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LYRIC STAGE PRESENTS
SWEENEY TODD
in concert at the
Meyerson Symphony Center
Tuesday September 12, 2006
one performance only

SWEENEY TODD will play one performance only at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center, 2301 Flora Street in the Arts District on Tuesday September 12 @ 8:00 PM. Tickets are priced from $20-$45. For tickets call 972-252-2787 or CLICK HERE TO ORDER ONLINE. Order your tickets now!

Since 1994, New Yorkers have been serenaded by New York City Center's Encores!® Great American Musicals in Concert, a celebration of the rarely-heard works of America's most important composers and lyricists. Until now, Dallas audiences have not had that opportunity. That changes on Tuesday, September 12, 2006, when Lyric Stage presents Stephen Sondheim’s SWEENEY TODD in the glorious Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center.

SWEENEY TODD is the rare instance of a musical thriller, and north Texas audiences will get to experience it the way it was meant to be performed. The 35-member cast and 35-piece orchestra, which will soar in the acoustically spectacular hall, are sure to present the concert event of the season. Although sophisticated and macabre, SWEENEY TODD nevertheless has a great sense of fun, mixing intense drama with howling funny moments of dark humor. Audiences will find themselves laughing hysterically one moment and gasping in surprise the next.

Composer/lyricist Stephen Sondheim and book writer Hugh Wheeler’s chilling, suspenseful, heart-pounding SWEENEY TODD recounts the murderous barber-ism and culinary crime of the unjustly exiled barber who returns to 19th century London seeking revenge against the lecherous judge who framed him and ravaged his young wife. His thirst for blood soon expands to include his unfortunate customers, and the resourceful proprietress of the pie shop downstairs soon has the people of London lining up in droves with her mysterious new meat pie recipe!

The original production of SWEENEY TODD opened March 1, 1979, at Broadway’s Uris Theatre (now the Gershwin) and ran for 557 performances, winning 9 Tony Awards, including Best Musical. The current Broadway revival, starring Patti LuPone and Michael Cerveris, opened November 3, 2005, and is still running at Broadway’s Eugene O’Neill Theatre.

Julie Johnson and Greg Dulice will star as Mrs. Lovett and Sweeney Todd in Lyric Stage’s production. The cast includes Dara Whitehead Allen as Johanna, Shane Peterman as Anthony, Michael J. Ross as Tobias, Jeffrey Snider as Judge Turpin, Jackson Ross Best, Jr. as Pirelli Stephen Austin as the Beadle and Miranda Lind as the Beggar Woman. The principals will be joined by a 27-member chorus and 35-piece Lyric Stage orchestra under the baton of conductor Jay Dias. Cheryl Denson will stage this special concert event.