Sweeney Todd October 16, 2009

The rare instance of a musical thriller, Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's chilling, suspenseful, heart-pounding masterpiece of murderous barber-ism and culinary crime tells the infamous tale 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!

Sophisticated, macabre, visceral and uncompromising, "Sweeney Todd" nevertheless has a great sense of fun, mixing intense drama with howlingly funny moments of dark humor: audiences find themselves laughing hysterically one moment and gasping in surprise the next.

"A staggering theater spectacle and more fun than a graveyard on the night of the annual skeleton's ball... So joy to the world, dear children! Sweeney Todd is here to enrich your nightmares." - Daily News

"There is more of artistic energy, creative personality and plain excitement than in a dozen average musicals." - New York Times"

At each performance, Metro Stage Company will be selling pies as an official pie seller for the annual Pie In The Sky fundraiser to help support Community Servings, a local non-profit which provides free home-delivered meals throughout Eastern Massachusetts to people homebound with HIV/AIDS and other acute life-threatening illnesses.

Oct 16, 17, 23, 24 at 8pm; Oct 18 at 2pm; Oct 22 at 7:30pm

$24 Adults; $20 Students and Senior Citizens.

Official Website: http://www.metrostagecompany.com