Columbia College Chicago Theatre Dept. Alums Bring ‘Sweeney Todd’ to the Stage Sept. 8-Nov. 6

Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni are in the cast and production team of Kokandy Productions’ staging of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Stephen Sondheim’s musical thriller. The show runs September 8 through November 6 at the Chopin Theatre, located at 1543 W. Division in Chicago’s Wicker Park neighborhood. For tickets, click here. Student discounts are available.

Quinn Rigg

The show’s cast includes Columbia College alum Quinn Rigg ’20, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BFA Program in Musical Theatre Performance.

Quinn Rigg as Pirelli in “Sweeney Todd”

Rigg plays barber Adolfo Pirelli, one of the victims of the musical’s murderous title character.

Kirsten Baity

And Columbia College alum Kirsten Baity ’21, who graduated Summa cum Laude with a BA in Theatre with a Playwriting concentration, is the production’s intimacy choreographer.