SWEENEY TODD live webcast on NOW

[Jelly Bean]

Posted: 12/17/03 at 4:42pm

You can hear the web broadcast live from Covent Garden right now (as I type this)...here's the link. Click "listen live".

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/index.shtml?linktext

[Jelly Bean]

Posted: 12/17/03 at 4:48pm

Oh no. Miss Lovett sounds like Dame Edna.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 12/17/03 at 5:22pm

Darnsies! I heard about 30 seconds and got called into a department meeting and missed the rest. From what I heard, though, it was all about the opera voices. I'm not too keen on opera singers performing musicals. Technically, they're brilliant, but the characters are sacrificed for the voices.