FROM THE TEAM BEHIND LAST YEAR’S SMASH HIT RENT
ON TOUR ACROSS VANCOUVER ISLAND THIS SUMMER!
COURTENAY, BC – 6 performances – July 20-25, 7:30pm SID WILLIAMS THEATRE
DUNCAN, BC- 1 performance only- July 27, 7:30pm COWICHAN THEATRE
VICTORIA, BC- 2 performances- July 28 and July 29, 8pm, LANGHAM COURT THEATRE
Directed by ROGER CARR | Musical direction by KRISTOPHER EPPS | Vocal director and Producer ASHLEY DANIEL FOOT
A HILARIOUSLY FUNNY MUSICAL FILLED WITH PIES, RAZORS, HAIRCUTS, AND VICTORIAN COSTUMES
“One of the wittiest, wickedest musicals ever penned” – The Washington Post
“The greatest musical of the past half-century…” ~ The Wall Street Journal
Adam Kozlick as Sweeney Todd
Alison Roberts as Mrs Lovett
Jordan Heath and Lucy Schofield as Sweeney Todd and Mrs Lovett
Date
City
Theatre
Tickets
Tuesday, July 20, 7:30pm
Wed, July 21, 7:30pm
Thurs. July 22, 7:30pm
Fri. July 23, 7:30pm
Saturday July 24, 7:30pm
Sunday July 25, 7:30pm
Courtenay BC Sid Williams Theatre 1-866-898-TIXX (8499)
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Tuesday, July 27, 7:30pm
Cowichan Theatre (Island Savings Centre)
250. 748.7529 or at the Cowichan Ticket Centre (Island Savings Centre)
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Wednesday, July 28, 8pm
Thursday, July 29, 8pm
250) 384-2142
Website Tickets on sale July 19, 2010
Click here to go to YOUTUBE and see videos and hear music from the show
Revenge was never so delicious.
The cast includes
Alison Roberts (VOS’ Grease)
Adam Kozlick (Vanier’s Seussical)
Jordan Heath (CYMC’s RENT)
Josiah George (CCPA student and CYMC’s RENT)
* for details on who play whom on which nights, go here
The renowned Comox Valley Youth Music Centre’s Musical Theatre program undertakes its most ambitious production yet with a retelling of Stephen Sondheim’s macabre, Tony Award-winning musical thriller, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. In this one of a kind summer training program, talented young actors and musicians from across North America learn what it takes to mount a Broadway-level production, from acting, singing and dancing to painting scenery and working with sound and lights. Alumni of the program include Leah Gibson, whose film credits include Watchmen and Twilight: Eclipse.
More humorous than the film version starring Johnny Depp, Sweeney Todd tells the suspenseful, razor-sharp story of barber Benjamin Barker (aka Sweeney Todd), who returns to grimy 19th-century London vowing to extract revenge for his false imprisonment with the help of immoral baker Mrs. Lovett. Their twisted strategy: Sweeney will murder his victims in his barber chair and Mrs. Lovett will turn them into the tastiest meat pies in London. Passion, obsession and spine-tingling mayhem follow in this Tony Award-winning musical thriller.
One of the most exciting aspects of this production of Sweeney Todd is that the production was cast, rehearsed, and produced (sets/costumes/lights) in just under two weeks. On July 3, 38 young people arrived in the Comox Valley and under the tutelage of Carr, musical director Kris Epps (a concert pianist and conductor from Montreal)and tenor Ashley Daniel Foot, the show was crafted from scratch.
COURTENAY, BC – 6 performances – July 20-25, 7:30pm SID WILLIAMS THEATRE
DUNCAN, BC- 1 performance only- July 27, 7:30pm COWICHAN THEATRE
VICTORIA, BC- 2 performances- July 28 and July 29, 8pm, LANGHAM COURT THEATRE
Performances:
Tuesday, July 20, 7:30pm SID WILLIAMS THEATRE
Adam Kozlick as Sweeney Todd/ Alison Roberts as Mrs Lovett
Kaely Cronk as Johanna/Jessica Harling as the Beggar Woman
Wednesday, July 21 7:30pm SID WILLIAMS THEATRE
Adam Kozlick as Sweeney Todd/ Lucy Schofield as Mrs Lovett
Mackenzie Kuecks-Winger as Johanna/ Jane Venter as the Beggar Woman
Thursday, July 22, 7:30pm SID WILLIAMS THEATRE
Adam Kozlick as Sweeney Todd/ Alison Roberts as Mrs Lovett
Kaely Cronk as Johanna/Jessica Harling as the Beggar Woman
Friday, July 23, 7:30pm SID WILLIAMS THEATRE
Adam Kozlick as Sweeney Todd/ Lucy Schofield as Mrs Lovett
Mackenzie Kuecks-Winger as Johanna/ Jane Venter as the Beggar Woman
Saturday, July 24, 7:30pm SID WILLIAMS THEATRE
Adam Kozlick as Sweeney Todd/ Alison Roberts as Mrs Lovett
Kaely Cronk as Johanna/Jessica Harling as the Beggar Woman
Sunday, July 25, 7:30pm SID WILLIAMS THEATRE
Adam Kozlick as Sweeney Todd/ Alison Roberts as Mrs Lovett
Kaely Cronk as Johanna/Jessica Harling as the Beggar Woman
Tuesday July 27, 7:30pm COWICHAN THEATRE
Adam Kozlick as Sweeney Todd/ Lucy Schofield as Mrs Lovett
Mackenzie Kuecks-Winger as Johanna/ Jane Venter as the Beggar Woman
WEDNESDAY JULY 28, 8pm, LANGHAM COURT THEATRE- VICTORIA
Adam Kozlick as Sweeney Todd/ Alison Roberts as Mrs Lovett
Kaely Cronk as Johanna/Jessica Harling as the Beggar Woman
THURSDAY, JULY 29 8pm- LANGHAM COURT THEATRE- VICTORIA
Adam Kozlick as Sweeney Todd/ Lucy Schofield as Mrs Lovett
Mackenzie Kuecks-Winger as Johanna/ Jane Venter as the Beggar Woman
Here’s the official cast list…
More details will be forthcoming (as it dates for certain performers etc)
CYMC 2010: Sweeney Todd
Cast List
Directed by Roger Carr
Musical Director: Kristopher Epps
Vocal Direction: Ashley Daniel Foot
Stage Manager: Freya Engman
Man (Bass 1) : Josiah George
Man (Tenor 1) : Gabriel MacDonald
Tobias: Cody WIlson
Man baritone Nick Howard
Man (bass 2) Josiah George
Man (tenor 2) Gabriel Macdonald
Women (mezzos) Shaleena Faust, Shea McKeown and Courtenay Wright
Sweeney Todd: Adam Kozlick
Mrs Lovett: Alison Roberts and Lucy Schofield
Antony Hope: Gabriel MacDonald
Beggar Woman Jane Venter and Jessica Harling
Judge Turpin: Nathan Gordon
Beadle: Josiah George
Lucy: Ariel Hanson
Joanna: McKenzie Kueks Winger and Kaley Cronk
Bird Seller: Jesse Polito
First man shaved- Ayden Chamberlain
Second man shaved- Marshall Heritage
Third man (market) -Daylon Heath
Fourth Man (market) – Nick Howard
Fifth man (market) – Jesse Polito
First woman (market) Kelly Fitterer
Second woman (market) Erin Humphrey
Third woman (market) Miriam Peters
Fourth woman (market) Katlyn Card
Sixth woman (market) Aleisha Brown
Pirelli- Nikki Powers
Man with Cap- Daylon Heath
Three Tenors- Rachel Allen, Shea McKeown, Josiah
Boy in Court- Maia Sampson
Fifith woman (pie shop) Vanessa Yuen
Freeloader: Kiara Butler
Man with Cap- Ayden Chamberlain
Man First Death- Daylon Heath
Man Second Death- Jesse Polito
Third Man (no death) – Marshall Heritage
Wife of Third Man- Trisha Porter
Child of Third Man- Rosalyn Martin
Passer by- Montana Walton
Policeperson- Amea Douglass, Cher Rowe
Quintet (p, 22) Erin Humphrey, Josiah George, Montana Walton, Daylon Heath, Nick Howard
CYMC celebrates Broadway genius Stephen Sondheim
Video, photos, singing, dance and spoken word blended together to create a multimedia musical event.
When: Wednesday, July 7, 2010, 7:30pm
Where: Stan Hagen Theatre
Tickets: $15.00 at the door or at the Sid Williams Theatre Box Office
Composer Stephen Sondheim will take centrestage this Wednesday, July 7 at the Stan Hagen Theatre when CYMC Musical Theatre celebrates his 80th birthday. Often cited as the greatest living musical theatre composer, Sondheim is best known for creating such incredible musicals as West Side Story, Gypsy, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Into the Woods, A Little Night Music, and Sweeney Todd (which CYMC will premiere for Comox Valley audiences from July 20-25 at the Sid Williams Theatre).
In honour of Sondheim’s 80th birthday, CYMC Musical Theatre will present a multimedia introduction to the great master’s work. Blending video and rare photos of the composer with live performances of some of his greatest songs, the evening promises to be one of the most exciting concerts of the year. CYMC Musical Theatre Program Director, Ashley Daniel Foot says that the evening will act as a primer for those who might not be familiar with Sondheim’s work and a delicious treat for those who are. “The multimedia component of the concert is so exciting because it allows the audience to fully connect with this great man.”
In the theatre community, Sondheim is universally revered for his unique and complicated melodies and intelligent lyrics that challenge both audience and performer: “He’s a complete singularity” says performer Sean Baker (from the Victoria Operatic Society’s Grease) who will appear as a special guest in this Wednesday’s celebration. Other performers scheduled to appear on July 7 include Vanier theatre head honcho Lori Mazey, Songs for a New World star Alison Roberts, CYMC Alumni Josiah George, Lindsay Robinson (the artistic director of Victoria’s brand new theatre company ASAP Theatre), Roger Carr (the director of CYMC’s Sweeney Todd) and Ashley Daniel Foot. Musical direction for the evening will be handled by CYMC’s own Kristopher Epps. “Audiences will hear such Sondheim classics as “Send in the Clowns” but will also discover many new and exciting songs from such shows as Sunday in the Park with George and Passion” says Epps.
CYMC Musical Theatre is proud to present this very special concert, 80 Years of Stephen Sondheim: A Multimedia Musical Celebration this Wednesday, July 7, 7:30pm at the Stan Hagen Theatre. Tickets are available at the Sid Williams Theatre by calling 250-338-2430 or online at http://www.sidwilliamstheatre.com
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
CYMC 2009 students Josiah George (l) and Nick Blackburn (r) prepare backstage for RENT
By this time you should have received an audition email with full details on all of the auditions. The link to the information is here, however it is only for registered students and their parents. You will need to contact us if you require the password to the page!
CYMC 2008 student Riza Takahashi shares a proud moment with 2008 Visiting Artist and Broadway sensation Julia Murney
We like to meet new people and over the past few years we have had students from as far away as Japan and Germany as well as from the United States, and from almost every province in Canada. We pride ourselves on helping our students make international connections and friendships that will last a lifetime!
On a more practical note, CYMC Musical Theatre will provide a shuttle service to an from our airports, train and bus stations. Please contact us to arrange this
Of musical theatre that is.
So claims the New York Time‘s Ben Brantley in his review of the Roundabout Theatre’s new Sondheim creation Sondheim on Sondheim:
“Is Stephen Sondheim God?” And the answer, for those of us for whom musicals are truly a religion, is — now as then — yes. Or to use the language of the common folk, “Well, duh.”
It seems that Sondheim is everywhere at the moment, and so we thought what better time than now to dig into the master’s history and start prepping up your knowledge in time for CYMC’s Sondheim debut this summer. Sweeney Todd at CYMC will mark the first time a Stephen Sondheim musical has ever been performed by our company! Consider this your virtual guide to all things Sondheim:
“Is Stephen Sondheim God?” And the answer, for those of us for whom musicals are truly a religion, is — now as then — yes. Or to use the language of the common folk, “Well, duh.”
THE NY TIMES INTERACTIVE SONDHEIM TIMELINE
THE FRESH AIR INTERVIEW: 45 Mins with NPR’s Terry Gross
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DAILY DOSE OF SONDHEIM ON TUMBLR
THE SONDHEIM REVIEW (A quarterly journal dedicated to the great master)
More images, videos, and links after the jump…
A scene from James Lapine’s Sondheim on Sondheim
From Pacific Overtures:
From Merrily We Roll Along:
CYMC 2009 Students Jordan Vander Matten and Keira Butler share a smile backstage before a performance of RENT
We go on tour with SWEENEY TODD across Vancouver Island!
Be part of the only summer theatre program that goes on tour!! The tour is included in registration and you should register today!
TOUR DETAILS:
SWEENEY TODD
SUMMER 2010 CYMC MUSICAL THEATRE SCHEDULE
| July 20-25 at 7:30pm | Courtenay BC | Sid Williams Theatre |
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Tuesday, July 27 |
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Wednesday, July 28 |
Victoria, BC |
Langham Court Theatre |
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Thursday, July 29 |
Victoria BC |
Langham Court Theatre |
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* Please note this information is subject to change. Dates may be shifted, venues may be changed, or dates may be removed entirely.
Please contact the theatre to confirm the shows. Tickets are not yet on sale, check back in May.
