Okay, in theatre now, we’ve been watching a musical, almost an opera. It’s called Sweeny Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.
It’s about a psycho barber from London in the 1800s that was exiled to Australia but makes it back with the help of a sailor.
Todd gets home expecting to come home to a wife and child. But his home is now a pie shop, if you want to get technical; it’s now the worst pie shop in London. The judge who sent him to Australia on trumped up charges had stolen and raped his wife; the wife poisoned herself and is most definitely dead. The judge, who curiously resembles Colonel Sanders, has taken guardianship of Todd’s daughter Johanna.
When Sweeny reaches the pie shop, the owner, Margery Lovett, recognized him and returns his razors, which he proceeds to serenade… A little demented, no?
So Sweeny plots his revenge. But a rival barber, Pirelli, also discovers Sweeny’s identity and attempts to blackmail him out of half his profits. So Sweeny strangles him almost to death and than slits his throat. However, Pirelli’s servant is right downstairs in the pie shop, so Sweeny can’t get rid of the body. However, Margery has an idea, bake him into a pie.
Skip forward a few months and business is booming for the barber and the baker. However, both the judge and the sailor who helped Sweeny want to marry Sweeny’s daughter, who, by my estimation is around 16ish. Neither of them knows she’s the barber’s daughter.
That’s all we saw before the sub decided it was bad for our fragile psyches and stopped it.
But let’s tally this up,
1. Pre-meditated killing spree
2. cannibalism
3. *****
4. Singing to his murder weapon
5. And all of it’s in song…
This is quite possibly the most disturbing musical I will ever see in school.
And now I’m gonna see if I can burn a copy.
xd
 LaLadrona · Sun Jan 07, 2007 @ 08:42pm · 0 Comments |
