Killer Barbers

lostwords

So the trailer for Sweeney Todd is finally out:

http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1809834155/video/4367764

Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman and Timothy Spall (both from Harry Potter movies), Sasha Baron Cohen. This movie looks ridiculously good.

Its directed by Tim Burton, so you kinda know what you're getting into in terms of visuals and storytelling style. But the short part of Johnny Depp singing was pretty awesome. He has a voice like a manly angel. I usually love movies with a bit of singing in it (Moulin Rouge, classic disney movies, original Willy Wonka, etc etc), so I am hella excited about this. Plus, no matter what you do to Johnny Depp, he's still smoking hot.



If you ever have a chance to watch a production of it on stage, do so. Great watch, even if you're not too into theater.


We could talk about other plays too. Its been a while since we've had a broadway thread. My tops is Les Miserables.


Or umm, talk about bad haircuts you've had, I guess.

I used to sport a bowl cut for half a year. Thanks mom.

Pony

i am seeing the stage version of this in november

looks pretty rad

DrIanMalcolm

Christoper Lee's scene got cut. I am sad

Butters

I liked Timothy Spall in The Last Samurai

Balefuego

I will probably see this.

Air

NotASenator

I don't know. I'd rent it, I guess, but it didn't grab me from the trailer.

autono-wally, erotibot300

I liked the trailer, and johnny depp is :winky:

Khavall

I saw this on broadway with LuPone and Ceveris. Depp will be like gouging my ears out with a dildo made of razer blades after Ceveris.



I'm torn between my man-crush on Sondheim and desire to listen umpteen billion times to everything that man does(And play it. Gogo getting asked to play for PSUs production of Assassins), and not wanting to see Sondheim sung by Johnny Depp.



WOAH.


Why the fuck is Pirelli played by a man?

That is not the gender that playes Pirelli

Karenna

Killer Barbers?


This dude offs himself in front of the city council:
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/10/05/owner.suicide.ap/index.html

Ronald "Bo" Ward, owner of Bo's Barber Shop, had told the council his business would go under if he couldn't get his home rezoned as commercial. After the 5-7 vote Thursday night, Ward stood and walked toward the council.

"Y'all have put me under. ... I'm out of here," he said before shooting himself in the head with a small handgun.

Barbers are the new postmen.

lostwords

Karenna wrote: »

Killer Barbers?


This dude offs himself in front of the city council:
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/10/05/owner.suicide.ap/index.html

Ronald "Bo" Ward, owner of Bo's Barber Shop, had told the council his business would go under if he couldn't get his home rezoned as commercial. After the 5-7 vote Thursday night, Ward stood and walked toward the council.

"Y'all have put me under. ... I'm out of here," he said before shooting himself in the head with a small handgun.

Barbers are the new postmen.

Holy crap, yeah, thats pretty hardcore. Though its not poetic enough. He should have offed himself with a barber's tool, like slit his own throat with a razor or maybe choked on some hairgel or something.

lostwords

autono-wally, erotibot300 wrote: »

I liked the trailer, and johnny depp is :winky:

A man after my own heart.

Lucky Cynic

Karenna wrote: »

Killer Barbers?


This dude offs himself in front of the city council:
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/10/05/owner.suicide.ap/index.html

Ronald "Bo" Ward, owner of Bo's Barber Shop, had told the council his business would go under if he couldn't get his home rezoned as commercial. After the 5-7 vote Thursday night, Ward stood and walked toward the council.

"Y'all have put me under. ... I'm out of here," he said before shooting himself in the head with a small handgun.

Barbers are the new postmen.

That's pretty bold of him to do so.

thorgot

I tell the tale of Sweeney Todd,

autono-wally, erotibot300

should've screamed "told u i was hardcore!" before doing it

The Geek

I'm going to see Spamalot in a couple of weeks.

Lucky Cynic

I wonder if he shit his pants when he died ala South Park.

SkankPlaya

I saw Avenue Q a few weeks ago. it was good.

Sweeny Todd looks interesting, one of my professors used it for the setting of an exam last semester.

Karenna

Lucky Cynic wrote: »

I wonder if he shit his pants when he died ala South Park.

They always do, it's pretty unavoidable.

Even if you KNOW you're going to off yourself, and you purposefully take a bottle of laxatives, chased with a pot of coffee, in order to get everything out before hand...you're still going to squeeze out a last hurrah.

Karenna

lostwords wrote: »

Karenna wrote: »

Killer Barbers?


This dude offs himself in front of the city council:
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/10/05/owner.suicide.ap/index.html

Ronald "Bo" Ward, owner of Bo's Barber Shop, had told the council his business would go under if he couldn't get his home rezoned as commercial. After the 5-7 vote Thursday night, Ward stood and walked toward the council.

"Y'all have put me under. ... I'm out of here," he said before shooting himself in the head with a small handgun.

Barbers are the new postmen.

Holy crap, yeah, thats pretty hardcore. Though its not poetic enough. He should have offed himself with a barber's tool, like slit his own throat with a razor or maybe choked on some hairgel or something.

Hardcore would have been to shoot all the council members, then shave their heads. Make a rope out of their locks, and hang yourself with that.

I'd write a Broadway play about that.

Hunter

You have to admit, it's pretty hardcore to say fuck you city council in that manner. Just "watch me kill myself faggortz". I've done that playing internets games, but that takes stones in real life.

Jordyn

The record will show that I love Alan Rickman

SA

I saw this years ago in New York.

It was pretty kickass for a faggy Broadway musical.

Hunter

Jordyn wrote: »

The record will show that I love Alan Rickman

More then Steve Martin?

Khavall

SA wrote: »

I saw this years ago in New York.

It was pretty kickass for a faggy Broadway musical.

That's probably the pure sex that Sondheim exudes.


Though the revival is even better, since they do an incredible stark minimalistic thing with a sort of semi-brechtian-detachment thing with it, which is just perfect.


I'm really not excited for the movie though, because I love the show so much and it's not going to be as good as the revival what with with Depp and a man Pirelli(seriously, what the hell is that? It's like having Cinderella's Prince and the Wolf be two different people in Into the Woods. Sure, I don't think it's in the script beyond the voice part that Pirelli is supposed to be played by a woman, but dammit it's always done that way).

lostwords

Hunter wrote: »

Jordyn wrote: »

The record will show that I love Alan Rickman

More then Steve Martin?

Early Steve Martin, a la The Jerk and Three Amigos or more recent Steve Martin a la Cheaper by the Dozen and Bringing Down The House?

TheySlashThem

The Geek wrote: »

I'm going to see Spamalot in a couple of weeks.

Spamalot is good stuff.

Only musical I've ever gone to see.

ouzaru

Oh, man, Steve Martin.

Khavall

ThatDudeOverThere wrote: »

The Geek wrote: »

I'm going to see Spamalot in a couple of weeks.

Spamalot is good stuff.

Only musical I've ever gone to see.

Go see more musicals, fag.

ouzaru

Musicals are so great.

Karenna

Khavall wrote: »

ThatDudeOverThere wrote: »

The Geek wrote: »

I'm going to see Spamalot in a couple of weeks.

Spamalot is good stuff.

Only musical I've ever gone to see.

Go see more musicals, fag.

I concur, there's so many incredible ones still running, it'd be a shame not to gay it up in the name of expanding your horizons.

Nucsh

I freaked the hell out when I heard that this was being made

Sweeney Todd is the greatest thing ever.



Ever.

TheySlashThem

man the only other one I have any interest in is Avenue Q and I am not going to new york to see a show

for spamalot, I waited until it came here

Karenna

ThatDudeOverThere wrote: »

man the only other one I have any interest in is Avenue Q and I am not going to new york to see a show

for spamalot, I waited until it came here

Where do you live? Pretty much every city Spamalot is playing in is a mecca of musical awesomeness

TheySlashThem

St. Louis.

It was showing at the Fox Theater.

We've actually got a several good venues for theater here, most notably the Muny.

Khavall

ThatDudeOverThere wrote: »

man the only other one I have any interest in is Avenue Q and I am not going to new york to see a show

for spamalot, I waited until it came here

Musicals worth seeing whenever they're up in any form whatsoever above a middle school production(/crappy high school production. Some high schools do surprisingly good jobs):


A Funny Thing happened on the way to the Forum - Sondheim
Merrily We Roll Along - Sondheim
Sweeny Todd - Sondheim
A Little Night Music - Sondheim
Assassins - Sondheim
Avenue Q - Lopez/Marx
Company - Sondheim
Secret Garden - Simon
Seussical - Flaherty/Ahrens
My Favorite Year - Flaherty/Ahrens
Ragtime - Flaherty/Ahrens
A Man of No Importance - Flaherty/Ahrens
25th Annual Putnam Spelling Bee - Finn
John and Jen - Lippa
Parade - Jason Robert Brown
The Wild Party(Either one) - Lippa or LaChuisa
Sunday in the Park with George - Sondheim
Kiss Me, Kate - Porter
West Side Story - Bernstein/Sondheim
Pirates of Penzance - Gilbert/Sullivan
ReelPolitik: The Musical(I had to put it in) - Plute/Sohne(hint: I'm Plute)


Musicals you should see if they're in your area:

Last 5 Years - Jason Robert Brown
Legally Blonde: The Musical - O'Keefe
See What I wanna see - LaChuisa
Anyone can Whistle - Sondheim
Wicked - Schwartz
Children of Eden - Schwartz
Jesus Christ Superstar - Lloyd Weber
Chess - Anderson/Ulvres
A New Brain - Finn
A Light in the Piazza - Guettal
Grey Gardens - Fuck I can't remember dammit
The Falsetto's - LaChuisa(I think)
BatBoy - O'Keefe

Musicals other people would suggest even though I'm not a big fan:

Les Mis - Schoenburg/Boublil
Martin Guerre - Schoenburg/Boublil
Songs for a New World - Jason Robert Brown
Joseph and the amazing technicolor dreamcoat - Lloyd Weber
Godspell - Schwartz
Pippin - Schwartz
Blood Brothers - Russel
bare - Hartmere/Intrabatolo

Musicals you should never ever watch ever because the suck so much ass dammit:

Rent - Larson
Spring Awakening - Sheik/Sater

yourclothes

movie: looking pretty shitty

lostwords

Legally Blonde: The Musical?

Seriously?

Nucsh

yourclothes wrote: »

movie: looking pretty shitty

The only thing I'm worried about is the singing.

Well, and some other parts.




Actually, although I love the musical like a first-born son, I'm wicked unsure.

Karenna

Looks like you have Chicago currently running, Rent and Wicked coming soon this year.
Jesus Christ Superstar and Mamma Mia coming next year.

I personally think those are all worth it.

Wise_a

This thread should be called Killer Barbies