#1
Posted: 8/24/08 at 5:44pm
The following is scanned from the monthly newsletter for my town in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. I can't wait to see Neil Simon's Sweeney Todd. Should be a fresh vision!
Neil Simon's Sweeney Todd!
#2
Posted: 8/24/08 at 5:53pm
When's it going to Broadway?
"I want a lap dance from an octopus."
-JG2
-JG2
#3
Posted: 8/24/08 at 6:03pm
"Mrs. Lovett! I don't like the pantyhose hanging on the rod!"
#4
Posted: 8/24/08 at 6:15pm
Yikes.
"As we all should probably have learned by now, to be a Stephen Sondheim fan is to have one's heart broken at regular intervals" - Frank Rich
Dearest, how can this be so? You were dead, you know. - Candide
Oh my god, this show has everything! Half naked guys and girl on girl action! - [title of show]
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Dearest, how can this be so? You were dead, you know. - Candide
Oh my god, this show has everything! Half naked guys and girl on girl action! - [title of show]
(My avatar? Why, yes! That is Laura Benanti making out with a chick!)
#5
Posted: 8/24/08 at 7:33pm
C'mon, Barker, let's go down to the deli and get blind, stinkin' drunk.. we gotta think of a plan..
#6
Posted: 8/24/08 at 8:54pm
This was always my favorite Simon play! Here's a quick sample of a scene:
LOVETT: You look like hell. Where have you been?
SWEENEY: I was detained a little bit. A funny thing happened on the way to Australia.
LOVETT: Don't they have stamps Down Under? Not so much as a ten-word postcard, you know. Lucy was sick over it. Sick to death.
SWEENEY: You don't mean...
LOVETT: I do. She poisoned herself.
SWEENEY: Why?
LOVETT: Nobody else would do it for her---How the hell would I know? So, what are you going to do now?
SWEENEY: I'm a barber. I'll cut hair.
LOVETT: You can start with your own. And a shower wouldn't hurt, while you're in the neighborhood.
SWEENEY: I'll make you a deal. I'll bathe if you stop making these dreadful pies. A person could die from such cuisine.
LOVETT: So, I'm not five-star. Sue me. I'm a woman of a certain age, now. I do the best I can.
They just don't write 'em like they used to.
LOVETT: You look like hell. Where have you been?
SWEENEY: I was detained a little bit. A funny thing happened on the way to Australia.
LOVETT: Don't they have stamps Down Under? Not so much as a ten-word postcard, you know. Lucy was sick over it. Sick to death.
SWEENEY: You don't mean...
LOVETT: I do. She poisoned herself.
SWEENEY: Why?
LOVETT: Nobody else would do it for her---How the hell would I know? So, what are you going to do now?
SWEENEY: I'm a barber. I'll cut hair.
LOVETT: You can start with your own. And a shower wouldn't hurt, while you're in the neighborhood.
SWEENEY: I'll make you a deal. I'll bathe if you stop making these dreadful pies. A person could die from such cuisine.
LOVETT: So, I'm not five-star. Sue me. I'm a woman of a certain age, now. I do the best I can.
They just don't write 'em like they used to.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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#7
Posted: 8/24/08 at 8:56pm
Best you have a career in writing for community theater!
#8
Posted: 8/24/08 at 8:59pm
LOL. Don't I just?
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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#9
Posted: 8/24/08 at 9:04pm
The only thing missing is what a friend used to call "auto Director" indications:
LOVETT: You look like hell. (pause) Where have you been?
SWEENEY: I was detained a little bit. (steps to right) A funny thing happened on the way to Australia.
LOVETT: Don't they have stamps Down Under? Not so much as a ten-word postcard, you know. Lucy was sick over it. Sick to death. (turns away slowly)
SWEENEY: You don't mean... (Pause. Cover mouth)
LOVETT: I do. She poisoned herself. (Pantomies drinking poison)
SWEENEY: Why? (strinken)
etc etc etc
LOVETT: You look like hell. (pause) Where have you been?
SWEENEY: I was detained a little bit. (steps to right) A funny thing happened on the way to Australia.
LOVETT: Don't they have stamps Down Under? Not so much as a ten-word postcard, you know. Lucy was sick over it. Sick to death. (turns away slowly)
SWEENEY: You don't mean... (Pause. Cover mouth)
LOVETT: I do. She poisoned herself. (Pantomies drinking poison)
SWEENEY: Why? (strinken)
etc etc etc
#10
Posted: 8/24/08 at 10:53pm
You should have seen it with the original cast. Truly inspiring!
Sweeney - Peter Falk
Mrs. Lovett - Marsha Mason
Judge Turpin - Walter Matthau
Beadle - James Coco
Pirelli - Herb Edelman
Beggar Woman - Maureen Stapleton
Tobias - Matthew Broderick
Joanna - Kristy McNichol
Anthony - Scott Baio
Sweeney - Peter Falk
Mrs. Lovett - Marsha Mason
Judge Turpin - Walter Matthau
Beadle - James Coco
Pirelli - Herb Edelman
Beggar Woman - Maureen Stapleton
Tobias - Matthew Broderick
Joanna - Kristy McNichol
Anthony - Scott Baio
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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Updated On: 8/25/08 at 10:53 PM
#11
Posted: 8/24/08 at 10:57pm
Besty, that's beyond brilliant. You need an agent. STAT!
#12
Posted: 8/24/08 at 11:02pm
Besty, you had me laughing for a good five minutes!
LOVETT: You can start with your own. And a shower wouldn't hurt, while you're in the neighborhood.
SWEENEY: I'll make you a deal. I'll bathe if you stop making these dreadful pies. A person could die from such cuisine.
LOVETT: So, I'm not five-star. Sue me. I'm a woman of a certain age, now. I do the best I can.
Perfection!
LOVETT: You can start with your own. And a shower wouldn't hurt, while you're in the neighborhood.
SWEENEY: I'll make you a deal. I'll bathe if you stop making these dreadful pies. A person could die from such cuisine.
LOVETT: So, I'm not five-star. Sue me. I'm a woman of a certain age, now. I do the best I can.
Perfection!
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
#13
Posted: 8/24/08 at 11:04pm
You're much too kind, ray! 
I'm glad you laughed!
And PJ, from your mouth to God's ears.
I'm glad you laughed! And PJ, from your mouth to God's ears.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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