| re: She doesn't, as you say in your post |
| Last Edit: AlanScott 09:58 am EST 12/22/21 |
| Posted by: AlanScott 09:55 am EST 12/22/21 |
| In reply to: re: She doesn't, as you say in your post - toros 09:34 am EST 12/22/21 |
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People might well be willing to get their hair cut, have a shave, have a tooth pulled during the daytime in a shop believed to be haunted, but to sleep there at night, not so much. How many stories of haunted houses revolve around people having to sleep in one? Terrible things happen in haunted houses at night. Less so during the day.
But then we start getting into one of the major implausibilities of the plot. No one seems to notice all the people who enter the shop but never come out. And there can't be that many strangers, orphans, etc., every day.
But Sondheim wrote that the reason why the first line is ”Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd” is to suggest upfront that it is a tale, a fable, and that audiences should not take it as something intended to make sense in a completely realistic way. I have no problem with the explanation for why the room has not been rented all these years, and I don't think of it as indicating that Mrs. Lovett was holding it for Sweeney in the hope that he would return, but it is a tale and in any case I find other things far less plausible, although without being especially bothered by them. There are other great plays that have implausibilities and big holes. |
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