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lunarhobbits · 4 months

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so i saw sweeney todd the other day and it's consuming my thoughts

+ bonus meta meme

#sweeney todd #stephen sondheim #josh groban #annaleigh ashford #nellie lovett #benjamin barker #johanna barker #anthony hope #lucy barker #tobias ragg

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little-lovett · 9 months

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there is SO much depth and beauty in the stories we hear in sweeney todd. a murderer who was once a doting father, so blind with hatred and anger towards the world that he couldn’t even see his own wife and daughter, staring him right in the face. a woman down on her luck and in love, trying so desperately to make a connection with a deeply broken and disturbed human. an unfortunately innocent and unknowing boy who ended up being the one who could sense the dark truth. a love at first sight that refused to die, even when torn apart by the disgusting perversion of a greedy abuser. sweeney todd is about all of these people, doing absolutely horrible things, all out of some form of love. that’s the beauty of sweeney todd. sweeney killed for a father and husband’s love. lovett baked real people with real lives into pies to maintain a shallow, lustful relationship she impossibly dreamed would bloom into true romance. turpin destroyed an innocent family because he could not contain his ‘love’ for a pretty woman and her daughter. toby slit a throat because his mother figure was all he had, and he loved her, simply and purely, as an innocent child loves a mother. their love is the purest of all in the story.

but my point is — yes, sweeney todd is about a murderer and his accomplice who cannibalizes and sells his victims. but it’s not. sweeney todd is about love. how love is even stronger and more dangerous than the deepest hate. it’s about how love can destroy people. this show is so beautifully, deeply, disgustingly human. and this dark, telling tale is somehow warped into some of the most gorgeous music to ever be written and made hilarious, lovable, and entertaining. musical theatre is truly magic. human nature is love and filth and greed. sweeney todd perfectly embodies both of these ideas.

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vinnystaysawake · 11 months

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ATTEND THE TALE OF SWEENY TODD

#art #artwork #my art #digital art #musical #musicals #sweeney todd #sweeney todd the demon barber of fleet street #benjamin barker #horror #josh groban

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finleyforevermore · 12 days

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🌟CASTING MY MUTUALS IN: SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET!🌟

Side note: I cast based on if the character reminds me of the moot, or if I can see the moot playing the character! If you get cast as a bad guy, of course I don't think of you that way! The reason I casted you is the second reason, I can just see you in that role! Cool? Cool! Now grab your razors, and let's get to cutting!

For those who paid attention to my blog, you all saw this first one coming 😅:

Finley as Sweeney Todd and Zeep (@ziipzeepzop-eez) as Mrs. Lovett

Josh Groban and Annaleigh Ashford as Sweeney Todd and Mrs. Lovett in the picture. (2023 Broadway)

Reasons for...me!: Sweeney is an actual dream role of mine! Not to mention it'd be a blast to get to play a not nice guy for 2 hours >:)

Reasons for Zeep: I wholeheartedly believe Zee has the comedic chops to play Lovett, and would absolutely sell the serious moments as well. In Zee we trust 😌

Mari (@heylittlestellbird) as Johanna

Maria Bilbao as Johanna in the picture. (2023 Broadway)

Reasons for Stella: Johanna is associated with birds. Who's got "bird" in their username? Mari! I rest my case! XD /silly

Atlas (@literatureisdying) as Anthony Hope

Jordan Fisher as Anthony in the picture. (2023 Broadway)

Reasons for Atlas: Anthony's number one character trait is yearning for Johanna. Atlas' number one trait is yearning for Auden. Simple! /silly

Mikey (@mushroom-hoodie) as The Beggar Woman

Ruthie Ann Miles as The Beggar Woman in the picture. (2023 Broadway)

Reasons for Mikey: Admittedly at first I had casted you as the Beggar Woman, because one, I just couldn't turn down your offer to be included, and two, I was struggling to think of skmeone else to cast you as but the more I thought about it the more I genuinely liked it! I think you'd do a really good job in this role! ^^

Frog (@ofthefrogs) as Tobias "Toby" Ragg

Joe Locke as Toby in the picture. (2023 Broadway)

Reasons for Froggy: I mean....just look at you and then look at Toby and tell me you don't look alike.

But also! Toby is a sweetheart! Froggy is also a sweetheart! I rest my case.

Ender (@ender-outlaw) as Adolfo Pirelli

Nicholas Christopher as Pirelli in the picture. (2023 Broadway)

Reasons for Ender: While you and Pirelli really couldn't be any more different, you're already a very charming person (Pirelli is in fact not that XD) and I think you'd have a great time playing him! Also, this is Tumblr! Who gives a hoot about gender? We can have a female Pirelli if we want!! >:D

Greaseball (@gb-diesellok) as Judge Turpin

Jamie Jackson as Turpin in the picture. (2023 Broadway)

Reasons for Greaseball: Just like Ender and Pirelli, you and Turpin really couldn't be any more different XD but your voice definitely fits comfortably into all of Turpin's vocal parts! ^^

Rook (@rook-specter) as Beadle Bamford

John Rapson as Bamford in the picture. (2023 Broadway)

Reasons for Crepuscule: Just like Ender and Pirelli AND Geebs and Turpin, you and Bamford aren't very much alike either! Who woulda guessed? XD

But I think your portrayal would be absolutely delightful and very funny (very much like his portrayal in the 2023 Broadway revival funnily enough)

And last, but most certainly not least..

What's a musical without it's Ensemble? :D

From left to right, we have:

@sandsmand, Troy (@the-fag-with-the-swag), Ash (@ripash), Wolf (@electricfied-wolf), Razzle (@whistlingstarlight), Ash (@idk-what-to-make-user), Charlie (@gently-decaying-flowers), Cal (@treasure-goblin), Amor (@nuncscioquidsitamor-14), Gabi (@splendidred05), Finn (@lordcatwich), & Eli (@theelispace)!

#queued #casting my mutuals! 🌟#finley the casting director! 🎭#sweeney todd #sweeney todd: the demon barber of fleet street #mrs lovett #mrs. lovett #nellie lovett #tobias ragg #Toby Ragg #judge turpin #beadle bamford #adolfo pirelli #lucy barker #beggar woman #benjamin barker #johanna todd #anthony hope

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toaster-trash · 7 months

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“And she was beautiful, and she was virtuous, and he was nïave.”

More rough Sweeney Todd doodles

#sweeney todd #sweeney todd the demon barber of fleet street #benjamin barker #lucy barker

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timegays · 25 days

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Death just runs in the family I guess

#sweeney todd #josh groban #my art #benjamin barker #johanna barker #lucy barker #blood #blood tw #eyestrain #eyestrain tw

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lou-iz-stat · 3 months

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I think I just really like stories where a couple is killing people together. For example-

Interview with the Vampire, Heathers, Lisa Frankenstein, Sweeney Todd, Santa Clarita Diet etc…

I just realized this after seeing Lisa Frankenstein and loving it.

#interview with the vampire #amc iwtv #iwtv #iwtv 2022 #iwtv amc #loustat #lisa frankenstein #lisa x creature #heathers #heathers the musical #veronica sawyer #jason dean #sweeney todd #benjamin barker #mrs lovett #late night thoughts #what is wrong with me #santa clarita diet

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ourownbelovedbohemians · 3 months

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normalize being co-dependent and evil

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madamephantom · 11 months

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my contribution to the Sweeney Todd fandom

#sweeney todd #sweeney todd the demon barber of fleet street #sttdbofs #sweeney todd musical #benjamin barker #lucy barker

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fiddlepickdouglas · 6 months

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Speaking of haunting the narrative and coming back wrong, Sweeney Todd does both in such a heartbreaking way.

Lucy isn't dead, but we don't know until the end of the story when Sweeney has killed her himself. He has spent all those years bent on avenging a woman he knows better how to mourn than love, only to fuck it up so badly he doesn't resist death when it comes for him. She's the first thing to greet him upon his return to London and he can't even recognize her or bother to give a proper look because he is looking for a ghost of the past.

They both came back wrong and it's not their fault until Mrs. Lovett tries to sway things her way. Lucy has been traumatized out of her mind but has a sense of recognition of someone, something that she knew before she got like that. She keeps trying to see him to figure out what it is, but is swatted away. Sweeney has been too distracted by his plot against the judge and letting years of rage consume him.

Mrs. Lovett stands between two ghosts: the one she wants to haunt her for life and the one she wishes would disappear. It destroys all three of them.

#sweeney todd #yeah ive been listening to the josh groban cast recording #and what about it #benjamin barker #lucy barker #mrs lovett #sweeney todd 2023

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eekub988 · 9 days

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last day of sweeney revival on broadway 💈🪒 !!!

IM SO SAD ITS GOING AWAY :(. but i truly do love this show so much. i saw it for the first time ever a few weeks ago and it completely blew me away. everything about it was stunning and the acting was incredible. ive never loved the songs from a musical so much and ive never felt so inspired to write or even act in something! (even though im a crew member of the shows i do…) maria bilbao, daniel yearwood, sutton foster, joe locke, and SO many more were all incredible and im so thankful to have gotten the chance to see it. I truly do hope it does go on tour some point next year too !! (also hoping my school performs it because i would LOVEEEE that)

even if the show is gone i will still be sweeney posting :-)

#broadway #musicals #sweeney todd #aaron tveit #musical theatre #sutton foster #daniel yearwood #maria bilbao #joe locke #anthony sweeney todd #mrs lovett #benjamin barker #johanna barker #GODDD I LOVE THEM AND IM GONNA MISS IT SO MUCH <3

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little-lovett · 8 months

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yes i’m fine sorry i was just zoning out but right before sweeney kills lucy he says “the judge… i have no time!” and mrs. lovett represents the virtue of patience in the show and she had sang a whole song telling him to wait and take things slow and relax and think through his decisions.

the thing that destroys everyone in this show is impatience. if anthony had waited before intruding on sweeney and the judge, if sweeney had stopped obsessing when and where and how he could kill the beadle and judge, if sweeney hadn’t felt suffocated by the crushing, endless force of time and looked his own little girl and his wife in the eye and really thought and reached into the soul that was still in him, sweeney todd wouldn’t be the tragedy that it is. human nature bitches human nature

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brideofedwardhyde · 5 months

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Josh Groban!Sweeney Todd: Fifteen years sweating in a living hell on a trumped up charge. Fifteen years dreaming that, perhaps, I might come home to a loving wife and child.

Me: Sir, do you not understand most of the people watching this would open their heart and their legs for you and give you another family?

#sweeney todd #sweeney todd 2023 #josh groban #benjamin barker #mrs lovett #lucy barker #I would only do it if Lucy was truly dead tho 😞#sweeney todd x reader #grobanite #broadway

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billy-fucking-loomis · 2 years

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