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steven_stuart 02:38 am UTC 10/27/10 |
| In reply to: | Sweeney Todd also - rockfenris2005 08:43 am UTC 10/26/10 |
| > I just watched this again last night. I love, love, love > the original Broadway cast recording with Len Cariou and > Angela Lansbury, and the stage production itself (and Hal > Prince directed both "Sweeney Todd" and "Phantom of the > Opera", as well as producing "Fiddler on the Roof" and > "Cabaret", LUCKY MAN!) Yes. He is a lucky man. Didn't he also direct "A Little Night Music"? I read somewhere that he was in rehersals and that he felt an additional song was needed in one place so he called Sondheim to come to the theatre (apparently Sondhein usually avoids rehersals). Sondheim agreed that an extra song was needed and he wrote "Send In The Clowns". I remember Len Cariou from when I lived in New York. He was very well known there. Is he still going? > The film is not the stage show but it is what it is and it > is probably my favourite Tim Burton film. "Batman Returns" > and "Sleepy Hollow" are up there, make no mistake, but I > love "Sweeney". Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham-Carter play > the two leads with such subtlety that is almost intense, > and there's so much bubbling underneath the surface of > these two characters. Timothy Spall, I thought, was > particularly memorable and he has never disappointed me in > anything that I've seen in him. Alan Rickman (SNAPE!!!) > was fantastic as well, and I'll always remember him from > Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, "I'll cut your heart out > with a spoon!" Alan Rickman was the perfect bad guy in Robin Hood. What did you think of him in Die Hard? I once saw him walking around Harrods and he doesn't look so intense in real life. It must be his acting skills. Speaking of Tim Burton, did you ever see "Ed Wood"? | |
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