New Year's Day - Attend The Tale Of 'Sweeney Todd'

(Photos By Joan Marcus) 

SWEENEY TODD, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

SLICES ITS WAY INTO MIAMI AT

CARNIVAL CENTER'S ZIFF BALLET OPERA HOUSE

JANUARY 1 – 6, 2008

Hailed as "One Helluva show! Thrilling and FEROCIOUSLY INVENTIVE"

                                          --The New York Times

SWEENEY TODD, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Stephen Sondheim's Broadway musical masterpiece, slices its way into Miami at Carnival Center's Sanford and Dolores Ziff Ballet Opera House for a limited 1-week engagement, January 1 – 6, a co-presentation of Florida Theatrical Association and Stanford Broadway Across America – Miami presented by Moët & Chandon, and Carnival Center for the Performing Arts.

This innovative new production features a multi-talented ensemble of ten talented actor/musicians, five from the 2006 Broadway company. The Wall Street Journal says, "The greatest musical of the past half-century has returned in a staging of the utmost force and originality!," and Time Out New York calls Doyle's revival "the most addictively delicious dish on Broadway in years!"

Judy Kaye (Mrs. Lovett) and David Hess (Sweeney Todd) will be joined by John Arbo (Jonas Fogg), Diana DiMarzio (Beggar Woman), Benjamin Eakeley (The Beadle), Benjamin Magnuson (Anthony), Lauren Molina (Johanna), Elisa Winter (Standby for Johanna and Pirelli) and Jessica Wright (Standby for Mrs. Lovett and Beggar Woman), who all appeared in the Broadway production of SWEENEY TODD. Also joining the touring cast are Edmund Bagnell (Tobias), Keith Buterbaugh (Judge Turpin), Katrina Yaukey (Pirelli), Edwin Cahill (Standby for Anthony, Tobias, The Beadle and Jonas Fogg), and David Garry (Standby for Sweeney Todd, Judge Turpin and The Beadle).

Performances run Tuesday, January 1 through Sunday, January 6 with show times Tuesday through Saturday evenings at 8pm, Sunday at 6:30pm with matinees Saturday at 2pm and Sunday at 1pm. Tickets range from $20.00 - $68.00 not including applicable service and handling charges. Purchase tickets only from the following authorized ticket sellers at Broadway Across America, Carnival Center and Ticketmaster. Tickets are available in person through Carnival Center Box Office or by phone at 305.949.6722 or online at www.carnivalcenter.org.  Tickets are also available through Ticketmaster phones at 954.523.3309 in Broward, 305.358.5885 in Dade, and 561.966.3309 in Palm Beach or at www.ticketmaster.com and at Ticketmaster outlets. Orders for groups of 20 or more may be placed by calling Broadway Across America at 1.800.6.GROUPS (647.6877) or Carnival Center at 786.468.2326. 

SWEENEY TODD is based on the 19^th-century legend of a London barber driven to a life of crime after a malevolent judge takes his wife and child from him. Sweeney's plan for revenge includes a cutthroat partnership with Mrs. Lovett—an enterprising businesswoman—who is soon producing the tastiest meat pies in London.

Directed and designed by John Doyle, who won the 2006 Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards for this production, SWEENEY TODD features music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by Hugh Wheeler from an adaptation by Christopher Bond and music supervision and orchestrations by Sarah Travis who won a 2006 Tony Award for SWEENEY TODD. The creative team also includes lighting designer Richard Jones, and sound designer Dan Moses Schreier.

Doyle's production of SWEENEY TODD opened on Broadway in 2005 to universal critical acclaim where it won the Drama League, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards for Best Revival of a Musical, and was awarded a Special Citation by the New York Drama Critics Circle. It arrived on Broadway from a highly successful London engagement originally staged by the Watermill Theatre, which transferred first to the Trafalgar Studios in London's West End in July 2004 to wide critical acclaim, then to the New Ambassador Theatre where it ran for a limited engagement that closed on February 5, 2005.

The original production of SWEENEY TODD opened on Broadway at the Uris Theatre (now the Gershwin) on March 1, 1979 in a production directed by Harold Prince. The musical won eight 1979 Tony Awards including Best Musical of the Year and ran for 557 performances.

Judy Kaye appeared in SWEENEY TODD on Broadway last summer as Mrs. Lovett. Her other Broadway credits include Phantom of the Opera (Tony Award, Drama Desk nomination); Mamma Mia! (Tony and Drama Desk nominations); On the Twentieth Century (Theatre World Award, Drama Desk nomination); Ragtime (Theatre LA Ovation Award); and Souvenir, A Fantasia on the Life of Florence Foster Jenkins (Tony nomination.) She recently finished an acclaimed performance in ZORBA for the Reprise Series in Los Angeles. Ms. Kaye has appeared with symphony orchestras around the world, and has sung at the White House twice.

David Hess's Broadway credits include SWEENEY TODD and Annie Get Your Gun. He has appeared Off-Broadway in Lincoln Center's Dessa Rose, Prodigal, and Love in a Thirsty Land, and has been seen around the country in the first national tour of Ragtime. His regional theater credits include Jane Eyre (San Francisco Bay Area Critics Award, Goodman Choice Award,) Grand Hotel (Barrymore nominee,) Sweet Charity (Ben Payne nominee,) and Shenandoah. Mr. Hess has been seen on TV on "Dynasty," "Dallas," "One Life to Live," "General Hospital," "Young and the Restless," and "The Guiding Light."

For more information on SWEENEY TODD, please visit the tour website, www.sweeneytoddtour.com.

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