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I fell in love with dear Sweeney and his musical in September of 2005, while watching my tape of the George Hearn/Angela Lansbury version. I remember thinking, when he was singing My Friends, "OK, this guy is singing to a razor. How cool- but weird- is that?" I must say, this is definitely one of Sondheim's best works EVER.

Is that c2 up? I'll go look...YES! WOO!

XOXO Love you,

Moony

They should have more Todd fics on here! I just adore the musical!

One kid did Sweeney Todd. The musical is brilliant. I would've never guessed the ending if he hadn't had to summarize the plot and told us.

And the music is simply the work of a genius.

I can't wait for the Sweeney Todd movie with Johnny Depp singing away as Sweeney, and Sasha Bar...Bar-something...whatever, the guy who plays Borat, as Pirelli. In the version of the musical I went to, Pirelli was played by a woman. I wonder if that was a deliberate insult to his character? Whatever.

My favorite songs were The Worst Pies in London and A Little Priest. I like Tobias. To bad he went cuckoo-bananas and got sent to the happy farm in a straitjacket.

I've been a Sweeney fan since 2001, when I was 11 and saw the concert (Hearn/LuPone) version on PBS. No, it's not something I should have watched as an 11-year-old, but whatever.

I am... very skeptical about the movie. It comes from watching a lot of great, complex comic books become sh*tty movies (League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, anyone?). I'm so used to things I love being un-movie-able that I lose hope at, say, a weak song in the trailer. I still plan on seeing the movie, of course, and since I work at a movie theatre and get to see movies for free, I'll probably see it many, many times, unless it REALLY sucks, in which case I'll firebomb my theatre, because what use is having a job when the Sweeney Todd movie sucks??

I'm so excited to find a spot to discuss one of my favorite musicals, Sweeney Todd. I'm proud to say I was a huge fan before the release of the movie - unlike some people I know - and the first version I heard was the 2001 concert with George Hearn and Patti LuPone. My favorite version is the 2005 revival, followed by the original Broadway cast.

Unfortunately, I've never seen it live, but the cast recordings and the concert DVD are more than enough to realize that Sweeney is brilliant.

The first time I ever even heard of Sweeney Todd was three years ago when the revival was on (Pattti LuPone, Michael Cerveris). Let's just say, twenty minutes in, and my musical theater brains were on the floor. I was in heaven. Literally, my soul came out of my body, especially during A Little Preist and the end, where he finds out he killed his wife. I will always be a huge Johnny Depp and Helena Bohnam Carter fan, but nothing can compare to the dynamics of Patti and Michael.

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