Sweeney Todd

Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Book by Hugh Wheeler
Directed by A. Scott Parry
Accompanied by the Ohio State Symphony Orchestra conducted by Marshall Haddock

Winner of eight Tony Awards and now an opera house standard, this American masterpiece has been compared with Alban Berg's Wozzeck and Britten's Peter Grimes as it follows the eponymous character's deadly descent into vengeful obsession. This darkly comic and electrifying musical thriller, called a "black operetta" by the composer himself, is Sondheim's most complex and challenging score.

Jim Lovensheimer, associate professor of music at Vanderbilt University, will present pre-show lectures 45 minutes prior to each performance.

Rated PG-13 for violence.