Sweeney Todd 2001, This is a
concert version
which I got through Netflix DVD. It stars George Hearn and Pati
Lupone. I was thinking that a concert version
would take some of the brutality away. I had previously watched the
Johnnie Depp version, but it was just too drastic and bloody. Still,
even the
music, with the vague references to violence and red lighting to portray
the murders, left me with that same irritated feeling. It is not
to say this version didn’t have wonderful music. Johanna is a
beautiful song, but better in the reprise duet as the barber gets to
sing
of his lost daughter. Patti Lupone and Neil Patrick Harris sing the
song “Not While I'm Around.” It is a beautiful song. I also like the
judge, the villain in this show, who comes to get his hair cut. In the
movie this is played by Alan Rickman who also portrays Snape. The bum
bata bum
song he sings while the barber is whistling is beautiful, and from
there, they sing “Pretty Women.”
This concert has a lot to recommend it, but the violence of the story turned me away from really enjoying it.
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