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Originally Posted by Val_1
I love the look of the trailer, and I think Burton's style will work great for the dark story. However, I don't know how strong a singer Johnny Depp is, and that is the biggest downfall of movie versions of musicals: casting stars instead of casting actual musical theater actors. Will it be a full out musical? Or will they remove some/all of the music?
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The details, as far as I can tell, are sketchy, but I get the impression they're going to be using a lot of the music. Then again, I also heard that they had to turn Sacha Baron Cohen's character's song into a spoken part because he was so bad at singing it. It's really disappointing, because Sondheim's Sweeney Todd isn't even a musical - it's an operetta, and a rather difficult one. Making a movie of it with performers who, at best, are good musical theatre singers is questionable. Still, I'm reserving judgment because I think the trailer
looks good, and that Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter are very capable in all other aspects of the roles.