Pirelli in SweeneyTodd
Pirelli in SweeneyTodd
RockabyeHamlet
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/1/05
#1Pirelli in SweeneyTodd
Posted: 11/8/06 at 2:49amIs Pirelli supposed to be Italian or Irish? Because he refers to himself as Irish but Lovettcalls him an "eye"talian. I just always wondered about this.
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#1re: Pirelli in SweeneyTodd
Posted: 11/8/06 at 2:59am
He's Irish but he pretends to be Italian, using a broad Italian accent (or, in some productions, an Italian-Cockney accent) most of the time. His real name is Daniel O'Higgins. It's only when he's alone with Sweeney that he reveals his true identity (just as he's the only person, besides Mrs. Lovett, who knows Sweeney's true identity, though you could argue that the Beggar Woman has some kind of awareness of it).
Though Sweeney does tell Mrs. Lovett, after he has murdered Pirelli, that Pirelli recognized him from the old days, he doesn't tell her anything more about Pirelli's true identity. Therefore, Mrs. Lovett continues to think of him as Italian.
Julian2
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/10/06
#2re: Pirelli in SweeneyTodd
Posted: 11/8/06 at 3:02amSee above.
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Updated On: 11/8/06 at 03:02 AM
RockabyeHamlet
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/1/05
#3re: Pirelli in SweeneyTodd
Posted: 11/8/06 at 3:18amThanks! I kinda fiqured thats what happend but I didnt want to assume.
"I wouldn't let Esparza's Bobby take my kids to the zoo...I'd be afraid he'd steal their ice cream and laugh."- YankeeFan
"People who like Sondheim enjoy cruelty."-LuvtheEmcee
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#4re: Pirelli in SweeneyTodd
Posted: 11/8/06 at 7:08amI'm sorrry, but have you seen the show? He pretends to be Italian, and later reveals himself to be Irish.
...What happened next, was stranger still, a woman breathless and afraid, appeared out of the night, completely dressed in white. She had a secret she would tell, of one who had mistreated her. Her face and frightened gaze, my mind cannot erase...But then she ran from view. She looked so much like you...
RockabyeHamlet
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/1/05
#5re: Pirelli in SweeneyTodd
Posted: 11/8/06 at 1:46pmWell well well Laura, a little testy arent we? I dont think that response was neccesary, it was only a clarification question, based on a regional production I saw recently that confused me a bit. And yes I have seen several productions of Sweeney, just for clarification.
"I wouldn't let Esparza's Bobby take my kids to the zoo...I'd be afraid he'd steal their ice cream and laugh."- YankeeFan
"People who like Sondheim enjoy cruelty."-LuvtheEmcee
"People who like Sondheim enjoy cruelty."-LuvtheEmcee
RockabyeHamlet
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/1/05
#6re: Pirelli in SweeneyTodd
Posted: 11/8/06 at 1:47pmDouble Post, I apologize
"I wouldn't let Esparza's Bobby take my kids to the zoo...I'd be afraid he'd steal their ice cream and laugh."- YankeeFan
"People who like Sondheim enjoy cruelty."-LuvtheEmcee
Updated On: 11/8/06 at 01:47 PM
"People who like Sondheim enjoy cruelty."-LuvtheEmcee
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