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Slasher musical delivers stellar performance

By Hannah Larson
ASSISTANT EDITOR

33rd Street Productions made a right
turn onto Fleet Street with their latest produce
tion

This past Friday and Saturday was
the opening weekend for “Sweeney Todd: The
Demon Barber of Fleet Street," this year’s an,
nual spring musical presented by 33rd Street
Productions

As a nod to our society’s addiction
to social networking, and to note the progres
sion of my opinion and reactions in realtime
with the performance, I live tweeted during the
musical, using the hashtag #sweeneytodd@llT,
and racked up an impressive 51 tweets

For those who don’t know the term,
live tweeting is the act of tweeting numerous

times in reference to a television show, movie,
concert, et cetera Though I know this outrae
geously violates theatre etiquette regarding the
audience and cell phone usage during a per,
formance, in my opinion, my use of technole
ogy helped me to collect my thoughts as well
as promote llT’s technologyeforward missionl

Keep in mind that this production
is very different from the #TimBurton version,
and not riddled with #JohnnyDepp or #Helene
aBonhamCarter’s facesl When I see #sweeneye
todd@llT the first thought that pops into my
head, is the bigebudget Hollywood production
by Tim Burton, but being an llT production,
there’s an obvious gap between the two I am
a fan of Burton’s interpretation of “Sweeney
Todd," but seeing a live production is a com,
pletely different experience 33rd Street Prof
ductions worked hard to bring this captivating

rendition to campus, so it isn’t fair for me to try
to compare the two given the vastly different
contexts

33rd Street Productions knows how
to cast roles #nodoubtaboutit #sweeneytodd@
IIT

Playing the dark and demented title
role of Sweeney Todd, is Geoffrey Mitchell
Not to sound cliche’, but it was most definitely
a powerhouse performance, and according
to his playbill bio, he’s far from a rookie On
the other hand, Maria Pulido, as Mrs Lovett,
Todd’s accomplice to his murderous rampage,
admits in her playbill bio this is her first foray
into acting, though you wouldn’t know it by
seeing the production Mitchell and Pulido
have onestage chemistry that intensifies the fa,
cade that is live theatre

Was the kiss believable? #idunno

#sweeneytodd@IIT

Korey Enright as Anthony Hope,
and Cara Hanlet as Johanna, the young lovers
entangled in this story, seem more comfortable
acting alone than with each other Enright’s
Anthony is a perfect counterpart to the dark
character of Sweeney Todd Enright plays An,
thony with a sunny disposition that’s refresh,
ing in the creepy and macabre plotlinel As for
Hanlet’s portrayal of an ethereal Johanna, l was
taken aback at her extraordinary singing Each
time was a surprise, and surpassed the previ
ous number

The antagonist of this play, Judge
Turpin, played by Pierrick Hanlet, Associate
Research Physics Professor, excels in his per,
formance According to his bio, Professor Han,
let is no stranger to musical theatre, or opera
singing Professor Hanlet uses his experience

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