Attend the Tale! Theater UnCorked Launches With SWEENEY TODD

Theater UnCorked - Boston's newest small theater company - will present its debut production of Sweeney Todd in Concert - A Pop-Up Musical on Saturday, June 2nd, 2018 at First Church in Cambridge (11 Garden St, Cambridge, MA) at 7:30 pm. Attend the dark tale of love, murder and revenge for one performance only! Tickets for Sweeney Todd in Concert - A Pop-Up Musical are $30 and $40 per person. Tickets can be purchased online at http://www.ticketstage.com/THEATERUNCORKED.

Sweeney Todd in Concert will star IRNE Award winner and Theater UnCorked's Producing Artistc Director Shana Dirik* as Mrs. Lovett - reprising the role that launched her career - opposite Ben DiScipio reprising his role as Sweeney Todd. The combination of Dirik and DiScipio in the 2009 Metro Stage Company production was proclaimed as "electrifying" by The Hub Review, and Beverly Creasey of Theater Mirror raved "Shana Dirik is a Mrs. Lovett to die for. She makes every rhyme pop and every intention read across her wonderfully expressive face ... Dirik and DiScipio's duet "Little Priest" is a thing of beauty." Dirik and DiScipio both earned top IRNE honors for their portrayals of the scheming meat-pie shop owner and the wrongly accused barber bent on vengeance, and the production earned IRNE nominations for Best Director (Paul Farwell), Best Musical and Best Ensemble. *Denotes member of Actors Equity Association

Additional featured performers in Sweeney Todd in Concert include Paul Farwell as the lecherous Judge Turpin; Jordan Reynolds as the love-sick Anthony; Audrey Clark as Johanna, the young ward under the ever-watchful eye of Judge Turpin; Jason Hersom as the con-man Pirelli; Alex Boyle as Toby, Mrs. Lovett's unwitting assistant; Catherine Lee Christie as the Beggar Woman and Christopher Porth as the unsavory Beadle.
Rounding out the cast are Steven Littlehale, Michael Saenz - Quintet, Benjmin Simon, Devon Stone*, James Woodsum, Matthew Zahnzinger - Quintet (male ensemble); Rachel Belleman, Stephanie Charlton, Joan Covino, Meghan Edge, Margaret Felice - Quintet, Marie Gertje, Tylor Hilliard, Sarah Jones, Lenni Alexandra Kmiec*, Joelle Kross - Quintet, Delaney Payne, Meghan Ryan, Stefani Wood, Lydian Devere Yard (female ensemble); and Mina Belir, Erin Cesmeli, Melis Demirtas, Gbrielle Grau, Ekin Guvenc, Carla Loutfi, Lily Ramras (children's ensemble). *Denotes member of Actors Equity Association.

The company's debut is also headed by IRNE nominated Director Allison Olivia Choat, Music Director Gina Naggar, Stage Manager James Tallach and Producing Artistic Director Shana Dirik. Presented in collaboration with IDP.

Sweeney Todd has become a bloody, worldwide success since being awarded eight Tony's, (including Best Musical), for its Broadway premiere. Stephen Sondheim's and Hugh Wheeler's (A Little Night Music, Pacific Overtures) tasty, thrilling, theatrical treat has simultaneously shocked, awed and delighted audiences across the world.

Sweeney Todd is the infamous tale of an unjustly exiled barber who returns to nineteenth century London seeking vengeance against the lecherous judge who framed him. After opening a new barber practice above a failing meat pie shop owned by the resourceful Mrs. Lovett, Todd and Lovett's paths merge and their fortunes begin to change. One un-savory ingredient added into the meat pies has the people of London lining up ... and the carnage has only just begun! Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by Hugh Wheeler.

Sweeney Todd is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. 421 West 54th Street, New York, NY 10019 Phone: 212-541-4684; Fax: 212-397-4684. www.MTIShows.com

Tickets for Sweeney Todd in Concert - A Pop-Up Musical are $30 and $40 per person. Tickets can be purchased online at http://www.ticketstage.com/THEATERUNCORKED.