Sweeney Film - Johanna's Losing Her Voice??
Sweeney Film - Johanna's Losing Her Voice??
tomemiller
Understudy Joined: 9/3/06
#0Sweeney Film - Johanna's Losing Her Voice??
Posted: 10/30/06 at 10:16amI recently heard from a very reliable source that Mr. Sondheim has decided to make Johanna's role in the new film a non-singing one. If this is true, what are your thoughts?
#1re: Sweeney Film - Johanna's Losing Her Voice??
Posted: 10/30/06 at 10:21amCertainly makes it easier to cast.
SorryGrateful
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/10/05
#2re: Sweeney Film - Johanna's Losing Her Voice??
Posted: 10/30/06 at 10:33amEwwwww.
shesamarshmallow
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/23/06
#3re: Sweeney Film - Johanna's Losing Her Voice??
Posted: 10/30/06 at 10:34amFine with me, I always hated her songs.
Ciaron McCarthy
Broadway Star Joined: 10/15/06
#4re: Sweeney Film - Johanna's Losing Her Voice??
Posted: 10/30/06 at 10:45am$100 says they make her a mute and cast Bryce Howard.
#5re: Sweeney Film - Johanna's Losing Her Voice??
Posted: 10/30/06 at 10:48amBrilliant, Ciaron!
SorryGrateful
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/10/05
#6re: Sweeney Film - Johanna's Losing Her Voice??
Posted: 10/30/06 at 10:48amShe's a Shymalan girl, not a Burton one. It'd have to be Christina Ricci or Wynona Ryder. They've both done blonde for Burton before.
#7re: Sweeney Film - Johanna's Losing Her Voice??
Posted: 10/30/06 at 10:49am
If we're sticking to proper ages here, they're both too old.
I'm back to Alison Lohman.
javertim
Stand-by Joined: 4/20/05
#8re: Sweeney Film - Johanna's Losing Her Voice??
Posted: 10/30/06 at 10:55amWow. I am almost speechless. "Kiss Me," the one with the Beadle and the Judge, is one of my favorite songs from the show. The four-part harmony is some of the most beautiful music Sondheim has ever written.
SorryGrateful
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/10/05
#9re: Sweeney Film - Johanna's Losing Her Voice??
Posted: 10/30/06 at 10:57amOoooh! I kind of like that idea, Rath. I think making her a non-singing is horrible, but I do like Alison Lohman.
sabrelady
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/03
#10re: Sweeney Film - Johanna's Losing Her Voice??
Posted: 10/30/06 at 10:58amI DID intimate something like this would happen. So that drops what 3 or 4 songs?
JBSinger
Broadway Star Joined: 11/12/04
#11re: Sweeney Film - Johanna's Losing Her Voice??
Posted: 10/30/06 at 11:01am
Disappointed. I know soprano singing isn't too popular with the current masses, but this IS an operatic musical for crying out loud.
And though I can begrudgingly lose "Green Finch", losing "Kiss Me" is a crime. It captures so much.
#12re: Sweeney Film - Johanna's Losing Her Voice??
Posted: 10/30/06 at 11:02am
whose the "very reliable source?"
I cant believe any of you are believing this.
"In Oz, the verb is douchifizzation." PRS
#13re: Sweeney Film - Johanna's Losing Her Voice??
Posted: 10/30/06 at 11:03amJust because she doesn't sing in the song, doesn't mean that they are taking out the songs all together. They could be just taking out her part.
C is for Company
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/16/05
#14re: Sweeney Film - Johanna's Losing Her Voice??
Posted: 10/30/06 at 11:04amRemember, the film probably isn't as concerned at making this film do justice to its stage material. It is focused on seeing how many Johnny Depp fans they can drag in by dropping the opera and cutting back on the "boring songs" so the kids can enjoy.
#15re: Sweeney Film - Johanna's Losing Her Voice??
Posted: 10/30/06 at 11:06am
This wouldn't exactly be new news - even that early draft script I read from a couple of years ago cut most (though not all) of Johanna's singing.
And Bryce Dallas Howard sings very well for whatever it's worth.
MrMidwest
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/8/05
#16re: Sweeney Film - Johanna's Losing Her Voice??
Posted: 10/30/06 at 11:09amIsn't Lohman older than Ricci?
SorryGrateful
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/10/05
#17re: Sweeney Film - Johanna's Losing Her Voice??
Posted: 10/30/06 at 11:16amWow, you're right! Ricci was born in '80 and Lohman in '79. I never would've guessed!
#18re: Sweeney Film - Johanna's Losing Her Voice??
Posted: 10/30/06 at 11:18amWow. I guess Ricci's been around so long, I assumed she was older, not thinking.
MrMidwest
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/8/05
#19re: Sweeney Film - Johanna's Losing Her Voice??
Posted: 10/30/06 at 11:21amLohman does look pretty young.
#20re: Sweeney Film - Johanna's Losing Her Voice??
Posted: 10/30/06 at 11:22am
Eck.
I heard somewhere that the screenplay didn't contain Johanna's songs, so that could make sense. It's a total shame though.
#21re: Sweeney Film - Johanna's Losing Her Voice??
Posted: 10/30/06 at 1:16pm
"Remember, the film probably isn't as concerned at making this film do justice to its stage material. It is focused on seeing how many Johnny Depp fans they can drag in by dropping the opera and cutting back on the "boring songs" so the kids can enjoy."
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