Angela Lansbury - Worst Pies in London (Spanish Subtitles)

The best song of Sweeny Tood's musical

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Music

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• angela
• lansbury
• worst
• pies
• in
• london
• sweeney
• todd
• español
• spanish

[firestartertwistedfi]

what episode of murder she wrote is this?

[clairbearie46]

wow she really hams it up doesn't she! lol

shes really good :D infact I love almost everyone who has played mrs. lovett

[TheRealCleverkoala]

Truthfully I thing Helena bonham carter did this song better... Sorry if you don't agree it's just my opinion.

[tommyk77]

@m0ufin As I mentioned, I'm not trying to use that as an excuse. I'm saying I think a) musical performance is an essential part of theatre b) Lansbury's musical performance was not up to scratch.

As to your question, I'd say it's possible, since music and acting are not the only aspects of theatre.

But what are you achieving right now? I don't like the singing in this clip. Simple as that. Flowery questions or not :-P

[m0ufin]

@tommyk77 If you think a PhD grants you special powers so as never to be confused, then... :P In fact, in this case, it hinders you. As a PhD student myself, though not in the arts, we are often told that our area of expertise is how we begin to see the world and tackle every problem. It's something we must be aware of.

Then I pose my position to you as a question: Can you have great music coupled with great acting and still have terrible theatre or is that an impossibility?

[tommyk77]

@m0ufin I'm a PhD musician, so I think confusion is unlikely (without sounding too pompous). I don't think that musical performance is not assimilated into the genre of musical theatre. It is incredible important still, and as I say, I don't think Lansbury's performance is musical enough. Acting, great, but it's stepping on the music

[m0ufin]

@tommyk77 Then you're confused as to how the arts work, I'd suggest. If you blend two styles together in order to make something new, you generally do not take the entire art form of both styles, but pieces of it.

In the case of music and theatre, to say that all the parameters of music apply to theatre would be incorrect. It borrows from music, but it doesn't want to be music in and of itself. The same with modernism and postmodernism, Augustan and Victorian and so on.

[tommyk77]

@m0ufin I don't think you've grasped my point. Theatre is a web of artistic elements. To say "Theatre is not about music" is like saying "Mammals are not about blood streams". All parts are necessarily connected. You're trying to cast aside criticism of a component by pretending it is an isolated part of the art form.

[m0ufin]

@tommyk77 Okay? That doesn't tackle my argument at all. Why write it as a musical if music lends nothing to theatre, I agree, but the same can be said in reverse. Why write it as a musical if theatre lends nothing to the music?

I'm not going to dictate your opinions, but you're trying to say one art is operative. I'd say they're both on an equal platform, so you can't say a musical is "about the music" without horribly oversimplifying.

[tommyk77]

@m0ufin I've never heard such nonsense. Music is inseparable form the art. It drives narrative and it is the greatest selling point on Musical Theatre. Just because there are other elements, by no means entails that they are distinct from each other

[m0ufin]

@tommyk77 Theatre is not about music. If it were about music, it would be purely a music CD. Theatre is a completely separate and distinct art.

[AddsMusical]

@rockinandmockin agreed