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Okay I’m sorry I keep talking about this show but I wanted to say another thing:

I really like this staging for Mea Culpa. First of all, I normally despise this song and this guy made me actually sort of like it. Also, I love how the little melody at the beginning of the song is played twice, and that Johanna is doing needlework instead of reading; it gives her something to do on stage and it looks so elegant. Her acting and all her little movements are fab. And then there’s the symbolism of them both doing different things on either side of the door, with Johanna so pure and Judge Turpin all depraved. Really a stunning scene and I NEVER thought I would say that about this song.

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More Thoughts on the Delavan/Paige show so I don’t end up making a million posts

Mrs. Lovett is so tiny compared to Sweeney in this. She was basically the same height as him when he was sitting down in the chair

In Pretty Women when the judge started his “bum bum bum bum” Sweeney gave him the weirdest look and then he just started bobbing his head like “catchy” and whistling along, it was so funny

Going back to the opera thing, regardless of whether or nor you enjoy the style of singing, it’s nice to not have to worry about Beadle Bamford being able to hit his notes for once

The Beggar Woman has an amazing laugh

There was a funny part in Johanna Quartet where this one guy took his hat off and set it on the counter, and then after Sweeney killed him he casually tossed it down after him (did I miss that in the Hearn/Lansbury recording??? I do remember a guy sitting with a hat on his lap)

WHY DON’T ANTHONY AND THE BEADLE RECOGNIZE EACH OTHER?! IF I SAW A GUY SNAP A BIRD’S NECK I WOULD REMEMBER HIM

When Anthony went to go bang on the asylum door again, Beadle Bamford called the police on him and then Anthony kinda saw them and just started RUNNING and then the police were running after him and then Beadle Bamford started running and screaming after THEM and it was just really funny

Such seagull noises

Certainly a different-sounding Toby but I can get behind it

Is Lucy’s hair GRAY? That’s a new one

What if Sweeney, when about to shave Judge Turpin, accidentally grabbed the bloody razor that he’d just killed Lucy with and Judge Turpin noticed. Or, conversely, what if he’d noticed the bloody razor after he’d killed PIRELLI during Pretty Women

I legit think that they have a screen with the lyrics on it above the stage. Is that common in opera houses?

Whoever sang that last “SWEEEEEEENNEEEEEYYY” in the final Ballad has an aMAZING VOICE GOSH

That is the first time I have ever seen Toby come out just before Sweeney during a curtain call. And Mrs. Lovett comes out after Sweeney again so maybe it’s a usual thing?? Maybe Angela Lansbury set a trend?

That was highly entertaining, I recommend to all

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For anyone who is watching the Elaine Paige show (the one WITHOUT Timothy Nolen, I think this guy is named Mark Delavan???)....this is the deepest-voiced Anthony I have EVER heard

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Salome

Genova, maggio 2016, torna dopo 13 anni sul palco genovese il dramma musicale di Richard Strauss di uno dei manifesti letterari del decadentismo europeo per eccellenza: Salome, un unico e significativo atto dal poema di Oscar Wilde. (more…)

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