COSTUME DESIGN for an MFA DIRECTING THESIS at the LENFEST CENTER FOR THE ARTS at COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY in NYC
MUSIC BY STEPHEN SONDHEIM / BOOK BY HUGH WHEEL
MUSIC DIRECTION BY LENA GABRIELLE
SCENIC DESIGN BY BRENDAN GONZALEZ-BOSTON
COSTUME DESIGN BY JOSH OBERLANDER
LIGHTING DESIGN BY SHANE HENNESSY
PROJECTION DESIGN BY ETZU SHAW
PROPS DEIGN BY TREY BLEVINS
SFX BY STEVEN TOLIN
HAIR/MAKEUP DESIGN BY CONOR DONNELLY
PRODUCED BY TATUM LUDLAM
Sweeney Todd depicts a revenge plot by an ex-convict who returns to him barber shop to exact revenge on everyone that has done him wrong, teaming up with pie shop owner Mrs. Lovett, before enacting a larger campaign of mass murder and cannibalism.
In our production, we chose to set the action in the context of the so-called “golden age” of American serial killers in order to examine a particularly American fetish for violence that animates the larger discussions of murder, sensationalism, and violence in the text. Furthermore, what is the relationship between blue collar American life and the consumption of people? Our production was set in a fictional Midwestern city sometime in the 80’s, drawing on the imagery of true crime of the era and of films depicting it like Mindhunter, Zodiac, and Se7en.
SWEENEY TODD
MUSIC BY STEPHEN SONDHEIM / BOOK BY HUGH WHEEL
MUSIC DIRECTION BY LENA GABRIELLE
SCENIC DESIGN BY BRENDAN GONZALEZ-BOSTON
COSTUME DESIGN BY JOSH OBERLANDER
LIGHTING DESIGN BY SHANE HENNESSY
PROJECTION DESIGN BY ETZU SHAW
PROPS DEIGN BY TREY BLEVINS
SFX BY STEVEN TOLIN
HAIR/MAKEUP DESIGN BY CONOR DONNELLY
PRODUCED BY TATUM LUDLAM
Sweeney Todd depicts a revenge plot by an ex-convict who returns to him barber shop to exact revenge on everyone that has done him wrong, teaming up with pie shop owner Mrs. Lovett, before enacting a larger campaign of mass murder and cannibalism.
In our production, we chose to set the action in the context of the so-called “golden age” of American serial killers in order to examine a particularly American fetish for violence that animates the larger discussions of murder, sensationalism, and violence in the text. Furthermore, what is the relationship between blue collar American life and the consumption of people? Our production was set in a fictional Midwestern city sometime in the 80’s, drawing on the imagery of true crime of the era and of films depicting it like Mindhunter, Zodiac, and Se7en.
