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TCT's Sweeney Todd to Terrorize Tehachapi

    Tehachapi Community Theatre will present C.G. Bond's version of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, directed by David Reed and Michael Gossage. "It's quite an unusual play", noted Reed. "This version is a real melodrama, not a comic lampoon, and thus takes us on a rollercoaster ride of thrills and adventures." Since Sweeney Todd's inception as an 1847 melodrama by George Dibdin-Pitt there have been at least six versions including Steven Sondheims's musical which has enjoyed many New York and touring productions and a very successful movie release. Dibdin-Pitt's play, not entirely original was based on tales found in a "penny dreadful", a sensational news sheet with descriptions of depravity, violence, and grotesque murder.

    Playing the revenge filled barber is Alex Zonn, last seen as Scrooge in TCT's A Christmas Carol. Opposite Zonn and making her TCT debut, will be Janice Boudurant as the wicked Mrs. Lovett and Karl Schuck as the dastardly Judge Turpen, with Jonathan Hall as Turpen's accomplice, The Beadle. Jackie Lawlor, a long time actor with TCT and audience favorite, takes a scene stealing turn as a mad housekeeper.

    This production brings many new faces to the TCT stage, Korye Rodriguez and Cheyenne Harris, playing the love interests, Nick Roberts as a boy caught up in the mayhem, Spence Frederick, last seen in THS's Much Ado About Nothing, and Heather Ringle as a mysterious beggar woman. Bringing the production together are a large number of performers doing duty in a variety of scenes, among them are: Monica Nadon, Mary Roberts William Destefani, Cynthia Hynes, Cambria Hynes, Gwadlys Peterson, Noah Gossage, Shiloh Beazel, Vanessa Beazel, Berlyn Gonsalves, Royce Cox, Andrew Bartels, and Amanda Duke.

    Tickets are available now at The Apple Shed, Old Towne Nursery, Johnny's Take'n Bake, and Tehachapi Art Center. Admission is $9 in advance and $12 at the door. Doors open at 7:00 with a 7:30 showtime at Jacobsen Middle School, 711 Anita Dr., on June 20, 21,27, and 28. This production contains mature themes. For more information on this production or any of TCT's upcoming events and BeeKay Theater fundraisers, please call the TCT Hotline at 822-4037.