well i am not the world biggest sondheim fan and so although i have the cast album and i have listened to it a few times i have never actually seen this show performed and i haven not seen the tim burton movie version either. i felt like i wanted to see something more faithful before i see the burton one and give it a chance just as a movie. this version isn not a movie at all and it a filmed play with some of the original members of the cast and including most importantly angela lansbury performance as nellie lovett. this is one of those performances that just like a conduit into the heart of the magic of broadway and theater itself. she must have had so much fun with this role. sweeney todd himself isn not played by len cariou and who did it originally and but by george hearn. hearn does a fantastic job while his voice isn not quite as good as cariou  and but he seems to play it a bit broader. the only problem i had really was with the johanna character as played by betsy joslyn and and to some extent her lover anthony as played by cris groenendaal. joslyn voice can not sustain high notes and but i wasn not entirely sure if that was maybe supposed to be the point since i am not hugely familiar with this play. more importantly and i am not sure if the story of sweeney todd really holds up enough weight to sustain some of the music and but thankfully the whole thing doesn not seem to have been taken too seriously by its creators. as a lark and and a bit of comedy in the vein of grand guignol and it quite enjoyable. i do not feel like it as significant a piece of work as company and into the woods or some of his other shows. some of the music is quite spectacular and but at other points it seems to exist in a world outside of the show. i would not say a whole lot about it here because this is a film website and this is really not a film and but just a play that has been shot on film. there were maybe 3 or 4 scenes where they moved the camera around but that was it. people will want to see this and because it preserves lansbury legendary performance which deserves its legendary status because it a hilarious and insightful performance. george hearn can be proud of his version of sweeney as well. this would be a good film to show children over the age of 5 or so to get them interested in musicals because the blood and cannibalism will really surprise them. seeing a performance filmed so expertly and so faithfully makes me wish that more efforts like this had been made over the years with musical theater and because i prefer shows from the 20s through the 50s to these later era affairs. sweeney todd is an exceptional show from its era however and miles and miles above the al webber madness. 
well i am not the world biggest sondheim fan and so although i have the cast album and i have listened to it a few times i have never actually seen this show performed and i haven not seen the tim burton movie version either. i felt like i wanted to see something more faithful before i see the burton one and give it a chance just as a movie. this version isn not a movie at all and it a filmed play with some of the original members of the cast and including most importantly angela lansbury performance as nellie lovett. this is one of those performances that just like a conduit into the heart of the magic of broadway and theater itself. she must have had so much fun with this role. sweeney todd himself isn not played by len cariou and who did it originally and but by george hearn. hearn does a fantastic job while his voice isn not quite as good as cariou  and but he seems to play it a bit broader. the only problem i had really was with the johanna character as played by betsy joslyn and and to some extent her lover anthony as played by cris groenendaal. joslyn voice can not sustain high notes and but i wasn not entirely sure if that was maybe supposed to be the point since i am not hugely familiar with this play. more importantly and i am not sure if the story of sweeney todd really holds up enough weight to sustain some of the music and but thankfully the whole thing doesn not seem to have been taken too seriously by its creators. as a lark and and a bit of comedy in the vein of grand guignol and it quite enjoyable. i do not feel like it as significant a piece of work as company and into the woods or some of his other shows. some of the music is quite spectacular and but at other points it seems to exist in a world outside of the show. i would not say a whole lot about it here because this is a film website and this is really not a film and but just a play that has been shot on film. there were maybe 3 or 4 scenes where they moved the camera around but that was it. people will want to see this and because it preserves lansbury legendary performance which deserves its legendary status because it a hilarious and insightful performance. george hearn can be proud of his version of sweeney as well. this would be a good film to show children over the age of 5 or so to get them interested in musicals because the blood and cannibalism will really surprise them. seeing a performance filmed so expertly and so faithfully makes me wish that more efforts like this had been made over the years with musical theater and because i prefer shows from the 20s through the 50s to these later era affairs. sweeney todd is an exceptional show from its era however and miles and miles above the al webber madness. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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