Thread: Has he/she ever offered to shave you?

Originally Posted by sidneykidney

Yeah i've heard of him. Apparently he does a shave to die for. Do you guys know what he did with the bodies? I do. Who else knows? Its gruesome i'll tell you that much!

According to the Angela Lansbury version, he turns them into chorus members.

Originally Posted by mparker762

According to the Angela Lansbury version, he turns them into chorus members.

Unless i'm getting confused it went something like this....

The client would sit down for the shave, Sweeny would press a button and the chair would flip 180 degrees on itself- tipping the occupant out and into the basement below. Clever part- when the one chair disappeared there was another that appeared- nobody could tell the change.

Anyway the 'client' if he was lucky would have broken his neck upon landing on his head. If not, the job was finished by Mr Todd with his straight. He discovered that beneath his shop there was part of a tunnell system where he could hide the bodies. Eventually the bodies became so numerous that he cant hide them here anymore. He looks around for an alternative place and discovers the tunnel he is using goes under the street... to a local pie shop. Yes you can see whats coming. The lady who owns the pie shop becomes an accomplice, friend and later his lover. She turns the 'meat' into her pies and the pair steal from their victims as he kills them, then sells their bodies in pies for MORE money

Read about it at wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweeney_Todd although wiki will tell you its urban myth... some things you CANT make up....

This is one of my favorite musicals. Unfortunately Johnny Depp can't sing to save his life, and the singing is necessary to humanize Benjamin Barker and make the story a tragedy instead of a horror show.

Anyway, some clips from the definitive performance, with Angela Lansbury and George Hearne at their prime.

"Have a Little Priest" - Angela Lansbury & George Hearne
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYGHHxJnDIw