Sweeney Todd | Music & Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim

“Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd / He served a dark and a vengeful god . . .”

In the nearly half-century since Stephen Sondheim’s adaptation of a delectably lurid nineteenth-century melodrama premiered on Broadway, it has become a modern classic. The title character is perhaps the most frightening and complex anti-hero in musical theatre, a barber whose fury and despair over the loss of his innocent wife to a pitiless predator turns him into a serial killer with a witty and imaginative partner in crime, his landlady, Mrs. Lovett. Containing his most ambitious and challenging music, Sweeney Todd is a fitting tribute to the great composer-lyricist who died in 2021.

Directed by Meaghan Deiter, who staged Sondheim’s Company at Holy Cross two years ago.

Evening Presentations

THU FEB 6 @ 7:30 PM
FRI FEB 7 @ 7:30 PM
SAT FEB 8 @ 7:30 PM
THU FEB 13 @ 7:30 PM
FRI FEB 14 @ 7:30 PM
SAT FEB 15 @ 7:30 PM

Matinee Presentations

SUN FEB 9 @ 2:00 PM
SUN FEB 16 @ 2:00 PM