| re: She doesn't, as you say in your post |
| Last Edit: Delvino 10:32 am EST 12/22/21 |
| Posted by: Delvino 10:27 am EST 12/22/21 |
| In reply to: re: She doesn't, as you say in your post - AlanScott 09:55 am EST 12/22/21 |
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| I got yelled at for embellishing that very point a few years ago: But the opening is a sort of Prince signature, a group gathered to share a story, playing the roles. They're all there, and they return throughout to frame the action. I dared to compare Sweeney -- very broadly -- to Zorba in that regard. In that show, a group in a contemporary cafe tell the Zorba story, the flashback aspect incrementally presented as design elements take us back to the 1920s (Prince said that never quite worked, but he explains how hard he tried). These denizens of London tell the fable of Todd. It's that aspect that makes the show all of a piece (and what I missed in the film). Prince liked to work with theatrical convention -- even Night Music begins with singers. And though we shouldn't compare the disliked film, it is Prince's, and the full company is on a stage that opens into a field; that ghastly "Love Takes Time" the worst thing the master wrote but designed to help a Prince conceit. I don't think it's a stretch to comment on how much Prince like storytelling in and of itself. But as Alan explicates, Sweeney gets away with any hoary holes because it's a sliver of a London demographic relaying events, not presented objectively. |
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