Annaleigh Ashford can even seem within the Stephen Sondheim musical this spring.
Josh Groban and Annaleigh Ashford will return to Broadway this spring in a revival of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Road.
The revival of the Stephen Sondheim musical might be helmed by Hamilton director Thomas Kail and produced by Hamilton producer Jeffrey Vendor. Sweeney Todd will play the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, with previews set to start on February 26, 2023 forward of a March 26 opening night time.
The musical, which includes a rating by Sondheim and a guide by Hugh Wheeler, initially premiered on Broadway in 1979 and was final revived on Broadway in 2005, in a manufacturing that starred Patti LuPone and Michael Cerveris and referred to as on its actors to play devices. This revival will convey again a 26-person orchestra for the primary time because the authentic manufacturing, with Alex Lacamoire as music supervisor.
Sweeney Todd tells the story of a murderous barber residing in London within the mid-1800s. The unique Broadway manufacturing gained eight Tony Awards together with finest musical, finest guide, finest rating and finest route for Hal Prince. The musical was later tailored right into a 2007 movie starring Johnny Depp.
Groban, a Grammy-nominated recording artist, will play the title character and returns to the Nice White Manner after starring within the 2016 musical Natasha, Pierre and the Nice Comet of 1812. Ashford, who will play Mrs. Lovett, has a number of Broadway credit, together with starring reverse Jake Gyllenhaal in Sunday within the Park with George, one other Sondheim-composed present, and in You Can’t Take It With You, for which she gained a Tony Award.
This manufacturing follows the loss of life of Sondheim in November 2021. A revival of the Sondheim-composed musical Merrily We Roll Alongside, starring Daniel Radcliffe,is scheduled to play off Broadway this fall and a revival of his musical, Firm, just lately closed on Broadway.
Sweeney Todd might be choreographed by Steven Hoggett, with set design by Mimi Lien, costume design by Emilio Sosa, lighting design by Natasha Katz and sound design by Nevin Steinberg. Extra casting might be introduced at a later date.