Australia for prison and in his absence his wife has been raped by the judge. And one of the themes of the play is the upper class taking advantage of the lower class. So most of the people in the play are drawn from the lower class," said the show's director, Pamela Stoffel.
The show runs Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. at McQuaid.
For more information, call (585) 473-1130, ext. 100.
McQuaid Jesuit High School