Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of FLeet STreet

Audio Team

Sound Designer-Me!

Associate Sound Designer-GW Rodriguez

Assistant Sound Designer-Kaitlyn Gill

Assistant Sound Designer/Qlab programmer-Alyssa Marrero

Production Sound-Tony Pittsley, Lukas Royer

A1-Erica Fox

A2-Kaitlyn Gamory

A3’s-Cameron Sparks, Kate Jeffcot, Demetri Rath, Tabby Dennis

Director

Michael Waintstein

Produced

Theatre UCF, University of Central Florida

Walt Disney Theatre, Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, April 2024

In part of UCF’s 2024 annual Celebrates the Arts festival, I had the pleasure of designing TheatreUCF’s production of Sweeney Todd in the Walt Disney Theatre within the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts. This script presents a thrilling opportunity to combine a dense operatic music arrangement and libretto and bring it to the auditory scale of a large musical. GW and I spent a great deal of time thinking about perceived “weight” of objects in the mix, and sought to create as three-dimensional of an experience as we could. Working together with Richard Crawley, our music director, the goal was to create a transparent mix that made the PA disappear. Hearing a brick wall of sound coming from the ensemble as they took their places as a Greek Chorus will always be my favorite moment of this production.