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Amidst involvement in such an extensive number of productions and performance groups, Bendorf has been able to find two main points of artistic focus: Stephen Sondheim and Gilbert & Sullivan. She had a lead role in a HRG&SP production her freshman fall, and subsequently joined the company’s board...
...says Bendorf, who proceeded to create a special concentration: Dramatic Literature and Practice. She describes the concentration as over 50 percent English Literature, with supplementary courses in acting, stage design, dramaturgy, and other performance-based classes. She even enrolled in a one-on-one tutorial about Stephen Sondheim with her advisor, Professor Robert Scanlan. “What other Dramatic Arts courses are there?” says Bendorf. “I’ve taken them...
...main passion in life is for Stephen Sondheim,” says the actress who, since enrolling at Harvard, has performed in four Sondheim productions. “I’m making the focus of my final concentration project Stephen Sondheim and the process of putting up one of this shows.” This project is certainly applicable to her extracurricular work; she is currently performing the role of the Baker’s Wife in the production of Sondheim’s “Into The Woods” on the Loeb Mainstage...
...Sondheim was instrumental in what Bendorf considers her most positive artistic experience on campus—performing the role of Johanna in “Sweeney Todd” during her sophomore spring. “It really felt like my first show that could be professional,” she says, recalling how the production sold out the Loeb Mainstage—something the American Repertory Theater’s professional productions rarely accomplish. “We joked that we could’ve taken it to Broadway,” she says...
...production. Samuel R. Schoenberg ’13 and Christine K. L. Bendorf ’10 are paired well as the Baker and his Wife, and the subtle evolution of their relationship over the course of the play forms a solid center for the many intertwining stories. A Sondheim veteran, Bendorf (who also acted as Johanna in 2008’s Mainstage production of Sondheim’s “Sweeney Todd”) creates a character that is equal parts practical and provocative. While maintaining her character’s witty charm, she effectively poses the moral...