Amanda Seyfried and Eddie Redmayne
Amanda Seyfried and Eddie Redmayne
#1Amanda Seyfried and Eddie Redmayne
Posted: 12/28/12 at 11:53am
If the Sweeney Todd movie was just being made now, Amanda and Eddie would be cast as Joanna and Anthony, right?
Updated On: 12/28/12 at 11:53 AM
#2Amanda Seyfried and Eddie Redmayne
Posted: 12/28/12 at 12:02pmThey couldn't handle the score. It was painful listening to them in the Les Miz movie although Redmayne redeemed himself a little with "Empty Chairs at Empty Tables."
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#3Amanda Seyfried and Eddie Redmayne
Posted: 12/28/12 at 12:05pm
Well the Sweeney film recorded the vocals in the studio. So the studio could make anything happen. Plus, the challenging KISS ME was cut.
Anyway, I'm not big fans of them or anything, I just couldn't stop thinking Joanna and Anthony while watching the Les Mis film. The characters are quite similar, although Joanna and Anthony are more developed.
Updated On: 12/28/12 at 12:05 PM
#4Amanda Seyfried and Eddie Redmayne
Posted: 12/28/12 at 12:11pm
Would love to see them as Liesl and Friedrich in the upcoming live TV version of THE SOUND OF MUSIC.
...just kidding... 
#5Amanda Seyfried and Eddie Redmayne
Posted: 12/28/12 at 12:39pmAmanda's voice is not strong enough for Joanna...and I FELL IN LOVE with Eddie Redmayne while watching Les Miz...and he probably could sing Anthony quite well...or anything else he wants to sing...:)
Wynbish
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/27/12
#6Amanda Seyfried and Eddie Redmayne
Posted: 12/28/12 at 1:09pm
^ Johanna
Joanna is from another Sondheim show, Sondheim fan
#7Amanda Seyfried and Eddie Redmayne
Posted: 12/28/12 at 1:11pmOops, I made the same mistake, lol. Too much reading on Twitter about Joanna from RHOM.
Wynbish
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/27/12
#8Amanda Seyfried and Eddie Redmayne
Posted: 12/28/12 at 1:13pmUgh, she's annoying. And needs to go away. And really pretty.
#9Amanda Seyfried and Eddie Redmayne
Posted: 12/28/12 at 1:13pmAgreed. But I don't like Adriana either. Team Karent.
Wynbish
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/27/12
#10Amanda Seyfried and Eddie Redmayne
Posted: 12/28/12 at 1:17pm
I still don't understand how anyone understands Mama Elsa without subtitles.
If there is a Spanish-language Sweeney Todd, I vote Mama Elsa as Lovett
#11Amanda Seyfried and Eddie Redmayne
Posted: 12/28/12 at 1:19pm
LOL, it is quite difficult, but she really does make the show.
And Elsa as Lovett is kind of brilliant!
#12Amanda Seyfried and Eddie Redmayne
Posted: 12/28/12 at 3:15pmTheir voices don't mix well. At least, I don't think so.
#13Amanda Seyfried and Eddie Redmayne
Posted: 12/28/12 at 3:18pmMama Elsa would be great as Fosca in an all spanish language version of Sondheim's PASSION or Madame Armfeld in A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC with Charro as Desiree.
jsg03jd
Broadway Star Joined: 11/24/04
#14Amanda Seyfried and Eddie Redmayne
Posted: 12/29/12 at 1:46am
Eddie Redmayne was actually a nice surprise. I'll take his Marius over someone like Nick Jonas any day of the week and twice on Sunday.
Amanda Seyfried was simply horrific. A bleating goat could've sung Cosette better.
Phantom4ever
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/17/07
#15Amanda Seyfried and Eddie Redmayne
Posted: 12/29/12 at 4:24amThe first time I saw the Les Miz movie, my friend whisper to me that Redmayne sounded like Kermit the Frog. I totally disagreed. Seeing the movie a 2nd time tonight, I did hear Kermit the Frog quite a bit as he sang. The reprise of Heart Full of Love was probably the most Kermitesque.
#16Amanda Seyfried and Eddie Redmayne
Posted: 12/29/12 at 11:09am
I thought Eddie sounded great. Quite a surprise. I love Amanda as an actress and she did a great job with, let's face it, a crappy role, but her voice sounds much better in her mid-range than her high range. She had that horrible Disney Snow White vibrato on every note.
Truly, Anthony and Johanna are equally lame roles, but I think they could have brought out something interesting in them. They'd certainly have been better than the two boring pieces of wood they got to play the roles in the Burton movie. They practically blended into the scenery every time they showed up. I don't know if I'd want to hear Amanda sing it, though.
SporkGoddess
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/27/05
#17Amanda Seyfried and Eddie Redmayne
Posted: 12/29/12 at 12:13pm
Amanda Seyfried could have a pretty soprano voice, but she just doesn't have the training. Her breath support is too lacking and she approaches the high notes from under them instead of from above. She definitely doesn't have the chops for Johanna at this point. Johanna's high note are more difficult than Cosette's because they're on some very weird vowels.
Eddie Redmayne sounds good but he demonstrated a lot of tension as he sang--that could become a problem if he continued singing as a career.
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