Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street at Actors Guild of Parkersburg

Sweeney Todd has become a bloody, worldwide success since being awarded eight Tony Awards (including Best Musical), for its Broadway premiere and has now been adapted for high school performers in Sweeney Todd School Edition. 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.An infamous tale, Sweeney Todd, an unjustly exiled barber, returns to nineteenth-century London, seeking vengeance against the lecherous judge who framed him and ravaged his young wife. The road to revenge leads Todd to Mrs. Lovett, a resourceful proprietress of a failing pie shop, above which he opens a new barber practice. Mrs. Lovett's luck sharply shifts when Todd's thirst for blood inspires the integration of an ingredient into her meat pies that has the people of London lining up... and the carnage has only just begun!This production is being performed by the Guild Builders Teen Program and is being produced in collaboration with WVU-P.Performances will be held in the Little Theatre at WVU-P Thursday, Oct. 31st, Friday, Nov. 1st, and Saturday, Nov. 2nd at 7:30pm; Saturday, Nov. 2nd and Sunday, Nov. 3rd at 2:30pm. Tickets are $12.00 for Adults and $6.00 for Students.