Re: Footfall: Question about a quote/reference in it...

On Thursday, July 25, 1996 at 9:00:00 PM UTC-10, 'Fumi' Fumitaka Hayashi wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Jul 1996 [email protected] wrote:
> > > As I recall: A barber who is insane has been released from prison - for murder
> > > I think. His lanlady is in love with him and has kept his belongings for him.
> > > He unwraps his cutthroat razors and, totally oblivious to the woman's feelings
> > > for him, holds the razor up to the light and proclaims " At last, my arm is
> > > whole again". He is totally entranced with his "toys".
> > > {No doubt someone will tel me that my recollections are totally wrong - fair
> > > enough - but please tell me the title as well!!!}
> >
> > "At Last! My arm is complete again!" - Sweeny Todd, the Demon Barber of
> > Fleet Street.
> >
> > Musical by Stephen Sondheim.
> > Broadway cast:Sweeny Todd - Len Cariou; Mrs. Lovett (the landlady)
> > Angela Landsbury
> >
> > Barber in (approximately) Victorian England (or older) is deported to
> > Australia by the local
> > Judge on trumped up charges so that the Judge can seduce his wife.
> > After a number of years,
> > he escapes and returns to England to discover that his wife is dead and
> > his infant daughter is
> > now grown up and is the ward of the judge, who wants to marry her. The
> > wife took her own life
> > after the judge and the judge's beadle got her drunk and raped her. He
> > adopts a phoney name
> > (Sweeney Todd) and attempts to get revenge, with the help of his former
> > landlady, Mrs. Lovett,
> > who unbeknownst to ST, has the hots for him. She has kept his silver
> > razor set all these years
> > in case he returned.
> >
> > The sailor that helped him escape (who does not know who he is) falls in
> > love with the daughter
> > and tries to help her to escape. He barges into the barber shop just as
> > ST is about to cut the
> > throat of the judge, whom he has lured into the shop to get a shave.
> > The judge hears the sailors
> > plan to rescue the daughter from him, and runs out of the shop, vowing
> > that the sailor shall not
> > succeed, and vowing never to return to the shop since ST is the friend
> > to the sailor. ST realizes
> > that he may never get another chance to get his revenge, and vows that
> > he will kill over and over
> > until he finally does. Meanwhile, he has killed a huckster that
> > recognized him and threatened to
> > expose him. Mrs. Lovett, who owns a little meat pie shop, thinks that
> > the ideal way to get rid
> > of this and subsequent bodies, is to cook them into the pies. Before
> > this she could not afford
> > to put meat into her meat pies and was very poor. The new meat pies are
> > a success and are the
> > toast of London.
> >
> > By the end of the play, pretty much everyone is dead, except the sailor
> > and the daughter, who
> > live happily ever after.
> >
> >
> Is it me, or is this gross?
> Murder, She Wrote, indeed!
> 
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Brian Utterback
> > Mit Lincoln Labs
> > (617) 981-4542
> > [email protected]
> >
> >
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