FAREWELL SWEENEY TODD!- Page 9

[C is for Company]

Posted: 9/4/06 at 6:33pm

Don't act like you came in here as the only one knowing anything about the original. Who is to say that fans of the original can't fall in love with the revival? Nobody, and certainly not you.

And just because something is your opinion sure as hell doesn't make it a "reality". You know damn well you came in here and said those things to a group of people who cared a lot about this and certainly don't want to hear demeaning things because they like something you don't seem to.

[HamletWasBipolar]

Posted: 9/4/06 at 6:42pm

Sorry to speak out of the box. I will try not to step on anyone's fanatical toes again. Whatever was I thinking?? I thought this was a discussion board. I will immediately name my cat MRs. Lovett in order to gain favor.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 9/4/06 at 6:46pm

Well, the fact that you give a response like that, as opposed to having a discussion like you claim you're looking for, does a lot for the situation.

If you want a discussion, have one; but dude, be willing to have one in which people don't always necessarily agree with you. Rather, instead of having a discussion, you're just responding with snarky, down-talking remarks to people who disagree. It's obnoxious, the easy way out, and certainly doesn't make you look the wiser, as you apparently think you are -- or rather, apparenly too good to have a normal, produtive discussion.

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[HamletWasBipolar]

Posted: 9/4/06 at 6:48pm

I love the word snarky, it is just not used enough in these modern times.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 9/4/06 at 6:49pm

Thank you for making my point. I know, you're too good for the young'uns.

And it's used plenty.

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[HamletWasBipolar]

Posted: 9/4/06 at 6:54pm

"Whenever someone agrees with me, I feel I must be wrong" Oscar Wilde

[BNN]

Posted: 9/4/06 at 6:57pm

Getting back to Sweeney, does anyone have any tour information because I've heard whispers of a tour but no actual conformation.

[Fantabulous428]

Posted: 9/4/06 at 6:59pm

I think the tour is going to start summer of '07. I've heard that it'll start in San Francisco.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 9/4/06 at 7:00pm

Wilde's words may be wise, but not when interpreted to mean that you take pains to disagree with everyone in order to feel raised up, and think you must do so in order to be better. Surely if you are so wise as to compare yourself to Oscar Wilde, you would understand the implicit difference between naturally maintaining opinions that happen so often to be different that you might make such an observation and pointedly taking a holier-than-thou stance for self-promotional purposes.

Simply, I cannot believe you just compared yourself to Oscar Wilde.

It's touring next year.

[TheMecca]

Posted: 9/4/06 at 7:01pm

I have now officially lost all hope for Broadway.
Company is aparrantly great according to the folks (including Emcee) who've seen it in Cincinatti, I'll catch that one early and if I like it I'll see it a couple of times.

I saw Sweeney on the 20th of August, and damn it why didn't I see it sooner?! I could've easily seen it at least twice if I had gotten tickets as a Christmas present.
My main thoughts on the show were put into a thread that's been buried by time (It's titled Sweeney 8/20 or something).
When the show ended, and we got up for standing ovation (I think I was one of the first), I was trembling. I had seen nothing like this (and will probably never see it again).
The cast was amazingly friendly, and I left the Stage Door knowing I'd never see anything of that kind again.

I say this with a heavy heart, but Farewell Sweeney.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 9/4/06 at 7:03pm

Company is gorgeous. I think that, as sorry as I am to see Sweeney go, the loss is not as great as it could be -- because while it's still gone, Broadway won't be without a piece that gives the sort of punch I've really only felt watching Doyle's Sondheim productions.

[HamletWasBipolar]

Posted: 9/4/06 at 7:04pm

Emcee,Your verbose rant has caused me to see the error of my ways. I am ripping up my union cards and leaving 18 years of professional theatre behind me. I am going to don a Wicked tour jacket and become a professional ticket rusher.

[MOXIEINTHECITY]

Posted: 9/4/06 at 7:07pm

I've avoided posting in this thread mainly because I sold my ticket to the closing show due to , among other things, lack of interest.

Then I heard that someone actually fell to the ground weeping at the stage door after the show.

Guys, it was a good Broadway show. Okay, a great one. But so was DRS. So was Inishmore. What in the hell has warranted such an attachment to this show? Is it that the cast was so accessible and people have gotten used to seeing them at the stage door so often? And I'm not saying that snidely. I'm asking a serious question here. Because, while it was a wonderful production, I just don't get what all this drama is about.

[HamletWasBipolar]

Posted: 9/4/06 at 7:09pm

Jeez, Moxie, you managed to say it nicer than me. I think I really do need etiquette lessons.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 9/4/06 at 7:11pm

Well, then I have indeed achieved my goal. Oh, and I AM terribly sorry we're not all union actors and as utterly AMAZING as you are. We all walk around in Wicked jackets rushing all. the. time. No need to brag about your 18 years, sweetheart. I am neither jealous of you, nor do I aspire to your achievements.

Moxie, are you sure what you heard is not an exaggeration? I mean, people were crying, but... yikes.

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[chealion313]

Posted: 9/4/06 at 7:16pm

It was a young teenage girl who threw herself to the ground--I didn't witness it, but someone had pointed her out to me later on.

Yes, it was an amazing show and I did get teary eyed in the second act, but geez, life certainly isn't over for the fans or the cast just because it closed.

[BNN]

Posted: 9/4/06 at 7:18pm

From someone who was there, I wouldn't doubt someone collapsing. I didn't see anyone collapse in tears but I did interact with some incredibly rude people who didn't seem to think the giant barriers on the street applied to them. I also got tackled by a girl and her little brother whose dad wouldn't let anyone leave without talking to his kids.

I happen to be a big fan of this show and the people in it, but I'm not going to give up my dignity just so I can meet somebody who just happens to be in the show. I actually had a girl behind me yell and scream at her mother for not getting out of the theatre in time to be able to be close enough to see Manoel. I just think people are so worried that they might not get to interact with their favorite people in the world and try to do anything just so they can get attention. I certainly do not understand the emotional link some people can have with shows. Maybe I'm a robot or something.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 9/4/06 at 7:21pm

It was insane. I ran into some people I knew and ended up standing with them across the street to talk for a while, and we watched the crowd from there. I went back to the stage door side when it started to calm down some, but it was absolutely nuts. I got hit in the head (by accident) with several posters and Playbills being passed over me, but at one point I had gotten trapped and was trying to move, but there was no place to go, so the girl behind me saw fit to take what she had brought to be signed and SMACK me on the back with it until she had my attention and could yell at me and tell me I was in her way -- even though there was not an inch to spare.

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[orangeskittles]

Posted: 9/4/06 at 7:22pm

I loved the show from the first time I saw it back in December. I went to the stagedoor for the first time 3 weeks ago. I've never messaged the cast on MySpace. I've never bought a t-shirt from them or a poster or gone to a concert.

I can be upset (not *crying*, just disappointed) about the show closing without some sort of ulterior motive in my attachment. Other than vaguely knowing who Michael and Patti were, I didn't know of anyone in the cast when I saw it, but that didn't keep me from gushing about it to random people for months afterwards. It's an amazing production of an amazing show. Why are people convinced there HAS to be some other reason for audiences to like it?

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[iridescent_bomb]

Posted: 9/4/06 at 7:31pm

If you guys think people are annoyingly "obsessive" over it now... Wait until the Burton/Depp movie and the 14 year old fans with their Sweeney Todd Hot Topic shirts. Ooh, maybe there will be FANFICTION.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 9/4/06 at 7:38pm

I'm sorry, but I will so laugh at the Sweeney fanfiction.

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 9/4/06 at 7:40pm

Ooooy. I can see it now: Sweeney/Pirelli, Mrs. Lovett/Toby, Pirelli/Toby, Mrs. Lovett/Beggar Woman...remind me to disconnect my internet after the movie is released.

[BNN]

Posted: 9/4/06 at 7:40pm

Go to fanfiction.net and type in Sweeney Todd. It exists already.
Laugh away!

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[ThankstoPhantom]

Posted: 9/4/06 at 7:43pm

There's a mountain of it!

[commasplice]

Posted: 9/4/06 at 7:43pm

BNN, you beat me to it. I'm afraid to read it.