FAREWELL SWEENEY TODD!- Page 10

[BNN]

Posted: 9/4/06 at 7:44pm

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.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 9/4/06 at 7:45pm

51 entries! AH!

[aspiringactress]

Posted: 9/4/06 at 7:53pm

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.

[TheaterAddict7652]

Posted: 9/4/06 at 7:54pm

Wait until the Burton/Depp movie and the 14 year old fans with their Sweeney Todd Hot Topic shirts

This is one of the reasons why I'm not looking forward to this movie...

[wickedrentq]

Posted: 9/4/06 at 7:56pm

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.

[BNN]

Posted: 9/4/06 at 7:59pm

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




It is getting too hot in here!

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 9/4/06 at 8:01pm

Bad fan fiction is so special.

[aspiringactress]

Posted: 9/4/06 at 8:03pm

My History teacher writes Harry Potter fan fiction.

::akward pause::

Yeah.

[commasplice]

Posted: 9/4/06 at 8:04pm

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.

[wickedrentq]

Posted: 9/4/06 at 8:21pm

Always better to laugh.

[aspiringactress]

Posted: 9/4/06 at 8:43pm

What's the title of that one?

[EltonJ]

Posted: 9/4/06 at 9:11pm

EVILNPUNK THAT VID WAS FANTASTIC!!!!!! Hamlet bro.... go suck an egg. Hearn wasn't even the original... were you in daipers when the original even came out?

SEEN BOTH PRODUCTIONS HERE: CERVERIS RULES & DONT MESS WITH THE PATTI














Updated On: 9/4/06 at 09:11 PM

[iridescent_bomb]

Posted: 9/4/06 at 9:27pm

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

[mrs felciano]

Posted: 9/4/06 at 10:24pm

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=95725062

Ohhh you guys forgot about role playing. I mean theres myspaces for loads of broadway characters but this person goes back and forth RPing with Johanna.. kind of weird.

[aspiringactress]

Posted: 9/4/06 at 10:41pm

Oh. Wow.

[commasplice]

Posted: 9/4/06 at 10:49pm

I can't remember the exact title (I closed the browser window a little while back)...I believe it had "flame" in it.

And the RPing is...um, special?

[mrslovett7]

Posted: 9/4/06 at 11:01pm

"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.

[everythingtaboo]

Posted: 9/4/06 at 11:03pm

All this talk of overzealous fandom (which, by the way, doesn't strike me any different than Trekdom or LOTR, etc.) reminded me:

At the risk of offending the actual person, there was a young girl second row centre last night who was all over the place, I couldn't help but be distracted by it. I could tell the actors were noticing it too. She was practically jumping out of her seat most of her time, it looked like her mother had to hook her arm into hers to anchor her down...and at the end, she was crying buckets, and during the curtain call she was openly weeping, sobbin loud enough for the cast to look at her while Michael and Patti were speecifying.

I suppose it was honest emotion, but it was indeed an interesting sight to see.

[Fantabulous428]

Posted: 9/4/06 at 11:07pm

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?

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

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 9/4/06 at 11:10pm

I agree that it probably WAS her honest (if kind of weirdly excessive) emotional reaction, but I did find her distracting, practically leaping out of her seat throughout the performance.

[Isabella2]

Posted: 9/4/06 at 11:20pm

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.

[Isabella2]

Posted: 9/4/06 at 11:22pm

I think she may have been looking for stephen sondheim. She told me that she saw him. I wanted to see him too.

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 9/4/06 at 11:27pm

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.

[Isabella2]

Posted: 9/4/06 at 11:34pm

was she really THAT bad? And anyway those 7 year olds probably couldn't wait to get out of the theatre let alone be excited about it.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 9/4/06 at 11:36pm

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.