STEPHEN SONDHEIM (Music & Lyrics)
HUGH WHEELER (Book)
CHRISTOPHER BOND (Adaptor)
JOHN DOYLE (Director and Designer)
SARAH TRAVIS (Musical Supervisor and Orchestrator)
DAVID LOUD (Resident Music Supervisor)
RICHARD G. JONES (Lighting Designer)
DAN MOSES SCHREIER (Sound Designer)
PAUL HUNTLEY (Wig & Hair Design)
ANGELINA AVALLONE (Make-up Designer)
JOHN MILLER (Music Coordinator)
BERNARD TELSEY CASTING, C.S.A. (Casting)
ADAM JOHN HUNTER (Production Stage Manager)
NEWTON COLE (Assistant Stage Manager)
AJA KANE (Assistant Stage Manager)
RICHARD FRANKEL PRODUCTIONS/JO PORTER (General Management)
SHOWMAN FABRICATORS, INC. (Production Manager)
TED LeFEVRE (Associate Set Designer)
PATRICK CHEVILLOT (Associate Costume Designer)
PAUL MILLER (Associate Lighting Designer)
DAVID BULLARD (Associate Sound Designer)

THE VIERTEL BARUCH ROUTH FRANKEL GROUP (Producer)
AMBASSADOR THEATRE GROUP (Producer)
ADAM KENWRIGHT (Producer)
TED TULCHIN AND NORMAN TULCHIN, MAIDSTONE PRODUCTIONS (Producer)
DARREN BAGERT (Producer)
ROBERT G. BARTNER (Producer)
THE WATERMILL THEATRE (Original Producer)

STEPHEN SONDHEIM (Music & Lyrics) wrote the music and lyrics for Saturday Night, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Anyone Can Whistle, Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, The Frogs, Pacific Overtures, Merrily We Roll Along, Sunday in the Park with George, Into the Woods, Assassins, Passion and Bounce, as well as lyrics for West Side Story, Gypsy, Do I Hear a Waltz? and additional lyrics for Candide. Side by Side by Sondheim, Marry Me A Little, You're Gonna Love Tomorrow and Putting it Together are anthologies of his work as composer and lyricist. For films, he composed the score of Stavisky, co-composed Reds and wrote songs for Dick Tracy and the television production “Evening Primrose.”  He co-authored the film The Last of Sheila and the play Getting Away with Murder. Mr. Sondheim is on the Council of the Dramatists Guild, having served as its President from 1973 to 1981. Back to Top of Page

HUGH WHEELER (Book) won Tony Awards for Candide, A Little Night Music and Sweeney Todd.  He is the author of the plays Big Fish, Little Fish, Look We’ve Come Through, We Have Always Lived in the Castle and additional material for Pacific Overtures.  His screenplays include Travels With My Aunt, Something for Everyone, A Little Night Music, and Nijinsky.  He also wrote 30 mysteries under the pseudonyms Patrick Quentin and Q. Patrick.  He has written such operas as Kurt Weill’s Silverlake, Mozart’s Impressario and the opera versions of Candide and Sweeney Todd. Back to Top of Page

CHRISTOPHER BOND (Adaptor), an actor/director/writer, wrote Sweeney Todd for the Stoke-on-Trent experimental Theatre.  He took Brecht’s Man Is Man, renamed it Man Eats Man and applied it to the public domain one-act folk play of Sweeney Todd by George Dibdin Pitt, which was itself taken from the story “The String of Pearls: A Romance” published in Penny Dreadful, the Victorian gossip magazine.  In this new approach to the classics, Chris also created the part of Tobias for himself.  Later Chris worked with the Everyman Theatre (Liverpool) where he wrote/directed Downright Hooligan, Judge Jeffreys, Under New Management and was the artistic director of the Half Moon Theatre (London) where he directed Sweeney Todd and Trafford Tanzy.  His recent production of Alice in the Underground for Chicken Shed, a company of disabled actors, toured all the major UK theatres. Back to Top of Page

JOHN DOYLE (Director and Designer) won a 2006 Tony Award nomination, Drama Desk Award and Outer Critics Circle Award for this production of Sweeney Todd.  He has been Artistic Director of four prestigious Regional theatres in the UK. He has directed more than 200 professional productions, and for the last 10 years has been an Associate Director of the Watermill Theatre where he has pioneered musical theatre through actor-musicianship.  Notable productions include The Gondoliers (transferred to the West End), Fiddler on the Roof, Irma La Douce.  His work has won three Regional Theatre Awards for Best Production of a Musical, as well as four further nominations in the same category (most recently for his acclaimed revival of Mack & Mabel). Sweeney Todd was nominated for both a Laurence Olivier Award and an Evening Standard Award and won the Whatsonstage Award for Best Musical Revival. Sweeney Todd is John’s Broadway debut. Back to Top of Page

SARAH TRAVIS (Musical Supervisor and Orchestrator) won a 2006 Tony Award nomination and a Drama Desk Award for this production of Sweeney Todd.  She trained at the City University and Guildhall School of Music and Drama in the UK.  Main Credits include, as orchestrator and musical supervisor, Sweeney Todd, transfers to Trafalgar Studios and New Ambassadors; Mack And Mabel; Pinafore Swing; Fiddler on the Roof and Gondoliers (West End transfer), both winners of Barclays TMA Awards; Ten Cents a Dance, Piaf, and Carmen, all at the Watermill Newbury with John Doyle.  As composer: Peter Pan (Oxford Playhouse), A Star Danced (Watermill), The Last Fattybottypuss in the World (Regents Park Open Air), Tales My Lover Told Me (Kings Head Islington), A Womb with a View (Radio 4 and seven Pantomines for Chipping Norton).  Pianist for: Julian Clary, Fascinating Aida, Lily Savage, Dillie Keane, BarbJungr, Issy Randwyk and Drop Dead Divas. Back to Top of Page

DAVID LOUD (Resident Music Supervisor) was the Music Director for Ragtime (Broadway), A Class Act, Steel Pier, The Look of Love, and the revivals of She Loves Me, Company, and The Boys From Syracuse.  Off-Broadway, he created the vocal and dance arrangements for And the World Goes ‘Round (Outer Critic’s Circle & Drama Desk awards, Best Musical Revue).  He originated the role of Manny in Master Class, and made his Broadway debut in Harold Prince’s original production of Merrily We Roll Along. Back to Top of Page   

RICHARD G. JONES (Lighting Designer) received a 2006 Drama Desk Award and an Outer Critics Circle nomination for this production of Sweeney Todd.  He has collaborated with John Doyle on many actor- musician shows, including Sweeney Todd in the West End, The Gondoliers in the West End (Best Musical 2001) and The Watermill’s Fiddler on the Roof (Best Musical 2002) Other recent designs include John Doyle’s Peter Pan, the UK National tour of Midnight, the UK premiere of Sideshow, and Mack and Mabel for The Watermill Theatre prior to a West End transfer. UK National tours include Beautiful Thing, Wuthering Heights, Rasputin, Candide & Sweeney Todd. Other West End work includes When Pigs Fly, Female Parts, and Carmen. Back to Top of Page

DAN MOSES SCHREIER (Sound Designer). Broadway: 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee; Pacific Overtures; Gem of the Ocean; 'night, Mother; After the Fall; Assassins; Into the Woods; Anna in the Tropics; Topdog/Underdog; Dirty Blonde; Amour; Dance of Death; Major Barbara; The Ride down Mt. Morgan; The Diary of Anne Frank; The Tempest; Bring in 'Da Noise, Bring in 'Da Funk. Off-Broadway: Homebody/Kabul, Far East, Floyd Collins, Spic-O-Rama and many others. Last season on Broadway, he composed scores for Julius Caesar, On Golden Pond and Glass Menagerie. Awards: three Drama Desks Awards, 2004 L.A. Ovation Award, 2003 Entertainment Design Award and an Obie Award for sustained excellence. Back to Top of Page

PAUL HUNTLEY (Wig & Hair Design) London born, winner of a Special Tony Award. Current Broadway shows: The Producers, Hairspray, The Pajama Game and Threepenny Opera. Recent film: Kinsey, “Dawn Anna” with Debra Winger, “Canal Street Brothel” and The Wicker Man with Ellen Burstyn, and “Warm Springs” with Cynthia Nixon. Films: Fast Track, and Anna Paquinn in X-men 3. Back to Top of Page

ANGELINA AVALLONE (Make-up Designer) Broadway: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang;  All Shook Up; Lennon; Sweet Charity; The Light in the Piazza; The Pillowman; Wonderful Town; Julius Caesar; Thoroughly Modern Millie; Gypsy; …Joe Egg; Little Shop of Horrors; Dance of the Vampires; Dracula; Henry IV; The Scarlet Pimpernel. With Patti LuPone: Anyone Can Whistle; Passion (Ravinia Festival and Lincoln Center); Regina. Back to Top of Page

JOHN MILLER (Music Coordinator) Recent Broadway: Jersey Boys, Lennon, Sweet Charity, Hairspray, The Producers, Beauty & the Beast, Movin’ Out, Little Shop…, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Dracula, 42nd St, Urinetown, Nine, La Boheme, Big River, Boys From Syracuse, Look of Love, Never Gonna Dance, The Rocky Horror Show, The Music Man, Oklahoma!, Follies, Fosse, Parade. Studio Musician (bass): Michael Jackson, Madonna, Eric Clapton, BB King, Frank Sinatra, Carly Simon, Celine Dion, Tommy Flanagan, Portishead, NY Philharmonic. Back to Top of Page

BERNARD TELSEY CASTING, C.S.A. (Casting) Bernie, Will, David, Beth, Craig, Tiffany, Stephanie, and Betsy thank: C. Ashley, S. Bray, D. Clement, C. Columbus, J. DiPietro, J. Doyle, M. Greif, G. Griffin, W. Holzman, I. La Frenais, J. Lane, J. Larson, J. Mantello, T. Meehan, A. Menken, M. Norman, J. O’Brien, M. O’Donnell, B. Russell, S. Schwartz, M. Shaiman, N. Simon, S. Sondheim, J. Taymor, A. Willis, S. Wittman, D. Yazbek, J. Zaks, ATC, HSC, McCT, MCC, and STC, for trusting us. Although we have our pride, we have been known to cast for food. Back to Top of Page

ADAM JOHN HUNTER (Production Stage Manager) Broadway: Little Shop of Horrors, Dinner At Eight, 42nd Street, Swing!, Annie Get Your Gun.  Tours:  Little Shop of Horrors, The Who's Tommy.  Equity member. Back to Top of Page

NEWTON COLE (Assistant Stage Manager). Broadway shows include Fiddler on the Roof with Topol and My Fair Lady with Richard Chamberlain. National Tours include Little Shop of Horrors, Best Little Whorehouse with Ann-Margret and Deathtrap with Elliott Gould. He staged the original dances choreographed by Jerome Robbins for the current production of Fiddler on Broadway. Back to Top of Page

AJA KANE (Assistant Stage Manager) Credits include Scrooge the Musical with Richard Chamberlain, The Exonerated, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas with Ann Margret, Annie, Sweet Charity, Funny Girl, A Chorus Line, Jesus Christ Superstar, Cats, The American Dancemachine, Late Nite Comic.  Thanks God. Back to Top of Page

RICHARD FRANKEL PRODUCTIONS/JO PORTER (General Management).  RFP is currently general managing Hairspray, The Producers and Stomp in New York and Hairspray and Little Shop of Horrors on tour.  Over the past 20 years they have managed more than 40 productions in New York and on tour in the U.S., Europe and Asia. Jo Porter: RFP:  Little Shop of Horrors (Broadway and Nat'l tour), Mnemonic, Bomb-itty of Errors, Carmen (City Center), My Old Lady. Past life incl.  Sydney Theatre Co, Tap Dogs, Circus Oz. Back to Top of Page

SHOWMAN FABRICATORS, INC. (Production Manager). Located in Long Island City, SFI is a full-service production services provider and scenic fabrication shop with experience in the entertainment sectors of Broadway and off-Broadway theatre, film, television, architectural installation, cruise ships and corporate events.  Recent credits include Steel Magnolias, Spelling Bee, ‘night, Mother, The Glass Menagerie, Pacific Overtures and The Frogs. Back to Top of Page

TED LeFEVRE (Associate Set Designer). Designs: Anything Goes, Cabaret, 42nd Street, and Singin’ in the Rain in Atlantic City, and Signed, Sealed, Delivered in Las Vegas.  Associate: Hairspray Tour, Disney’s Aida, LCT’s Invention of Love.  Assistant: Wicked, Morning’s at Seven, NYSF’s The Seagull, Ivanov, Beauty and the Beast.  Thanks to Keith and our twin sons. Back to Top of Page

PATRICK CHEVILLOT (Associate Costume Designer) has contributed to the designs of (B’way) Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Movin' Out, Little Shop of Horrors, Gypsy, Miss Saigon, Saturday Night Fever, Ain't Broadway Grand.  FILM: Mona Lisa Smile, Super man Returns, Unfaithful, Celebrity, Deconstructing Harry, Bullets Over Broadway, A League of Their Own, A Bronx Tale, Age of Innocence. Back to Top of Page

PAUL MILLER (Associate Lighting Designer). Broadway: Laughing Room Only, Freshly Squeezed; Broadway Under the Stars. Associate: Little Women, Hairspray, The Producers, Life x 3, The Music Man, The Price, Saturday Night Fever, The Civil War, On The Town, The Sound of Music, Titanic. International: West Side Story in La Scala, Phantom of the Opera in Lisbon. Back to Top of Page

DAVID BULLARD (Associate Sound Designer). Broadway associate: The 25th Annual Putman County Spelling Bee, Gem of the Ocean, Pacific Overtures, Assassins, Topdog/Underdog (plus west coast tour).  Off Broadway Design: The Unexpected Man (Drama Desk Nomination). Museums: “America on the Move” (National Museum of American History), “Preparation Theatre” (National Museum of the American Indian). Back to Top of Page

THE VIERTEL BARCH ROUTH FRANKEL GROUP (Producer).  Thomas Viertel, Steven Baruch, Marc Routh and Richard Frankel, have produced and general managed a wide range of plays and musicals on and off Broadway, in London and on tour for the past 20 years.  Currently:  Hairspray, The Producers, Little Shop of Horrors and Stomp.  Previous productions include  The Sound of Music, Swing, Smokey Joe’s Café, The Weir, A Funny Thing…, Angels in America, Driving Miss Daisy, Penn & Teller, Frankie and Johnny, Oleanna, Mnemonic, The Cocktail Hour, Love Letters, Marvin’s Room, The Mystery of Irma Vep, The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told, Forever Tango, Damn Yankees, Jeffrey, Song of Singapore, Later Life and others.  Awards: 31 Tonys, 27 Drama Desk Awards, 20 Outer Critics Awards, four Grammys, two Pulitzers and have been featured in The New York Times crossword puzzle 9 times. Back to Top of Page

AMBASSADOR THEATRE GROUP (Producer) is currently the largest theatre owning and operating group in the West End and, separately, second-largest in the UK regions, with a total of 24 venues. It is also one of the country’s foremost theatre producers, producing many highly successful, award-winning and innovative co-productions in Britain and internationally. Recent productions include the recebnt West End hit production of Guys and Dolls starring Ewan McGregor, Matthew Bourne’s Nutcracker! and The Rocky Horror Show worldwide.  ATG also has a joint venture television company with ITV plc and a major new joint venture family entertainment company with Live Nation. Back to Top of Page

ADAM KENWRIGHT (Producer) formed aka Productions in 1999 with partner Michael Fuchs.  In London and Broadway; aka has produced Taboo, Stones In His Pockets and A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg.  In London; De La Guarda, Cooking With Elvis, The Lieutenant Of Inishmore, Madame Melville, Romeo & Juliet The Musical, Rent, Time and The Conways, Def Poetry Jam and John Doyle’s production of Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd.   Current West End: High Society and Mack & Mabel.  Zorro,music by The Gipsy Kings, opens in Autumn 2007. Back to Top of Page

TED TULCHIN AND NORMAN TULCHIN, MAIDSTONE PRODUCTIONS (Producer) Credits: (New York) Pulitzer Prize-winner Dinner with Friends, The Unexpected Man, Fortune's Fool; (London) Sweeney Todd, Guys and Dolls, Whose Life Is It Anyway, Hitchcock Blonde, Vincent in Brixton.  Board of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and New Dramatists. Back to Top of Page

DARREN BAGERT (Producer) is a Tony Award, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Award winning producer. Credits:  Long Day's Journey Into Night (Tony Award - Best Revival); Frozen (Tony Award Nominee - Best Play); Gore Vidal's The Best Man (Tony Award Nominee – Best Revival); Taller Than a Dwarf; and Madame Melville. www.InvestBroadway.com Back to Top of Page

ROBERT G. BARTNER (Producer) actively supports the arts in London, New York and St. Croix.  His recent theater credits: London- Old Masters, Sweeney Todd, As You Like It, and Guys and Dolls. New York- Wit, Anna in the Tropics, Virginia Woolf, And Brooklyn.  Thanks to family and especially wife Beverly. Back to Top of Page

THE WATERMILL THEATRE (Original Producer) is an important, award-winning, regional, professional theatre situated in a converted watermill beside the River Lambourn in Berkshire UK. The company mounts six professional productions each year of which several transfer to the London stage and tour nationally and/or overseas. The theatre is also famous for its inspirational outreach work. See more on the website www.watermill.org.uk Back to Top of Page