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...Though McClelland is an established theatrical force at Harvard, previously starring on the mainstage and directing productions both in the Experimental Theater and for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, he has never before directed a musical. Yet McClelland respects the art form. “Musicals are really interesting because sometimes they get a bum rap for being sort of undercomplicated and simple in aspirations. And I don’t think that’s necessarily true. Particularly, this show is not that,” he said...
...McClelland also has no insecurities about taking on such a mammoth assignment for his first foray into musical theater. “I just don’t get scared by it. I just focus on my job,” he said
Both Stetson and McClelland contend that the richness of Sondheim’s score, while supplying the greatest challenge of the production, also aids the execution of the show. McClelland notes that “the music takes care of a lot aspects that would otherwise consume me…it’s actually kind of liberating...
That’s not to say, though, that McClelland has not put great thought into his conception of the show. Regarding McClelland’s approach to the production, Sweeney himself (Benjamin D. Margo ’04) said, “He’s not treating the play as if it’s too precious, not like something that he has to do the way other people have done...
...production’s setting, McClelland has jettisoned the traditional accoutrements of mid-19th century London and instead adopted an often post-apocalyptic look that pulls on a wide variety of time periods...