Rooth Varland, associate professor and department coordinator for NDSU Theatre, has been invited to design costumes for “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” by Stephen Sondheim at the Filene Center at Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts outside of Washington, D.C. The production is scheduled for Friday, July 22, at 8:15 p.m.
Presented by the Wolf Trap Opera Company, this gripping story is told in a fully staged production, featuring a new Operascape video project design. The National Symphony Orchestra will be on stage, bringing Sondheim’s score to life in vivid and powerful detail. “Sweeney Todd” is a musical thriller about Benjamin Barker, alias Sweeney Todd, who returns to London after 15 years of imprisonment on false charges. He learns his wife poisoned herself and begins to exact revenge on the man he holds responsible.
This is the fifth production Varland has worked on with director Tara Faircloth. For more information about “Sweeney Todd,” visit www.wolftrap.org/Find_Performances_and_Events/Performance/11Filene/0722show11.aspx.