I’m obsessed with the way Groban kind of spits out the word “pet”, it may not have been intentional, but I feel it totally highlights how Sweeney really is obsessed with the IDEA of Johanna and always used the idea of her as an excuse to get revenge by any means possible. The way that this song is composed is so fascinating to me because you realize you are listening to two different men who essentially don’t know anything about her kind of idolize and dream about her in different ways, putting her on a pedestal. Meanwhile she’s a real person trying to escape her abusive and scary situation. It reminds me of the song Esmeralda from Hunchback- three different men projecting their own wishes and desires onto a woman who is just trying to survive. (To be clear, I don’t think there’s anything wrong with Anthony longing for her, but I mean he obviously doesn’t know her lmao) If you made it to the end of this TED Talk, congrats
@@ChienaAvtzon There's even a song Judge Turpin has to himself (referred to as "Johanna (Mea Culpa), creepily expressing his lust for Johanna while whipping himself to climax before ultimately deciding to try to marry her. Also in that scene(coming after the reprise of the Ballad of Sweeney Todd after The Shaving Contest) is where we see Johanna sneakily take the latch key she gives to Anthony later on. It was cut from the Original Broadway production during previews(though it is featured in the cast album, been included in the licensed score by Sondheim's insistence, and has been performed in more recent revivals and concerts[though it is most likely not in this revival here]), but you could say that it is also itself a MUCH more disturbing precursor to Hellfire in Hunchback. ua-cam.com/video/qE5UZfSohHw/v-deo.html
@@michaelwilliamybarra2409 - Oh, yes…. I am well-aware of that horrific and grotesque song that makes “Hellfire” look like child’s play. When a song is deemed too disturbing for a musical about serial killers and cannibalism, it is on a whole different level of evil. One has to wonder what Stephen Sondheim’s reaction was when Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz managed to convince Disney to allow “Hellfire” in a family film?
I don't think he uses Johanna for revenge I do think she motivates him. At least not in this rendition. But he is very much obsessed with the idea of her being the little girl he left back then
For some reason I love the silhouette of Annaleigh against the fiery oven and the change of the music to a hectic tune from the old beggar woman. Perfectly blended (baked) together.
Its easily one of the best visuals I've ever witnessed on a broadway stage in my life! it was sooooo effective! it felt like she was opening the gates of Hell and just stirring things up! the evil it radiated was almost tangible!
Saw it on June 30th! My mom and I were restraining ourselves from screaming when Gaten Matarazzo walked onstage (my family loves stranger things) and I was going absolutely feral when Josh Groban came out
I love how they staged this number especially with the beggar woman yelling at passerby who don't acknowledge her, it reminds me of how Lucy was ignored while at the judges party and I love that they added that staging detail
That is the brilliant irony of the role. Everybody thinks that she is simply a crazy beggar woman, and yet, she is the only person who actually realizes what's going on.
@@macrent2 That, paired with the original writing of the show itself. Sweeney identifies Pirelli's miracle elixir as piss by how it smelled, and Lucy identifies something wrong with the shop everyone's gone mad for by the smell
Thank you for this. I've been dying to go see Groban in Sweeney Todd, but I can't afford it. This just made my day! Hearing his smooth buttery voice sing from my favorite musical is just absolutely stunning.
The first time I listened to this version of the song, I felt like I was transported into the theater. So so amazing, I wanted (and still want to) hear Josh’s voice every day ❤
She deserves so much for her talent. It was so tragic that she lost both her 4 year old daughter and unborn child a few years ago. I’m so happy she was able to have another child afterwards, because that’s a pain that will never go away.
well, that’s something that’s not avoidable, you can’t predict an audience. honestly, most of the reactions are to the blood and to the body falling through the floor. i wouldn’t be surprised if this was from opening night
Listening to audience reactions for various productions of this show from the 1979 original, to London 1980, etc. and people always laugh at this scene. It's meant to be jarring the way he's softly singing yet the bodies are thrown like trash into the chute.
We recently talked about this scene at university (I study Musical Theatre) for this reason. My lecturer said that a happy melody with awful lyrics or while doing terrible things is a way of creating comedy. Sort of the same vein as You'll Be Back from Hamilton or To Keep My Love alive from A Connecticut Yankee. So I suppose they're justified to laugh
I'm not feeling this revival. Prefer the original Broadway staging and subsequent scale ⚖️ down version... like the Circle in the Square production. This is too pristine glossy for my taste.
I hate this tempo. Way too fast. This scene shouldn’t be funny but sad. This is the most lyric and beautiful song in the whole show and it’s ruined by the rapid tempo
The tempos are correct for each performer: Antony lost and longing, Sweeney bored, waiting for his chance, absent-mindedly killing off his customers, Johanna lonely and distraught, and the beggar woman frantic and gradually going crazier.
This isn't remotely the same as seeing a performance live. Think of it as a concert video. People who wanted to see this would have bought tickets already, and most people don't live in the US. If anything videos have made me go to see shows more as I've been made aware of different performers and gone to see them in other productions, or wanted to experience the staging in the video in person.
I’m obsessed with the way Groban kind of spits out the word “pet”, it may not have been intentional, but I feel it totally highlights how Sweeney really is obsessed with the IDEA of Johanna and always used the idea of her as an excuse to get revenge by any means possible. The way that this song is composed is so fascinating to me because you realize you are listening to two different men who essentially don’t know anything about her kind of idolize and dream about her in different ways, putting her on a pedestal. Meanwhile she’s a real person trying to escape her abusive and scary situation. It reminds me of the song Esmeralda from Hunchback- three different men projecting their own wishes and desires onto a woman who is just trying to survive.
(To be clear, I don’t think there’s anything wrong with Anthony longing for her, but I mean he obviously doesn’t know her lmao)
If you made it to the end of this TED Talk, congrats
The “Hunchback of Notre Dame” score was heavily influenced by “Sweeney Todd”, and its used of the Dies Irae.
Love this!!!
@@ChienaAvtzon There's even a song Judge Turpin has to himself (referred to as "Johanna (Mea Culpa), creepily expressing his lust for Johanna while whipping himself to climax before ultimately deciding to try to marry her. Also in that scene(coming after the reprise of the Ballad of Sweeney Todd after The Shaving Contest) is where we see Johanna sneakily take the latch key she gives to Anthony later on.
It was cut from the Original Broadway production during previews(though it is featured in the cast album, been included in the licensed score by Sondheim's insistence, and has been performed in more recent revivals and concerts[though it is most likely not in this revival here]), but you could say that it is also itself a MUCH more disturbing precursor to Hellfire in Hunchback.
ua-cam.com/video/qE5UZfSohHw/v-deo.html
@@michaelwilliamybarra2409 - Oh, yes…. I am well-aware of that horrific and grotesque song that makes “Hellfire” look like child’s play. When a song is deemed too disturbing for a musical about serial killers and cannibalism, it is on a whole different level of evil. One has to wonder what Stephen Sondheim’s reaction was when Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz managed to convince Disney to allow “Hellfire” in a family film?
I don't think he uses Johanna for revenge I do think she motivates him. At least not in this rendition. But he is very much obsessed with the idea of her being the little girl he left back then
For some reason I love the silhouette of Annaleigh against the fiery oven and the change of the music to a hectic tune from the old beggar woman. Perfectly blended (baked) together.
Its easily one of the best visuals I've ever witnessed on a broadway stage in my life! it was sooooo effective! it felt like she was opening the gates of Hell and just stirring things up! the evil it radiated was almost tangible!
That's so freakin' awesome! I'm on the west coast in California so I'll live vicariously through your words.😊
To those who have the means to watch this slime being made live, I cannot recommend it more. It's easily the best slime I've ever seen
Ohhh how I wish I could!!!!
@@kmetzz1 if you’re a New Yorker remember that lottery!
@@jakelomando1073 I’m not. I’m far away from NYC. I wish I had the money to fly there, get a hotel, and see the show. Sigh.
I’m dying to see it be made live!!!!! 😭😭😭
Saw it on June 30th! My mom and I were restraining ourselves from screaming when Gaten Matarazzo walked onstage (my family loves stranger things) and I was going absolutely feral when Josh Groban came out
I love how they staged this number especially with the beggar woman yelling at passerby who don't acknowledge her, it reminds me of how Lucy was ignored while at the judges party and I love that they added that staging detail
That is the brilliant irony of the role. Everybody thinks that she is simply a crazy beggar woman, and yet, she is the only person who actually realizes what's going on.
@@macrent2 That, paired with the original writing of the show itself. Sweeney identifies Pirelli's miracle elixir as piss by how it smelled, and Lucy identifies something wrong with the shop everyone's gone mad for by the smell
Thank you for this. I've been dying to go see Groban in Sweeney Todd, but I can't afford it. This just made my day! Hearing his smooth buttery voice sing from my favorite musical is just absolutely stunning.
You should go see it standing room! I only paid 49 bucks for it and brought a collapsible stool. Best 3 hrs ever.
The first time I listened to this version of the song, I felt like I was transported into the theater. So so amazing, I wanted (and still want to) hear Josh’s voice every day ❤
I adore this small tutorial! I’d love to trade recipes with you for the entire slime batch
Omg! The staging is so amazing. That was so cool.
Jordan fisher is so talented!
love this! do you have a slime that i could make by the sea, perhaps?
Do happen to have a slime tutorial with A Little Priest? Those are always fun to make!
@alanvaytsmando you know where I can watch it?
@alanvaytsmando you know where I can watch it?
literally OBSESSED with this slime tutorial rn
does anyone know if there’s a full tutorial out there for those of us unable to make it
LOLL UR EXCITEMENT WHEN THE LIGHTING CHANGES FOR THE BEGGAR WOMANS BIT (SAME BESTIE)
cool man i would love to make more slime if u had some more tutorials
I saw this slime LIVE! RECOMMENDED
does anyone have the full link? I really want to know the whole recipe for this delicious meat pie
we all do hahahaha
Next time I suggest lowering the exposure a bit, as I couldn't really see the juicy details of when you cut the pie!
There is blood. I promise.
Yes the staging is wonderful baci x
does anyone have a link to a full slime tutorial
Looking everywhere for the Final Sequence of the slime making process.
do you have the full version of the tutorial?
@Alan Vaytsman where?
@@didi2331 a channel called blair bart has it i think its still up
full tutorial???
Somebody has to have a video of the whole show, are they taking it down too fast?
hey! could you ever upload not while im around and parlor songs if you have it?
Can someone tell me please where can I watch the complete slime tutorial!? Because ill never be able to go to broadway😢😢 im from Mexico 😢
IVE BEEN WAITING OH MY GOD
So I don't use blue slime, I use green?
City on fire!!!!
Omg thank god for this
Jordan Fisher?
God bless you
RUTHIE. ANN. MILES. brilliance.
She deserves so much for her talent. It was so tragic that she lost both her 4 year old daughter and unborn child a few years ago. I’m so happy she was able to have another child afterwards, because that’s a pain that will never go away.
Where can I find the full one?
LOL...He slit someone's throat! Har de har har!
and the moral of the story is, always go to the barber with your girlfriend if you want to live
♥️ ♥️
Why are they laughing at the kills?
Where is your God? That’s good video.??
UA-cam took it down
I think it's kind of defeating the purpose of having sweeny be creepy if people are gonna laugh at him killing people in the number
well, that’s something that’s not avoidable, you can’t predict an audience. honestly, most of the reactions are to the blood and to the body falling through the floor. i wouldn’t be surprised if this was from opening night
Listening to audience reactions for various productions of this show from the 1979 original, to London 1980, etc. and people always laugh at this scene. It's meant to be jarring the way he's softly singing yet the bodies are thrown like trash into the chute.
It can be very jarring to those who've never seen it before. I saw it in person and it does look very real even though you know it's stage trickery.
We recently talked about this scene at university (I study Musical Theatre) for this reason. My lecturer said that a happy melody with awful lyrics or while doing terrible things is a way of creating comedy. Sort of the same vein as You'll Be Back from Hamilton or To Keep My Love alive from A Connecticut Yankee. So I suppose they're justified to laugh
the musical has dark comedy
Why did the audience laugh? Nothing funny about this number! Except when the little girl skills in stage.
I'm not feeling this revival. Prefer the original Broadway staging and subsequent scale ⚖️ down version... like the Circle in the Square production. This is too pristine glossy for my taste.
I hate this tempo. Way too fast. This scene shouldn’t be funny but sad. This is the most lyric and beautiful song in the whole show and it’s ruined by the rapid tempo
This is how the tempo was in the original Broadway cast
The tempos are correct for each performer: Antony lost and longing, Sweeney bored, waiting for his chance, absent-mindedly killing off his customers, Johanna lonely and distraught, and the beggar woman frantic and gradually going crazier.
It felt a little fast to me also, but a quick check of the original cast album proves it exactly the same.
this is how it was originally written
We work at the building and now we know ya seat number and the date
And that means? And this could have been taken and then uploaded at any point since the revival started previews.
These videos are illegal. This is announced at every performance. Many reasons. Buy a ticket - see it in person. Shameful.
This isn't remotely the same as seeing a performance live. Think of it as a concert video. People who wanted to see this would have bought tickets already, and most people don't live in the US. If anything videos have made me go to see shows more as I've been made aware of different performers and gone to see them in other productions, or wanted to experience the staging in the video in person.
Well it's either this, or wait for a pro shot in a few months so
This is really the lesser of two evils
Bruh we didn’t ask for your elitist opinion.
oh shut the hell up. that's an incredibly privileged way of thinking.
Not everyone can afford to fly to NYC or afford a ticket
Is there a epiphany recipe?