February 24th, 2008 the main feature

i practically tripped myself up in my mary janes on the way to the train station, and then missed the train, so by the time i got to the theatre, they had already skipped the unusually peachy looking johnny depp before he was shipped off to that convict hell named australia. say in the event that sweeney todd was not an unhappy chappie intent on revenge in the motherland, some aussie bloke would one day like to claim a serial killer for his lineage. (since i am chinese, the best i can do is pretend that maybe some general turned god who shares my surname might be related to me.)

i do not dislike musicals, nor tim burton creations, might be squeamish but can adapt, and depp has grown on me in his old(er) age, so i can agree with the consensus. the broadway musical was three hours long? at least the film itself was only two, as it would wander off during songs, but this is the fault of the source material i think, and why ‘broadway’ does have some negative connotations. as does showboating, thank goodness for actors who sing, because i don’t want to hear the clear peals of a soprano while we’re talking about human meat pies.

anyhow, this is how idle i am tonight - check out my degeneration!

sweeney todd and sakurai atsushi (buck-tick) are both dark horses, no? though i have to qualify again, atsushi mostly sneers and acts like a dork when not killing girls with his onstage presence.

meanwhile, atsushi is none the happy about the comparisons of his aging self to severus snape, but it’s all there, the greasy black hair, long dark clothing…