Meat pies, anyone?
This year’s Old Rochester Regional High School Drama Club production of Sweeney Todd will make victims of the audience – victims of dark comedy and dangerously delicious drama.
Sweeney Todd, played by junior Kyle Costa, is a barber with a sinister secret. He kills his barber shop clientele with his barber’s razor, assisted by his partner in crime Mrs. Lovett, played by junior Emily Faulkner, who conceals his crimes by hiding the bodies – in her famous meat pies, which she sells to unsuspecting customers from her famous pie shop.
The Drama Club is having a lot of fun with this particular production chosen for the club’s annual spring musical, which also features ORR High School juniors Victor Morrison, Lexi Melloni and Holly Frink, seniors Patrick McGraw, Michael Amato and Isaiah Kidney, and freshman Chris Savino. Fifty-five students comprise the on-stage cast, along with 54 technicians and seven band students playing in the 17-piece orchestra.
The musical is directed by Paul Sardinha and conducted by Michael Barnicle.
Opening night at the Gilbert D. Bristol Auditorium of Old Rochester Regional High School is Thursday, April 9 at 7:30 pm, and the show continues April 10-11 at 7:30 pm, with a daytime performance on Sunday, April 12 at 2:00 pm. Tickets are $15 for adults, $12 for students and senior citizens. Tickets are available at the door.
By Jean Perry
