Angela Lansbury on Sweeney Todd's revival and London Production
Angela Lansbury on Sweeney Todd's revival and London Production
#0Angela Lansbury on Sweeney Todd's revival and London Production
Posted: 10/16/06 at 1:39pm
Has anyone read this? She is pretty candid!
http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/9237
Ciaron McCarthy
Broadway Star Joined: 10/15/06
#1re: Angela Lansbury on Sweeney Todd's revival and London Production
Posted: 10/16/06 at 1:47pm
I friggin love this woman!! I love that she mentioned Tunick! Especially since I mentioned his orchestrations earlier today in a thread! She is Broadways greatest actress and the first lady of musical theater.
OK I'm done =)
RockabyeHamlet
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/1/05
#2re: Angela Lansbury on Sweeney Todd's revival and London Production
Posted: 10/16/06 at 1:51pm
"I think my performance shocked some people because it was in opposition to everything else that was going on, but I thought it was terribly important to lighten the piece. If I hadn't gone that route and cut up as much as I did, I think it would have been more difficult for the audience to swallow. Sweeney Todd was the hardest work I've ever done, but also the most meaningful. "
- Perfect, Just Magnificent. This is why I love her.
"People who like Sondheim enjoy cruelty."-LuvtheEmcee
Isabella2
Broadway Star Joined: 10/6/05
#3re: Angela Lansbury on Sweeney Todd's revival and London Production
Posted: 10/16/06 at 1:54pmshe's hot.
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#4re: Angela Lansbury on Sweeney Todd's revival and London Production
Posted: 10/16/06 at 2:03pm
"Sweeney Todd was the hardest work I've ever done, but also the most meaningful."
Oh Angie. I thought The Harvey Girls was the most meaningful for you. The theme of waitresses vs. prostitutes resounded with so many people.
#5re: Angela Lansbury on Sweeney Todd's revival and London Production
Posted: 10/16/06 at 2:08pmShe'll be singing at the Dorothy Parker benefit? Hooray!
#6re: Angela Lansbury on Sweeney Todd's revival and London Production
Posted: 10/16/06 at 2:17pmI'd love to see her join the Encores! cast for Follies, and take on either Broadway Baby or I'm Still Here.
#7re: Angela Lansbury on Sweeney Todd's revival and London Production
Posted: 10/16/06 at 2:19pm
Sounds like she will just be doing readings, not singing.
edit: My bad. She will be singing!
morosco
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/10/04
#8re: Angela Lansbury on Sweeney Todd's revival and London Production
Posted: 10/16/06 at 2:23pmSuch class this lady has. I've never heard a bad thing about her (not that I'd believe it!).
#9re: Angela Lansbury on Sweeney Todd's revival and London Production
Posted: 10/16/06 at 2:25pmThere's nothing bad to say.
JohnBoy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/21/06
#10re: Angela Lansbury on Sweeney Todd's revival and London Production
Posted: 10/16/06 at 2:43pm
I could tell you one or two stories about what a bitch she is; but I'd be making them up. I love her.
Updated On: 10/16/06 at 02:43 PM
#11re: Angela Lansbury on Sweeney Todd's revival and London Production
Posted: 10/16/06 at 2:46pmBea Arthur said in her show that she has a mouth like a sailor, but she didn't elaborate. I think that makes me love her even more.
#12re: Angela Lansbury on Sweeney Todd's revival and London Production
Posted: 10/16/06 at 2:46pmShe is class personified.
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#13re: Angela Lansbury on Sweeney Todd's revival and London Production
Posted: 10/16/06 at 2:47pm
"I'd love to see her join the Encores! cast for Follies, and take on either Broadway Baby or I'm Still Here."
Isn't she too old to play Carlotta?
#14re: Angela Lansbury on Sweeney Todd's revival and London Production
Posted: 10/16/06 at 2:48pmI love that woman! It's also her birthday today! Happy Birthday Angela!
#15re: Angela Lansbury on Sweeney Todd's revival and London Production
Posted: 10/16/06 at 2:52pm
"Isn't she too old to play Carlotta?"
Carlotta was played by Polly Bergen in the recent revival, and I think she's just a couple of years yonger than Angela. Also, I believe Ann Miller was 112 when she played the role at the Papermill Playhouse.
#16re: Angela Lansbury on Sweeney Todd's revival and London Production
Posted: 10/16/06 at 3:14pm
"Bea Arthur said in her show that she has a mouth like a sailor, but she didn't elaborate. I think that makes me love her even more."
I love Bea Arthur with the fire of a thousand suns.
Ciaron McCarthy
Broadway Star Joined: 10/15/06
#17re: Angela Lansbury on Sweeney Todd's revival and London Production
Posted: 10/16/06 at 3:20pm
Anyone ever met her? I have. She's extraoridnary!!
They need to revive "A Little Night Music" NOW and put her in it!! I want a 5th Tony!
#18re: Angela Lansbury on Sweeney Todd's revival and London Production
Posted: 10/16/06 at 3:22pm
Arthur or Lansbury?
The answer is Yes.
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#19re: Angela Lansbury on Sweeney Todd's revival and London Production
Posted: 10/16/06 at 3:23pm
"Carlotta was played by Polly Bergen in the recent revival, and I think she's just a couple of years yonger than Angela. Also, I believe Ann Miller was 112 when she played the role at the Papermill Playhouse."
But Yvonne DeCarlo was much closer in age to Dorothy Collins and Alexis Smith.
BrodyFosse123
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/06
#20re: Angela Lansbury on Sweeney Todd's revival and London Production
Posted: 10/16/06 at 3:59pm
Sh*t, we're talking about Angela POSSIBLY joining a CONCERT version of FOLLIES -- not a damn movie-version.
No one bitched/complained when a thick-boned Audra played Deena Jones along with a too old for Effie, Lilias for the Actor's Fund Benefit Concert of DREAMGIRLS!
Ciaron McCarthy
Broadway Star Joined: 10/15/06
#21re: Angela Lansbury on Sweeney Todd's revival and London Production
Posted: 10/16/06 at 4:06pmI'd rather see Angie do "Broadway Baby". "I'm Still Here" doesnt really fit her. Oh hell I'd take either!!
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#22re: Angela Lansbury on Sweeney Todd's revival and London Production
Posted: 10/16/06 at 4:08pm
"No one bitched/complained when a thick-boned Audra played Deena Jones along with a too old for Effie, Lilias for the Actor's Fund Benefit Concert of DREAMGIRLS!"
I did. Audra's voice is too operatic for Deena. Her voice didn't fit in with the music.
Ciaron McCarthy
Broadway Star Joined: 10/15/06
#23re: Angela Lansbury on Sweeney Todd's revival and London Production
Posted: 10/16/06 at 4:16pm
"I did. Audra's voice is too operatic for Deena. Her voice didn't fit in with the music."
I was at that concert. I get what you're saying about Audras voice but she pulled Deena just fine, especially when her and Effie fight at the end of Act I. She's got the acting chops.
Lilias annoyed me a little.
Jazzysuite82
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/6/05
#24re: Angela Lansbury on Sweeney Todd's revival and London Production
Posted: 10/16/06 at 4:21pmAudra was operatic...yeah I've heard that and plenty of people agree, including me. I still got a kick out of it. Um and as for her being "thick-boned" keep in mind she had just given birth a few months earlier and was prob still nursing. She wasn't THAT thick.
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