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| Michelle Williams (Thomas Kail’s wife) on “Sweeney”: It’s a comedy. | |
| Posted by: kieran 09:09 pm EDT 04/04/23 | |
| In reply to: Sweeney Todd on Broadway last week (spoiler warning) - raregems 02:22 pm EDT 04/04/23 | |
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| re: Michelle Williams (Thomas Kail’s wife) on “Sweeney”: It’s a comedy. | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 09:36 pm EDT 04/04/23 | |
| In reply to: Michelle Williams (Thomas Kail’s wife) on “Sweeney”: It’s a comedy. - kieran 09:09 pm EDT 04/04/23 | |
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| I'm not sure she meant to suggest that it was primarily a comedy, although she did say at one point "But it's a comedy." I think most people would say it's a serious piece with comic moments or sections. Jack Lemmon once talked about going to see the original production of A Streetcar Named Desire again and again from standing room. Eventually, he clocked the laughs, and then went to every other show in town and counted up the laughs. Streetcar got more laughs than any other show on Broadway at the time, but would anyone call it a comedy? Sweeney is a mix of tragedy and melodrama, with laughs, and lots of melodramas, thrillers snd even tragedies have laughs. |
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| re: Michelle Williams (Thomas Kail’s wife) on “Sweeney”: It’s a comedy. | |
| Posted by: Thom915 01:55 pm EDT 04/05/23 | |
| In reply to: re: Michelle Williams (Thomas Kail’s wife) on “Sweeney”: It’s a comedy. - AlanScott 09:36 pm EDT 04/04/23 | |
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| When I talk about a production of "Death of a Salesman" which I directed, I often say that we got every laugh that was in the play and people look at me funny but it is, especailly in the initial scenes a very funny play before it turns serious and then tragic and if you get the people to laugh, they will likely like the characters even more and then feel the pain even greater. As for Sweeney though, I think it is less of a tragedy than a melodrama with quite a bit of dark humor thrown in and I think both the Prince production and this production get that. I think the current production perhaps is a bit funnier than the original but nothing really that isn't meant to be in the show. | |
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