Sweeney Todd

Today my mom and I went to see a stage production of Sweeney Todd. I had wanted to see this play for a long time, but was on the fence about the movie that’s out now. I’m not a big fan of Tim  Burton anything so I figured I’d wait and rent it maybe. My mom and I talked about going to the movie but she was worried it might be really graphic and didn’t want chance it. When I saw that the play would be here in town, I snatched up some matinée tickets for today.

We had good seats to begin with, but due to the layout of the stage, they were moving people sitting near us. We got moved to the center section, second row. It was like getting upgraded to first class, except we got no champagne and no one brought us any hot towels.

The show was really good. I’m always so amazed that there are people who actually do that, who can sing and dance and act and play instruments. And make a living at it, to boot. Being so close to the stage was really cool because we got to see everything.

And now I might use an MDO day next week to go see the movie because I’m interested to see how it translated on film.

Filed under Ebert, Roeper, and ME! |