FAREWELL SWEENEY TODD! — Page 10

Toby's confused, but she starts gently and he giggles and melts to her touch. She hears him say "coo, mum," and finds that ironic. She jerks into it the same way she arches her back, suddenly then slow, she contracts his tiny shoulders into her hands.

me-ow.

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First, Em, thank you for your points made in your discussion with HWB.

Secondly, Hamlet, I know that you are an actor, and from everything I've read, you pretty much are studying/have studied what I want to when I am of college age.

Having not been alive while the originl production was playing, I can only go from the DVD. Hearn's performabce was indeed incredible. Maybe it's because nothing compares to seeing a performance live, but I actually prefer Cerveris'. I feel he was consistantly more connected to the material throughout the show, and more in the moment than Hearn. But to claim that we are all Wicked freaks, Shiz kids, or whatever, is not fair. I for one, am not.

Now, do keep in mind that I really do respect all you've written about acting as a technique and craft.

Now, onto that fan fiction. What the hell is that? Oy.

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The worst fanfiction is when the writer inserts herself into it. Something like...

Toby looked awful, until he saw...Regina Philange approach him. He instantly fell in love with her, gave her a huge kiss, and the two of them lived happily ever after in Disneyland.

Oy.

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Bad fan fiction is so special.

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Yes, yes it is, Emcee.

Curiosity (er, procrastination) got the better of me and I read one with the following plot: Sweeney decides that no, he doesn't want to kill Mrs. Lovett, he loves her and never really loved his wife, so they run away together and live happily ever after by the seaside. And the best review: "OMG! Sweeney Todd is probobly the Greatest Musical Ever, and you just inproved it."

I can't decide whether to laugh or cry.

What's the title of that one?

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...ahahahaha. Oh man, I should have known it would exist already.

Oh. Wow.

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"As Mrs. Lovett approached me I only wanted one thing, her delicious meat pie."

HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!! omg I love bad fanfic! which one is that?

The Michael/Patti moments were so wonderful. During I think the part of The Judge's Return, when Anthony and Johanna were singing, Michael and Patti were on the left side of the stage and Patti was sitting in from of him and he was just gazing at her. I can't really describe it, he was looking at her so lovingly and like in desbelief. she was facing the audience so she couldn't see him but it was really adorable, it reminded me of like a school crush.

someone asked earlier what the batmitzvah thing was- it was this guy who came into the crowd at the stage door with a camera and cue cards and says, "It's my daughter's batmitzvah can you all say hi" then he started holding these cue cards up and it was hilarious. And then this really funny guy in front of me yelled, "La heiem!" or however you spell it.

frogs_fan85, yes I remember you! How are you doing? It was you friend that yelled La heiem, right?

And is the person who yelled, "We love you, Patti!" here? if they are, will you marry me? that was seriously the most amazing thing ever.

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Everythingtaboo, I noticed her as well. I was to the left of her (in the same row), and I found her to be rather distracting. Towards the beginning, I kept seeing her turn her head as if she was looking for someone in the audience. Wasn't the show enough to hold her attention?

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Updated On: 9/4/06 at 11:07 PM

I talked to that girl at the sweeney stage door. Give her a break, she's only like 13-14... i know that she was going into her freshman year of highschool. She and her mother were very pleasant. She honestly loved the show that much. I remember seeing mano talking to her and her mother saying something like "I thought she was going to jump out of her seat." Very friendly like of coarse. I thought she was very cute, and enthusiasm like that should be tamed but encouraged at the same time.

Someone who is 13 or 14 shouldn't be "given a break" for behaving like that in the theatre. The last time I saw Sweeney, there were two girls that looked about 6 or 7 years old and they were more well-behaved than that. I don't care if you're upset because it's closing- if you're distracting the audience around you as well as the actors onstage during the show, it's ALWAYS inappropriate.

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How can you tame AND encourage something at the same time? I don't think anyone wants to deny her her feelings, but... you should know not to behave in a way that distracts the people around you.

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