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Post by ⌠Sweet Nightmare⌡ on Jul 17, 2008 21:21:27 GMT -5
In the stage version I saw, she just got her throat slit like the rest of the cast, but in the Broadway show on DVD they threw her into a really big oven. And I mean really big. Most of the time it's death by oven, but when the stage version is low budget and traveling like the one I saw was, you have to make sacrifices.
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Post by blu on Jul 18, 2008 8:05:03 GMT -5
Oh yeah, I can't imagine them carrying a large oven around as a stage prop.
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Post by VanillaOrchids on Jul 18, 2008 12:23:23 GMT -5
In the stage version I saw, she just got her throat slit like the rest of the cast, but in the Broadway show on DVD they threw her into a really big oven. And I mean really big. Most of the time it's death by oven, but when the stage version is low budget and traveling like the one I saw was, you have to make sacrifices. Makes sense! Thanks for clarifying that for me.
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Post by ⌠Sweet Nightmare⌡ on Jul 19, 2008 0:39:18 GMT -5
The movie actually stuck with the musical quite a bit, for wich I respect Tim Burton and the cast. They only changed a few things, like Toby's age. So generally, if it's in the movie, it was probably in the musical as well. I know for a fact that Stephen Sondheim was personally involved in it, as he had to come back to do the music for it. I believe he also had a say in who played who. ((When Johnny came in for his 'audition', they say even Sondheim hadn't even heard him sing by the time he got the part at the end of the day.)) So I would think that the movie stays mostly faithful to the musical.
I'm just a fountain of Sweeney Todd info! ^-^
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Post by blu on Jul 19, 2008 8:10:22 GMT -5
How old is Toby supposed to be?
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Post by ⌠Sweet Nightmare⌡ on Jul 19, 2008 12:35:23 GMT -5
He was usually twenty something in stage performances, but a little...eh...slow. In the book he was a little kid though, and I think Sondhiem might have wanted him to be a kid in the musical but it's hard to find little kids that would do good in a Broadway production, you know?
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Post by blu on Jul 20, 2008 9:01:56 GMT -5
Not really, considering how many shows use children it can't be that hard. Children of Eden is about to go on Broadway with two kids, Pippin had a little boy, Ragtime had a little boy and little girl, South Pacific has kids...I'm going to far.
It's just, when it comes to Broadway, if the director doesn't like it, the writer doesn't get much of a say. In Pippin on Broadway there was a song called "Marking Time", the Broadway director didn't like it, had Schwartz replace it with a song that wasn't nearly as good, and it was permanently taken out of the script.
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