Older version of Sweeney Todd

Might be old news, but here's a link to an 1982 stage version of the Sweeney Todd musical in youtube. Very different from the Burton's dark version.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83F_OHrnhgo

If you want to see something really good check out the two productions of Sweeny Todd on DVD. One done with Angela Lansbury here , and one with Patti Lu Pone in the other here. Way better than the Johnny Depp rendition which was over the top with the gore IMHO.

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Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

If you want to see something really good check out the two productions of Sweeny Todd on DVD. One done with Angela Lansbury here , and one with Patti Lu Pone in the other here. Way better than the Johnny Depp rendition which was over the top with the gore IMHO.

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But the gore was half the fun.

I'm with Jimmy and Ursus...

I find this production (on YouTube) with Angela Lansbury and George Hearn to be smashing good...

YMMV.

There is also a non musical BBC version out there somewhere with a guy names winstone or something like that. Its very different also but truer to the original.

I saw Sweeney Todd when the Depp version came out and all I knew was that he was a barber that shaved...cool...I didn't shave for two days after seeing it.

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Originally Posted by thebigspendur

There is also a non musical BBC version out there somewhere with a guy names winstone or something like that. Its very different also but truer to the original.

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In another Sweeny Todd thread back when someone highly recommended that version. I was tempted but it is not musical nor is there a comic theme running through it. So I decided to pass. Without Sondheim's music and the comic aspect of Mrs. Lovett and her meat pies it becomes a horror movie. Reviewers of the DVD on amazon mostly gave it high praise for the performances but also said it was very bloody. I can do without that.