| re: "Sweeney Todd" (Spoilers) | |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 11:50 am EST 01/19/18 | |
| In reply to: "Sweeney Todd" (Spoilers) - student_rush 09:29 am EST 01/19/18 | |
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| I haven't seen this production, and likely won't because it's kept it's tickets quite expensive and I lose their lottery every time I'm in town... But even from the announcement it was a bit baffling to me. It makes no sense dramatically to set the entire show, which is by no means all in one location, in the one location of the pie shop. It doesn't even start there. Hell Sweeney doesn't even live IN the pie shop. And it certainly doesn't, as a concept, illuminate anything new or interesting. I've never understood the point of doing this, or why people thought it was cool. But I've tried, while not seeing it, to keep an open mind and assume maybe it could work in a way I don't expect... but intellectually I don't get why you'd see or hear or read this show and think "this would be amazing if the whole thing were set in the pie shop". Perhaps if the show were rewritten as an entertainment to pie shop customers, who are being served pies that they eventually start to realize must be humans. But that's not how the show is written. |
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