5/24/2023 0 Comments Sweeney todd by christopher bond![]() ![]() Inside this sarcophagus of a play, beneath Sondheim's cold-steel lyrics, Burton finds a pulsing, mournful heart. It's no longer just a Guignol songfest, staring at its creatures, with fascination but not pity, from an Olympian distance above the cage in which they claw at one another. The story, of a bitter man in 19th century London who has lost his wife and child and determines to carve out his revenge, has never seemed so human or so bleak. This adaptation of the Hugh Wheeler libretto (from Christopher Bond's play) is both faithful and liberating. And they Burton, screenwriter John Logan, the whole cast and crew they've done it. "Oh," Victor said with a knowing laugh, "Johnny Depp can do anything." She's excellent, I replied but aren't you anxious about Johnny Depp as the mad barber? He's not a trained singer. He wondered if Helena Bonham Carter was up to the vocal challenge of the Mrs. Follow theater-savvy friend Victor Nelson asked me a few weeks ago about Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Tim Burton's film version of the 1979 Stephen Sondheim musical. ![]()
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