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Sondheim was instrumental in what Bendorf considers her most positive artistic experience on campus—performing the role of Johanna in “Sweeney Todd” during her sophomore spring. “It really felt like my first show that could be professional,” she says, recalling how the production sold out the Loeb Mainstage—something the American Repertory Theater’s professional productions rarely accomplish. “We joked that we could’ve taken it to Broadway,” she says...
...Wife, and the subtle evolution of their relationship over the course of the play forms a solid center for the many intertwining stories. A Sondheim veteran, Bendorf (who also acted as Johanna in 2008’s Mainstage production of Sondheim’s “Sweeney Todd”) creates a character that is equal parts practical and provocative. While maintaining her character’s witty charm, she effectively poses the moral questions of the play, at one point singing, “If the end is right, it justifies the beans...
...Sweeney says that one of his favorite parts about his time at the IOP has been the connections he has made with students from across the University...
...leave it up to them what I talk about, I’m not pushing my agenda,” Sweeney says. “It’s up to them what they want to get out of Sweeney,” he adds with a smile...
...Sweeney has not “taken a few months off” in years, and came to the IOP only months after stepping down from the AFL-CIO. He says his wife Maureen, a retired school teacher who has shuttled back and forth from their D.C. area home and Cambridge many times this semester, sometimes says, “‘When are you going to retire?’ and I say, ‘the pension checks come...