Here are SWEENEY TODD production photos
Here are SWEENEY TODD production photos
jim
Stand-by Joined: 10/7/03
#0Here are SWEENEY TODD production photos
Posted: 2/2/05 at 10:21pm
Here are the photos from the production. A big thank you to Talkin broadway's Alan Scott who provided the link at that site.
Todd photos
#1re: Here are SWEENEY TODD production photos
Posted: 2/2/05 at 10:26pmIs Ms. Lovett being played by a male?
"They're eating her and then they're going to eat me. OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!" -Troll 2
#2re: Here are SWEENEY TODD production photos
Posted: 2/2/05 at 10:28pmOMG, those look creepy. I want to see it!!!
"They're eating her and then they're going to eat me. OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!" -Troll 2
wildcat
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/04
#4re: Here are SWEENEY TODD production photos
Posted: 2/2/05 at 10:30pmSome of those pictures of Ms. Lovett looks like a male in drag and others look like a woman. I can't tell.
"They're eating her and then they're going to eat me. OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!" -Troll 2
wildcat
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/04
#5re: Here are SWEENEY TODD production photos
Posted: 2/2/05 at 10:35pmI read a review which said that it's a (tuba playing) woman.
#6re: Here are SWEENEY TODD production photos
Posted: 2/2/05 at 10:38pmKaren Mann plays Mrs. Lovett. I belive she plays trumpet, but I may be wrong.
#7re: Here are SWEENEY TODD production photos
Posted: 2/2/05 at 10:43pmYou know, I thought Mrs. Lovett looked like a guy in drag too. Poor woman...
#8re: Here are SWEENEY TODD production photos
Posted: 2/2/05 at 10:43pmShe does. In one picture, you can see a trumpet in her lap.
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#9re: Here are SWEENEY TODD production photos
Posted: 2/2/05 at 10:44pm
looks insane!
OMG I wanna see it!
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#10re: Here are SWEENEY TODD production photos
Posted: 2/2/05 at 11:16pmI had an orgasm just looking at the pictures. It's a must see.
Allie
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/2/04
#11re: Here are SWEENEY TODD production photos
Posted: 2/2/05 at 11:16pmI've never seen the show, but it looks terrifying. But in a good way.
morosco
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/10/04
#12re: Here are SWEENEY TODD production photos
Posted: 2/2/05 at 11:16pmI just don't get it at all. I just can't imagine hearing SWEENEY TODD without the complete orchestrations. Have the unions flown into a rage yet?
#13re: Here are SWEENEY TODD production photos
Posted: 2/2/05 at 11:20pmWhat a BIG difference compared to the original production. It doesn't look like it takes place in the same time era though.
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#14re: Here are SWEENEY TODD production photos
Posted: 2/2/05 at 11:30pm
What does the era matter? It's the story that counts, date is such a silly technicality sometimes, especially when you're trying to acomplish somthing like this. Visually the show looks brilliant.
I cannot wait. I want to go to Bath right now to see it.
jim
Stand-by Joined: 10/7/03
#15re:Karen Mann plays Mrs. Lovett.Plays trumpet
Posted: 2/3/05 at 8:52am
From the program:
Karen trained at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.
Over 40 productions including Romeo and Juliet, A Streetcar Named Desire, Hedda Gabler, Guys and Dolls, Into the Woods, and Moll Flanders. In London, she has worked with the Cherub Theatre Company, the Theatre of Comedy and the Bubble Theatre.
She has appeared in Return to the Forbidden Planet.
At Watermill she has appeared in Cabaret, The Wizard of Oz, Tom Jones,Irma laDouce, Piaf, Fiddler on the Roof and The Gondoliers (which transferred to the Apollo in London's West End).
For television, Karen played a mad Spanish woman in My Family and the woman of death in Death of a Salesman (STV).
#16re:Karen Mann plays Mrs. Lovett.Plays trumpet
Posted: 2/3/05 at 8:53amAh, ok.
"They're eating her and then they're going to eat me. OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!" -Troll 2
Chrysanthemum62001
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/14/04
#17re:Karen Mann plays Mrs. Lovett.Plays trumpet
Posted: 2/3/05 at 8:56amI have to say, it looks really cool.
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#18re:Karen Mann plays Mrs. Lovett.Plays trumpet
Posted: 2/3/05 at 9:30amI just don't know how I feel about this. I believe it is one of Sondheim's best, if not the best show he's ever written, and this production scares me (and not for the right reasons) but I shall try to keep an open mind about the whole affair...
"I don't really get the ending,all i can go with is when after several months,Judith saw Pat sang,and later she kissed him on the toilet,after that the story back to where Pat went down from the stage after he'd sung,and he went to the italian lady.I just don't get it,what Judith exatcly meant when he kissed Pat that she had seen,and did Pat end up together with The Italian Lady?Please help me,thank u very much!"
Quote from someone on IMDB in reference to a movie he/she didn't understand. Such grammar!
magruder
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#19re:Karen Mann plays Mrs. Lovett.Plays trumpet
Posted: 2/3/05 at 9:45amCan anyone who has seen it comment on how the concept of the cast as the orchestra works, exactly? It wasn't much of a stretch in Cabaret with the nightclub setting and all, but I'm not quite sure how it fits for Sweeney.
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#20re:Karen Mann plays Mrs. Lovett.Plays trumpet
Posted: 2/3/05 at 10:53amLol so true, but very funny (about mrs lovette) in a creepy sort of way
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Judge Turpin
Swing Joined: 2/3/05
#21re:Karen Mann plays Mrs. Lovett.Plays trumpet
Posted: 2/3/05 at 11:41am
I was in London two weeks ago and got the chance to see this production of Sweeney Todd. It was absolutely mindblowing. I have seen both the concert with Patti LuPone and George Hearn and the original version with Angela Lansbury on PBS and this is nothing like those. The cast was made up of only 12 people and they all played instruments and thus were the orchestra as well as being the cast. Each instrument that they played was very specific; for example, Johanna and Anthony played the cello. It was as if the instruments they played revealed something about their characters. If the actors were all on stage the entire production, sitting in chairs on either side of the stage. Without there being any dancing, the whole show was so well choreographed as every movement was so planned out. Nothing was done on a whim or out of practicality, it was all done on purpose.
I don't want to reveal the interesting twist to the show, which in no way changes the plot, but simply adds to the horror. And for that matter, the show was scary as hell. I sat in the second row of the stalls (orchestra) and the show was so intense and in your face. And the theater was so small that it was claustrophobic, adding to the allure of it all. Everyone who knows anything of the show can guess that at least one person gets killed by the demon barber. Because the show is done in a minimalist way, buckets of blood are used in great effect to tell us that someone has just gotten their throat slit. The costuming and set go along with this minimalist approach and the whole thing has a Frankenstein/Victorian/modern look to it. Without many items on stage, those that are there are perfectly selected, from the toy doll in a cage to the heavily utilized coffin.
The production is a must-see. I already loved Sweeny Todd and Sondheim, but this show became my favorite Sondheim piece (which is very hard to do as the recent Assasins production was so great) and tops my list of the best musicals I've ever seen.
#22re:Karen Mann plays Mrs. Lovett.Plays trumpet
Posted: 2/3/05 at 11:59amI think Studio 54 might have found it's next tenant! It looks like this production would be great in that space!
#23re:Karen Mann plays Mrs. Lovett.Plays trumpet
Posted: 2/3/05 at 12:26pm
Okay why is Johanna a brunette?
There's only like 4 songs in the show that deal with her having "yellow" hair
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jim
Stand-by Joined: 10/7/03
#24re:bit of a spoiler below
Posted: 2/3/05 at 12:51pm
i think it is a director's choice.Everything about this production goes against any other production you may have seen.It's pretty clear that Johanna is mentally challenged. When she is not playing the cello or performing, she sits there practically drooling....with her mouth open. I got the sense that this was suppose to be set in an asylum. Someone at another board has posted that it could all be taking place in Tobias' mind.
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