Sweeney todd at barrow street
scope
associate scenic design & production management
Year
2017
Location
barrow street theater
CLIENT
TOOTING ARTS CLUB
Awards and press
Winner- Lucille Lortel Award Outstanding Revival 2017
"A wondrous production" - The New Yorker
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Music and Lyrics By Stephen Sondheim
Book by Hugh Wheeler
Directed By Bill Buckhurst
Design By Simon Kenny
Music Supervision and Arrangement by Benjamin Cox
Music Direction by Matt Aument
Choreographed by Georgina Lamb
Lighting Design by Amy Mae
Sound Design by Matt Stein
production history
Iron Bloom was pleased to oversee production management and assist on scenic design for the Off-Broadway American Premiere of Tooting Arts Club's immersive & critically lauded production of "Sweeney Todd".
Originally produced in London by the Tooting Arts Club, this import seeks to recreate one of London’s oldest pie and mash shops, Harrington’s, where the original site-specific production ran. Iron Bloom were tasked, as the Production Management team, with recreating Harrington’s inside of the Barrow Street Theater. Working with Designer Simon Kenny, and architect Mitchell Kurtz, we managed the permitting and build, combining shop fabrication and onsite construction. Cladding or treating all the surfaces in the Barrow Street Theater, we recreated the feel and textures of Harrington’s, embedding all lighting and sound behind the walls, and adding a functional pie counter (ovens and all) into the space, for former White House Pastry Chef Bill Yosses to serve pie. At the end of a 6 week build we had transformed the Barrow Street Theater into a little slice of London Town.
