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Sweeney Todd @ Deb Hall

27th Nov 2009

The cast of Sweeney Todd (Photo: Rory Dickerson)

The cast of Sweeney Todd (Photo: Rory Dickerson)

Despite being an avid fan of musi­cals, I had failed to watch the recent film adap­ta­tion of Sweeney Todd prior to attend­ing GMTG’s take on it. How­ever this was prob­a­bly to my advan­tage as I wasn’t expect­ing a Johnny Depp looka­like to appear on stage and was held in sus­pense as the plot unrav­eled. Sweeney Todd tells the story of a Bar­ber sent away by a cruel judge many years ago, return­ing to Lon­don a some­what darker and more som­bre being. He teams up with Mrs Lovett to make pies of a less than usual nature!

All mem­bers of the cast deliv­ered to a very high stan­dard vocally, the actor’s actors who took the prin­ci­pal roles all shone, how­ever Alex Purvis stood out sig­nif­i­cantly in her com­i­cal por­trayal of Mrs Lovett.

The most strik­ing aspect of the show had to be the fan­tas­tic set, the trap­door under the Barber’s chair being the high­light, despite look­ing very painful for the actors who fell through!

Over­all, the per­for­mance was well chore­o­graphed, designed, directed and per­formed, a must see for every­one, so do your best to get a ticket for one of the final per­for­mances and ‘Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd!’