Event Title:

Organization:

  Concert

  San Francisco

Start Date:

  6/1/2013

End Date:

  6/2/2013

Start Time:

  8:00 PM

End Time:

  4:00 PM

Event Info: 

  Saturday, June 1, at 8 p.m. and Sunday, June 2, at 2 p.m.

Stephen Sondheim's rollicking Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street, will be presented by Redwood Symphony in two semi-staged performances Saturday, June 1, at 8 p.m. and Sunday, June 2, at 2 p.m. in the Main Theatre of Canada College, 4200 Farm Hill Blvd., at I-280, Redwood City.

Directed by Phil Lowery and conducted by Maestro Erik Kujawsky, these concerts will feature one of the 20th Century's greater operatic masterpieces, featuring a full symphony orchestra, stellar soloists and chorus and even the trick barber chair.

"In my lifetime, I have experienced great shocks of artistic recognition, moments that seemed to instantly open up new vistas of understanding," Kujawsky said. "My very first experience with Stephen Sondheim's music was much like an earthquake. It left me reeling. Sondheim could well be one of our greatest composers, up there with Gershwin, Copland and Bernstein.

"Sweeney has been done by many opera houses, and we aim to give it the full symphonic treatment!"

The cast also will include Michael Morris as Judge Turpin, Maya Kherani as Johanna, Justin Marsh as Anthony, Bobby Bryce as Toby, Paul Zawilski as Beadle, Bill Welch as Pirelli, and Mia Fryvecind Gimenez as the beggar woman.

Tickets are $20 in advance $25 at the door. Go to RedwoodSymphony.org to order tickets.

Redwood Symphony is an all-volunteer orchestra dedicated to the performance of ambitious, contemporary repertoire as well as the great orchestral classics with a special emphasis on education. Its August 2012 performance of the Berlioz Requiem at Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco was critically acclaimed.

Parking is free on weekends at Canada College.

http://www.redwoodsymphony.org/concerts/2012-13/concert6-2012.html

Location:

  Canada College Main Theatre

Room:

Address:

  4200 Farm Hill Blvd. at I-280

Phone:

  650-366-6872

City:

  Redwood City

State/Province:

  CA