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lunarhobbits · 4 months

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so i saw sweeney todd the other day and it's consuming my thoughts

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#sweeney todd #stephen sondheim #josh groban #annaleigh ashford #nellie lovett #benjamin barker #johanna barker #anthony hope #lucy barker #tobias ragg

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little-lovett · 8 months

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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.

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vinnystaysawake · 10 months

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ATTEND THE TALE OF SWEENY TODD

#art #artwork #my art #digital art #musical #musicals #sweeney todd #sweeney todd the demon barber of fleet street #benjamin barker #horror #josh groban

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toaster-trash · 7 months

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“And she was beautiful, and she was virtuous, and he was nïave.”

More rough Sweeney Todd doodles

#sweeney todd #sweeney todd the demon barber of fleet street #benjamin barker #lucy barker

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lou-iz-stat · 2 months

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I think I just really like stories where a couple is killing people together. For example-

Interview with the Vampire, Heathers, Lisa Frankenstein, Sweeney Todd, Santa Clarita Diet etc…

I just realized this after seeing Lisa Frankenstein and loving it.

#interview with the vampire #amc iwtv #iwtv #iwtv 2022 #iwtv amc #loustat #lisa frankenstein #lisa x creature #heathers #heathers the musical #veronica sawyer #jason dean #sweeney todd #benjamin barker #mrs lovett #late night thoughts #what is wrong with me #santa clarita diet

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madamephantom · 10 months

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my contribution to the Sweeney Todd fandom

#sweeney todd #sweeney todd the demon barber of fleet street #sttdbofs #sweeney todd musical #benjamin barker #lucy barker

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fiddlepickdouglas · 6 months

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Speaking of haunting the narrative and coming back wrong, Sweeney Todd does both in such a heartbreaking way.

Lucy isn't dead, but we don't know until the end of the story when Sweeney has killed her himself. He has spent all those years bent on avenging a woman he knows better how to mourn than love, only to fuck it up so badly he doesn't resist death when it comes for him. She's the first thing to greet him upon his return to London and he can't even recognize her or bother to give a proper look because he is looking for a ghost of the past.

They both came back wrong and it's not their fault until Mrs. Lovett tries to sway things her way. Lucy has been traumatized out of her mind but has a sense of recognition of someone, something that she knew before she got like that. She keeps trying to see him to figure out what it is, but is swatted away. Sweeney has been too distracted by his plot against the judge and letting years of rage consume him.

Mrs. Lovett stands between two ghosts: the one she wants to haunt her for life and the one she wishes would disappear. It destroys all three of them.

#sweeney todd #yeah ive been listening to the josh groban cast recording #and what about it #benjamin barker #lucy barker #mrs lovett #sweeney todd 2023

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ourownbelovedbohemians · 2 months

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normalize being co-dependent and evil

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brideofedwardhyde · 5 months

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Josh Groban!Sweeney Todd: Fifteen years sweating in a living hell on a trumped up charge. Fifteen years dreaming that, perhaps, I might come home to a loving wife and child.

Me: Sir, do you not understand most of the people watching this would open their heart and their legs for you and give you another family?

#sweeney todd #sweeney todd 2023 #josh groban #benjamin barker #mrs lovett #lucy barker #I would only do it if Lucy was truly dead tho 😞#sweeney todd x reader #grobanite #broadway

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timegays · 6 months

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barker family photos

#Blood #blood tw #my art #sweeney todd #lucy barker #benjamin barker #johanna barker #toby sweeney todd #nellie lovett

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billy-fucking-loomis · 2 years

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It’s his season

Johnny Depp in:

A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984)

Edward Scissorhands (1990)

Sleepy Hollow (1999)

Corpse Bride (2005)

Charlie And The Chocolate Factory (2005)

Sweeney Todd (2007)

Dark Shadows (2012)

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little-lovett · 7 months

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yes i’m fine sorry i was just zoning out but right before sweeney kills lucy he says “the judge… i have no time!” and mrs. lovett represents the virtue of patience in the show and she had sang a whole song telling him to wait and take things slow and relax and think through his decisions.

the thing that destroys everyone in this show is impatience. if anthony had waited before intruding on sweeney and the judge, if sweeney had stopped obsessing when and where and how he could kill the beadle and judge, if sweeney hadn’t felt suffocated by the crushing, endless force of time and looked his own little girl and his wife in the eye and really thought and reached into the soul that was still in him, sweeney todd wouldn’t be the tragedy that it is. human nature bitches human nature

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berubara-4-ham · 3 months

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Sweeney and Lucy sketch

I use Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan painted as a ref for this

#max draws #Sweeney Todd #Benjamin Barker #lucy barker #tw blood

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broadwayinabox · 3 months

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“Pretty little Johanna”

That brief moment before ‘they come to take the little girl’

#sweeney todd #mrs lovett #sweeney todd revival #sweenett #artists on tumblr #why am I doing this to myself?#where is the alternate reality where Mrs. Lovett raises Johanna #johanna barker #benjamin barker #this is now a Sweeney Todd wish fulfillment art blog

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uranium-city · 8 days

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pspspsps Sweeney Todd fandom I drew the creatures

all based off of the current Broadway cast (except I took a few creative liberties wirh Lucy). wanted to try to get a grasp on how to approach these designs & it was a lot easier than i thought lol they’re all very fun to draw

clawing at the walls to see this cast irl i NEED to go see Sweeney i’m losing my mind i’m tweaking out

#sweeney todd #benjamin barker #mrs lovett #johanna barker #tobias ragg #lucy barker #beggar woman #anthony hope #sweeney todd fanart

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miss-galaxy-turtle · 14 days

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Idk if this is a hot take or not, but to me, josh groban and annaleigh ashford are to sweeney and lovett what ramin karimloo and sierra boggess are to phantom and christine

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