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Favorite Sweeney Todd Quote
re: Favorite Sweeney Todd Quote#25
Posted: 1/18/06 at 2:47pmIt would be easier for me to open up my own barber/pie shop and eat half of New York than to pick one SWEENEY quote above the others.
re: Favorite Sweeney Todd Quote#26
Posted: 1/18/06 at 3:05pm
"Business never better using only pussie cats and toast, and a ****'s good for maybe 6 or 7 at the most, and I'm sure they can't compare as far as taste"
"Todd:
The sound of the world out there,
Mrs.Lovett:
What,Mr.Todd?What,Mr.Todd?What is that sound?
Todd:
Those crunching noises pervading the air,
Mrs.Lovett:
Yes,Mr.Todd.Yes,Mr.Todd.Yes,all around.
Todd:
It's man devouring man my dear
BOTH:
And who are we to deny it in here"
And the first time I heard: "We've got some sheperd's pie peppered with actual sheperd on top" I think I laughed really hard, had a mini-orgasm, and fell in love with Sondheim since then.
re: Favorite Sweeney Todd Quote#27
Posted: 1/18/06 at 3:09pm
"It is perhaps remiss of me to close the court so early, but the stench of those miserable wretches at the bar was so offensive to my nostrils I feared my eagerness for fresher air might well impair the soundness of my judgment."
Please correct me if I am wrong in saying that that quote is perhaps one of the most long winded sentences you ever heard
re: Favorite Sweeney Todd Quote#28
Posted: 1/18/06 at 3:24pm
"There's a hole in the world like a great black pit, and it's filled with people who are filled with ****."
Love it.
re: Favorite Sweeney Todd Quote#29
Posted: 1/18/06 at 10:14pm
For some reason, one of my favorite lines is this:
"So what if none of their souls were saved? They went to their maker impeccably shaved."
And some of the puns in A Little Priest are so stupid that they are hilarious.
re: Favorite Sweeney Todd Quote#30
Posted: 1/19/06 at 12:24am
Freshman year our Opera Dept. did Sweeney (don't get me started...) and all the theatre kids kept quoting "Mrs. Lovett, you're a bloody wonder eminently practical and yet appropriate as always. Mrs. Lovett, how I looooooove you. Push you in the oven!" We sung it in this horrid German-type accent (lord knows why) and actually convinced (she didn't know the score) that the phrase "Push you in the oven" was a lyric. It wasn't until she saw the production that she realized it was us singing a stage direction. 
Broadway Star Joined: 5/19/03
re: Favorite Sweeney Todd Quote#31
Posted: 1/19/06 at 9:49am
"You are young, You will learn".
Something for ALL of us to think about.
re: Favorite Sweeney Todd Quote#33
Posted: 1/19/06 at 11:03pmhahaa! i love the pause after "locksmith" and the reactions on both of the DVD's...brilliant comedy moment!
Broadway Star Joined: 11/20/05
re: Favorite Sweeney Todd Quote#34
Posted: 1/20/06 at 1:37amif i cannot fly, let me sing.
Chorus Member Joined: 10/4/03
re: Favorite Sweeney Todd Quote#35
Posted: 1/20/06 at 7:55am
I love Sweeney Todd! But my two favorites are:
"It's Priest, have a little priest.."
"Good things come to those who wait" -I love that quote!
re: Favorite Sweeney Todd Quote#36
Posted: 1/20/06 at 9:35am
"you shall drip rubies, you'll soon drip precious rubies" --love it!
"and the vermin of the world inhabit it--but not for long! they all deserve to die..." --I always get chills during this part.
Leading Actor Joined: 7/18/03
re: Favorite Sweeney Todd Quote#37
Posted: 1/20/06 at 12:25pm
Mrs. L. (the setup for A Little Priest)
"Yes, we could do that....."
"You know me...bright ideas just pop into my head".
Broadway Star Joined: 12/7/05
re: Favorite Sweeney Todd Quote#38
Posted: 1/20/06 at 12:39pm
Both from "By the Sea":
"You and me, Mr. T, we could be alone
In a house wot we'd almost own..."
"Have a nice sunny suite for the guest to rest in,
Now and then, you could do the guest in!"
re: Favorite Sweeney Todd Quote#39
Posted: 1/21/06 at 2:23pm
Not a song lyric, but I love the harmonium line.
"...and a real bargain it was, too, it being only partly singed when the chapel burnt down."
re: Favorite Sweeney Todd Quote#40
Posted: 1/21/06 at 6:06pm
Choosing a favorite Sweeney Todd lyric is almost impossible. Most of my faves have already been mentioned, but I have to add these lyrics, cause they're really silly, funny and cute (words not usually associated with Sweeney Todd! lol):
Johanna: I think I heard a noise
Anthony: Fear not
Johanna: I mean another noise!
Anthony: Like what?
Johanna: Oh, never mind,
Just a noise
Something in the street,
I'm a silly little
Ninnynoddle!
Anthony: (at the same time)
You musn't mind
It's a noise
Just another noise
Something in the street
You silly...
And, from the same song:
J: I'll take my reticule
I need my reticule
You musn't think
me a fool
But my reticule
Never leaves my side
It's the only thing
My mother gave me-
Kiss me!
A: (at the same time)
Why take your reticule?
We'll buy a reticule
I'd never think
you a fool
But a reticule...
Leave it all aside
And begin again and
Kiss me!
re: Favorite Sweeney Todd Quote#41
Posted: 1/22/06 at 2:49am
"Slow, love, slow.
Time's so fast.
Now goes quickly -
See, now it's past!
Soon will come, soon will last.
Wait."
"The man who wishes he had written Phantom of the Opera!" - SueleenGay
GO CARDINALS!!!
re: Favorite Sweeney Todd Quote#42
Posted: 1/22/06 at 10:27am"uhh...how many bells ARE there?"
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/12/04
re: Favorite Sweeney Todd Quote#43
Posted: 1/22/06 at 12:01pm
'I am, sir, entirely at your disposal.' - speaks for itself.
And when Mrs. Lovett puts the muffler around Toby's neck and says 'How warm it'll keep you when the nights draw in'. Not necessarily a favourite line, but it gives you the chills (especially with that underscoring) when you know what she's got in mind for him.
re: Favorite Sweeney Todd Quote#44
Posted: 1/22/06 at 12:54pm
how intersting - i've seen the show so many times and i never realized that Mrs. L wanted to kill Toby...weird!
that's one of my favorite things about the theatre...discovering things :)
sorry for the threadjack - back to business
re: Favorite Sweeney Todd Quote#45
Posted: 1/22/06 at 3:01pm
In the finale when Sweeney sings "Lucy...I've come home again." Chills up the spine every time, and I think sometimes people miss it because they are listening to Lovett-two brilliant sections overlapping! Arrrgh!
"There's a hole in the world like a great black pit and the vermin of the world inhabit it and it's morals aren't worth what a pig could spit.."
On bad days I think this about New York.
Also. "Good, you got it" in Little Priest
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/12/04
re: Favorite Sweeney Todd Quote#46
Posted: 1/23/06 at 7:34am
WYHL - not sure that she actually wants to kill him but she knows at that point that 'the boy - he's guessed' and she knows that she's got to do something to silence him. That whole 'uneasy' underscoring signals this and creates a great moment for the actress.
re: Favorite Sweeney Todd Quote#47
Posted: 1/23/06 at 8:40amYes- I also got the same impression. Mrs. Lovett only keeps Toby in beacuse she doesn't want him blabbing to everyone. She has not compassion for him.
Understudy Joined: 11/6/03
re: Favorite Sweeney Todd Quote#48
Posted: 1/23/06 at 9:48am
"Freinds.... you shall drip rubies" chilling moment from My Friends. Duet with Mrs. Lovett
re: Favorite Sweeney Todd Quote#49
Posted: 1/23/06 at 11:04am
I'd say my all-time favorite meaningful quote would have to be:
"To seek revenge may lead to Hell/But everyone does it and seldom as well."
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