Community Theater Green Room Discussion Board: Sweeney Todd

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lexi87
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Topic: Sweeney Todd - a bit too gory?
Posted: 6/17/09 at 2:19am

Has anyone ever sang Green finch and Linnet bird? It's from Sweeney Todd. I'm not very fond of the musical, it's too gory for me but this certain song made me want to hear more of it. I wish I could sing it, it's a bit too high for my vocal range though.

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JohnnyOneNote
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Posted: 9/20/09 at 7:39pm

The MOVIE is gory, the PLAY is as gory or NOT gory - as the director wants it to be. (I hated the movie)

Sweeney Todd is the Oklahoma of our age. it changed musical theater as we know it today.

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Posted: 9/20/09 at 11:39pm

I agree with Jono & as for the singing Alex, remember to drop your H's & replace the TH's with F's or V's & practice "Ver's fowty fows'd feavers on a frushs froat"

Joe
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Posted: 9/21/09 at 12:46pm

Wow, if Sweeny Todd changed musical theatre as we know it today let's change it back. Maybe I'm just old fashioned but I despised both the stage and movie versions of this show. Can't I have a simple happy musical where good guy gets the girl and love survives? Does new theatre have to include death, misery, hate, sex and foul language? I want to be happy. I see enough misery at work and on the news.

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Posted: 9/23/09 at 4:34pm

Originally posted by pdavis69

Wow, if Sweeny Todd changed musical theatre as we know it today let's change it back. Maybe I'm just old fashioned but I despised both the stage and movie versions of this show. Can't I have a simple happy musical where good guy gets the girl and love survives? Does new theatre have to include death, misery, hate, sex and foul language? I want to be happy. I see enough misery at work and on the news.

Then I suggest that you don't watch or do this type of show. As for some of us there's a place both for the Sweeny Todd and Sound of Music musicals. Personally, both types appeal to me. My appreciation stems from the craft, creativity and story that they tell.

"Dying is easy, comedy is hard."

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Posted: 9/24/09 at 8:22am

Wow... its not everyday I get to agree with everyone! I agree S.T can be done as gory (or not) as the director desires and the market will allow. I also agree that there are many shows (not so much Todd, which I do like in the stage version) that have started trolling the gutters for the cheap thrill or cheaper laugh (even if it is a nervous twitter due to the shock of non essential vulgarity or banality...) Whereas many book plays fall firmly in this area, some of the musicals that bother me are ones like "Young Frankenstein". This is truly one of the top two funniest films ever (in my never to be humble opinion) but when they took it to the stage it moved from the real clever humor and word play of a master comic to the gutter humor of the comic who can't begin to tell a joke with out expletives for punctuation... again.. just another opinion..

Marty W

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