#stephen sondheim sweeney todd

[sweeneyarts]

Here's some recent artwork I've done for the Sweeney Todd fanfiction I'm working on with my friend:

Featuring my original character, Rose, who is the main character alongside Sweeney. And also the rest of my original characters like the police chief, Hugh Janvier.

You can read their story now on Ao3 and Wattpad. Updated every Saturday morning at 12am.

[emmy-bue]

My favorite thing about Sweeney Todd is that Sweeney gets into the killing-and-baking people business because he’s a deeply broken man destroyed by an unjust and corrupt system that cost him his freedom and family and has been driven mad by revenge.

And Mrs Lovett does it because somthin wrong with her <3

[can-of-w0rmz]

I speak the truth.

[little-lovett]

there is SO much depth and beauty in the stories we hear in sweeney todd. a murderer who was once a doting father, so blind with hatred and anger towards the world that he couldn’t even see his own wife and daughter, staring him right in the face. a woman down on her luck and in love, trying so desperately to make a connection with a deeply broken and disturbed human. an unfortunately innocent and unknowing boy who ended up being the one who could sense the dark truth. a love at first sight that refused to die, even when torn apart by the disgusting perversion of a greedy abuser. sweeney todd is about all of these people, doing absolutely horrible things, all out of some form of love. that’s the beauty of sweeney todd. sweeney killed for a father and husband’s love. lovett baked real people with real lives into pies to maintain a shallow, lustful relationship she impossibly dreamed would bloom into true romance. turpin destroyed an innocent family because he could not contain his ‘love’ for a pretty woman and her daughter. toby slit a throat because his mother figure was all he had, and he loved her, simply and purely, as an innocent child loves a mother. their love is the purest of all in the story.

but my point is — yes, sweeney todd is about a murderer and his accomplice who cannibalizes and sells his victims. but it’s not. sweeney todd is about love. how love is even stronger and more dangerous than the deepest hate. it’s about how love can destroy people. this show is so beautifully, deeply, disgustingly human. and this dark, telling tale is somehow warped into some of the most gorgeous music to ever be written and made hilarious, lovable, and entertaining. musical theatre is truly magic. human nature is love and filth and greed. sweeney todd perfectly embodies both of these ideas.

[lunarhobbits]

so i saw sweeney todd the other day and it's consuming my thoughts

+ bonus meta meme

[resident-dumb-fuck]

every stephen sondheim musical ranked by number of ao3 hits it has

[coldasyou]

music and lyrics by stephen sondheim

[trashpidgeon48]

The feminine urge to inject Sondheim into my bloodstream.

[scarletcomet]

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2023 Broadway Revival)

[idkbroletssee]

Biblically accurate Agatha Harkness and Billy Maximoff

(Joe Locke and Sutton Foster in Sweeney todd revival 2024)

[future-crab]

Still not over Sweeney Todd what do you meannnnn his wife was alive the whole time what do you meannn she was literally the first person he met when he returned to London but he couldn't recognize her because she didn't match the image of her in his head that he'd fixated on for the past 15 years, what do you meannnnnnn he killed his wife because he thought if he didn't he'd lose his chance to avenge his wife???

[aaaaaa-musical-trash]

ok i’m super curious

i might make a part 2 for the others, idk

part 2 here! https://www.tumblr.com/aaaaaa-musical-trash/758413813576089600/part-2-sondheim-2-electric-boogaloo

[ariel-seagull-wings]

@themousefromfantasyland @thealmightyemprex @the-blue-fairie @barbossas-wench @princesssarisa

Victor Garber as Anthony Hope in the original Broadway Cast Production of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Flee Street, alongside Len Cariou and Angela Lansbury (1979)

[can-of-w0rmz]

Sweeney Todd shitpost in honour of me going to see a local production next week w/ friends‼️

[i-eat-bugs-and-dirt]

I love the implication in Sweeney Todd that as soon as you use human meat in your pies they’ll just be really fucking good all of a sudden because there was clearly more wrong with ‘the worst pies of london’ than just the meat.

[bingsucks]

PRETTY WOMEN !! SILHOUETTED !! STAY WITHIN YOU !!GLANCING !!!!!! STAY FOREVER!! BREATHING LIGHTLY!! PRETTY WOMEN!! PRETTY WOMEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!