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rockfenris2005 05:57 am UTC 10/27/10 |
| In reply to: | re: Sweeney Todd also - steven_stuart 02:38 am UTC 10/27/10 |
> > 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". Yes, that is correct. One of the greatest moments in the making of any musical in the history of the art form, right up there with the omittion of "Boys and Girls like you and me" from the out of town tryout of "Oklahoma!" when it was quite brilliantly decided that all the moment needed was a reprise of "People will say we're in love" except now they were finally honest about their love! And "Something Wonderful" from "The King and I" was written later on also, and I cannot imagine that score without it. It would seem so incomplete now. > > I remember Len Cariou from when I lived in New York. He > was very well known there. Is he still going? He was in "Teddy and Alice", the Broadway flop from the 80s, and he was connected with "The Confidence Man" at one point but that never happened. Sad, considering how brilliant he was in "Sweeney". I'm picturing him actually singing "Milady", my God. > > > 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. If I saw him walking around, I don't know how I would be able to stop myself from hiding away somewhere so I could yell out SNAAAAAPE!!! lol, no, just kidding... > > Speaking of Tim Burton, did you ever see "Ed Wood"? > No, I haven't seen it. What do you think of it? | |
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