Sweeney Todd
Harrington's Pie and Mash Shop |
Booking until 16th May 2015
About The Show
By special arrangement with Cameron Mackintosh
Tooting Arts Club presents Sweeney Todd - The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Tooting Arts Club's acclaimed production of Sweeney Todd is to move to a new home on Shaftesbury Avenue this spring whilst Harrington's Pie and Mash Shop undergoes refurbishment.
Whilst the Lovetts' Victorian home is out of action Tooting Arts will recreate the interior of the beloved Harrington's, meticulously building an exact replica on Shaftesbury Avenue to house the show, the first pop-up musical to come to Theatreland.
This evocative and atmospheric production which will once again be delivered to intimate audiences by candlelight, across the tables. Tooting Arts will continue to partner with the Harrington's for the project, with meat pie, mash and liquor served up on site for audiences to buy before the show.
Based on a Victorian horror story, Sweeney Todd is often considered Sondheim's masterpiece. The original 1979 production won a host of awards including both the Tony and Drama Desk Awards for music, book and the two lead actors.
Sweeney Todd is directed by Bill Buckhurst and the cast includes: Siobhan McCarthy; Jeremy Secomb; Ian Mowat; Nadim Naaman; Duncan Smith; Joseph Taylor; and Kiara Jay; who all reprise their original roles, with Zoe Doano joining them for the first time.
The pop-up pie shop success story started last October when Tooting Arts offered up lovelorn Mrs Lovett's infamous pies in a grisly, site-specific production of Stephen Sondheim's most famous musical in SW17. Audiences met in the local barbers before being led into London's oldest, functioning pie-shop, established in 1908 and complete with original Victorian décor.
Tooting Arts Club was established in 2011 with the aim to stage high quality professional productions in an area that lacks a permanent home for theatre. The company takes inspiration from the area, using local buildings to stage performances that draw audiences from across London, including critically acclaimed productions of Invasion! by Jonas Hassen Khemiri, Lucy Kirkwood's Tinderbox, Barrie Keefe's Barbarians (which was staged in a former Youth Enterprise Centre) and an outdoor A Midsummer Night's Dream. This second encounter of Sweeney Todd will be Tooting Arts Club's sixth production - and their first outside their familiar Tooting home.
Now, the evening would not be complete without pre-show pie and mash. You will have to be there an hour before curtain-up at 6.30pm to enjoy a little bit of priest... er, sorry, lamb pie, and mash with optional liquor! In keeping with the pie and mash tradition Harrington's pies are lamb mince only, regrettably there is no vegetarian option.
If you would like to add pie and mash to a standard table seating ticket ( view ticket prices here ) for an extra £6.50 please use the button below:
Unfortunately pie and mash has to be pre-ordered - Dave the pie-maker needs to know his numbers!
It is not possible to add pie and mash to a bench seat booking.
Tooting Arts Club presents Sweeney Todd - The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Tooting Arts Club's acclaimed production of Sweeney Todd is to move to a new home on Shaftesbury Avenue this spring whilst Harrington's Pie and Mash Shop undergoes refurbishment.
Whilst the Lovetts' Victorian home is out of action Tooting Arts will recreate the interior of the beloved Harrington's, meticulously building an exact replica on Shaftesbury Avenue to house the show, the first pop-up musical to come to Theatreland.
This evocative and atmospheric production which will once again be delivered to intimate audiences by candlelight, across the tables. Tooting Arts will continue to partner with the Harrington's for the project, with meat pie, mash and liquor served up on site for audiences to buy before the show.
Based on a Victorian horror story, Sweeney Todd is often considered Sondheim's masterpiece. The original 1979 production won a host of awards including both the Tony and Drama Desk Awards for music, book and the two lead actors.
Sweeney Todd is directed by Bill Buckhurst and the cast includes: Siobhan McCarthy; Jeremy Secomb; Ian Mowat; Nadim Naaman; Duncan Smith; Joseph Taylor; and Kiara Jay; who all reprise their original roles, with Zoe Doano joining them for the first time.
The pop-up pie shop success story started last October when Tooting Arts offered up lovelorn Mrs Lovett's infamous pies in a grisly, site-specific production of Stephen Sondheim's most famous musical in SW17. Audiences met in the local barbers before being led into London's oldest, functioning pie-shop, established in 1908 and complete with original Victorian décor.
Tooting Arts Club was established in 2011 with the aim to stage high quality professional productions in an area that lacks a permanent home for theatre. The company takes inspiration from the area, using local buildings to stage performances that draw audiences from across London, including critically acclaimed productions of Invasion! by Jonas Hassen Khemiri, Lucy Kirkwood's Tinderbox, Barrie Keefe's Barbarians (which was staged in a former Youth Enterprise Centre) and an outdoor A Midsummer Night's Dream. This second encounter of Sweeney Todd will be Tooting Arts Club's sixth production - and their first outside their familiar Tooting home.
Add Pie and Mash to a Standard Table Seating Ticket
Now, the evening would not be complete without pre-show pie and mash. You will have to be there an hour before curtain-up at 6.30pm to enjoy a little bit of priest... er, sorry, lamb pie, and mash with optional liquor! In keeping with the pie and mash tradition Harrington's pies are lamb mince only, regrettably there is no vegetarian option.
If you would like to add pie and mash to a standard table seating ticket ( view ticket prices here ) for an extra £6.50 please use the button below:
Unfortunately pie and mash has to be pre-ordered - Dave the pie-maker needs to know his numbers!
It is not possible to add pie and mash to a bench seat booking.