After fifteen years in exile, barber Benjamin Barker returns to London with a new name - Sweeney Todd and a desire for vengeance. He hunts the man responsible for his misery, Judge Turpin, and soon discovers his old landlady, the pie maker Mrs Lovett, on the trail.

Enraged by the judge's abuse of his family, Todd hatches a plan to be revenged and sets up business alongside Mrs Lovett. But can they really trust each other? Why do Todd's barber shop customers never return? And what makes Mrs Lovett's pies so special?

This summer, to celebrate Stephen Sondheim's 80th birthday, the award-winning National Youth Music Theatre stage their most daring show yet, taking Sondheim's modern classic out of the theatre into a Victorian warehouse within the City of London. Village Underground in Shoreditch is one of the most exciting new venues in town, hosting headlining bands and cutting-edge live performance. The Creative Team, whose previous credits include the National Theatre, RSC and ENO, lead a company of 60 talented young actors, musicians and technicians, all of whom follow in the footsteps of NYMT's celebrated alumni - Jude Law, Matt Lucas, Sheridan Smith and the company's patron, Tom Chambers.

NYMT represents the very best in work with young people through musical theatre. For over thirty years it has enabled young people across the UK to develop both their creative and personal potential, leading Andrew Lloyd Webber to dub it the best youth music theatre in the world'.

To book tickets, please telephone Ambassador Tickets on 08448 717675 or to book online click here

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SWEENEY TODD Rehearsal/Production Dates

Monday 5th April - Saturday 10th April (Residential Rehearsal)
Sunday 25th July - Sunday 1st August (Residential Rehearsal)
Monday 2nd August - Saturday 7th August (London Production)

The award-winning
National Youth Music Theatre
is looking for
the most talented young technicians
to join its 2010 Company

To mark Stephen Sondheim’s 80th birthday, NYMT returns to London with its most thrilling show yet… Sweeney Todd.

The company takes Sondheim’s modern classic out of the theatre and into a found space within the City of London in its most innovative production yet.

The Creative Team is led by director Martin Constantine, whose previous credits include English National Opera, the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre. He is joined by a team of leading theatre and music professionals, from designer Mark Friend (Nation, National Theatre), to Director of Music at Westminster Under School, Jeremy Walker, and National Theatre-based Production Manager, James Manley.

We’ve already recruited our cast of 30 actors, our orchestra of 25 musicians and now we’re looking for 5 young technicians to complete the company… Could you be one of them?

We’re looking to assemble a team of four Assistant Stage Managers, each one specialising in a backstage area - lights, sound, wardrobe, props - and one DSM to call the show. The team will be led by a professional Stage Manager.

Key dates     Sunday 25th July – Sunday 1st August 2010
                        Residential Rehearsals at Charterhouse, Surrey
                        (All food and accommodation provided.)
                        Monday 2nd – Friday 6th August 2010
                        Performances in London
                        (Participants must arrange their own food and accommodation.)

If you’re aged 16 to 21 and have a passion for all things technical then complete the application form and return it by email to ‘enquiries@nymt.org.uk’ or by post to 2-4 Great Eastern Street, London, EC2A 3NW by Monday 3rd May.

Interviews will be held in London (venue to be confirmed) on Saturday 15th May and will last approximately 30 minutes. If you have a portfolio of work you should bring it with you.

The cost of the interview is £10. If chosen the cost of the course is £550, which includes your accommodation and catering during the residential rehearsal at Charterhouse in July and the training you will receive from an experienced team of theatre professionals during rehearsals and performance.

If you have any queries, e-mail NYMT General Manager Carl Rutherford at enquiries@nymt.org.uk or call 020 7422 8290.

‘The best youth music theatre in the world,’ Andrew Lloyd Webber

Music clearly runs all the way through, as Sheridan started ballet classes aged five, then won a place at the National Youth Music Theatre, which ended with a three-month run as Tallulah in Bugsy Malone, in the West End.

Read the whole article from the Sunday Times

The hip-swinging actor who won us over on last year’s Strictly has been given the chance to go back to his theatrical roots

Mail on Sunday article

Daily Telegraph review of The Hired Man from Rupert Christiansen's culture diary 3rd August 2009

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