{"id":24636,"date":"2025-10-03T10:00:53","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T14:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/?p=24636"},"modified":"2025-10-02T08:04:01","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T12:04:01","slug":"nh-unscripted-with-the-village-players-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/?p=24636","title":{"rendered":"NH Unscripted with The Village Players"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most popular Stephen Sondheim musicals,\u00a0Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, will be hitting the stage of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.village-players.com\/\">The Village Players\u00a0of Wolfeboro<\/a> for two weekends beginning (quite appropriately) October 31st. And we just happen to get the director Paul Stewart (yes I get his name wrong during our interview! Sue me.) and several of the cast members to break down the progress of this tremendous show. Andrew Gibson (Sweeney himself), Erin Balestrieri (Mrs. Lovett), Louis Laurendeau (Anthony Hope) and Janice Knepp (Ensemble member) give us all the details. Synopsis for those who aren\u2019t familiar with it:\u00a0&#8220;Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street&#8221; is a dark musical about a barber named Sweeney Todd who returns to London after being wrongfully imprisoned. He seeks revenge on the corrupt Judge Turpin, who framed him, and teams up with Mrs. Lovett, who runs a failing pie shop, leading to a series of gruesome events as Todd&#8217;s thirst for vengeance escalates.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe data-src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/soundcloud%3Atracks%3A2180625251%3Fsecret_token%3Ds-fOHPwLMn6y3&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc; line-break: anywhere; word-break: normal; overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Sans', Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-weight: 100; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"WKXL - NH Talk Radio\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/wkxl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WKXL &#8211; NH Talk Radio<\/a> \u00b7 <a style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"NH Unscripted with The Village Players\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/wkxl\/4d590ad6-c155-4c45-9ee5-211fdf19aa8b\/s-fOHPwLMn6y3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NH Unscripted with The Village Players<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most popular Stephen Sondheim musicals,\u00a0Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, will be hitting the stage of\u00a0The Village Players\u00a0of Wolfeboro for two weekends beginning (quite appropriately) October 31st. 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