Angela Lansbury on Sweeney Todd's revival and London Production

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Angela 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

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Updated On: 10/16/06 at 01:39 PM

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re: 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 =)

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re: 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.

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re: Angela Lansbury on Sweeney Todd's revival and London Production

Posted: 10/16/06 at 1:54pm

she's hot.

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re: 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.

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re: Angela Lansbury on Sweeney Todd's revival and London Production

Posted: 10/16/06 at 2:08pm

She'll be singing at the Dorothy Parker benefit? Hooray!

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re: Angela Lansbury on Sweeney Todd's revival and London Production

Posted: 10/16/06 at 2:17pm

I'd love to see her join the Encores! cast for Follies, and take on either Broadway Baby or I'm Still Here.

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re: 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!

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Updated On: 10/16/06 at 02:19 PM

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re: Angela Lansbury on Sweeney Todd's revival and London Production

Posted: 10/16/06 at 2:23pm

Such class this lady has. I've never heard a bad thing about her (not that I'd believe it!).

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re: Angela Lansbury on Sweeney Todd's revival and London Production

Posted: 10/16/06 at 2:25pm

There's nothing bad to say.

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re: 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

#12

re: Angela Lansbury on Sweeney Todd's revival and London Production

Posted: 10/16/06 at 2:46pm

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.

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re: Angela Lansbury on Sweeney Todd's revival and London Production

Posted: 10/16/06 at 2:46pm

She is class personified.

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re: 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?

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re: Angela Lansbury on Sweeney Todd's revival and London Production

Posted: 10/16/06 at 2:48pm

I love that woman! It's also her birthday today! Happy Birthday Angela!

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re: 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.

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re: 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.

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re: 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!

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re: Angela Lansbury on Sweeney Todd's revival and London Production

Posted: 10/16/06 at 3:22pm

Arthur or Lansbury?

The answer is Yes.

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re: 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.

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re: 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!

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re: Angela Lansbury on Sweeney Todd's revival and London Production

Posted: 10/16/06 at 4:06pm

I'd rather see Angie do "Broadway Baby". "I'm Still Here" doesnt really fit her. Oh hell I'd take either!!

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re: 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.

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If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.

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re: 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.

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re: Angela Lansbury on Sweeney Todd's revival and London Production

Posted: 10/16/06 at 4:21pm

Audra 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.