Some of the transitions are accompanied by music from the live band ... movements elevate the eerie atmosphere of the various reprises of “The Ballad of Sweeney Todd.” Darkly comedic and strangely ...

Tech’s production of Sweeney Todd is under the direction of Nich Radcliffe, assistant teaching professor of visual performing arts. Musical director is Joel Neves, professor of visual and performing ...

Edelman said he was impressed by not only the direction of the production, but also the ideally bleak music accompaniment ... Musical numbers like "The Ballad of Sweeney Todd," "The Worst Pies ...

Songs in the show include the touching ballad “Not While I’m Around.” Ruggiero has directed “Sweeney Todd” once before ... of letting the story and music live.” ...

“The Ballad of Wallis Island” resembles a band ... is desperately setting out to be a crowd-pleaser, but much like the music within, it can’t stop itself from repeatedly getting in its ...

The snap, crackle and pop of vinyl marks the start of The Ballad of Wallis Island, a music-themed rom-com that’s half-whimsical com and half-unrequited rom. In the absence of a new film by John ...

particularly because it highlighted the extreme dissonance in which Sondheim’s music thrives. In some ways, the opening and ending songs of the show, each entitled “The Ballad of Sweeney Todd ...

Pankow directs and Patrick Kasper choreographs the cast to focus on the audience during the iconic “Ballad of Sweeney Todd” numbers ... the corners of the stage peering at the audience. The music ...

they catch us up to speed with a sorry tale of wicked ways and now-broken strays in opening number ‘The Ballad of Sweeney Todd’. We’re told that the marriage of barber Benjamin Barker and ...

High among Stephen Sondheim’s achievements in writing music and lyrics are the diabolical ... In the first sung stanza of “The Ballad of Sweeney Todd” we encounter the line “he trod ...

take their places behind a line of music stands. The applause dies and Bryn Terfel turns to the conductor, clears his throat and nods. The whirring ostinato introducing ‘The Ballad of Sweeney Todd’ ...

The School of Music in The College of Liberal Arts, in collaboration with the University of Nevada, Reno Symphony Orchestra, and Nevada Opera Theatre, will present the musical "Sweeney Todd, the Demon ...