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338630, RE: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Posted by Auk_The_Blind, Sat Dec-22-07 07:08 PM
This would've been a lot better if it had more than five songs.

If that.

I'm not familiar with...well, any musicals, so maybe this is just how it is with these things, but the lack of variation really tires the ears. The recurring motif that I can't notate but is probably best represented by "Jo-An-Ahhhhh" has the feeling of being 60% of the music.

And if the music is dragging things down, how the fuck you gonna enjoy a musical?

Can somebody with better ears tell me if I'm correct in thinking a lot the music involves tritones? If so, is it just that motif I mentioned?

Bah. I'm not going back to the theaters until "Rambo IV: Stallone's Saggy Tits Crush Vietcong Heads".