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. |
