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Posted: 5/22/08 at 10:02am
A few nights ago a friend of mine, who hates musicals, decided to rent Sweeney Todd. He only watched it because he’s a Tim Burton, but ended up really loving it. I believe his exact words were to the effect of “that musical was ‘F’ing awesome.” The next day his 8 year old son heard us talking about it, and started going on about how much he really wanted to watch it. He’s usually not allowed to watch R rated movies, but his mom and his sister were out of town visiting a sick uncle, so his dad decided to let him watch it as kind of a “guys only” secret (though we covered his eyes during the actual slitting of the throats). I went over there again last night to have dinner with them and while my friend was finishing dinner his son was in the play room with one of those little knives that comes with a manicure set playing Sweeney Todd. He was singing, making up his own songs and words, then pretending to slit the throat of one of his sisters dolls. It was, to say the least, amusing to watch a hyperactive 8 year old pretending to be a singing, throat slitting, barber. I doubt this has created a musical fan for life, but I think it’s great that this movie has left such a positive impression on people who would otherwise never listen to Sondheim music
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