PVHS Sweeney Todd: Part One

[Amythomas1000]

Chorus: Not to keen on some of their voices.

Todd: Fantastic actor, strong vocal performance.

Anthony: Some of the acting was a little off, but he does seem to have the 'Anthony' persona.

Lucy/Beggar Woman: Well, Lucy is my least favorite character, but she did play the part very well both vocally and with her acting. :)

[amylouie1]

The orchestra's a bit loud 

[mortology]

@Salieri1760 Except I never said "you aren't entitled to your own opinion." I only called you out on the way you criticized the orchestra. You could have said something like "the orchestra was struggling with the score" but instead you accused them of not practicing at all, which is ridiculous. You're entitled to your opinion but don't act like you know the amount of effort that went into a production that you had nothing to do with.

I'll say it again: Calm down. It's just high school theatre.

[Salieri1760]

@mortology Hey I am calm

And I put up that comment a while ago

You are right I was being harsh and I do apologize for it

I'm sure they gave it all their effort

I think I had a bad day when I posted the comment

But out of all I was just being critical so I'll say sorry to the entire orchestra and we'll leave it at that

Okay?

[mortology]

@Salieri1760 Are you seriously under the impression that the pit orchestra was just like "yo dee do time to perform" and they picked up the instruments and improvised or something? They had regular rehearsals, Sweeney is one of the most challenging scores in musical theatre. This is a high school. This particular high school is not allowed to cut people. Everyone gets in. There are varying degrees of talent.

Additionally calm down bro, this production went up two years ago.

[trainzandtrombones]

I think you should murder your musical director for not having your muscians warm up & tune together :/ some of that was horrid.

[xXJessWorldXx]

I would suck the devil's dick to see the second act of this production.

[PVHSArts]

wowee I'd better post it then!

I really should get around to doing that, shouldn't I?

[xXJessWorldXx]

@PVHSArts I'm sorry.... My brother posted that last comment. But this is a great production and I would REALLY love to see the second act.

[WDNoodles]

lol, she said pretty raunchy things for a high school play

[pseudodeduction]

xD "Dean's Pale Ale" makes an interesting touch.

[1037pm]

The first guy was out of tune.

I didn't get the chair thing

Just the whole music aspect in the opening number.

I agree with the one guy, some of the cast would do that gesture thing and it really shows inexperience. Now we have all used them but the director should tell you.

The rest of the clip was fine. Opening number bothered me the most

[MediocreMayhem]

Thank you for your input, we really appreciate it. :)

[gogo245]

WHT THE FREAk... lol there are sooo many stuff wrong with the being... First the guy is smiling while hes singing... ( ITS NOT SUPPOSE TO BE HAPPY).

Another thing i dont get is,,,, Drop the english accent.

AND OMG... UR SWEENY TODD.. i love himm.. good singing voice,,,

[PVHSArts]

We just had English accents because it takes place in London.

Haha, thank you. :D

[MrAaronWomball]

Agree with you :P

Its set in LONDON thats england :P hahaha

We're doing Sweeney Todd (i'm sweeney :D dream come true) and i have to do a Cockney accent. And it works really well than my normal british accent

x x x x

[PVHSArts]

Congratulations!

Accents are fun, haha. :]

[blackberri64]

Sweeney has a very good voice, it just doesn't seem to fit the Sweeney character.

[srteatchik]

wow luvin the lucy she was verry good!

[Wreven367]

Lucy is AWESOME!

[GusTehGuru]

Um...the music needs some major work.

[sabbymae]

Oh wow I'm glad it's here I never got to see it!

I hope Seussical is put on soon, I was on a trip for it.

[dahuterschuter]

Whoa! You really have an amazing stage!

[MCRmyINO]

Sweeneys gestures are..

well uneeded

if he wanted gestures

at least make sure that they were called for

not random moving of the hands

[MadisonxxxMortido]

The Lucy/Beggar is AMAZING! :D

[grimtruth]

You should tell your Sweeney Todd to watch Sweeney Todd - 1982 Touring Production on youtube. He needs a lot of work. This will show how to perform without looking so stiff and more at home on the stage. I am not trying to be mean, just trying to help out. Trust me these videos will help a lot.

[amandaaaaduhx3]

not the best singing i've heard....

[MissAsh53]

this might be the musical for next year, but we have a lot of girls and there are not really that many parts

[Carr1422]

my school put it on and the guy singing roles were raised and girls sang it,

though the chours was mainly girls we still needed 2 guy minors (the brid seller and mr fogg) both who were played by girls

i was mr fogg i just creeped my self up and i had long hair but it was greased back

if you do do it is an amazing show to put on.

[Peadarisback]

your stage is much better than our school one congrats

[deathcat51]

sweeney has white hair with a black stripe.

he doesnt sound anything like that.

why dont you just watch the moving?

[Peadarisback]

obvioulsy you've never heard anything of the stage version that the movie is BASED ON Sweeney only has black hair with a white stripie in it in the film NOT in the stage version

[greenelphiexoxo]

Can you be anymore ignorant?

[pyrowolf7]

Who ever plays Antony is not a very good singer :\

Who ever played Sweeney is amazing tho :P

[blackberri64]

I watched the second performance of this. Amazing.

[wjrfec41]

Yay now I can finally watch the second act! Thanks for posting this. This is Katherine btw :)

[PVHSArts]

Ahh I'm sorry, act two isn't up yet. D: I'm planning on putting it up this week though. :D

[wjrfec41]

Thats ok I'm just relieved I'll finally get the opportunity to see it :D

[verdehallstars]

i just made this musical today in my school, oh god. i admire this guys, is so fucking dificult, my respect to them.

[PVHSArts]

Haha, thanks. Best of luck to you guys. :D

[TaurusGirl423]

The actors playing Sweeney and the beggar woman both have great voices :)

[ShelbyxPwns]

sweeneys good tho.

[ShelbyxPwns]

guys.

if your cast isnt best at harmonies

and singing.

sweeney todd is probly not the best.

try honk! maybe?

[SuperDebbie]

pretty good. i just dont know why you guys had alms alms right at that part. ive always dreamed of directing a sweeney todd play of my own.

[PVHSArts]

Yeah, they stuck Alms Alms there in the way early version of the play, and we were basically trying to do everything like the original production.

And Sweeney Todd is a reallyyyyy fun play to do. I reccomend being a part of any production you can possibly get involved in. :D

[sonicx666]

the first guy to sing was terrible...

actually all the chorus solo's were pretty SHIT!

[PVHSArts]

You could be a little more constructive with your criticisms, but thanks for your opinion anyway. :D

[sonicx666]

ok fair enough...

how long did you spend in rehersal stages?

[PVHSArts]

We had two straight months of rehearsal along with a whole lot of people dropping out about halfway through, so the performing cast had about three weeks of rehearsal together.

[sonicx666]

ahh i see, 3 weeks, thats not long.

we are doing it at the moment, we started rehersals in september after casting in july and we are on in late april.

this show is so complex and you need this amount of time to get it right.

[PVHSArts]

Luckyyy.

Our school unfortunately does not allow that amount of time for rehearsal. D:

[sonicx666]

yeh we have been rehersing 3 times a week sinse september, so its quite intense.

but it will be an amazing show. we are working on having actual rain on stage at the moment, for during epiphany.

[sonicx666]

have a look at that video that i just uploaded, thats a video of our most recent play, which wasnt a music, its just pictures but gives you a good idea.

[PVHSArts]

Will do. :D

[SuperDebbie]

wow that sucks!

[PVHSArts]

Yeah, it was pretty terrifying when our original Lovett and our Johanna dropped out, so the awesome girl playing Beggar Woman got bumped up to playing Lovett, and another awesome girl who was in the ensemble was made to be Johanna. It was scary, but most of the switched parts ended up fine. :D

[psych006]

OMG my school just finished doing this it was awsome we made our pie shop and are taking it to State, im so excited. ^^

[Kiltlover03]

Sweeney is awesome!!

[dahuterschuter]

We get to do this next year!!! *Scarily happy face*

[llehman35]

Haha, that was probably the exact face I made when we found out.

[sonicx666]

same with me...

then again when i got told i was sweeney.

[PVHSArts]

Congratulations!

[CrazieBeeAtUSC]

i agree. i was put in the onstage chorus at the last minute, along with jen b, and we really didn't have a lot of time to learn the stuff. but i think it work out all right in the end....as well as it could have, at least. :)

[ericboltz]

Awesome singing and acting by Sweeney, but I can't say a whole lot for the chorus.

[PVHSArts]

Yeah, he's a wonderboy. :)

In terms of the chorus, yeah, I agree they were a little rough at times. In their defense though, some ensemble parts were switched around pretty last minute, and a lot of the people up there had a week or less to learn their parts.