And more menacing because you won't suspect if this guy is a serial killer. Unlike Depp's version, if you can't tell that he is, well you don't deserve the life that you have right now
@@bemer65351 Also this only her SECOND time playing this role! According to Wikipedia, She also played this role in the 2000 First New York Philharmonic Concert with George Hearn reprising his Broadway/Televised Tour portrayal of Sweeney with Patti Lupone as Mrs. Lovett: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweeney_Todd:_The_Demon_Barber_of_Fleet_Street#Principal_roles That was untelevised, unlike the 2001 Los Angeles Concert with George and Patti which had Victoria Clark playing the Beggar Woman.
@@aurumthebrave3427 Also pretty painful when you think of how, with the casting of Audra and Erin in this concert, both this mother and her daughter can TECHNICALLY be seen, image wise, as physical manifestations of both Sweeney's past memories of Lucy(through the mother) and also of his own wistful vision of a grown up Johanna(the daughter, despite the daughter's brunette hair) in his mind.
Terfel pulling back on those soft, sustained notes to match the ensemble: the most musicality in this most musical of quartets that I have every heard. Not sure Groban will be able to do it as well but he will come close.
Terfel is perfect., And what marvelous diction. And as always, Jonathan Tunick's masterful orchestration (that horn... like a distant beacon). And that perfect questioning chord at the end!
Two thoughts: 1. Leonard Bernstein is quoted as saying, "I've never been jealous of another composer's work until I saw Sweeney Todd. 2. I know "I'll steal you Joanna," is a troublesome lyric, but within the context of the story, I'm okay with that. Maybe it's just because I'm an old gay guy.
Personally “I’ll steal you Johanna” has never been that uncomfortable to me as a woman, the one that reallly skeeves me is “I’d want you beautiful and pale with yellow hair like her” never was sure why
@@mist1241 Remember that Sweeney is insane. He's conflating his memories of his daughter with her mother and has an unrealistic view of both of them, remembering them as he left them and not as they became.
This production has the best Anthony in my opinion, in comparison to the original 1979 Broadway production, the '81 theatre production with George Hearn, and the 2007 Tim Burton movie (even if the one from the film is my favourite).
Really?....Wow.... i think this Anthony did an awful job. He was having a very hard time finding his notes, his pitch was all over the place, and overall was just not consistent. He needs a lot more practice and maybe even more training. I think everyone else did a great job besides him. Seems like it may be a new role for him, and hes not confident in it. You can hear, see, and feel the confidence radiating from Sweeney and the Begger, i dont get that from Anthony at all.
The musical has various moments where two singers overlap with eachother, my favorite song Kiss me/Ladies in their sensitivities has 4 singers overlapping with eachother and each half is singing a different song
Sorry, these are not pop singers free to do what they wish. This is carefully written and they must follow the score exactly. The conductor might retard here and there a speck but not what you wanted.
._. Hmmm I imagined the guy that said Johanna and his other lines I thought him as a fancy man and the crazy lady I imagined her like that quite well UwU I love it
I don't know if you're being sarcastic so I'm going to try not to spoil Sweeny Todd if you just stumbled across this. Sweeny(the barber) is deported to Australia because the judge wants to be with his wife. When he got back to London his wife had disappeared and he learns his daughter is alive and he hopes that she is like her mother. Her mother had "yellow hair".
@@pianofry1138 I am lol. But I appreciate the synopsis, didn't know it was Australia. I legit cannot remember the cute boys name. It's not Michael.... it's something.
I saw Nolan do it at City Center with Joyce Castle. Nolan's my favorite, too, even over the original Len Cariou. Bryn ain't half bad, tho. Sigh.I'm sure they all get lots of concert and revival gigs to do it everywhere.
Pepper Hume Timothy actually did the role of Sweeney again in 2012 at the Chicago opera receivable, at 71!!! He would’ve been 74 in the 2014 concert, but at least he could nail a G4 (his range actually went all the way to B4) Bryn even struggled to hit the F4 in the end of epiphany. Timothy would’ve been far better here, an older interpretation of Sweeney would’ve been fabulous.
@@phantomphan873 Have you searched or found a video or recording of that performance? I've been a fan since he did Carlisle Floyd's Willie Stark in 1981.
Anthony (Singer) definitley needs some more practice or training. I was trying to figure out what was throwing it off, he was off key, and really couldnt hold his pitch, or even his notes at some points. Everyone else killed it though. Just get a new Anthony.
