Status Updates From Sweeney Todd. Il diabolico ...

the concept of by the sea... oh slovett would HATE IT.

rereading the synopsis of the sweeney todd musical (which i did see on broadway 2 years ago but hardly remember) with my mouth open WHAT'S HAPPENING HERE???

121: sad for slovett like i'm sad for efosco and pmerlyn :'( her entire house trashed to pieces by her own mirror image the very afternoon of her death! how she refuses to sit opposite! it's so tragically freudian

and i just had the thought, it's only men buying pies yes but it's also only men getting haircuts yes? meaning it's only men getting eaten. the concept of a woman scraping a man's bones to make into a pie okay wait

120: such a theme of resurrection. mark! the dog not forgetting his master yet hmm. dogs being smarter than humans. i wish lupin had been more closely tied to the rest of this. and the asylum people. i wanted them to be not just parallels but actually involved. your honor slovett killed no one. your honor she played housewife. your honor i'm sad for her.

119: can't help feeling sad for him. the strict prohibition of suicide is really really comical

oh no internet archive DOWN so i can't track my percentages. anyway, todd and lovett are kind of romeo and juliet too aren't they??? one thinking the other is dead LOL hahahaha

118: so cheesy. so sweet. love.

??? different editions? they told him he died

117: plumping into the river lol. also who is narrating this and why do they get to decide what's worth telling. also the aside. theatrical.

116: the irony of the masses... wanna chop him up and bake him and eat him???

a swap in gender roles, no? mark in the kitchen, in domesticity, johanna disguised as a boy. so fascinating

115: :')))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))
and this really is a bunch of shakespeare stacked in a trenchcoat. hello romeo and juliet!

114: it's mark isn't it

i love unhinged characters

ALWAYS HTE PRETENDING. EVEN PRETENDING TO HANG HER.

is the cook mark ingestrie i feel like i'm going crazy these people keep disguising themselves

113: this is so lucy westenra also. the concept of people who once loved (lusted after) you trying to kill you now ooooo

why the fuck is his shop number 69 i'm losing it

this feels just a little reminiscent of marie antoinette actually

this is so me spring 2024

112: oh the bracelets.. oh this humiliation ritual.. oh i've just remembered the sweeney todd reference in yellowjackets..

somehow i feel this captures female rage quite well

that pie scene is haunting. "as if it were half price at a theatre" also. hehe six sevennn. it's only ever men who stop by to eat. biblical levels of greed and lust.

"small as the sum is, in some country, where money is worth more than it is in pampered England, I shall yet be able to live upon it" !