Jeff McCarthy to Star in Barrington's Sweeney Todd

By Andrew Gans
November 19, 2009

Broadway favorite Jeff McCarthy will star in the title role of the Barrington Stage Company's upcoming production of Sweeney Todd.

The Stephen Sondheim-Hugh Wheeler musical thriller will play the Massachusetts venue June 17-July 17, 2010, on the theatre's Mainstage. Additional casting will be announced at a later date.

Artistic director Julianne Boyd will helm the production with musical direction by Darren R. Cohen.

McCarthy has been seen on Broadway in The Pirate Queen, Urinetown, Side Show, Beauty and the Beast, Smile, Zorba and Pirates of Penzance and Off-Broadway in Dream True and Sympathetic Magic. His other theatrical credits include The Opposite of Sex, Les Misérables, Three Sisters, City of Angels, Arms and the Man, Follies, The Misanthrope, Henry IV, Sunday in the Park with George and A Lie of the Mind. McCarthy's screen credits include "Law & Order," "Star Trek," "L.A. Law," "Cheers," "Designing Women," "Heat of the Night," "RoboCop II," "Eve of Destruction," "Rapid Fire" and "Cliffhanger."

McCarthy's Barrington credits include Ben Stone in Follies and Mack Sennett in Mack & Mabel.

Single tickets go on sale March 1, 2010. For further information visit www.barringtonstageco.org.