A really engaging High School SWEENEY TODD

[morosco]

Posted: 10/2/23 at 8:21pm

SWEENEY TODD

[Voter]

Posted: 10/2/23 at 8:43pm

Overall, pretty great production.

This is located in Pottstown, PA

 

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[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 10/2/23 at 9:18pm

It sounds like the actors can’t hear the orchestra and the orchestra can’t hear the actors. I hope they got permission to reorchestrate and add dialogue. And what’s with the kabuki makeup? Mrs. Lovett looks more like Countess Aurelia.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 10/2/23 at 9:25pm

My friends and i went down a YouTube High School Sweeney rabbit hole a few weeks ago and watched a lot of this one! Another one that we love and have quoted ever since changed the Beggar Woman’s lyrics to things like “How would you like to take me dancing and be my boyfriend?” And man, we lost our sh*t, laughing. 
 

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[g.d.e.l.g.i.]

Posted: 10/3/23 at 2:58pm

^ That, per Finishing the Hat, was a Sondheim rewrite for the School Edition. Aside from the obvious cuts that would make sense in such a setting, he mainly amended the Beggar Woman's saucy repartee. (The original lyrics are still printed in the vocal score, but they trust educators to know their audience and whether amendments are necessary.)

The substitutions in "A Barber and His Wife" are:

'Ow would you like a little kiss, dear?
I'll be your girlfriend
You won't do better on the docks
Wouldn't you like to take me dancin'
And be my boyfriend
And buy me lots of pretty frocks?

[...]

Then 'ow would you like a little kiss dear,
I'll be your girlfriend
You won't do--

And in "Ah, Miss," we have:

Hey! Hoy! Sailor boy!
Lookin' pretty chipper!
Make us a date,
I'll be your mate
And you can be my skipper!

Updated On: 10/3/23 at 02:58 PM

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 10/3/23 at 3:05pm

Ok WOW. I did not know/remember that! It just sounds so…STUPID lololol

[g.d.e.l.g.i.]

Posted: 10/3/23 at 3:12pm

I think the "Ah, Miss" alternate is kind of cute, but on the whole, I agree; they're corny.