| re: Mrs. Lovett or Sweeney: which is the bigger role? (spoiler) | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 11:10 pm EST 03/04/24 | |
| In reply to: re: Mrs. Lovett or Sweeney: which is the bigger role? (spoiler) - lordofspeech 08:58 pm EST 03/04/24 | |
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| I think the musical moment is "I love you / I'd be twice the wife she was / I love you / Could that thing have cared for you like me?" I've heard in detail about things that Foster does, and things that she and Tveit do together. A friend who saw them used the word reprehensible about things they did, including the part you're describing. He said the audience laughed so much and even applauded while she was singing that no one was listening to (or could even perhaps hear) the lyric, setting entirely the wrong tone (among other things), and that there were laughs when Sweeney has his moment of realization. Because (his surmise) there were those who thought it was all a comedy. Should the audience be spending time wondering if Mrs. Lovett has a foot fetish of some particularly weird sort? I suppose it's a choice, but I think not all choices are justifiable. And then there is the "privates" thing. I haven't seen them. I don't know if I will. It sure sounds like I would not like it. But I didn't much like the production with the first cast. I've heard about an actress who played that Mrs. Lovett realizes during the "By the Sea" that he's completely unresponsive and he will never love her, which led her to play that she was increasingly depressed during the song and for the rest of the show. I don't think you can really play that. (I've been told that the actress adjusted that as the run continued.) She is nothing if not determined. She is also delusional. I've always thought that "By the Sea" was her mad scene. Indeed, originally Sweeney was to have sung "The woman's mad" in counterpoint during "By the Sea." In some ways, he's saner than she is. She's really a sociopath (putting it mildly). |
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