The OFFICE Tonight was about Sweeney Todd!
The OFFICE Tonight was about Sweeney Todd!
#1The OFFICE Tonight was about Sweeney Todd!
Posted: 10/7/10 at 9:39pmOne of the Characters was putting on the show! It was awesome!
#2The OFFICE Tonight was about Sweeney Todd!
Posted: 10/7/10 at 9:46pmmm https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.php?thread=1022900&dt=7&boardid=1
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
musicalperson17
Understudy Joined: 9/2/10
jsg03jd
Broadway Star Joined: 11/24/04
#3The OFFICE Tonight was about Sweeney Todd!
Posted: 10/7/10 at 9:46pmEd Helms is awesome as is Ellie Kemper!
BrodyFosse123
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/06
#4The OFFICE Tonight was about Sweeney Todd!
Posted: 10/7/10 at 10:57pm
So many inaccuracies on this post!
1. The episode was NOT about SWEENEY TODD.
2. Andy (the character in THE OFFICE) did NOT 'put on the show' -- he was simply playing Anthony in a community theatre production of SWEENEY TODD (hence the SWEENEY TODD moments in the episode).
Geez... this is how inaccurate info gets spread.
PiraguaGuy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/10/08
#5The OFFICE Tonight was about Sweeney Todd!
Posted: 10/7/10 at 11:25pm
The episode was most definitely about Sweeney Todd. The ENTIRE EPISODE revolved around the cast attending a production of Sweeney Todd.
I LOVED that all the characters of the show were present, that the "full show" was performed, and that we saw actual scenes. Clearly the writers over at the show are huge musical theatre geeks.
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jsg03jd
Broadway Star Joined: 11/24/04
#6The OFFICE Tonight was about Sweeney Todd!
Posted: 10/7/10 at 11:57pmPLUS major props for ixnaying the Auto Tuning!
sabrelady
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/03
#7The OFFICE Tonight was about Sweeney Todd!
Posted: 10/8/10 at 12:42am
Steve Carell is a self admited musical theatre geek.
In Forty Year Old Virgin his character gets up to sing kareoke and sings "Life Is " from Zorba. Th writers had picked "some esoteric weird song" but the bigger joke was Steve already knew the song!
Oh and don't forget the "Aquarious" finale in Virgin.
Serious musical geekdom and another reason to love Carrell!
eatlasagna
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#8The OFFICE Tonight was about Sweeney Todd!
Posted: 10/8/10 at 12:45am
"So many inaccuracies on this post!
1. The episode was NOT about SWEENEY TODD.
2. Andy (the character in THE OFFICE) did NOT 'put on the show' -- he was simply playing Anthony in a community theatre production of SWEENEY TODD (hence the SWEENEY TODD moments in the episode).
Geez... this is how inaccurate info gets spread."
which is why my original post was better and more accurate!! LOL!
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