Patti sings it better, Helena acts it better. I've never really liked Angela in the role much. Helena's voice is sub-par, but she acts circles around most Hollywood stars. Patti has an incredible voice.
@adriancastrejon You can buy the DVD on Amazon. I know it comes in a collection of DVD's called The Sondheim Collection. I think you can get it separately, too.
I like her, She and Helena were able to do two completely different things with the same some. Helena was a bit annoyed and telling Todd her story. She just so excited to have someone to listen to her.
Patti kinda is shouting a lot, though Helena's was good because it was very simple and quiet, she didn't need the volume. But Patti's overacting a little too much for my taste.
U people are loco! Patti is freaking amazing! Helena can't sing worth what a pig could spit! Don't get me wrong I love Helena and the movie but patti has the best pipes on broadway, she's got two Tonys to prove it.
@narutofan6392 im sorry, shes amazing. if you didnt like it whyd you bother to comment. no one cares if you dont like her, because the only people who watch this are the people who like her. I don't mean to be so terrible, but I see this all the time, but this is nothing but a thumbs up performance
@Boozbiiz personally I like Angela Lansbury's Mrs Lovett the most but to be fair she was the first. Not to mention she really had the character's personality down pat in everything she did... that is how I see the character at least and since was the first so a lot of people would be basing or borrowing off her.
@Sageeth yeah, I agree that, to be the first Mrs. Lovett, it had to be a HUGE challenge for her to create this iconic role and character. And I do keep in mind that LuPone's version of her is based on Lansbury's. But the thing that makes me like her more is that LuPone plays the part more "to the ground", what makes the jokes and sexual allusions sound more funny and reliable. But I respect your taste. And I also appriciate that you didn't reply like some would (SHUT UP, LANSBURY IS GOD!) :)
@TheBeliever22 and @trashligirl It's not so much about overacting as it is about the people in the back row seeing your facial expressions. When you record a play or musical you're bound to see strange looks that appear larger than life, but if they were acting like they do in a movie camera's closeup, how would you feel if you were sitting in a back seat? You wouldn't be able to tell anything about the character.
I know people like Angela, and I like her too...but I think Patti does Lovett the best. I just always think of Angela as Mrs. Potts, and thinking of her as a crazy lady who chops up people to cook in pies is always slightly weird.
To be honest, I think that I will always be partial to the movie version, since it was the first version I saw...... but out of the stage versions, I love Angela Lansbury's Mrs Lovett much more. I like the slight crazyness she adds to it fits the character much more, you know?
Interesting choice they made for this particular production. Very minimalist. Everyone in black, no very few props, the orchestra on stage with the performers.
I love each actress almost plays this role as themselves. Angela plays it as a cute ditzy British woman. (she will always be the best in my opinion) Patti plays it loud and bousterous, if that's how you spell it. (Which is a lot like Patti, and she is great as it too, comes in 2nd) And Helena plays her very soft spoken and quirky. (Which is exactly like Helena.) Unfortuantly Helena's pipes are not up to her actings level.
@Museleaders imm not trying to be rude or anything but Helenas voice was fine...in my opinion..The reason it wasnt "loud" is cuz she was singing on a movie set or whatever she could not yell because it was on a set and they were indoors......
@Cr1TiKaLgamer she didn't have to be "loud", she just didn't have the pipes to sing the role properly (though, this could very well be due to Burton's demand that neither Bonham-Carter or Depp belt any of their songs--which was especially unforgivable in Depp's "Epiphany" and Carter's "Worst Pies" and "By The Sea"), though I am very much in favor of her interpretation of the role.
To me the three most famous for playing Mrs. Lovett each brought out a different side of the character, making it her own each time: Angela Lansbury brought the comedic and energetic side of Mrs. Lovett, Patti LuPone brought a more operatic sense to the character (You can see that in parts of this song or when she sings "Wait"), and Helena Bonham Carter brought out a softer, more naive side to Mrs. Lovett through the subtleness. It really all comes down to which version of Sweeney Todd you see.
@reveriehill1614 Also, to add for Helena's role, she took on a more tragic, love lorn type of character. She loved a man who never even saw her, just looked to his revenge for his wife who he later killed. (Though it didn't help the situation much for Mrs. Lovett not to just come out and say "Oh, and by the way sweetie, your wife's alive." But then there wouldn't be a play, would there?) But as I said, each version has it's own director, each actress their own interpretation of the character.
OMG! Can people PLEASE stop trying to compare this to the film?! Seriously, PLP is a proffessional (sp?) singer, HBC is not. You can't compare them properly.
@morwenmur I think that's exactly WHY people are comparing this, and the OBC recording to the film, because these productions I've mentioned contain professional singers (being a MUSICAL and all), whereas the film contains silly people attempting to sing, but failing miserably (HBC's "By the Sea" is a tragic example of this).
I love George Hearn!!! I love Angela in this role best, she brought the best humor to it -- but I do like Patti too. I love her expression "Mrs Mooney has a pie shop..." lol!
I think Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter were fantastically brave to take on those roles after so many great people have done it, and I think Helena especially did a FANTASTIC job of the acting bit.
However. Johnny Depp is not George Hearn, and George Hearn is God.
@JackandStephan I don't think it's fair to compare Johnny Depp and George Hearn, i mean Johnny Depp doesn't really have a singing voice! although in the movie he did look deranged enough to be a Sweeney Todd!
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@RelytDraw51 LMAO. Anyone who thinks this is good singing is tone def. She's screaming the song. Listen to HBC's version insted and HEAR the difference. It doesn't matter how many Tony's she has, THIS is bad singing. I don't care if she's done well in other shows, 'cause no one who knows anything about singing would say that this is good. Sorry, but that's a fact. HBC actually sang in tune and guess what, she didn't screm the song! ;-)
@NonaDodson yes indeed it is terrible, thats why she was selected for this role right? Have you listened to the rest of anything? like "not while I'm around" or "a little priest". Blame the director if anything. or check out the video of this in the revival version. Same woman different styles
Didn't like her singing "not while I'm around" either. :-/ I absolutely love NPH, but I can't watch this whole thing 'cause of the headache I get. I'm not kidding, I actually did get a headache after hearing this. :-/
Yes yes Burton really did turn it into an opera. I mean Johnny Depp is obviously a trained classical singer. And as for Ms Bonham Carter - a true Carnegie hall-ian. ARE YOU SERIOUS?????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
She's so funny I love her way
evegmjackson 4 days ago
Helena Bonham Carter was better :)
balls468 1 week ago
@balls468 Sorry, but she wasn't. Her voice isn't even CLOSE to Patti's.
ShowtuneSampler 3 days ago
Patti sings it better, Helena acts it better. I've never really liked Angela in the role much. Helena's voice is sub-par, but she acts circles around most Hollywood stars. Patti has an incredible voice.
emmadilemmasings 3 weeks ago
TrueDeath46 i agree completely. shes still my fav too
koolie067 3 weeks ago
I must say that I prefer Angela Lansbury as Mrs. Lovett, then again I've watched that version so many times it's not even funny, I still prefer her.
TrueDeath46 1 month ago
Patti LuPone portrays Mrs. Lovett with a lot of the dark comedy and with a true secret darkness within the character!! :D
MrSwimmer2015 1 month ago
My favorite Mrs. Lovett!
FlamesAndShadows 1 month ago in playlist Другие видео от пользователя engfan4
Lovett!! :)
miyanagirl 2 months ago
Love it !
where can i get it ?
adriancastrejon 4 months ago
@adriancastrejon You can buy the DVD on Amazon. I know it comes in a collection of DVD's called The Sondheim Collection. I think you can get it separately, too.
lcowles 3 months ago
Wow amazing Mrs Lovett!!! Plus she's hilarious :)
GlitterAndMetal 4 months ago
Could you post Kiss Me?
woahitsbrooke92 5 months ago in playlist 1
I like her, She and Helena were able to do two completely different things with the same some. Helena was a bit annoyed and telling Todd her story. She just so excited to have someone to listen to her.
BelladonnaJojo 5 months ago
Where's the rest?? Does anyone know where the rest is or where i could find it?
wickedipod12397 5 months ago 2
WHERE IS THE REST?!?! Please post it!
FAPRAK 6 months ago 4
Patti kinda is shouting a lot, though Helena's was good because it was very simple and quiet, she didn't need the volume. But Patti's overacting a little too much for my taste.
DrodLikesToPart 6 months ago
@DrodLikesToPart Are you fucking kidding me
usiylover2 2 months ago
U people are loco! Patti is freaking amazing! Helena can't sing worth what a pig could spit! Don't get me wrong I love Helena and the movie but patti has the best pipes on broadway, she's got two Tonys to prove it.
jennaleem 6 months ago
2:45-2:52
chills... every time!
SoundEnergyVideo 6 months ago
I suppose i have been spoiled by Helena and Angela. I don't like Patti much so far.
alucardo1997 6 months ago 2
@alucardo1997 Me neither! If you ask me, during her solo she's practically shouting most of it.
bananafruitsmoothie 6 months ago
Where are the rest? (parts 5 -?)
I really enjoyed these, and would really like to see the remaining parts :)
Nat5184 6 months ago
Patti is the best Mrs. Lovett I've seen! (: I love this version of the play. It was better than the revival!
RemusandNymphadora1 7 months ago
I love Angela's Lovett, but I can't sing as high as she, and I sing contralto like Patti, so I guess they're interchangeable for me.
youtubrgirl12345 7 months ago
Patti LuPone is a goddess!
WraythSkitzofrenik 7 months ago
what happened with the oother parts ?
ILoveBJA16 7 months ago
Helena Bonham Carter is my favorite Mrs. Lovett. Maybe because she's the first one I've seen and old habits die hard.
SupernaturalBaby08 8 months ago 4
i want to see the whole thing someone help plz
Jtscott18098 9 months ago 3
I don't very much like Mrs. Lovette's actress...
narutofan6392 9 months ago
@narutofan6392 im sorry, shes amazing. if you didnt like it whyd you bother to comment. no one cares if you dont like her, because the only people who watch this are the people who like her. I don't mean to be so terrible, but I see this all the time, but this is nothing but a thumbs up performance
LeShawnasBiggestFan 9 months ago
Patti LuPone OWNS Mrs. Lovett.
Boozbiiz 10 months ago
@Boozbiiz personally I like Angela Lansbury's Mrs Lovett the most but to be fair she was the first. Not to mention she really had the character's personality down pat in everything she did... that is how I see the character at least and since was the first so a lot of people would be basing or borrowing off her.
Sageeth 9 months ago
@Sageeth yeah, I agree that, to be the first Mrs. Lovett, it had to be a HUGE challenge for her to create this iconic role and character. And I do keep in mind that LuPone's version of her is based on Lansbury's. But the thing that makes me like her more is that LuPone plays the part more "to the ground", what makes the jokes and sexual allusions sound more funny and reliable. But I respect your taste. And I also appriciate that you didn't reply like some would (SHUT UP, LANSBURY IS GOD!) :)
Boozbiiz 9 months ago
Stephen Sondheim <3
Boozbiiz 10 months ago
I think Helena Bonham sings worst pie in London better than her.
jamtai123 10 months ago
@jamtai123 Do you know what music is?
tomatoherb 8 months ago
where's part 5
awinxa 10 months ago
Oh, Gosh do I love Patti LuPone.
She is perfect.
MsLissy09 10 months ago
The one dislike on this video is the guy who gets his throat slit.
George WILL find you.
OoThisStyle5oO 10 months ago 4
Do you have My Friends? Id love to see that
hmmm I like the way Patti sings this song, but I think I still prefer Lansbury. Patti still did a great job with this though.
FleetStreetNightmare 11 months ago
I actually prefer Johnny.. Johnny Depp is god! They're both great, no question. But I prefer Johnny!
Christian123Renerig 11 months ago
have to say but Helena and Angela and Elaine are my favorite mrs lovett's but Patti is great i think she nails it . x
operastar1994 11 months ago
please post the rest of the songs!!
Troublemaker1991 11 months ago
plaese!! upload the rest!
peque1204 1 year ago
Lupone just sings; she can't act. Her voice and diction make me cringe.
amuse4god 1 year ago
I wanna see the rest of this, where can I get it?
leiona0 1 year ago
I'm cheating on Helena. I LOVE THIS WOMAN!
mrjdogg100 1 year ago 2
Angela is the best lovett
goombamario1 1 year ago
Patti Lupone is SIMPLY amazing!
TheNelloangelo 1 year ago 8
@JackandStephan I agree with you-- I also give Helena mad, mad props for doing the role in a corset, while pregnant.
kingjasOPB 1 year ago 5
2:41 the asians in the background are not amused. HAHAHAHAHAHA
megan132 1 year ago
uhg. i hate that woman..
TheSaviorSorrow23 1 year ago
Sweeney Todd ticket = $89
Brand new outfit = $200
Meat Pie = $6
Over dramatic acting = Priceless.
For everything else, there's Helena.
ScathachWarrior 1 year ago 2
1:26 - 1:30 wow! drama queen! She is an overactress!!
TheBeliever22 1 year ago
@TheBeliever22 The whole point of a stage production is overacting.
Plus, she's hysterical. Don't tell me when she screamed it was disgusting at him you didn't laugh. I know I did xD
trashligirl 1 year ago 4
@TheBeliever22 and @trashligirl It's not so much about overacting as it is about the people in the back row seeing your facial expressions. When you record a play or musical you're bound to see strange looks that appear larger than life, but if they were acting like they do in a movie camera's closeup, how would you feel if you were sitting in a back seat? You wouldn't be able to tell anything about the character.
IzumisChild 11 months ago
I know people like Angela, and I like her too...but I think Patti does Lovett the best. I just always think of Angela as Mrs. Potts, and thinking of her as a crazy lady who chops up people to cook in pies is always slightly weird.
GrobanitePhan 1 year ago 2
@GrobanitePhan That is exactly how I see it!
ilovegreen1396 1 year ago
Yes it is on DVD. When searching for it you have to mention it is the Concert Version.
broadwaybubbala 1 year ago
Can you get this version of the play on DVD or something? I'd really love to see the whole thing.
TruthBringer14 1 year ago
she doesnt even ask if he wants one lol
MsMojo731 1 year ago
i love the look Patti gives George when she said "A woman alone 2:38
Edmund691 1 year ago 4
To be honest, I think that I will always be partial to the movie version, since it was the first version I saw...... but out of the stage versions, I love Angela Lansbury's Mrs Lovett much more. I like the slight crazyness she adds to it fits the character much more, you know?
sweeneysgirl324 1 year ago
Interesting choice they made for this particular production. Very minimalist. Everyone in black, no very few props, the orchestra on stage with the performers.
dcbandnerd 1 year ago
@dcbandnerd it was a concert, not an actual show. its like the concert of les miserables. it was to show the music more than anything.
megan132 1 year ago
what happened to the whole show?
fonzcorp 1 year ago 2
I love each actress almost plays this role as themselves. Angela plays it as a cute ditzy British woman. (she will always be the best in my opinion) Patti plays it loud and bousterous, if that's how you spell it. (Which is a lot like Patti, and she is great as it too, comes in 2nd) And Helena plays her very soft spoken and quirky. (Which is exactly like Helena.) Unfortuantly Helena's pipes are not up to her actings level.
Museleaders 1 year ago 12
@Museleaders imm not trying to be rude or anything but Helenas voice was fine...in my opinion..The reason it wasnt "loud" is cuz she was singing on a movie set or whatever she could not yell because it was on a set and they were indoors......
Cr1TiKaLgamer 1 month ago
@Cr1TiKaLgamer she didn't have to be "loud", she just didn't have the pipes to sing the role properly (though, this could very well be due to Burton's demand that neither Bonham-Carter or Depp belt any of their songs--which was especially unforgivable in Depp's "Epiphany" and Carter's "Worst Pies" and "By The Sea"), though I am very much in favor of her interpretation of the role.
boynamedalexxx 1 month ago
chopchopchopchopchop that table!
NoNameLikeThisOne 1 year ago
Patti...how I <3 you...
beltthatmess 1 year ago 2
AGH! Where's part 5!?!?!? Daw...
Emi1yOreo 1 year ago
AGH! Where's part 5!?!?!? Daw...
Emi1yOreo 1 year ago
Patti's "Ugh!" at 0:52 is HILARIOUS
dannyboythegreat 1 year ago 2
To me the three most famous for playing Mrs. Lovett each brought out a different side of the character, making it her own each time: Angela Lansbury brought the comedic and energetic side of Mrs. Lovett, Patti LuPone brought a more operatic sense to the character (You can see that in parts of this song or when she sings "Wait"), and Helena Bonham Carter brought out a softer, more naive side to Mrs. Lovett through the subtleness. It really all comes down to which version of Sweeney Todd you see.
reveriehill1614 1 year ago
@reveriehill1614 Also, to add for Helena's role, she took on a more tragic, love lorn type of character. She loved a man who never even saw her, just looked to his revenge for his wife who he later killed. (Though it didn't help the situation much for Mrs. Lovett not to just come out and say "Oh, and by the way sweetie, your wife's alive." But then there wouldn't be a play, would there?) But as I said, each version has it's own director, each actress their own interpretation of the character.
reveriehill1614 1 year ago 5
tim burton butchered the show....i was so disappointed in the film...i wanted to see Sweeney Todd not a musical version of Sleepy Hollow
christian121986 1 year ago
OMG! Can people PLEASE stop trying to compare this to the film?! Seriously, PLP is a proffessional (sp?) singer, HBC is not. You can't compare them properly.
morwenmur 1 year ago
@morwenmur I think that's exactly WHY people are comparing this, and the OBC recording to the film, because these productions I've mentioned contain professional singers (being a MUSICAL and all), whereas the film contains silly people attempting to sing, but failing miserably (HBC's "By the Sea" is a tragic example of this).
dannyboythegreat 1 year ago
at least she is honest about her pies being awful!
KingOystar 1 year ago
where's part 5?
queenluver213 1 year ago
'know whats weird 'bout the movie?
it's the only horror movie thats also a musical. lol
bmaclean13 1 year ago
her expressions in this are fantastic!
bethsillytoe 1 year ago 2
I love George Hearn!!! I love Angela in this role best, she brought the best humor to it -- but I do like Patti too. I love her expression "Mrs Mooney has a pie shop..." lol!
calamtykel 1 year ago
I think Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter were fantastically brave to take on those roles after so many great people have done it, and I think Helena especially did a FANTASTIC job of the acting bit.
However. Johnny Depp is not George Hearn, and George Hearn is God.
The End.
JackandStephan 1 year ago 139
@JackandStephan I have to respectfully disagree....well I agree about George Hearn
but
Helena Bohem Carter is not Angela Lansbury and
Angela Lansbury is God.
moongoddess91 1 year ago
@JackandStephan And Helena is not Patti.
And Patti is Godess!
ColorfulPhoebz 1 year ago 4
@ColorfulPhoebz Yes indeedy do.
JackandStephan 1 year ago
@JackandStephan hahaha. Your last sentence I love it!
NavaeraGreenleaf88 1 year ago
@JackandStephan Amen to that!
MusicFeedsYourSoul 1 year ago
@JackandStephan I don't think it's fair to compare Johnny Depp and George Hearn, i mean Johnny Depp doesn't really have a singing voice! although in the movie he did look deranged enough to be a Sweeney Todd!
theblackdahlia88 4 months ago
i like her "screaming" it fits the role of a crazy woman and she is so much more funnier than the others i've seen. Helena wasn't funny at all.
it's a matter of taste of course but Patti for me is brilliant in this play
liesbethappeldoorn 1 year ago
Patti Lu Pone is brilliant. Helena was okay, no proffesional singer, so no comparabel. End of story.
MsDarkdawn 2 years ago 5
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Wow, she's horrible compared to Helena Bonham Carter (the singing that is, or in this case screaming!).
NonaDodson 2 years ago
@NonaDodson Ummm Helena totally gets patti lupwnd here. Patti is a major tony award winning actess,
RelytDraw51 2 years ago
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@RelytDraw51 LMAO. Anyone who thinks this is good singing is tone def. She's screaming the song. Listen to HBC's version insted and HEAR the difference. It doesn't matter how many Tony's she has, THIS is bad singing. I don't care if she's done well in other shows, 'cause no one who knows anything about singing would say that this is good. Sorry, but that's a fact. HBC actually sang in tune and guess what, she didn't screm the song! ;-)
NonaDodson 2 years ago
@NonaDodson yes indeed it is terrible, thats why she was selected for this role right? Have you listened to the rest of anything? like "not while I'm around" or "a little priest". Blame the director if anything. or check out the video of this in the revival version. Same woman different styles
RelytDraw51 2 years ago
Didn't like her singing "not while I'm around" either. :-/ I absolutely love NPH, but I can't watch this whole thing 'cause of the headache I get. I'm not kidding, I actually did get a headache after hearing this. :-/
NonaDodson 2 years ago
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well, tim burton pretty much turned it almost into an opera. The wat patti is doing is broadway style. lovett is subtle, shes raumbacious
BelusFausto23 2 years ago
Yes yes Burton really did turn it into an opera. I mean Johnny Depp is obviously a trained classical singer. And as for Ms Bonham Carter - a true Carnegie hall-ian. ARE YOU SERIOUS?????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
fountainchain126 1 year ago 5
@fountainchain126 Baha! OH man I thought you were serious for a minute and I about died! HAHA
LoftierThanMine 1 year ago
@LoftierThanMine hee hee
fountainchain126 1 year ago
I think she shouts a bit to much especially at 1:40 when she says london and at 2:35 aswell. But she is much better than yer wan in the revival
leporello56 2 years ago 3
Mrs. Lovett is probably the worst salesman in the history of history.
The minute people walk in, she starts shouting and raving that her pies suck. xD
jasisweird777 2 years ago 180
@jasisweird777 Or she turns you into one.
bachilles009 1 year ago
I hate Patti. She's a bitch. But I have to admit she was awesome in this role.
lisambofoh 2 years ago
love itt
cgm093 2 years ago
Mmmm! Good quality :)
peppersausen 2 years ago
cool better than the revival
PonyboyPlusJane 2 years ago 2
cool better than the revival
PonyboyPlusJane 2 years ago