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Shave and a haircut \u2014 if you dare.<\/p>\n

The Kansas Wesleyan Theatre Arts Program and Theatre Salina are co-producing \u201cSweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.\u201d Performances will be Fridays to Sundays on April 4-19, plus Thursday, April 17, at Theatre Salina in downtown Salina.<\/p>\n

The story of the barber who seeks vengeance and justice by cutting his customers\u2019 throats and the landlady who makes grisly meat pies from his victims has grown in importance since its premiere in 1979, with music by Stephen Sondheim and book by Hugh Wheeler.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would call it the great American opera,\u201d said David Corman, the production\u2019s music director and KWU director of vocal music. \u201cAs musicals go, it truly goes into the operatic world, as far as the complexity of music. It\u2019s an important piece in American music history. From the 1980s, it is entering the opera houses of the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

Corman likens it to \u201cShakespearean in its tragedy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt reminds me a lot of the darkness of Macbeth,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Vickee Spicer, of Theatre Salina, is directing \u201cSweeney Todd,\u201d and Kansas Wesleyan students and faculty will have much to do in the collaborative production. Fifteen current KWU students have taken parts from the leads to the ensemble in the collaborative production.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe ensemble is super important,\u201d Corman said, with several of the members having solos.<\/p>\n

KWU students are playing in the orchestra, which will be conducted by Tyler Breneman, KWU pianist, and Dr. Leonardo Rosario, director of the KWU strings program. Breneman and Dr. Gustavo do Carmo, KWU assistant professor of music, each will play the piano and Rosario will play the violin for the performances.<\/p>\n

Corman has introduced understudies for this collaboration, with some students covering two other roles in addition to learning their own parts. Corman called understudying \u201cthe hardest job in theatre.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s important that KWU students have a wide range of experiences, said Michelle Dolan, executive director of music at Kansas Wesleyan \u2014 types of music, performance venues and directors.<\/p>\n

This semester alone, KWU students have participated or will in \u201cA Night at the Opera,\u201d a fundraiser for the Temple, in March; the \u201cSweeney Todd\u201d collaboration in April; and Mozart\u2019s Requiem with the Salina Symphony in May.<\/p>\n

For tickets to \u201cSweeney Todd,\u201d call Theatre Salina or go online to\u00a0salinatheatre.com\/tickets\/.<\/p>\n

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