Sweeney Todd

“No Place Like London,” Act 1, scene 1 from Sweeney Todd by Stephen Sondheim The orchestra enters with a full and resonant timbre, sounding the melodic theme “No place like London,” twice. The second echo ends on a peculiar chord, unresolved. The first soloist’s timbre is bright, energetic and full of hope, in contrast to the second soloist’s timbre that is dark. As the second soloist enters the music changes, the key shifting from major to minor. The second soloist sings in a lower register and saddened tones. Todd’s warning “You will learn,” is followed by two rising notes of hope, only to fall back down again with two notes of sorrow. A woman enters, her melody is chromatically inflected, and follows a downward spiral. After she is given money the music changes, thick tones of brass enter, the tempo of her lyrics increase and her words become agitated. They swirl around, quickly returning…

My first thought to having to go to Sweeney Todd was that it would be very serious and meaningful. I heard rumors that it would be good, but knowing that it would be 3 hours long, turned me off. The play itself was not as big of an issue as the time it took for it to end. At the beginning, the high pitch screech was a complete shock and scared a lot of people which was funny. The fact that the play turned out to be a musical was interesting. The singing, which repeated throughout the play,…

between the two musicals Buffy: Once More with Feeling(Joss Whedon) and Tim Burton’s adaptation of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street(Stephen Sondheim). Buffy: Once More with Feeling is a TV episode in which the people of Sunnydale start singing due to a mysterious force and Buffy’s sister Dawn is kidnapped. Buffy and her friends go out to find her sister and the mysterious Sweet, who is a demon with capabilities of making his victims start to sing and reveal their darkest secrets,…

Sweeney Todd 2005 Review Sweeney Todd is composed by the spectacular Stephen Sondheim. And this production was directed by John Doyle in 2005. This Musical is about a barber Benjamin Barker/Sweeney Todd who’s sent away by Judge Turpin because the Judge wanted Todd’s wife. Todd is told by his friend Mrs. Lovett that his wife died and his daughter Johanna is being kept by Judge Turpin who is planning to marry her. Todd vows that he will get revenge on The Judge. As Sweeney awaits to gain his…

"Tell-Tale Heart" and "Sweeney Todd" Literary Analysis One of the many themes of "Tell-Tale Heart" is psychological obsession. This ties into the Tim Burton movie, “Sweeney Todd”. In "Tell-Tale Heart", the main character tries to convince the reader of his sanity after just killing an old man out of paranoia. He struggles with an internal conflict and obsession over the old man's blue- gray eye. He struggles with this fixation throughout the short story. Both stories are based…

During the concert I attended they performed acts from Stephen Sondheim’s works, A Little Night Music and Sweeney Todd. Stephen Sondheim is a composer and lyricist who was born in New York in 1930. He has won numerous awards: Academy Award, eight Tony Awards, eight Grammy Awards, a Pulitzer Prize, the Laurence Olivier Award, and a 2015 Presidential Medal of Freedom.2 A Little Night Music is a Broadway play based on a 1955 classical film called Smiles of a Summer Night. The play is about happily…

In the Table 2.5, it would seem that it is translated precisely, yet there are some words changed, thus the idea becomes different than it should be. Using an idiom with the similar meaning but different form should sound very natural in the target language. In Sweeney Todd, the translators managed to achieve a different rendition of the musical piece by using Lithuanian idioms and sayings. In the first example of the table, Lithuanian common saying feels more natural than it would be rendered…

Sweeney Todd was rescued at sea by a young sailor by the name of Anthony Hope, and the two are on their way to London. Once they reach land Todds mood is worsened by a crazy beggar who asks Todd and Hope for spare change she also appears to recognize Todd. Anthony’s innocence is discouraged by Todd, when Todd tells a story about a barber, his wife and a corrupt judged who exiled the barber just to get at the barbers wife. After Todd enters a nearby meat pie shop on Fleet Street he asks the owner…

Some may consider Mary Shelley’s novel, “Frankenstein”, to be a horror, romance, or even science fiction. Although she has written other novels, “Frankenstein” is the most remembered (Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Biography). This British science fiction novel has been adapted into several films and TV shows. The novel is told in the form of letters, but the perspectives are from Walton, Victor, and the Creature. The novel is about a skilled scientist, who in his search for greatness creates an…

This is a paper about two amazing comic book characters. Jason Todd and Bucky Barnes are often considered so similar that they might as well be the same character. Jason Todd is a DC character created in March 1983 as a sidekick for Batman to replace his first prodigy, Dick Grayson. Bucky Barnes is a Marvel character created in March 1941 as a sidekick for Captain America. The two boys share several critical personality traits, but overall are very different. In Life James Buchannan “Bucky”…