From that story, Stephen Sondheim created the music and lyrics for what would eventually become the musical version which first opened on Broadway in 1979. It's more about catharsis than it is a literal thing." He described it as a silent film with music, and was "dazzled both by the music and its sense of the macabre." When: Wednesday-Saturday, Sept. 30-Oct. 3, Monday, Oct. 5 and Wednesday Oct. 7, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday matinee, Oct. 3, 2 p.m. Where: The Electric Theater, 68 E. Tabernacle, St. George. Starring Covered in blood, Sweeney is finally engulfed by his emotions, and Depp finds the character’s grieving heart. Hearing all these guys sing, I don't know if I can ever have an experience like that again."" Burton's domestic partner Helena Bonham Carter was cast in October 2006, as well as Sacha Baron Cohen.

That streak of white hair became the shock of that rage. On set, the fake blood was colored orange to render correctly on the desaturated color film used, and crew members wore bin liners to avoid getting stained while filming. Todd kills Collins, and hides his body in a trunk. Burton initially planned to use minimal sets and film in front of a green screen, but decided against it, stating that physical sets helped actors get into a musical frame of mind: "Just having people singing in front of a green screen seemed more disconnected". It was very enjoyable for me to see, with music on the set everybody just moved differently. Of particular note are Oram and Juliet Lorentzen, who plays Anthony Hope’s love interest and Sweeney Todd’s now grown daughter, Johanna, who has been raised as the ward of Judge Turpin (Robert Simmons). L-R: Robert Simmons as Judge Turpin and Brennan Walters as The Beadle in The Stage Door's production of "Sweeney Todd" held at the Electric Theater in St. George, Utah, Sept. 26, 2020 | Photo by Alan Holben courtesy of The Stage Door, St. George News

Chris Lebenzon Hollie Stark is a writer, outdoor enthusiast, mother, and Southern Utah gal. ", After the filming, Burton said of the cast, "All I can say is this is one of the best casts I've ever worked with. As the film follows its tragic course, Depp scores an explosive triumph.

What’s our boy so pissed about? Todd distracts him with an offer of a free grooming and murders him. My brother had a white spot growing up, and his son has this kind of shock of white in his hair. Todd pretends to forgive her and dances with her before hurling her into the bakehouse oven, then cradles Lucy's dead body in his arms. I was impressed with him. Burton is a true visionary, and with the help of cinematographer Dariusz Wolski, costume whiz Colleen Atwood and production designer Dante Ferretti he sets a new gold standard for bringing a stage musical to the screen. Bamford arrives at the pie shop, informing Mrs. Lovett that neighbors have been complaining of the stink from her chimney. Copyright St. George News, SaintGeorgeUtah.com LLC, 2020, all rights reserved.

Where Scott as director didn’t take risks is in assembling an astoundingly talented ensemble cast that maneuvers the material in a way that adds wit, humor and depth of characters that would belong on any stage, not just a small community theater. The production’s transportation into Sweeney Todd’s seething world of madness, murder and mayhem starts with a set design (Scott) which cleverly uses what look like simple wood pallets as a backdrop. And Depp is simply stupendous.

He's incredibly nice. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Cue the corpses and the meat pies, as a beggar woman (Laura Michelle Kelly) sings of a “city on fire.” Burton’s use of blood is impressionistic, not realistic. It's certainly not the first time anyone's used it. Logan had previously collaborated with Parkes on Gladiator, and claimed his biggest challenge in adapting the Sondheim stage play "was taking a sprawling, magnificent Broadway musical and making it cinematic, and an emotionally honest film. ST. GEORGE — As the lights dimmed in the Electric Theater in St. George and the cast of the Stage Door’s “Sweeney Todd” started to emerge on stage, backlit and disheveled looking, a disturbing mood settled on the theater. Onstage, you can have a chorus sing as the people of London, but I think that would be alienating in a movie." According to Lee, these deletions were due to time constraints caused by a break in filming during March 2007, while Depp's daughter recovered from an illness. I was just like, 'OH MY GOD!' He knows that what Sondheim composes is considered holy writ. Horror Film Wiki is a FANDOM Movies Community. Tim Burton I actually went three nights in a row because I loved it so much." And Depp is simply stupendous. In the soaring duet “My Friends,” Mrs. Lovett sings of her love for Sweeney while he declares his passion for his razor (“At last my right arm is complete again”).

I remember saying to Tim, 'My God, do we dare do this?'" The juxtaposition of the young sailor full of hope in a new city and the untrusting barber returning to the home where he lost everything is stark, and both Oram and Chanticleer embody their characters well, setting the stage for how lightness and darkness play with each other in the show. When his directing career took off in the late 1980s, Burton approached Sondheim with a view to making a cinematic adaptation, but nothing came of it. Send us a tip using our anonymous form. But the prudes still whine about the R-rated violence. A beggar woman enters the shop in search of Bamford, and Johanna hides in the trunk. https://horror.fandom.com/wiki/Sweeney_Todd:_The_Demon_Barber_of_Fleet_Street?oldid=144145, Stabbed multiple time, throat slit with straight razor, Laura Michelle Kelly as Lucy Barker / Beggar Woman. And doing the lion’s share of the warbling is Depp, who has never sung a note onscreen and still has the sand to take on a landmark musical by legend Stephen Sondheim that leaves trained opera stars feeling daunted. After receiving advice from Bamford, Turpin visits Todd for grooming, intent on marrying Johanna. He's basically a dead person when you meet him; the only thing that's keeping him going is the one single minded thing which is tragic.
Todd denounces faux-Italian barber Adolfo Pirelli's hair tonic as a fraud and humiliates him in a public shaving contest judged by Bamford. In Sondheim's words, "[Burton] went off and did other things.". (She came on set to meet Depp) and he was really delightful to her, she had a great time. Mendes left to direct the 2005 film Jarhead, and Burton leaped at taking over the direction after his project, Ripley's Believe It or Not!, fell apart due to its excessive budget.

Audiences unfamiliar with the production can expect scenes of murder, sexual innuendo, some adult language and the desires of an aging man for a young girl. L-R: Jasmine Anderson as Mrs. Lovett and Nate Myers as Sweeney Todd in the Stage Door's production of "Sweeney Todd" held at the Electric Theater in St. George, Utah, Sept. 26, 2020 | Photo by Alan Holben courtesy of The Stage Door, St. George News Burton said, "In terms of the show, it was three hours long, but we weren't out to film the Broadway show, we were out to make a movie, so we tried to keep the pace like those old melodramas. But Does Record Early Voting Mean This One Is Too Late? ", Depp said of working with Baron Cohen, when asked what he was like in real life (meaning, not doing one of his trademark characters), "He's not what I expected. It is there that we meet Sweeney Todd (Tyson Chanticleer) and young sailor Anthony Hope (Coby Oram) who have recently disembarked from a boat after Anthony had rescued Sweeney Todd at sea and befriended him. As the lead, Chanticleer stepped into a role that seemed tailor made for him. We had done tests and experiments with the neck slashing, with the blood popping out.

Burton’s version took its inspiration from Stephen Sondheim’s musical and features a vindictive, dark, and spiteful Sweeney Todd. The story and character were immediately popular and were turned into several plays throughout the 1800s. Language “Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd,” the cast sang, inviting the audience into the macabre tale of a murderous barber obsessed with revenge.

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