I need to publicly apologize for my comment regarding bootlegs, I guess. What I meant was, since the show was folding so soon, a recording seems unlikely and therefore would only be represented by the multitude of bootlegs that there must be out there. (In fact, you'd be shocked, those of you in your smart little ivory towers, at how many offers of bootlegs I've gotten... 5 or 6 times as many of the evil toned little messages I've gotten about how wrong it is to bootleg.) BUT! I'm sorry.
Yes, they are wrong in principle...but we are talking something that will be gone forever in a week, not something that has generated a cast recording, a revival, a revisal, a movie or billions of merchandising items. If this were Wicked ok, fine why steal from the publishers of the book, the printers of the t-shirts, the poor Asian slaves who ink "defying gravity" at 1cent per 2,000 shirts somewhere in Vietnam, or the inevitible movie version (which in and of itself will generate endless "I love the show, the movie sucks, why isn't Britny playing BOTH roles" entries on sites like this)?
No, all I mentioned was a bootleg (they exist, why deny it?). I didn't even say I'd buy one. Get off my back, huh?
Now, go back to your RENT/Wicked/Phantom/Les Miz is the best campaigns or argue every minute point of a performance or whatever. Stupid me thought it would be fun to discuss theater. The power of a mispoken word is incredible.
Having said that...I got a message from someone who claims to be in the production who wants a copy if I happen to buy one!
Again, I apologize. Bootlegs & Sweeneyfan = BAD.
"Cor! me bones is weary!" -Mrs. Lovett