Sweeney Todd First performance in Kingston

Bottle Tree Productions presents Sweeney Todd-The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
The School edition. Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Book by Hugh Wheeler
Directed by Anne Marie Mortensen. Choreography by Chelsea Swain. Stage Manager Judy Roberts

The first performance of Sweeney Todd in Kingston!

The recent Tim Burton movie starred Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham-Carter as the partners in gore. Adam Eliot and Hannah Smith lend their gifted voices to the merchants of mayhem. Anton Kaduck is a revelation as the hanging judge. Megan Ready-Walters and her sweet soprano voice makes her the perfect ingenue. The Gothic church that is The Wellington Street Theatre is the perfect environment for Fleet Street and its sordid neighbourhood. Adam Eliot's Sweeney Todd arrives back in England after being unjustly sentenced for crimes he did not commit. All he ever loved has been taken from him and he is looking for revenge. He falls in with Hannah Smith's Mrs. Lovett, and between them they go on a murderous spree, which ultimately consumes them in the fires of hate.

Sweeney Todd has been regarded for years more as urban legend than actual real-life flesh and bones. Cheap sordid novels in the early eighteen hundreds
chilled and thrilled English readers. Sweeney Todd was the Freddy Kruger, the zombie horde, the vampire of his time. Some evidence exists to suggest that Mister Todd did himself exist. Sondeim and Wheeler have given Sweeney more noble reasons for what he is driven to do, more noble then the avarice and greed accorded him by earlier writers, but the end result is the same.

Sondheim's brilliant, complicated music and Hugh Wheeler's clever script are complicit in providing a great night's entertainment.

Show dates:

February 25,26,27 Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m.
Tickets are $15 General admission.
At The Wellington Street Theatre, 126 Wellington Street, Kingston, Ontario
www.bottletreeinc.com 613-542-0070
Grand Theatre Box Office 218 Princess Street Phone 613-530-2050
Box Office open Mondays-Saturdays from 12 noon to 6 pm.
www.kingstongrand.ca

The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Farmer and Forrester

Based on the novel by Victor Hugo.

Gypsies break Gudule's heart when they steal her much-loved baby girl and replace her with a deformed child. Gudule sends the abomination away to be looked after by the Church, and spends the rest of her life searching for her beautiful daughter.

The deformed baby is taken in by a Priest of Notre Dame, and becomes a servant there. Reviled by the citizenry for his beastly outward appearance, Quasimodo mirrors the hatred that he sees from others, and devotes himself to obeying his master's orders. He despises humanity as much as humanity despises him, until one day, a beautiful Gypsy girl quenches his thirst.

Quasimodo's master notices this girl, taking particular interest in her. His lust overcomes his good judgement and his actions cause grave problems for everyone involved.

Music by David Farmer
Book and Lyrics by Moira Forrester
Arranged by Jim McGrath and John Roby
based on the novel by Victor Hugo


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Bottle Tree Productions' production of Disney's Mulan Jr

Music and Lyrics by
Matthew Wilder and David Zippel, Stephen Schwartz, Jeanine Tesori and Alexa Junge
Music adapted and arranged and additional music and lyrics by Bryan Louiselle
Book adapted and additional lyrics by Patricia Cotter
Based on the 1998 Disney film 'Mulan' and the story 'Fa Mulan' by Robert D. San Souci


This is an action-packed stage adaptation of Disney's hit animated musical. Travel back to the ancient days of China, and see the story of Mulan, the girl who, with her misfit friends, saves the Emperor from the Huns! Familiar songs from the movie include 'Reflection', 'I'll Make a Man Out of You', and 'Honor to Us All'.

Disney's Mulan Junior is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI.
421 West 54th Street, New York, NY 10019
Phone: 212-541-4684 Fax: 212-397-4684 www.MTIShows.com

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Cinderella by Charles Robertson, Music and Lyrics by Michael K. Myers

Cinderella is treated like a servant by her step-sisters, who are actually jealous of her. Through some difficulty, she manages to attend a ball where she meets the Prince, who falls in love with her. He, however has a certain affliction that makes it difficult for him to approach girls; he is a nerd.

This is a highly entertaining play, performed successfully to the enjoyment of Kingston audiences over the past two decades, and priced for families to enjoy.

Cinderella - Megan Ready-Walters
The Prince - Tom Sinclair
Doctor Doc - Katherine Noyes
Stepmother - Hannah Smith
Ethel - Signy Lynch
Gertrude - Sophie Szczesniak

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