Check out the trailer to the movie version of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Visually, the film looks stunning, as one would reasonably expect from director Tim Burton.
At first the trailer seems to be avoiding the fact that the film is a musical. Perhaps they want to lure people in with the thriller aspect of the story and then hope people won't mind the actors singing every now and then. But eventually we get to hear Johnny Depp sing a slice or two from "Epiphany." I must say, he sounds OK, if not amazing.
Helena Bonham Carter looks as though she's going to be a hoot as Mrs. Lovett, although she doesn't do any singing in the trailer, so it's not clear how well she can sing the role.
The movie opens December 21st. I can barely contain my excitement.
Me too! Me too!
Posted by: SarahB | October 05, 2007 at 03:37 PM
I'm excited, but I'm just afraid they'll play up the blood and gore and downplay the music.
Posted by: Esther | October 05, 2007 at 11:29 PM
My concern is that on the brief snatch of a song we heard, Johnny Depp's phrasing sounded like David Essex singing 'Hold Me Close'. Hope that was just due to the pitifully small selection we heard.
Posted by: Jay Ell | October 11, 2007 at 04:52 PM