A Little Priest - Sutton Foster & Aaron Tveit
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ก.พ. 2024
- This is fucking hilarious and I loooove their line readings and my god do they shine here so this is really NOT the video to say ”aaaAAAAAAAAAARGHHH BUT BUT BUT HE IS A TENOOOR!!? THE WORLD WILL END AND I AM HAVING A HEART ATTACK AND MY DOG WILL DIE”. It’s irrelevant to this particular number I think. You can cry to your mom about that instead.
I do not own this audio!
1:05 the pause and then Aaron’s “oh” just kills me I don’t know why 😂
Sutton’s Mrs. Lovett is actually phenomenal! You can tell she’s made some great character choices and studied what she’s doing for a while.
Mezzo-soprano is not appropriate for this role, no matter how good she is. Written for contralto for good reason, musically.
@@kaelws48 I am a contralto myself, and I'd say it just brings something different to the role. The voice is just a little different and it gives a slightly different tone to the performance, but it's a perfectly valid casting decision and I'd say a mezzo like Sutton can still absolutely nail the role.
@@emmaandhermusic i think people will love it. This show is superb in its own right. I just miss all the bottom tones in both leads in this casting. With a tenor and a mezzo, it’s just not as meaty and full which is part of the beauty and genius of the score, in my opinion. ♥️
@@kaelws48 I feel you.
@@kaelws48 sounds like the audience is responding to it. Isn't that what actually matters. So you are WRONG. it's very appropriate for the role. Good grief get over yourself.
I went into this Saturday night apprehensive about the casting but just excited to see the show. They absolutely killed it. I've never laughed so hard at this number in my life. I was going into coughing fits by the end! I still don't think Aaron was the world's greatest casting choice, but he did wonderfully anyways and I'm so glad I saw him. But Sutton was literally BORN to play Mrs. Lovett.
I saw this on Friday and they were both wonderful. Sutton Foster absolutely stole the show. Not enough superlatives exist to express how good she is. Aaron broke like 3 times because she was being so funny and outrageous. This casting totally works and the show was fantastic.
Saw it last night and couldn’t agree more.
I just saw it this weekend and Aaron and Sutton felt much more comfortable than they sound in this. They were phenomenal, I love their interpretation of the characters.
Omg the laughs I wanna see it so bad and what they’re doing haha
Especially after that everybody goes down well with beer
Judging from the laughing followin the "Extra" the actors were probably still recovering from corpsing. The applause following: "What is that?" Was a salute.
We saw it at the weekend - we were laughing all the way through Sutton Foster is really funny.
These two are incredible, I'm seeing it tomorrow and can't wait!! Aaron can turn on an intensity, and Sutton is a comic genius. I'm so excited to hear this. Thank you for posting!!
I see it yesterday and thought it was incredible!! They did a great job ❤️
@hammynleo It was an amazing show, so grateful to have been able to see them. What an incredible cast, unbelievable vocals all around. Sutton was absolutely hilarious in By The Sea!
By the sea was just so hilarious! My teenage son watching his first show was cracking up!
@@nicolemosley9296 The feet on his face!!!!
Her laugh after the locksmith part oh im obsessed
SAAAME
Boy whatever choices they're making in their physicality (or the choreography I guess) must really be working judging by all that laughter
Sutton is just so funny, this wasn't even her funniest song with him. There isn't a ton of choreography, but Sutton adds so much physical humor and offsets Aaron, whose supposed to be the brooding, angry guy. The only other actress I've seen be equally as funny as Sutton is Bernadette Peters, who absolutely toyed with Victor Garber in Hello Dolly until he finally broke and laughed.
Ahhhh thank you! I want to see them so badly! I dont understand the complaints about Aaron being a tenor i think it works really well!!! (Also love to see he still struggles with accents lmaoo)
I'm not a fan of Aaron Tveit's acting, but I think his voice is truly phenomenal. An example of this is 2:39 his vibrato and balance on "poet or something like that" was heavenly. Sutton is one of my favorite performers ever, I will love her to the day I die. This duo was a very interesting casting choice, but I'm kinda here for it. Also... Joe Locke is currently in this cast as Tobias. I heard some audio of him singing, and his voice sounded so soft and buttery
Let me preface this by saying I LOVE Aaron Tveit. I really do. He's one of the most amazing tenors on Broadway!! But, this is a baritone role. The way Josh Groban's voice stands out in clear contrast to Mrs. Lovett, its gravitas is important for this role. No matter how much growl I hear Aaron doing, he sounds like a tenor. I still love him, though.
Aaron is too young to have served an apprenticeship set up a thriving busines, get married, have a child get deported to Australia for 20 years then find his way back to London all by the age of 40
Why are producers scarred of Actors over the 50?
But Aaron’s as old as Len was when he originated it
@asnalelo.165 just becsuse it was done before doesn't make it right.
Ofcourse in the UK it wasn't originally a success.The Americanisms in the libretto were criticised. They still do sound strange
Aaron is the same age as Josh.
@@Castilda0311 both too young for the part
@@old.not.too.grumpy. You think the 2023 revival Sweeneys LOOK too young and are too sexy. But that’s what this revival is about. It’s supposed to be a sexy Sweeney. It’s just not the revival for you it seems but it is what it is. Ya gotta take it or leave it.
Love ❤
They sound great but the orchestra sounds fantastic
Love Suttons take on this sounds hilarious, I saw Anna Leigh twice and I had a hard time understand the words when she sand , the accent I think. To me Suttons diction is much better. I am a Sutton fanboy I will admit so could be that.
I think they are both just different takes of the roll. Annaleigh is more character playing with the accent being very unique so people laugh and Sutton is playing more speaking than singing to really get the lines to the audience so people understand.
Shes so much better
She is well versed in comedy, and this whole production is rather chaotic, I think it stems from Nicholas Christopher who is Pirelli, Sweeny standby, his Sweeny is chaotic like nobody's business, intentionally goes off key, and there is a lot of that in this production.
Which show was this from
Numero uno.
@@asnalelo.165I gotta be honest, I’m disappointed with your lack of sarcasm here, I wouldn’t have been able to resist the urge to just say “Sweeney Todd” 😂
@@EasternStandardTim Hahah yeah that would’ve been very funny but I know who this person is and understood that they wanted to know what SHOW, not musical so I just felt like it would’ve been a bit too snarky of a reply to be me
6:02 OMFG 💀😭
Oh good, she sounds way better than Annaleigh!
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I keep hearing people complaining about Sutton Foster's Worst Pies In London. But, other than sounding a bit too much like an Angela Landsbury impression, I didn't think it was bad at all. THIS, on the other hand, is an absolute disaster. A vocal train wreck. She is actually FLAT through 2/3rds of the song! It's physically painful to listen to. And Aaron Tveit, who I normally love, just sounds like a kid playing Sweeney in a high school production; high, thin, reedy voice, little interpretation, and an accent that comes and goes and isn't right even when it's present.
Based on the audience reaction, I have to assume they're doing a lot of physical comedy that's working. But auditorialy, this is just a hot mess.
well then good thing it's a theatrical production and not a podcast. audience sure seems like they're enjoying it.
I agree as a Sweeney Todd fan that she’s flat in most of the song I can tell when I try to sing along. With Aaron I think it’s fine but he’s more of a tenor and Sweeneys more of a bass
Sondheim is shouting in his grave, “No, no, no, wrong!”
Sondheim was a fan of people making choices and taking chances and risks with his work. Careful with commenting stuff like that because maybe when I become a ghost I’ll haunt you and break things in your house!
Actually, you're wrong - Sondheim was at heart a teacher and he encouraged interpretations of his work. He is on record as encouraging bold choices. He was not "precious" about his work in that sense. The people who are wrong are the purists who assume they have the "only" understanding of how his work should be interpreted.
Not sure he was a fan of tenors singing baritone roles or altos singing soprano roles.
@@MikeA15206 Sutton is NOT an alto. And since when was Mrs Lovett written for a soprano? Also, while Sondheim was still alive Hugh Panaro, a tenor, played Sweeney, and he didn’t mind D*pp as Sweeney either. So speaking for Sondheim in this way doesn’t really work. You’re making him up to have been someone he wasn’t. From what I’ve heard…he didn’t seem like a purist of his work! YOU do and are. But he wasn’t
@@asnalelo.165 He wasn't a fan of Depp in the role. Sorry.
She’s so much better than annaleigh wish they were on the soundtrack lol
Her accent is even better
So strange how he sounds so much like Johnny depp
Is this from a full show audio?
Ha ha ha ha ha ha. Aaron Tveit sounds nothing like Johnny Depp who can barely sing at all. Good grief.
The do sound too much like Americans attempting an English accent for the first time.
Fr tho lol
Better than Annaleigh’s accent to be sure. Sweeney Todd is never played with a British accent, and Groban didn’t do one, so it’s interesting that Tveit is
@@xhappyponyxwasmyoldname1395 is he?
@@xhappyponyxwasmyoldname1395I don’t think Annaleigh was doing a British accent tho. I think was some other type from the area and it was just so people would laugh
I live in London and they’re quite good,actually
I don’t like either of their performances 😭
Love Sweeney and both of them, but I agree
Ah yes, the TH-cam commenter, judging theatre acting from an audio recording, a wild species indeed.
@@athepaki7706By this recording, you can tell Sutton doesn’t have a clue on Mrs. Lovett. It’s quite easy to tell.
I don't mind a tenor in the role, gives the character a softer side. I saw Michael Ball as Sweeney and he was incredible. The only thing with Tveit is that it feels he hasn't settled completely into the character yet. He's a bit too precise with his singing, but I'm sure it will pass once he "lives" in Sweeney long enough.
The only "major problem" is that both of them haven't decided what English accent to use and don't commit to one, so it's a bit confusing.
Overall I liked it, especially because Sutton Foster is so dominant here that it highlights who the real villain is.
8/10
When you say his singing is too precise do you mean that he sounds too ”pretty” or that you think he seems to care more about the voice than the acting of the singing? Because there have been plenty of pretty-voiced Sweeneys (Panaro, Stokes) and I do think Aaron throws in grit, especially in Epiphany. But I’ve heard from a few that he’s definitely growing into the part so I’m not disagreeing with you on that aspect.
Michael ball is a bass/baritone
He's just a bit on the nose with the score, it' feels like he's singing the part instead of living it. Again I think it's a matter of time. Had the same problem in the 1st few shows of amy musical role. @@asnalelo.165
Maybe now he is a baritone, he was deffinitely a tenor when he created Marius, I'd say he was a baritenor. Loved his Sweeney because he was a very unexpected choice.@@royvernonwalterjohns3384
@@Diva_Dyeah they even had to push back a week before they started because of it
Without going into this performance - it's the audience that's horrifying - like a middle school show audience. Just listen to them. As to the performance, it's what it is - whether that's the director or them I know not. Based on the laughs it's getting outside of the song, it's got nothing to do with these characters. IMO.
Have you seen the show? Sutton does a ton of physical comedy
@@iminmiamibitchHEY Why? Why would Mrs. Lovett, rather than Sutton Foster, do a ton of physical comedy? The song got huge laughs in the original production - with Miss Lansbury not having to resort to shtick like this, and yes, I have since seen the number along with the horrible shticky By the Sea.
This musical’s always been funny. I’d be more concerned if the crowd wasn’t laughing at it. It sounds like they’re having a fun time.
@@urbaneblobfish9624 If you think an audience at Sweeney Todd should be laughing as if it's a farce you don't understand Sweeney Todd. Yes, there are laughs, especially with A Little Priest and Worst Pies in London - the laughs are in the MATERIAL. They don't need five pounds of shtick on top of it, but I suspect you're of the current generation and that's what theater has become.
@@haineshisway I think it’s kind of sad that you don’t find Sweeney Todd as funny as it is. Sometimes I like listening to it while closing my eyes, and I can imagine Sondheim chuckling to himself as he wrote a masterful dark comedy full of irony and wit, horror and tragedy. All of his musicals are funny, don’t get me wrong (he had an amazing sense of humor) but his ability to manage subtle dark comedy with slapstick really shines in this musical. Besides Company, I’d say this is my favorite musical of his precisely because everyone can find something to love about it for so many different reasons, whether that’s the chilling story or the grim comedy used as elegantly as Todd’s razors, enhanced by actors bringing the material to life.
I’m a bass myself a seeing a high tenor take the role of Sweeney, who’s really the only low leading man, is really a slap in the face because it feels like this is taking work away from the low boys when there isn’t a whole lot in the first place, and since he has a high range he can get work elsewhere.
the low boys
(I agree to an extent but I don’t think Aaron being cast as Sweeney means more tenor Sweeneys. I personally am happy about him playing Sweeney but in general I agree. Also, Sweeney has been played by tenors before, and this revival wouldn’t survive without big names. Aaron was one of the very few famous enough replacements available, and Sweeney is his dream role. Ofc he’s gonna do it.)
THE LOW BOYS
Sutton is surprisingly good. Aaron is way too soft for this. And his comedic timing… feels like he’s not even trying.
The orchestra sounds dreadful
ha ha ha ha. One of biggest and most accomplished orchestras on Broadway. I'm sure it's not the single microphone cell phone that isn't capable of capturring a full orchestra of this size. No, it's the orchestra.
Sutton is great. Very nice mrs.lovette but aaron seems way off