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Sweeney Todd – Rehearsal Schedule Jan - March

MONDAY

Collegiate

7.30pm

WEDNESDAY

Collegiate

7.30pm

FRIDAY

Collegiate

7.30pm

SUNDAY

Albemarle Music Centre

2.00pm

Jan 5th

“God That’s Good”

 

 

**CHORUS

Jan 7th

“Green Finch”

“Ah Miss/Johanna” (Anth)  Sc3  Sc5

Jan 9th  

“Poor Thing” + Ball*

“Worst Pies”

Incl Judge/Beadle/Lucy *SOME CHORUS list being circulated

Jan 11th

Character work +

“Ballad of Sw’ Todd No 1  & 10b & 12c “The Letter”

**CHORUS

Jan 12th

Pirelli’s M’cl Elixir”

“Pirelli’s Entrance/Contest” Sc4

**CHORUS

Jan 14th

Sc1 “No Place Like London” Part I & II   

Incl Judge/Beadle/Lucy

“A Little Priest” Sc9

Jan 16th

Music rehearsal for selected principals

 

Jan 19th   

 “No Place Like London” Incl Judge/Beadle/Lucy

Recap “God That’s Good” & “Pirelli’s M’cl Elixir” “Poor Thing” & “Ballads”

**CHORUS

Jan 21st

”Kiss Me/ Sensitivities”  Sc7, Sc12, “Searching Part 2” (for Johanna/Anthony not Beggar W )

Sc19, Sc 22 without Todd

Jan 23rd

 “Wait”

Sc6

“By the Sea” Sc13

“My Friends” Sc2 

Jan 25th

 “Pretty Women”

“Epiphany” Sc8

“Johanna Act II No20”

Sc14

“Wigmaker Sequ”

**NOT CHORUS

Jan 26th

“Fogg’s Asylum” Sc18

“City on Fire”

“Searching Part 1” Todd/Lovett + chorus + Beggar W

 

**CHORUS

Jan 28th   

“Not While Around”

“Parlour Songs” Sc15  Sc16

Sc17 without Todd

Jan 30th      

“Searching Part 2” Beggar W (not Johanna & Anthony) “Judges return” Sc20, Sc21,

 “Final Scene Part 1 & 2” Sc22 (without Johanna), Sc23

 

 

Feb 2nd

 “Worst Pies in London” “Poor Thing”

“My Friends” “Wait” “Pretty Women”

Sc2, Sc6, Sc 8

**SOME CHORUS (just people in the “Ball”)

Feb 4th

“Green Finch”

“Ah Miss/Johanna” (Anth)  Sc3  Sc5

”Kiss Me/ Sensitivities”  Sc7, Sc12, “Searching Part 2” Johanna/Anthony Sc19

Feb 6th

“Epiphany” “A Little Priest” “Johanna Act II”

“By the Sea” “Wigmakers sequence”

Sc 9 Sc12 Sc13 Sc14

Feb 8th

“Final Scene Part 3” Epilogue

Chorus numbers (including ball/ No Place Like London)

 

**CHORUS

Feb 9th

 “Not While Around” “Parlour Songs” “Searching Part 2” for Beggar W “Judges return”

“Final Scene Part 1 & 2”

Sc 15 Sc16 Sc17 Sc20 Sc21 Sc22 Sc23  

**NOT CHORUS

Feb 11th

 

FULL CAST

Act 1 Run

  

**CHORUS required at all rehearsals from now on

Feb 13th

 

FULL CAST

Act 2 Run

 

 

 

Feb 16th 

FULL CAST

Act 1 Run

 

Feb 18th  

FULL CAST

Act 2 Run

 

Feb 20th  

FULL CAST

Full Run

 

Feb 22nd   

FULL CAST

Full Run

 

Feb 23rd 

FULL CAST

Full Run

 

 

Feb 25th 

FULL CAST

Full Run

Or polishing

 

Feb 27th   

FULL CAST

Full Run

 

Mar 1st   

a.m. GET IN & BAND CALL

 

1.30pm FULL CAST - Full run with orchestra

Mar 2nd   

Dress Rehearsal

New Theatre

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*Evening rehearsals start at 7.15pm from Monday 16th Feb

 

Act ONE

Prologue: Ballad of Sweeney Todd

 

Sc 1:    London Docks

”Sweeney arrives in London” mid p3 → bottom p6

Sc 2:    Mrs Lovett’s Pie Shop

“Sweeney meets Lovett” p7 → top p14

Sc 3:    Outside Judge Turpin’s House

“Anthony meets Johanna/Judge”  mid p14 → bottom p19

Sc 4:    St Dunstan’s Place

“Sweeney meets Toby/Pirelli and shaving competition” p20 → bottom p33

Sc 5:    Judge Turpin’s House

“Judge proposes to Johanna” p36 →mid p37

Sc 6:    The Barbers Shop

“Lovett calms Todd, meets Anthony. Pirelli is killed” bottom p37 →bottom p44

Sc 7:    Judge Turpin’s House

“Judge/Beadle leave court & nearly catch Johanna kissing Anthony” mid p45 → mid p53

Sc 8:    The Barbers Shop

“Pirellis body revealed, Judge arrives and isn’t killed, Todd flips” p54 → p62

Sc 9:    Mrs Lovett’s Pie Shop

“Todd & Lovett have pie idea” p63 →70

           

 

Act TWO

Sc 10:   Outside Mrs Lovetts Pie Shop

God That’s Good - customers gorge and the new chair arrives” p1 → mid p10

            No dialogue just sung

Sc 11:   Barber’s Shop/Bakehouse/Outside Fogg’s Assylum

Johanna sequence - Anthony searches for Johanna, Todd kills customers” bottom p10 → p14        

No dialogue just sung

Sc 12:  Outside Fogg’s Assylum

“Antony finds Johanna and is confronted by Beadle” bottom p14 → top p16

Sc 13:   Mrs Lovett’s Parlour

“Lovett flirts with Todd over their business success” middle p16 → mid p20

Sc 14:   Mrs Lovett’s Parlour/Barber’s Shop

“Anthony and Todd plan the capture of Johanna” mid p20 → bottom p22

Sc 15:   The steps of the Barber’s Shop/Bake House

“Tobias warns Lovett who locks him in the cellar” p24 → top p29

Sc 16:   Mrs Lovett’s Parlour

“Beadle questions Lovett about complaints” p29 → bottom p31

Sc 17:   Barber’s Shop/Bake House/ Parlour

            “Todd kills Beadle, witnessed by Toby despite Lovetts cover” p32 → bottom p33

Sc 18:   Fogg’s Assylum

“Anthony rescues Johanna from Fogg’s asylum” p mid p34 → top p36

Sc 19:   Barber’s Shop

“Anthony hides the disguised Johanna at Todd’s shop” bottom p38 → bottom p39

Sc 20:   Barber’s Shop

“Beggar Woman discovers parlor and is killed by Todd” p40a → 40b

Sc 21:   Barber’s Shop

“Todd kills Judge Turpin” p41 → mid p43

Sc 22:   Barber’s Shop

“Johanna escapes being killed by Todd” mid p43 → mid p44

Sc 23:   Bake House

“Bakehouse – Todd discovers his crime, kills Lovett and is killed by Toby” mid p44 → bottom p48  

Epilogue: Ballad of Sweeney Todd

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