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 Christine-NYC
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| posted: 9/12/2006 at 11:53:27 PM ET
I know it's probably not going to happen, but COME ON! Bernadette for the film version of Mrs. Lovett. We should write letters to Tim Burton and get this done.
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I'm not a Sweeney Todd fan, but I do agree that Bernadette would be perfect as Mrs. Lovett.
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 moljul
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| posted: 9/15/2006 at 12:30:11 PM ET
It's being reported on Broadway World that Meryl Streep has officially signed on for Lovett. I haven't seen an official press release though.
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It would be more appropriate to say it has been rumored rather than it has been reported.
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It has also been said that Bernadette sang/read through a part this week or last. Some say Lovett others said Beadle
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moljul
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| posted: 9/15/2006 at 8:35:31 PM ET
Well I would be happier if she was Lovett but I would also be thrilled if she was a part of it in any way - as long as it ends up being a good film that is. Hopefully something will be officially confirmed soon.
"I'm one star away from Dolly Parton ... and Raymond Massey is between us. I hope we don't suffocate him." Bernadette Peters receiving her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, April 24, 1987
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Moljul, yes, it would be so great if she was Lovett but agree with you that any appearance in the film would do. If Anon is correct and Bernadette has read for a role in the film - let's keep our fingers crossed that she gets whatever role she wants.
Tim Burton should make a pretty interesting film and reap all the comic darkness from the story but I do wonder what Johnny Depp will be like as Sweeney Todd. I would have loved to have seen Welsh actor Jonathan Pryce in the role, a great actor and singer but not the same box-office draw of course.
It is great that Sweeney Todd will be filmed in this neck of the woods, at Pinewood, especially if Bernadette is part of the cast. Being over here again might concentrate her mind on the fact that British Bernadette Peters fans can fill a large auditorium - like The Royal Festival Hall - any time she likes!
as Bernadette says....just keep moving on.....
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| posted: 9/17/2006 at 4:09:46 PM ET
So it will be filmed in the UK? Fabulous news if so. From what I have been reading on other websites and such, this sounds like it will be fantastic!!
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| posted: 9/21/2006 at 10:01:07 AM ET
I could see Mr. Pryce in the role of The Judge, but not really Sweeney. He's much older than the role of Sweeney, or in comparison to Johnny Depp anyway.
If they're casting someone around Meryl or Bernadette's age for Lovett, then they need to go younger than 50s for the title character.
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Good point, but now you've got me thinking ... perhaps with a little bit of surgery, loads of make-up and the use of soft lenses on the cameras poor old Johnathan could pass for Depp's age? 
as Bernadette says....just keep moving on.....
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| posted: 9/21/2006 at 12:02:32 PM ET
"I'm one star away from Dolly Parton ... and Raymond Massey is between us. I hope we don't suffocate him." Bernadette Peters receiving her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, April 24, 1987
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| posted: 9/21/2006 at 2:06:29 PM ET
"If they're casting someone around Meryl or Bernadette's age for Lovett, then they need to go younger than 50s for the title character."
Wasn't it only in the recent rivival that an emphasis was placed on Sweeney being young than Mrs. Lovett? I mean Angela and George seemed to be the same age in the show or gave that illusion.
On a logical perspective, if Sweeney has been gone 15 some-odd years, knew Mrs. Lovett before than and was married, it kinda seems than both him and Lovett would be in their late 40's, early 50's. I was just watching Sleepy Hollow (another Tim Burtin, Johnny Depp film) and was speaking to someone about how I hope they make Sweeney older than Johnny looks as he has a very youthful face on screen. I don't have any doubt that there won't be alot of make-up artistry used in this film considering the director which I feel might be a good choice.
(Sorry for the long post, I usually don't do this!)
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| posted: 9/21/2006 at 2:10:56 PM ET
Actually I think Landbury is a good 10 years older than Hearn/Cariou but I don't think they played this up on stage or cast it that way for a reason. It seems they used make-up to make Sweeney appear older. I had always thought about them being about the same age as well but apparently Sondheim (otherwise known as Noah's best friend  ) wants Lovett to be older. Though I don't think its been reported how much older he wants her to be.
I just think Bernadette would look better than Meryl next to Depp. Meryl is beautiful in her own way but Johnny Depp and Bernadette are more traditionally attractive and in the same way. That probably doesn't make much sense in anyone's head but mine.
"I'm one star away from Dolly Parton ... and Raymond Massey is between us. I hope we don't suffocate him." Bernadette Peters receiving her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, April 24, 1987
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Since Sweeney Todd probably never existed anyway and since he is certainly not the original creation of any particular author (including Mr Sondheim) but rather a character created through the folk-lore of London's sewer culture of the 18th Century - surely he can be any age we want him to be?
Putting aside, for one moment, the wonderful and talented women who may (or may not be) in the running for the role of Mrs Lovett - the question is... can Johnny sing?
as Bernadette says....just keep moving on.....
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I don't have time for a long post, just read through everything quickly--but
1) I think Mrs. L is supposed to be in late 40's--I attended a lecture with the Artistic Director of the Wolf Trap Opera Company and I think that's what she said--I think she said Sweeney is a bit younger
2) Scottie gets my weekly award for sheer 
later...
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In the musical's book, Hugh Wheeler describes Sweeney Todd as "a heavy-set, saturnine man in his forties who might, say, be a blacksmith or a dockhand." Mrs Lovett is described as "a vigorous, slatternly woman in her forties."
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