2023 revival todd/lovett + touch

THEY SLAY (saw Sweeney Todd on broadway a few weeks ago <3)

there is SO much depth and beauty in the stories we hear in sweeney todd. a murderer who was once a doting father, so blind with hatred and anger towards the world that he couldn’t even see his own wife and daughter, staring him right in the face. a woman down on her luck and in love, trying so desperately to make a connection with a deeply broken and disturbed human. an unfortunately innocent and unknowing boy who ended up being the one who could sense the dark truth. a love at first sight that refused to die, even when torn apart by the disgusting perversion of a greedy abuser. sweeney todd is about all of these people, doing absolutely horrible things, all out of some form of love. that’s the beauty of sweeney todd. sweeney killed for a father and husband’s love. lovett baked real people with real lives into pies to maintain a shallow, lustful relationship she impossibly dreamed would bloom into true romance. turpin destroyed an innocent family because he could not contain his ‘love’ for a pretty woman and her daughter. toby slit a throat because his mother figure was all he had, and he loved her, simply and purely, as an innocent child loves a mother. their love is the purest of all in the story.

but my point is — yes, sweeney todd is about a murderer and his accomplice who cannibalizes and sells his victims. but it’s not. sweeney todd is about love. how love is even stronger and more dangerous than the deepest hate. it’s about how love can destroy people. this show is so beautifully, deeply, disgustingly human. and this dark, telling tale is somehow warped into some of the most gorgeous music to ever be written and made hilarious, lovable, and entertaining. musical theatre is truly magic. human nature is love and filth and greed. sweeney todd perfectly embodies both of these ideas.

There’s just something about Middle-Aged bitches in love

thinking about his dad jokes

When is a monster not a monster? 

Oh, when you love it.

Happy Valentine’s Day!

the london life is gonna kill you

I am back from the grave and have discovered sweeney todd :]

morning toddheads

What Mrs. Lovett says:

“Always had a fondness for you I did”

What she means:

sorry about this one, buds

happy valentines to THEM and THEM ONLY. <333

you ever see two people and go “you. you are the reason the word ‘bloodlust’ has ‘lust’ in it.”