Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (theatre)/YMMV: Difference between revisions

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* [[Alternate Show Interpretation]]: The most recent Broadway revival, in which all of the characters are portrayed as inmates enacting the events in a madhouse.

* [[Alternative Character Interpretation]]: All over the place. Toby, for one. As the role is vocally demanding, adults are often cast in the part, which makes for the question of whether Toby is a kid or a mentally disabled man. For that note, the motives of the Beadle are ambiguous, whether he's a psychopath who's as bad as the judge or just a police officer who sincerely believes the judge is a good man. Then there's the matter of whether Anthony is a romantic hero who saves Johanna from the Judge or if he's a creepy stalker (though he's ''definitely'' a major step-up from Judge Turpin).

* [[The Woobie]]: Toby, poor kid. Johanna too, seeing what she's had to live with.

** [[Jerkass Woobie]]: Mrs. Lovett, who is something of a [[Love Martyr]].

 

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