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Sweeney Todd the Victorian Melodrama at Wiltons Music Hall

Sweeney Todd the Victorian Melodrama at Wiltons Music Hall

Sweeney Todd – the Victorian Melodrama to Open at Wilton’s Music Hall

by Staff Writer
March 24, 2023
Reading Time: 2 mins read

Sweeney Todd – the Victorian Melodrama is to open at Wilton’s Music Hall.

The story of Sweeney Todd first appeared on the stage in London in 1847 at Britannia Theatre, Hoxton, in a melodrama, ‘The String of Pearls’, based on a popular “penny dreadful” serialised story.

Now it returns to London’s East End in a new production at historic Wilton’s Music Hall – the only surviving Grand Music Hall in the world.

       

Theatres like the Britannia at that time had large permanently employed orchestras, and the first ‘Sweeney Todd’ would have been performed with a score of orchestral music. Opera della Luna restores the musical element of story-telling with an orchestra of 10 musicians, and music penned by British opera composers of the Victorian age.

Come and be shocked, terrified, and amazed; and most important of all: hiss the villain, – the notorious Fiend of Fleet Street!

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The cast is,  Nick Dwyer (Sweeney Todd), Caroline Kennedy (Tobias Ragg), Lynsey Docherty (Mrs. Lovett/Cecily Maybush), Madeline Robinson (Johanna Oakley), Matthew Siveter (Jarvis Williams/Ben the Beefeater), Paul Featherstone (Rev. Lupin/Jonas Fogg), Matt Kellet (Mark Ingestrie/Jean Parmine)

The Creative team is: Director Jeff Clarke and  Conductor Toby Purser

Please note this is not a production of the musical by Stephen Sondheim

Sweeney Todd – the Victorian Melodrama is at Wilton’s Music Hall, London Tuesday 25 – Saturday 29 April, 2023

       
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