…. So did Angela Lansbury? …. So did Annaleigh Ahsford? …. Hell! So did Helena Bonham Carter (who due to Tim Burton did not allow the actors to come up with choreography or allow a choreographer to dictate their movements…. Which at the time was “brilliant!” But on rewatch OMFG WTF DID YOU NOT LET SOMEONE WHO KNEW HOW TO MAKE A MUSICAL….. FUCKING MAKE A FUCKING MUSICAL?!?!?!?) Edit: my point… SHE IS ALWAYS THE COMIC RELEIF YOU SIMPLETON
When I saw this, the audience cheered for the longest period of time I’ve ever heard during a Broadway show after she did “By the Sea.” She nailed it. She was absolutely hilarious and perfect. And Tveit was really wonderful, too.
Saw this production last week and I get why some people are calling Foster/Tveit miscast; they're doing their own interpretation of the characters. You see it often in revivals, where the leads feel like they've been shoehorned into doing impressions of the actors who made those roles famous. Foster/Tveit are categorically not doing this. I understand why a lot of Broadway visitors want to see a show (especially a revival) that looks/feels familiar to them (see Foster with Hugh Jackman in Music Man). To me, though, this was a brilliant, fresh, vibrant intepretation of a classic show.
Let me explain it to you since you are having trouble. I don't think Foster is miscast but Tveit certainly is. Miscast is when you sing in a range outside of the intended score. When they have to change the score to accommodate the actors voice they ARE miscast. Hope that helps. So it's not an opinion that he is miscast it's an empirical fact. People enjoying his interpretation of the role doesn't change that fact either. Singing the score in the keys it was written isn't an impression of the actors that made the roles famous.
@@nonyabusiness2510 You don’t need to be patronizing. A case can certainly be made that roles should be cast with the correct voice type, especially when the roles are for altos and bass/baritones, since there are so few great leading roles for those types, so please let them have the roles that were made for them. So I’ll agree with you to a point, but these roles are theatrical. They aren’t just their voice types. I’ll sometimes forgive transposing a part if the actor can sing it (in their own range) very well and act the hell out of it. Certainly I’d rather see that than an actor with the right vocal range who can’t act the part. Let’s not forget, Sondheim really liked the movie adaptation where the actors can definitely sing, but we’re clearly chosen for their acting ability over their voices. I’d kind of love to see Foster. I’m ambivalent towards Tveit. But there is certainly more than one rubric that a person might judge the casting on.
@@katpiercemusic It's not a matter of being compassionate towards singers who may not have many roles available to them. The keys in which a score is written are not arbitrary; they're selected by the composer to create a specific effect. Changing the key to make it accessible to a singer says, "I was almost capable of performing the role the show's creators constructed."
@@BeverlyReeser Yes, but composers approach their work with varying degrees of flexibility. Anais Mitchell seems very flexible with some of the vocal parts in Hadestown. Last time I went to see it a tenor was singing Hades. Sondheim is a little harder to pin down. He's on record as saying that Sweeney Todd was his favorite movie adaptation of a musical (any musical, not just his own), and in that movie, sure most of the actors were the same vocal ranges, but their voices did not have the same effect. Resonance is kind of important. I don't know how he would feel about this change. If I remember correctly, he was kind of okay with the gender swap in Company a few years ago, so he might be. On the other hand he really liked writing for baritones, so he might not be. Ultimately, we can't ask him, and I'm very leery of the idea of preservation of the art or artistic intent. That's a great way to make a work irrelevant in a couple of generations. Was this the best decision? I don't think it was. But I'm not going to get angry about it. Sondheim doesn't need defending. His shows don't need defending. Now if you don't mind, I'm going to see if tickets are available for the jazz infused production or Pirates of Penzance that's coming out this spring.
I saw the original cast and Ashford was great but Foster is truly wacky. I wish her run wasn't so short or I'd go back to NY and see her in it. I hope everyone saw her in mattress. Thanks for posting this
wow she's amazing in this role!! her sense of physical comedy is excellent, and i love her head voice. i haven't seen her anything else (other than Tony clips) but now i rlly want to
Because the role of Mrs. Lovett (in this dark and disturbing and beautiful musical) just screams out for physical comedy? Lovetttttt....I'm home! (in my best Ricky Ricardo voice)
@@davidv8564 Having seen the creator of the role, namely Angela Lansbury, I can attest that Ms Lansbury used physical comedy in her interpretation of the role to great success.
@@davidv8564 there’s an excellent documentary on the making of transfer of the original production to London where Sondheim, Hal Prince, and Christopher Bond are all interviewed. When he talked about Mrs Lovett, Sondheim said he wrote physical comedy in the songs on purpose. At one point, he even described the show as a farce which is why Hal Prince first declined to direct it. I mean the lyrics are hilarious at so many points. The subsequent productions have always kept that dark comedy. The only exception is the movie but that’s Burton’s interpretation.
I saw her in The Music Man and she was absolutely delightful! I never realized how funny Marian can be. If you look up the proshot from Shrek the Musical, she was just as funny as Fiona!
Oh my God, I absolutely love her. She brings that zany energy to clash with and play off of the more Comically Serious Todd and it pays off GORGEOUSLY. She's hysterical!
The mildly off key violins when she joins in “Not while I’m around” might be my favorite moment is musical theatre - it’s just so terrifying & beautiful & haunting
I saw this yesterday with someone. I hadn't real been looking to go but I thought "what the heck". Sutton Foster was amazing !!! She made the musical !!
I love you so much. You are a gift to this earth. You have come straight from the heavens above to save us from perdition. Thank you, is an understatement. Live, laugh, love, Sutton Foster
I remember when people were first hearing audio from her original performances and they were hating on her performance and to that I say do those people not know any Joy this woman is so funny and she brings so much Joy to the role.
Sutton combines the best of Lansbury's "dotty matron' with Annaleigh's "slightly insane woman with needs" and kind of lands at "Carol Burnett" in a good way. She's finding something emotional or funny in every beat. My god, when she "ugly hugs" Aaron Tveit like an obsessed fangirl would it's the most hilarious thing!
Sutton was out Sunday so I saw Jenna. Jenna was great. I saw AA last year. I wish they allowed different Lovetts to interpret differently. Lovett gets too silly for me at times. In regional shows, she's portrayed mire sinister.
She's great - very much Lansbury adjacent and I like it. But Tveit? He simply doesn't even have the voice of Sweeney. He's too light and pretty, regardless of any key changes
Sutton was incredible live in this role. Absolutely hilarious
She truly brought the comedic relief this show needs
…. So did Angela Lansbury? …. So did Annaleigh Ahsford? …. Hell! So did Helena Bonham Carter (who due to Tim Burton did not allow the actors to come up with choreography or allow a choreographer to dictate their movements…. Which at the time was “brilliant!” But on rewatch OMFG WTF DID YOU NOT LET SOMEONE WHO KNEW HOW TO MAKE A MUSICAL….. FUCKING MAKE A FUCKING MUSICAL?!?!?!?)
Edit: my point…
SHE IS ALWAYS THE COMIC RELEIF YOU SIMPLETON
When I saw this, the audience cheered for the longest period of time I’ve ever heard during a Broadway show after she did “By the Sea.”
She nailed it. She was absolutely hilarious and perfect.
And Tveit was really wonderful, too.
Saw this production last week and I get why some people are calling Foster/Tveit miscast; they're doing their own interpretation of the characters. You see it often in revivals, where the leads feel like they've been shoehorned into doing impressions of the actors who made those roles famous. Foster/Tveit are categorically not doing this. I understand why a lot of Broadway visitors want to see a show (especially a revival) that looks/feels familiar to them (see Foster with Hugh Jackman in Music Man). To me, though, this was a brilliant, fresh, vibrant intepretation of a classic show.
Let me explain it to you since you are having trouble. I don't think Foster is miscast but Tveit certainly is. Miscast is when you sing in a range outside of the intended score. When they have to change the score to accommodate the actors voice they ARE miscast. Hope that helps. So it's not an opinion that he is miscast it's an empirical fact. People enjoying his interpretation of the role doesn't change that fact either. Singing the score in the keys it was written isn't an impression of the actors that made the roles famous.
@@nonyabusiness2510 You don’t need to be patronizing. A case can certainly be made that roles should be cast with the correct voice type, especially when the roles are for altos and bass/baritones, since there are so few great leading roles for those types, so please let them have the roles that were made for them. So I’ll agree with you to a point, but these roles are theatrical. They aren’t just their voice types. I’ll sometimes forgive transposing a part if the actor can sing it (in their own range) very well and act the hell out of it. Certainly I’d rather see that than an actor with the right vocal range who can’t act the part. Let’s not forget, Sondheim really liked the movie adaptation where the actors can definitely sing, but we’re clearly chosen for their acting ability over their voices. I’d kind of love to see Foster. I’m ambivalent towards Tveit. But there is certainly more than one rubric that a person might judge the casting on.
@@katpiercemusic It's not a matter of being compassionate towards singers who may not have many roles available to them. The keys in which a score is written are not arbitrary; they're selected by the composer to create a specific effect. Changing the key to make it accessible to a singer says, "I was almost capable of performing the role the show's creators constructed."
@@BeverlyReeser Yes, but composers approach their work with varying degrees of flexibility. Anais Mitchell seems very flexible with some of the vocal parts in Hadestown. Last time I went to see it a tenor was singing Hades. Sondheim is a little harder to pin down. He's on record as saying that Sweeney Todd was his favorite movie adaptation of a musical (any musical, not just his own), and in that movie, sure most of the actors were the same vocal ranges, but their voices did not have the same effect. Resonance is kind of important.
I don't know how he would feel about this change. If I remember correctly, he was kind of okay with the gender swap in Company a few years ago, so he might be. On the other hand he really liked writing for baritones, so he might not be. Ultimately, we can't ask him, and I'm very leery of the idea of preservation of the art or artistic intent. That's a great way to make a work irrelevant in a couple of generations. Was this the best decision? I don't think it was. But I'm not going to get angry about it. Sondheim doesn't need defending. His shows don't need defending. Now if you don't mind, I'm going to see if tickets are available for the jazz infused production or Pirates of Penzance that's coming out this spring.
I saw the original cast and Ashford was great but Foster is truly wacky. I wish her run wasn't so short or I'd go back to NY and see her in it.
I hope everyone saw her in mattress.
Thanks for posting this
Flying in at 8am, seeing the 2pm and flying home at 10pm.
Can not WAIT to see Sutton slay this role!
wow she's amazing in this role!! her sense of physical comedy is excellent, and i love her head voice. i haven't seen her anything else (other than Tony clips) but now i rlly want to
Because the role of Mrs. Lovett (in this dark and disturbing and beautiful musical) just screams out for physical comedy? Lovetttttt....I'm home! (in my best Ricky Ricardo voice)
@@davidv8564 Having seen the creator of the role, namely Angela Lansbury, I can attest that Ms Lansbury used physical comedy in her interpretation of the role to great success.
@@davidv8564 there’s an excellent documentary on the making of transfer of the original production to London where Sondheim, Hal Prince, and Christopher Bond are all interviewed. When he talked about Mrs Lovett, Sondheim said he wrote physical comedy in the songs on purpose. At one point, he even described the show as a farce which is why Hal Prince first declined to direct it. I mean the lyrics are hilarious at so many points. The subsequent productions have always kept that dark comedy. The only exception is the movie but that’s Burton’s interpretation.
I saw her in The Music Man and she was absolutely delightful! I never realized how funny Marian can be. If you look up the proshot from Shrek the Musical, she was just as funny as Fiona!
She is a great Mrs. Lovett! Love her in this role. She is a such a gem! 💎
She is a miracle. This is a wildly new interpretation and she totally pulls it off
I couldn't agree more-she can do anything!
I saw it twice and she STOLE the show!!!!! I went specifically for joe locke but I was pleasantly surprised by her!!!
Oh my God, I absolutely love her. She brings that zany energy to clash with and play off of the more Comically Serious Todd and it pays off GORGEOUSLY. She's hysterical!
oh god she sounds exactly like olivia colman at 6:43 . still love a bit of sutton, she's only gotten better w age
Saw the performance on Saturday. She absolutely stole this show! She was incredible, my personal favorite portrayal
I went to New York and saw it 4/27/24 at the 2pm show. I cried it was so good.
I saw her in February in this, I must say her version of By the Sea might be my favorite!
Flaying her legs around like this was some SNL skitt...she might get the easy laugh but she detracts from the musical.
@@davidv8564agreed. She over plays it to the point it doesn’t make sense. I feel like she doesn’t understand the role
Oh not the little Joe Locke moments too 😭😭😭
The mildly off key violins when she joins in “Not while I’m around” might be my favorite moment is musical theatre - it’s just so terrifying & beautiful & haunting
You know, I had my doubts, but dang if she isn't giving it her all! Love this
i love her. any musical she is in, I will watch. i am quite fond of this musical, so I will rewatch it for 100th time
I saw her in ST last month. Holy cow, fantastic! I'm glad we sprang for good seats.
Sutton Foster gives me the vibes of Angela Lansbury in the OG production, just with a bit more energy and physical humor.
She is the right age from Mrs Lovett
Exactly! Lovett was zany and hilarious!
I saw this yesterday with someone. I hadn't real been looking to go but I thought "what the heck". Sutton Foster was amazing !!! She made the musical !!
Thank you so much for this, im heartbroken we don’t have an official recording from this cast and this helps 😢❤
just watched Sutton and Tveit this past week before the show closes. She was absolutely phenomenol, very funny and great portrayal of Mrs.Lovett.
I saw the show ~ a week ago go (my first time seeing Sweeney Todd in any form) and damn I loved their performances so much
I absolutely LOVED her in this show, a scene stealer for sure.
I saw her in the original cast of young Frankenstein and she did the upside down thing in roll In hay😂 she is truly an outstanding Broadway star
Thank you for sharing this, awesome I love it
I love you so much. You are a gift to this earth. You have come straight from the heavens above to save us from perdition. Thank you, is an understatement.
Live, laugh, love, Sutton Foster
I loved her!!! Saw it this weekend! I wish I had seen it with Josh and Anna Leigh to compare.
I remember when people were first hearing audio from her original performances and they were hating on her performance and to that I say do those people not know any Joy this woman is so funny and she brings so much Joy to the role.
I wish they would release an official taped recording of this!
Saw them Friday! Hilarious
I miss this cast 🥲❤️
she ate I must say
her rendition seems to mirror the manic crazy given by helena bonham-carter for the movie adaptation
Thank you!
wow brilliant
Do you think Sutton Foster makes a good Lovett? Who else would you cast in the part??
Sutton makes the best any role she plays!!! ❤❤❤❤❤
Sutton combines the best of Lansbury's "dotty matron' with Annaleigh's "slightly insane woman with needs" and kind of lands at "Carol Burnett" in a good way. She's finding something emotional or funny in every beat. My god, when she "ugly hugs" Aaron Tveit like an obsessed fangirl would it's the most hilarious thing!
Didn’t think I’d like her in this role - but she’s fantastic!
I'd pay to see it
Sutton was out Sunday so I saw Jenna. Jenna was great. I saw AA last year. I wish they allowed different Lovetts to interpret differently. Lovett gets too silly for me at times. In regional shows, she's portrayed mire sinister.
tysm for this video! I love it. Would you maybe make one with all clips of Joe Locke or Aaron tveit? If not all good, I just love this show ❤️
YESSSSSS!
Anyone know where to get a full live recording? I'll pay an arm and a leg for it. lol
Be careful- miss Lovett would gladly oblige you 😂
@@arthurkohn7957 This is true!
i love her so much she was amazingly perfect
is there a full version of this online anywhere 😭
Felicita Vista
Does any of you guys know where to find a video of full show with her on it?
There is a full version on UA-cam, if you look up “Sweeney Todd sample” the cover photo is the white and red advertisement
@@ameliakay9646 thank you ❤️
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Wish I had seen this instead of Ashford. OTOH, I was glad to have seen Grobin.
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She's great - very much Lansbury adjacent and I like it. But Tveit? He simply doesn't even have the voice of Sweeney. He's too light and pretty, regardless of any key changes
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Not bad, not great. After seeing Ashford, she just doesn’t compare. Not bad, but just not amazing
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