Sweeney Todd:The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Sweeney Todd is one of Stephen Sondheim’s best musicals. The Broadway show of the mad barber that slays his customers and his equally mad partner who turns them into meat pies starred the lovely and talented Angela Lansbury. If you only know Angela Lansbury as that sweet old lady on Murder She Wrote, it is a real wonder to hear her sing about The Worst Pies In London. Sweeney Todd is an amazing musical filled with great songs and one of most intriguing stories to find its way into the usually sickly sweet waters of Broadway.As a general rule they…

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Pushing Daisies-Looks Like Tim Burton

Pushing Daisies is so Tim Burton-esque that I looked for his name in the credits. It has all of his signature elements, bright colors, quirky special effects, slightly odd looking characters, little gimmicks, and witty bits of business about bringing the dead back to life. There is also a very Willy Wonka like voice over, but then, it is a lot like the voice over in Babe as well. Like the Three Rules of Gremlins, there are Three Rules of Bringing the Dead Back to Life-One touch brings them back to life, another touch kills them again, don’t touch them…

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