I understand your pain :_) its ok everyone has some embarrassing moments ! It's great that you've met him ! That's one of my goals in life :)

Honestly I applaud you for even being able to say something around a guy like that 😂

Bruh, you are a legend

Lol. Thanks.

Yeah, he showed up in the Green Room at the Yale Dramat's 70's production of "Anyone Can Whistle". I didn't see him, even though I was the propman on the production.

Mister Roboto999 Directing a musical is on my list of things I want to accomplish in life. If I got the opportunity, I’d love to direct Spring Awakening with the concept for this production of Sweeney Todd.

@@starless5668 Concerts aren’t boring, but this opening does fit tonally for Sweeney. It’s supposed to be a low-brow, dynamic black comedy that condemns high society.

@@starless5668 Okay, I may have exaggerated. I just thought it was fun.

@@starless5668 Because they thought it was fun.

Very late to this convo but I see it at the actors transforming into their characters. It fits with the framing “attend the tale of Sweeney Todd.” They’re inviting you into the story and transforming the space and themselves into the character in the story they’re about to tell you.

I actually don't love it. It doesn't make a ton of sense to me as choreography. Like, they aren't rallying as a mob. I never understood the way this production handles the ensembles.

Yeah! It truly gives the feeling that they are revolting against the fact that it’s a concert! Or, perhaps, swinging a razor high!

Why would he

AAAAAAGAGGGGHHHH

It almost makes up for the lack of door slam.

That "pit director" was the Music Director of the New York Philharmonic...

​@@joshgrumiaux6820 Oh for Pete's sake. I did offer a compliment, yes? You're acting like I spat on the man. I wasn't aware of who he was but am blown away by his direction.

I agree with both members of this interaction.

Hard agree

I would've asked for some priest...

What I calls enterprise.

I wish I had. I watch the hell of out my DVD. I'm sorry but nobody captures the relationship like they did. This production is great but the way Lansbury looks at him in the final moment, that look and shrug before the slams the door... amazing. (Also the door slam is the best.)

Oh my god, what an experience. I would like to have me some of those pies.

I got to see him live as Sweeney Todd at the Lyric in Chicago. Chilling and compelling.

amazing terfel...

Bryn is probably my fave Sweeney rn! He just EMBODIES the role

I saw him in Sweeney Todd at Zurich Opera House and it was perfect! During intermission, you could even buy meat pies. They weren't the worst :-) Actually pretty good. I thought it was a cool idea.

Patti Lupone was my favorite Lovett

@@brendonhavener mine too. Although, I think Hearn was at his best with Lansbury but we could pin that on the age factor

My favorite lovett is the lovett who performed in a small town 30 minutes from me

I'm sorry but it's gotta be Lansbury. She plays it in the most complex way.

3:33 is the best

No door slam, no blood flowing freely from the moralizers.

George Hearn's performance left me turning on all the lights in the house. If I had been in the theatre, I would have begged for an escort through the parking lot...

When you say “Brechtian elements” could you please elaborate on what this means, to someone who’s not invested in theatre terminology?

@@MrBurkistan Bertolt Brecht was a German playwright during the mid 20th century who invented the heavily political "epic theater". Crash Course did a great video on it if you want to learn more!

@@MrBurkistan Brecht was about breaking the fourth wall in the sense of making the audience aware they're watching a performance with actors. Like when an actor will change costumes on stage or a set change will happen with no blackout or smooth transition. Breaking the illusion of a totally fictional world that other shows may want to preserve.

Actually, since Sweeney is a murderer who eventually spoils everything around him, I'd say the show is against bitterness and entitlement, not Capitalism.

Yeah, I actually kind of miss it now when I watch other versions haha.

Freaking same and I'VE SEEN THIS 1000 TIMES, WHYYY?? Q_Q

@@amikireicraftstore He played Pirelli

My honest reaction when I found out he voices Vox in the new Hazbin Hotel and was like “Oh shittt that’s Christian Borle from 2014 Sweeney Todd!!!” I was so surprised. Viv is truly a musical specialist

My honest reaction when I found out he voices Vox in the new Hazbin Hotel and was like “Oh shittt that’s Christian Borle from 2014 Sweeney Todd!!!” I was so surprised. Viv is truly a musical specialist

My honest reaction when I found out he voices Vox in the new Hazbin Hotel and was like “Oh shittt that’s Christian Borle from 2014 Sweeney Todd!!!” I was so surprised. Viv is truly a musical specialist

The other 3 are Beadle Bamford, Daniel O'Higgins, and Tobias Ragg(reasonably so, of course).

@@michaelwilliamybarra2409 And now those two hapless patrons from the Johanna Quartet.

Why? Also in case you didnt know, he is Javert in the Les Miz 10th Anniversary concert

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/b8BdoayoptvMaZs.html Do you mean this? I'm not very good at english

@@theoutlawprince1304 i love you

I don’t know if you already found it or not but if you go to google and type “pbs arts Sweeney Todd” it’s the first link and you can watch it there (or download it if you want to save it)

@@TheCaffeinatedDragon thanks for tip. I got it. Looking forward to a good nights entertainment.

@@TheCaffeinatedDragonyou are lifesaver

i think PBS lost the licensing n so now u cant find it anywhere :/

@@ImNotOdd You sir, are fantastic! THANK YOU

So, when you tell jokes, you say the punchline first?

She has two!

This is super late -- but here's the WHOLE production! ga.video.cdn.pbs.org/videos/lincoln-center/00a2c0b8-7da2-4c77-8d48-5ab140e9cd34/150765/hd-mezzanine-16x9/1e9d5075_lvlc3905_mezz16x9-16x9-mp4-2500k.mp4

What??

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Oh, man. Imelda Staunton must have shone in this!

@@kell_checks_in I'm not talking about the Imelda Staunton and Michael Ball 2012 Sweeney Todd. I'm talking about this same production, except held in London. This video is Emma Thompson, Bryn Terfel and Philip Quast performing in New York with American performers. The trio reprised their roles in this same kind of production in London (where the other actors are different). I want to watch that one if they do have a recording because John Owen Jones and Katie Hall are there as Pirelli and Johanna respectively, while someone else played Pirelli and Johanna in this video.

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ThePersianTenor I know right

ThePersianTenor no, really, why?? I hadn’t even gotten to finish all of it yet!

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@@cecilie3090 Thank you!!! ^-^

So....don’t watch any others then... simple really....

And one Lovett for me: Angela Lansbury.

This in particular was a concert, so the fact that they turned it into a version of the production was a surprise for the audience. That's why they did what they did. From then on out, it was the play. They didn't joke around doing the actual revival lol. (Nevertheless I hate that production. Other reasons!)

yvan willard it’s called American stage diction, sis. Look it up. 🙄😒😑

Also this is just their singing voices, it's standard in america for actors to sing out of their accents. If you manage to catch any of the other scenes from this performance, they all have proper Londontown accents.

I think in the 1840s most people had "American" accents. The accents we hear today are mostly because the rich people wanted to sound fancier than poor folk, but the poor folk adapted it as well.

Nerd

I am a classically trained singer. I would argue that Dame Emma Thompson does not display anything close to "horrible American diction". And, as for her singing, she is very much in character here. She is not singing in a voice she would on any normal day.