OOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHH YEAAHH. Yeah that was one of the parts where i just smiled and my eyes probably crossed and im just like "YAH sweeney awesome". Probably some attempt to make it some disciplinary act to reprimand him for flashlighting the audience and thus had to go back and play the piano like he does 75% of the show? lol
I talked to the guy who was the Beadle as well. Also a nother amazing experiance. My mom told me that he was in passion, so i kinda just tapped him on the shoulder and was like "You were in passion!!!???" And we talked a little from there. I told him I was obsessed with Passion and he seemed well... a little scared, no just kidding, he seemed happy with that response. I told him how I thought he was wonderful how I loved the show so much how I couldn't stop crying and for his autograph. I must admit, HE WAS HOT! So good looking, Italian, (like me) big, shiny white teeth. I don't even know the guy and I think I already developed a crush on him. I looked up his role in passion and he played augenti. I'm not exactly sure which part that is. But still... in sweeney todd, Alexander Gemignani was amazing. Words fail me when it come to describing the show. All I can say is... amazing. I can't wait till i'm singing with people like this.
I adored that passion concert as well and after seeing him in assassins and the passion concert, I was slightly underwhelmed here. He was quite good in both the former but wasnt too impressed with his Beadle, especially compared with others who have just done so much more with it that he did. Oh and in Passion he was one of the main soldiers and had a good deal of time on stage
ooh, i remembered what it was that i missed, song wise, in "pirelli's miracle elixir" the part where sweeney and lovett start talking about how the elixir is piss and a fraud was gone, so when pirelli asked who said his elixir was piss, it didn't make much sense.
when ducks grow thumbs then maybe my opinion will change.
Sweeney Todd is one of the most brilliant pieces of musical theatre I have ever seen.
"Smart! And into all those exotic mystiques -- The Kama Sutra and Chinese techniques. I hear she knows more than seventy-five. Call me tomorrow if you're still alive!"
pab - intellectually, I appreciate its brilliance - completely. Amazingly complex and thoroughly realized. But I experience theatre on a very visceral level - with my heart, not my mind. And all that brilliance doesn't change the fact that it literally gave me a headache and that the tale is, shall we say, 'unsavory'.
DGrant - My "no accounting for taste" comment is not meant as a slam to anyone who does not like this show, it's just that - there is no accounting for taste - mine or yours. We just differ on how we feel about this particular show (and maybe others). I also experience theatre on a visceral level and on an intellectual level and on many other levels and I have enjoyed this show at all levels. I've had the opportunity to direct this musical which only deepened my appreciation for it. With some of the scores that I've heard on Broadway this one, IMO, is so far ahead that it's just amazing that some of the others are even considered in the same league. I have some friends who don't like the show and that's fine with me. My reaction to them is usually to say "it's your loss" but I don't like some of the things they like and they in turn say the same thing to me. It would be a pretty boring world if everyone liked the same things. And as I said before "there's no accounting for taste".
"Smart! And into all those exotic mystiques -- The Kama Sutra and Chinese techniques. I hear she knows more than seventy-five. Call me tomorrow if you're still alive!"
you know I am embarressed to say I own the video and have never watched it. I know nothing about the music. It's one of those things where I keep meaning to, but just never do. I do not own the OBCR......ande considering I own everything else, is truly an embarrassment.
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story...
AGATHA CHRISTIE, Life magazine, May 14, 1956
The score is one of the most brilliant created for Broadway. If you'd rather listen to Mamma Mia! and Hairspray be my guest (no pun intended)
"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."
To Kill A Mockingbird
HUGE HUGE HUGE fan of Sweeney. This version just didn't do it for me. Without a full orchestra some emotional moments in the show are lost. The actors were GREAT however! Just the production itself I wasn't just a big fan of.
"So just to clarify, no one can justify the beginning of the second act, right?"
They're still tinkering with it as the show in previews. In London, it was fairly obvious what was going on but it just won't work in this particular theatre, but I'm sure they'll get there.
