Sondheim wants voice test for Depp re Sweeney
Sondheim wants voice test for Depp re Sweeney
Ladyofthe Lake
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#0Sondheim wants voice test for Depp re Sweeney
Posted: 8/13/06 at 12:58pm
Per today's Sunday Times (UK), Stephen Sondheim will not approve a film of his Sweeney Todd musical "if the main character has to mime rather than sing."
Can't vouch for the truth of the article (which at the end quotes a spokesman for Nicole Kidman who apparently doesn't know how well she can sing - maybe he should rent "Moulin Rouge" for an idea), but if it is true, it should hopefully put some fans' fears to rest that the film, if made, will wind up with a cast - especially for the title character - unable to cope with the demands of the score.
Sunday Times article on Sondheim/Depp
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#1re: Sondheim wants voice test for Depp re Sweeney
Posted: 8/13/06 at 1:01pm
so wait, Nicole is being considered for Mrs. Lovett?
but anyway, good idea of Sondheim to ask for voice test from Depp
:)
#2re: Sondheim wants voice test for Depp re Sweeney
Posted: 8/13/06 at 1:01pm
If Julia Robert's does this movie, I'm going to harm myself.
EDIT: I might not mind Nicole Kidman. I love Moulin Rouge.
Updated On: 8/13/06 at 01:01 PM
Ladyofthe Lake
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#3re: Sondheim wants voice test for Depp re Sweeney
Posted: 8/13/06 at 1:06pm
It said Nicole Kidman and Julia Roberts have talked about signing up for a musical, not necessarily this musical. 
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#4re: Sondheim wants voice test for Depp re Sweeney
Posted: 8/13/06 at 1:06pmPraise the Lord Jesus.
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#5re: Sondheim wants voice test for Depp re Sweeney
Posted: 8/13/06 at 1:07pmThey meant that both Roberts and Kidman are interested in doing musicals now that they have had success recently. They didn't mean they were up for Lovett.
Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
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#6re: Sondheim wants voice test for Depp re Sweeney
Posted: 8/13/06 at 1:08pmKidman could be up for Johanna
"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed
#7re: Sondheim wants voice test for Depp re Sweeney
Posted: 8/13/06 at 1:09pm
"They meant that both Roberts and Kidman are interested in doing musicals now that they have had success recently. They didn't mean they were up for Lovett."
That's good.I know I said I wouldn't mind Nicole Kidman but, I would. Julia Roberts had done a play, not a musical.
Updated On: 8/13/06 at 01:09 PM
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#8re: Sondheim wants voice test for Depp re Sweeney
Posted: 8/13/06 at 1:14pmDepp didn't sing in Cry Baby. He lipsynced to someone else's. And the article also mentions Jamie Foxx in Ray--he did not sing either. That film used the actual songs.
#9re: Sondheim wants voice test for Depp re Sweeney
Posted: 8/13/06 at 1:16pm
"Kidman could be up for Johanna"
LOL
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#10re: Sondheim wants voice test for Depp re Sweeney
Posted: 8/13/06 at 1:16pm
"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed
#11re: Sondheim wants voice test for Depp re Sweeney
Posted: 8/13/06 at 1:17pmI'm glad Sondheim wants to "test" him first, but then again, after he granted his approval of the leads in the recent "Follies" revival, I don't know how much I trust his judgment, even if it is his own material.
#12re: Sondheim wants voice test for Depp re Sweeney
Posted: 8/13/06 at 1:22pm
I'm curious where the they got the facts for this piece.
Sondheim has already met with Depp, likes him and OK'd him (not that they need his blessing--it's still the directors and producers choice). Unless he changed his mind...
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#13re: Sondheim wants voice test for Depp re Sweeney
Posted: 8/13/06 at 1:28pmSo if he fails will he not get in or is it for show. Also this means that at least it wont be horrible, so thank god.
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#14re: Sondheim wants voice test for Depp re Sweeney
Posted: 8/13/06 at 1:31pmI don't think Nicole OR Julia are good choices for Lovett (if they WERE considering Lovett). Also, I don't thin kthat Depp captures the true "essence" of Sweeney. I'll go see the movie, but I will probably not enjoy it.
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#15re: Sondheim wants voice test for Depp re Sweeney
Posted: 8/13/06 at 1:32pm
Regardless, Depp can/could/will ACT the part. But if it comes down to someone else, that's great, too
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Updated On: 8/13/06 at 01:32 PM
#16re: Sondheim wants voice test for Depp re Sweeney
Posted: 8/13/06 at 1:36pmI know. I am very excited to see how Burton portrays it. DOes anyone know if they are going ot use the whistle? Are they going to use the revival's ending, or the origional ending?
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#17re: Sondheim wants voice test for Depp re Sweeney
Posted: 8/13/06 at 1:51pmIf Depp does this movie he might suprise us with his performance. When I heard he was playing Willy Wonka I laughed and said "He is going to be really bad" When I saw it I was thought he was actually pretty good.
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#18re: Sondheim wants voice test for Depp re Sweeney
Posted: 8/13/06 at 1:56pmWell I think that Helena Bottem Carter would be great at either Mrs. Lovett, Johanna, or the Begger Woman. Did anyone here see corpse bride? Her songs in that were beautiful.
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#19re: Sondheim wants voice test for Depp re Sweeney
Posted: 8/13/06 at 2:01pm
Well I think that Helena Bottem Carter would be great at either Mrs. Lovett, Johanna, or the Begger Woman. Did anyone here see corpse bride? Her songs in that were beautiful.
Not Johanna or Lovett but, maybe Beggar Woman.
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#20re: Sondheim wants voice test for Depp re Sweeney
Posted: 8/13/06 at 2:01pm
Thanks for the article. It gives a little tiny bit of hope that the film *might* not be killed by people that can't sing.
Ooh, I like the idea of Helena Bonham Carter, but I'm not quite sure if she has the voice (I didn't see Corpse Bride). She's seems to be someone Tim uses a lot also.
#21re: Sondheim wants voice test for Depp re Sweeney
Posted: 8/13/06 at 2:07pmI like Helena as Beggar Woman.
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They are a different people, a multi-talented people, a people...who need people...and who are, in many ways, the
luckiest people in...the world." --Spamalot
<^>BROADWAY is LOVE<^>
<^>RENT is LOVE<^>
<^>WICKED is LOVE<^>
<< Me and Norbie. I look icky becuase I was FREAAAAKKKIIINNNGG out.
<^>BROADWAY is LOVE<^>
<^>RENT is LOVE<^>
<^>WICKED is LOVE<^>
<< Me and Norbie. I look icky becuase I was FREAAAAKKKIIINNNGG out.
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#22re: Sondheim wants voice test for Depp re Sweeney
Posted: 8/13/06 at 2:09pm
I thin Helena Bonham Carter would be a perfect Beggar Woman but that's just me. I'm glad that Sondheim is having the voice test but am still very nervous about this.
Donna, Helena is in Tim's movies b/c she's his wife :) He uses her in all of them.
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#23re: Sondheim wants voice test for Depp re Sweeney
Posted: 8/13/06 at 2:16pmNicole Kidman was somebody that Sam Mendes was considering when he was going to direct, but somebody close to that team told me she was more interested in playing Lucy.
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#24re: Sondheim wants voice test for Depp re Sweeney
Posted: 8/13/06 at 2:18pmWait Mendes wanted her for Lovett?
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