Sweeny Todd

[The Girl In Rubber]

Sweeny Todd#1

Posted: 4/10/09 at 8:37pm

Hey all,

My name's Jaime. I'm from Minnesota and LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE (hope you guys like O's...LOL!) musicals and Broadway. First person to guess what musical my screenname is from gets a cookie...an imaginary cookie, of course!

Not that I couldn't make you a real one.

I'm serious.

I make great cookies. LOL, jk.

Aaaaaaaanyways, I'm really excited to be here and talk about musicals with you guys (my favorites are Rent, Spamalot, and Xanadu - those are the ones I saw on my only trip into the city)! I just made this thread for two reasons. One, hi. I just wanted to say hi and introduce myself to all of you. Two, I was wondering if any of you knew about the musical Sweeny Todd? I just found out about it yesterday. I couldn't believe that there was a musical based on the movie with Johnny Dep! I've been listening to the soundtrack over and over, almost as much as the Wicked soundtrack. Don't worry, I'm not a crazy Wicked fan or anything like that. I am, however, a craaaaaaaazay RENT FAN! That's sort of an indie, under the radar show so I don't know if many of you know about it.

They should definitely put the musical of Sweeny up on Broadway. If they couldnt get the original movie cast, this is who I think would be greaaaaaaat...

Sweeny: Cheyenne Jackson (soooo cute...who's he dating? Is he available...? =)
Mrs. Lovett: Cameron Diaz (IDK if she can sing, but she'd be so funny. And be a sexy Lovett, too - J. Depp could do soooo much better than Helena)
Beetle: Nathen Lane
Judge Turpen: Matthew Brodrick (It'd be so cool to see him and Nathan together again...they were soooo funny in the Producers movie, and I just found out they were both in The Lion King)!
Joanna: Taylor Swift
Anthony: Any of the Jonases...take your pick...=)
Tobie: Freddie Highmore

Well, that's my whole "schpeel". I'll see you around, guys!

<3 <3 <3,
Jaime

[dramamama611]

re: Sweeny Todd#2

Posted: 4/10/09 at 8:40pm

Gets popcorn.

If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it? These are DISCUSSION boards, not mutual admiration boards. Discussion only occurs when we are willing to hear what others are thinking, regardless of whether it is alignment to our own thoughts.

[PiraguaGuy2]

re: Sweeny Todd#2

Posted: 4/10/09 at 8:41pm

Can you grab me some too, mama? Make sure the guy puts like half in, does some butter, then fills it up and tops it again with butter.

Formerly SirNotAppearing - Joined 3/08

[AndAllThatJazz22]

re: Sweeny Todd#3

Posted: 4/10/09 at 8:45pm

What's sweeney todd?

"There's nothing good on. The media hates Christmas. The media loves vampires, though. Maybe they will show a Twilight Christmas."
-Danmeg's 10 year old son.

[BroadwayBoy2]

re: Sweeny Todd#4

Posted: 4/10/09 at 8:51pm

The Girl in Rubber, welcome (if you are real) just a heads out, you will be made fun of.

I'll have them clawing at eachother, like drag queens at a wig sale"

[The Girl In Rubber]

re: Sweeny Todd#5

Posted: 4/10/09 at 8:53pm

Why???? I just love Broadway like all of you.

[BroadwayBoy2]

re: Sweeny Todd#6

Posted: 4/10/09 at 8:55pm

Other than the musicals you have already listed...name some other favorites.

I'll have them clawing at eachother, like drag queens at a wig sale"

[The Girl In Rubber]

re: Sweeny Todd#7

Posted: 4/10/09 at 8:56pm

Erm...well those are the only one's Ive seen, but my school did Guys and Dolls last year and I really got into that, and I LOVE the Chicago and West Side Story movies.

[PiraguaGuy2]

re: Sweeny Todd#8

Posted: 4/10/09 at 8:56pm

Have you met Chip?

Formerly SirNotAppearing - Joined 3/08

[dramamama611]

re: Sweeny Todd#9

Posted: 4/10/09 at 8:57pm

Doubting the reality.

If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it? These are DISCUSSION boards, not mutual admiration boards. Discussion only occurs when we are willing to hear what others are thinking, regardless of whether it is alignment to our own thoughts.

[BroadwayBoy2]

re: Sweeny Todd#10

Posted: 4/10/09 at 8:58pm

Sock Puppet

I'll have them clawing at eachother, like drag queens at a wig sale"

[AndAllThatJazz22]

re: Sweeny Todd#11

Posted: 4/10/09 at 9:00pm

I'm guessing that your musical screen name is... GYPSY?!

"There's nothing good on. The media hates Christmas. The media loves vampires, though. Maybe they will show a Twilight Christmas."
-Danmeg's 10 year old son.

[The Girl In Rubber]

re: Sweeny Todd#12

Posted: 4/10/09 at 9:07pm

Sock puppet? What? So random...

[ghostlight2]

re: Sweeny Todd#13

Posted: 4/10/09 at 9:45pm

O dear god. Well, here's Friday night's entertainment.

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

re: Sweeny Todd#14

Posted: 4/10/09 at 9:52pm

The Girl In Rubber, you remind me of someone I know very well.

Actually, I wouldn't mind seeing Freddie Highmore as Toby. Granted, I think his voice has broken by now (he's seventeen, after all), so he'd be too old to play Toby in the style of the film, but in a few years, he could be quite good as Toby in the stage tradition of casting a young-looking adult.

In my pants, she has burst like the music of angels, the light of the sun! --Marius Pantsmercy

[hunterchi]

re: Sweeny Todd#15

Posted: 4/10/09 at 10:56pm

I'm so glad that someone finally put this thread up...it totally makes me think of the version of Rent I have in my mind...with my Dream Cast:

Mark - Robert Goulet
Roger - Tim Curry
Mimi - Carol Channing
Maureen - Shelly Winters
Joanne - Bernadette Peters
Collins - Clay Aiken
Angel - Harvey Firestein

It would be so AWESOME

[luvtheEmcee]

re: Sweeny Todd#16

Posted: 4/10/09 at 11:00pm

I miss the days when sock puppets tried.

A work of art is an invitation to love.

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

re: Sweeny Todd#17

Posted: 4/10/09 at 11:20pm

Hunterchi, I would pay vast amounts of money to see that, and I'm not being sarcastic about that!

In my pants, she has burst like the music of angels, the light of the sun! --Marius Pantsmercy

[SweeneyPhanatic]

re: Sweeny Todd#18

Posted: 4/10/09 at 11:25pm

I've been looking for something mindless to read. Thank you.

Side note: I too would pay some of my hard earned money to see that RENT cast.

-- SDG

[MrSweetNAwful]

re: Sweeny Todd#19

Posted: 4/10/09 at 11:42pm

THEY SHOULD PUT THESE PEOPLE IN PHANTOM OR MAYBE IN THE SEQUEL


PHANTOM - ZAC EFRON
CHRISTINE - IDINA
THE OTHER GUY - MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY
CARLOTTA - BEYONCE
OLD DANCE TEACHER WHO LIKE KNEW STUFF ABOUT THE PHANTOM - MILEY CYRUS

You're reminding me of people you hear at the movies asking questions every ten seconds, "Who is that? Why is that guy walking down the street? Who's that lady coming up to him? Uh-oh, why did that car go by? Why is it so dark in this theater?" - FindingNamo on strummergirl

"If artists were machines, then I'm just a different kind of machine...I'd probably be a toaster. Actually, I'd be a toaster oven because they're more versatile. And I like making grilled cheese" -Regina Spektor

"That's, like, twelve shows! ...Or seven." -Crazy SA Fangirl

"They say that just being relaxed is the most important thing [in acting]. I take that to another level, I think kinda like yawning and...like being partially asleep onstage is also good, but whatever." - Sherie Rene Scott

[TatyRox]

re: Sweeny Todd#20

Posted: 4/11/09 at 12:08am

Your "dream cast"...not so dreamy...that's like a nightmare cast of Sweeney Todd, and the movie is based on the musical, not the other way around. and I don't know which show you said was an indie show either RENT or Sweeney Todd, but neither of them are, both have won Tonys and have a large fan base

RAWR! TATISAURUSREX BEEYOTCH! xoxo <3

[ghostlight2]

re: Sweeny Todd#21

Posted: 4/11/09 at 12:29am

TatyRox...sockpuppet.

Sockpuppet...TatyRox.

Don't take the sockpuppet seriously.

As if anyone from Minnesota would use the word "spiel", even misspelled. The repeated vowels and excessive punctuation didn't tip you off?

[TatyRox]

re: Sweeny Todd#22

Posted: 4/11/09 at 12:52am

I'm not a sock puppet, ignorance just irritates me. Seriously though, a Jonas as Anthony? That's just...no...never...

RAWR! TATISAURUSREX BEEYOTCH! xoxo <3

[TheatreDiva90016]

re: Sweeny Todd#23

Posted: 4/11/09 at 12:57am

Uhm...

It's SWEENEY Todd.


Just sayin'...

"TheatreDiva90016 - another good reason to frequent these boards less."<<>> “I hesitate to give this line of discussion the validation it so desperately craves by perpetuating it, but the light from logic is getting further and further away with your every successive post.” <<>> -whatever2

[TimeSquare3]

re: Sweeny Todd#24

Posted: 4/11/09 at 1:08am

Taty isn't as theatre stupid as she makes it seem.

http://www.youtube.com/tatyrules12

But don't be fooled she IS fat.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVOJx_skcGY&feature=channel_page

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