#pirellis miracle elixir

[theater-goul]

Toby in Pirelli's Miracle Elixir AHG

The way he moves is so silly and satisfying RAHGGG

My fav part, i love how he stims☹️☹️ hes so stressed this whole song the poor guy💔

(recordings belong to "natalie" on YT)

[disastergenius]

inspired by this post

[captaincleverusernamehere]

Oh god. Do I go back to the community theater that’s half an hour away that had a kinda shitty director this summer just because they’re doing Newsies and I genuinely think I have a shot at Davey and I REALLY want to play him?

[graysongraysoff]

ladies and gentlemen may i have your attention puh-LEEEEAAAAASE

[shopwitchvamp]

As a current wizard, and past pharmacy tech, I approve of this questionable old medicine

My local pharmacy had this really fucked up old medicine called WIZARD OIL behind the counter so of course I had to ask if I could look at it and it's an oil that you are supposed to rub on yourself when you have a headache until your skin becomes literally red hot which sounds awful. Probably melts your brain a bit too considering the list of ingredients. Anyways who wants to buy some of my premium WIZARD OIL

[nomaishuttle]

if the 2012 cast recording had all of the songs itd literally be like . i think world peace wouldve happened

[iliadcharlie]

My god this boy can SING!!!

I’m so proud of him and all he’s achieved.

🎥: Joe Locke singing Pirelli’s Miracle Elixir in Sweeney Todd

[resident-dumb-fuck]

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🥧mrs-lovetts-meat-pies Follow

GRAND RE-OPENING tomorrow at 9am!! If you're in London tomorrow come by Mrs. Lovett's Pie Shop we have good pies this time I promise

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why do the birds outside my window sing if theyre trapped in cages

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we blind em so they keep singing

🐦jojos-bizarre-adventure

goddamn i was gonna do like symbolism because i also cant get out of the house but thats so much worse than i expected

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⛵sailor-boy Follow

women pretty...

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there are children trying to elope with my ward

⛪beadle-deedle-deedle-deedle Follow

fucked up have you tried marrying her first

👨‍⚖️judge-turpin-official

good idea

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this shit sucks the guy whos like my legal guardian wants to marry me. what the fuck

⛵sailor-boy Follow

i could marry you first

🐦jojos-bizarre-adventure

fuck it why not

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🥧mrs-lovetts-meat-pies Follow

Please for the love of god come to my pie shop we are going out of business I know the pies taste like shit but please

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Are you experiencing hair loss? Want your hair back? Try Pirelli's Miracle Elixir - only costs a penny*, guaranteed!

*no longer only costs a penny

🥟toby-ragg Follow

promoting this on my main blog because i get paid for every bottle purchased please please please buy this

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where is my wife and child

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back in london!!! yippee!!!!

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london kinda sucks ass if you think about it hard enough

⛵sailor-boy

this is where all my stuff is though

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[magefelixir]

if it looks like piss, smells like piss, and is piss, then it’s probably Pirelli’s Miracle Elixir!

[demonbarbers]

ok i spent sunday drinking with oomfs and then monday mourning i’m Ready to Share what i can i remember from sunday

the energy was so electric! and not just for josh and annaleigh there was so much love in the room for everyone it was really beautiful

josh and annaleigh were, as always, on point but they were also just giving it their absolute ALL. final sequence was absolutely insane there was such a sorrow and fury to everything… i did cry

it looked like maria was crying during green finch which is a choice i’ve never seen her make so that made me emotional. ruthie also cried in character but in a place she usually doesn’t cry and that destroyed me

delaney westfall did a very funny “NOOOO” instead of her usual gasp during pirelli’s miracle elixir

nik chris was going the fuck off he brought the house down as pirelli as usual but he had such an intensity that night it was making me cry with laughter

after killing pirelli sweeney let out this like little pathetic heartbroken cry and josh usually does that but this one was the saddest noise i’d ever heard

right before pretty women when lovett is bringing toby into her back parlor annaleigh and daniel knocked the bench over and annaleigh had to fix it in character and it was hilarious and the audience ate it up

josh and annaleigh’s last a little priest… so funny so ridiculous annaleigh got on all fours and just moaned at one point and it made josh genuinely actually break which made her break. it was very sweet and the audience picked up on it and loved it

when sweeney and lovett kiss in by the sea people genuinely cheered and hooted and hollered it was so funny and Real

john rapson and annaleigh were going HAM during parlor songs. funniest they’ve ever been

josh’s final “BENJAMIN BARKER” was insane. and so hot

i just need to say it again again the final sequence from the minute anthony and johanna arrive at the shop to when sweeney dies it was just perfect. everyone broke my heart. it was so human.

jo shouts “NO” when she runs in on toby killing sweeney and i’m gonna be thinking about that choice for a very long time. maria was cooking with that.

also just wanna shout out daniel marconi! his physical intensity was insane. this was only my second time seeing him and ugh i really love his toby i’m so sad he’s leaving soon. he plays toby with a little limp and leans into the disabled young man characterization toby usually gets but does it with so much dignity.

ok parasocial corner time

when i tell you the entire ensemble was weeping during josh and annaleigh’s speeches… you can see in the video the sweeney insta posted that 3 of them are crying but it was truly the entire ensemble. i went back and watched my own video and it was just so moving to see the respect and love on display. there’s soooo much love in that company and you can really feel that in the bones of this production.

ruthie was running around taking pictures of josh and annaleigh during their final bows like a mom and it was so cute. love her

overall just so grateful i got to watch this production with this cast and make some wonderful friends through it :’)

[nlsonsprings]

'Twas Pirelli's Miracle Elixir That's what did the trick, sir!

[Joe Locke as Tobias Ragg]

[anithikos]

the only wi/cked headcanon im posting is that the "green elixir" is just absinthe or creme de menthe or smth. the wi/zard has NO magic this is established we know this snake oil salesman cant do shit, its giving pirellis miracle elixir, idk why elph/aba is green maybe shes just like that but i KNOW that elixir cant do shit

[firecrackerhh]

So I’m bored, looking up Sweeney Todd related shit on Wikipedia and

Christian Borle played Adolfo Pirelli?? These are all the concert and opera house castes, I wonder if there’s any good audio…I know Neil Patrick Harris played Toby at some point, and I’ve seen video of him performing Pirelli’s Miracle Elixir.

[bumblingest-bee]

there's this post from god knows how long ago that i'm starting to think i hallucinated but it contained the delightful phrase "try pirelli's miracle elixir, put it on your dick, sir" and every so often it gets stuck in my head and i laugh my fucking ass off

[reallyhardy]

actually while i'm thinking about it, let me try and recall as much of the sweeney i saw at the exchange was like??? it was 2013 so wow over a decade ago now

this video with the director james brinning shows some of the major set pieces

it had more of like a 1980s small town england aesthetic (supposed to specifically be the thatcher era) rather than victorian.

i really liked the costuming for mrs lovett especially - from this pink lunchlady getup in the above image to the act 2 leopard print of opulence from the first image.

the actor playing pirelli was styled a LOT like borat, i assume as a little nod to sacha baron cohen playing the role in the tim burton film. he's on the right on the table further back in this photo:

EDIT: found photos of him as pirelli! borat for sure. i'm obsessed with him.

also im pretty sure his show car was a three-wheeler, which was hilarious.

the exchange is in the round but i believe this specific production had transferred from more of your traditional large proscenium stage, here's a look at the pre-show which i remember was this weird haunting tableau of people milling around to a skipping recording of close to you by the carpenters. this pre-show section was supposed to evoke a quite ghoulish psychiatric hospital.

you can see the tracks on there and that's how the barber chair went in and out after each murder...

i feel like at some point there was a super psychedelic high on drugs dance scene that made me think it was supposed to be more like set in the 60s but i guess it's anachronistic anyway since it didn't change any of the actual text afaik...

other things i remember: tobias was played by a young-ish actor, certainly the youngest of the cast but not a child, and he wore a wig as normal during pirelli's miracle elixir but it's later revealed he's got a bald head underneath, which imo is much funnier than him just having short hair, and i think i remember being most impressed by him.

anthony, beggar woman/lucy barker and tobias (at the end of the show, omg he really stole it for me at the end i was SHOOK to see him that covered in blood)

anthony was kind of a himbo. i mean he is always i think? but the actor i saw really sold it. also his costume was very much 'sailor' in the sense that he had one of those little beanie hats on.

i've also found a video from 2010 at dundee rep, put on by the same director with a similar 1980s aesthetic, though different actual costuming.

and a clip from a later version from 2015 (still the same director) of a little priest

i don't love how cavernously large these sets look in these videos, but i suppose only because i saw and absolutely adore the intimacy of the exchange's little theatre in the round. the banquette seats were apparently an actual Splash Zone when sweeney was on.

[czolgosz]

list of things i know about sweeney todd musical plot

sweeney kills people with his razor and puts them in the pit

he's actually called benjamin button or barker or something

there's a judge.. judge turpin.. who is imprisoning sweeney's daughter(?) johanna

pirelli sells miracle elixirs

mrs lovett bakes pies which are either made worse or better through cannibalism & then she gets thrown in an oven. & she has some kind of romantic inclination toward sweeney which is i guess not reciprocated because he threw her in an oven.

tobias ragg is there