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...Cary P. McClelland ’02, director of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, produced by the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club (HRDC), would instead have his audience believe that it is actually a “pathological exercise in love...
With music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Hugh Wheeler, Sweeney premiered to a warm critical reception in 1979. Winner of eight Tony Awards (including best musical), Sweeney is considered Sondheim’s masterpiece. Obscuring the line between musical theater and opera, Sweeney has been performed worldwide by both theaters and opera companies...
...story centers around the brooding title character and the complex network of relationships that cause his macabre exploits. At the outset of the musical, Sweeney emerges from a 15-year exile imposed by the corrupt Judge Turpin, who lusted after his wife. Sweeney returns to London only to be greeted with news from Mrs. Lovett, a baker of unsavory meat pies, that the judge has raped his wife (leading her to poison herself) and taken their daughter Johanna as his ward. While Sweeney slaved “in a living hell,” Johanna has grown into a beautiful...
...League Rookie of the Year and made the All-Ivy First Team in no small part because she set a single game and single season home run mark for the Big Red. The other Cornell member of the All-Ivy First Team is Sophomore Erin Sweeney who led all outfielders in batting average through Ivy League play. With this relatively young talent base, the Big Red hopes to duplicate some of the same success it had at the plate last season...
...defending co-champion Big Red boasts impressive bats in 2001 Ivy Rookie of the Year Kate Verde and rookie Lauren May, but First Team All-Ivy outfielder Erin Sweeney is off to a slow start. The pitching staff returns Nicole LePera, who topped the Crimson in the Ivy playoff last year, but loses longtime ace Nicole Zitarelli...