SWEENEY TODD 2005 Broadway revival?- Page 4

[ABitOnTheSide]

Posted: 3/26/13 at 3:34pm

"Yes...we know. You have made your feelings about this and several other revivals of Sondheim show abundantly clear....numerous times. CHANGE THE FREAKING RECORD!!!!!!"

Don't you know that Jordan's opinion is right but it is shockingly wrong for you to state yours, Mattbrain? Sorry, but when people say stupid crap just to get a rise out of people and do it so definitively, it's really more self-serving than anything else. And I think it's rather ridiculous for one person to say that one person should have an opinion but I can't have an opinion about that person's opinion. Looking your way, Henrikegerman, who made quite a spectacle of kissing Jordan's butt.

Updated On: 3/26/13 at 03:34 PM

Posted: 3/26/13 at 4:01pm

So "Toby" in the asylum wasn't really Toby who worked for Mrs. Lovett? He's just some random inmate who somehow knows the tale of Sweeney Todd? Well, now I am really bewildered what the point of this all is.

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 3/26/13 at 4:14pm

I suppose he could be, assuming that in this version the events took place in the mid-twentieth century. But given that there are only three survivors of the tale, only he, Anthony, and Johanna can really be the characters they're playing.

As I said, I'm not arguing with anyone who had trouble with the concept; I just didn't. Like I don't worry how the inmates at Charenton are able to learn their lines. Or for that matter, why the original "Sweeney" seem to take place in a factory or how Sweeney and Mrs. Lovett were able to come back from the dead.

I guess I just went with it.

[givesmevoice]

Posted: 3/26/13 at 4:33pm

And is it really wildly different from, say, the prisoners acting out Cervantes' story in Man of La Mancha?

[Kad]

Posted: 3/26/13 at 4:50pm

My opinion is aligned with Reg's (as it often is). I accepted the conceit and went with it. The piece isn't realism, so it isn't as big a leap of me to suspend disbelief in terms of staging conceits.