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Why couldn't they have hired good singers for the SWEENEY movie?
#75re: Why couldn't they have hired good singers for the SWEENEY movie?
Posted: 4/10/08 at 10:18pm
For any BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER fans out there, Anthony Stewart Head (who plays Giles in the show) makes a very very very small appearance. See if you can find him.
Post-Contest, he asks Sweeney where to find his shop.
Wanting life but never knowing how
Mythus
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/16/04
#76re: Why couldn't they have hired good singers for the SWEENEY movie?
Posted: 4/10/08 at 10:20pmRegarding #4: since when has Mrs. Lovett not shown remorse for her actions? Angela's Lovett may not have cried, but she clearly regretted her actions (even as she did them).
#77re: Why couldn't they have hired good singers for the SWEENEY movie?
Posted: 4/10/08 at 11:37pm
"tim burton would rather hire actors who can sing, not singers who can act"
i personally think everyone did a phenomenal job and really did the show some justice, especially little ed sanders (toby)
#78re: Why couldn't they have hired good singers for the SWEENEY movie?
Posted: 4/11/08 at 12:19am
Angela's Lovett may not have cried, but she clearly regretted her actions (even as she did them).
Really? Where did you catch that?
The whole point of Mrs. Lovett's character is that she is a woman with no moral boundries, with nothing whatsoever to recommend her. All she cares about is money, and Sweeney, for whom she has only a little girl's crush.
And she should be that way, because she is the villain of the show.
-Nellie McKay on the 2006 Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera, in which she played Polly Peachum
#79re: Why couldn't they have hired good singers for the SWEENEY movie?
Posted: 4/11/08 at 12:21am
Orangeskittles: Well, so much for anyone going back to the film to try and find him. Thanks a lot, guy.
"I'm not your guy, friend!"
"I'm not your friend, buddy!"
"I'm not your buddy, guy!"
-Nellie McKay on the 2006 Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera, in which she played Polly Peachum
#80re: Why couldn't they have hired good singers for the SWEENEY movie?
Posted: 4/11/08 at 12:38amI'm a girl. And I don't even have the DVD yet; I remembered it from when I saw it in theatres 3 months ago.
Wanting life but never knowing how
#81re: Why couldn't they have hired good singers for the SWEENEY movie?
Posted: 4/11/08 at 12:40am
Well okay, I guess Anthony is pretty decent-looking. Whereas I'm a guy; I like him because he's British.
Which is why I squealed when I recognized him in today's viewing. Because he's British. Yeah.
-Nellie McKay on the 2006 Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera, in which she played Polly Peachum
Mythus
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/16/04
#82re: Why couldn't they have hired good singers for the SWEENEY movie?
Posted: 4/11/08 at 1:18am
I wasn't aware that you were the end-all, be-all of Mrs. Lovett's characterization, Bustopher. Just the look on Angela's face in the tour video as she locks Toby in the cellar is enough to show how torn she is.
Also, Judy Kaye in the tour of the revival is quite compassionate toward Toby and very upset when she realizes what she has to do.
No denying that she is quite twisted of course - she clearly cares for him and regrets what she does...but still does it. Takes a special kind of woman (and quite the devotion to your man) to do that to a kid.
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