Sweeney Todd

So many.

Sweeney Todd is another favorite- Amazing ... of mine I've gotten to do- Amazing, yeah ... a couple times.

So it's like, I-

Did you say Passion, too?

Mm-hmm.

Like, ensemble understudy work, and I feel very comfortable doing that, and so I was like-

Like when you did Sweeney Todd.

Yes, exactly.

[laughs]

Sweeney Todd.

Uh, yeah.

No way.

Oklahoma.

Starting Sweeney Todd.

We're in the middle of that.

And, uh-

the last week of October and the s- first week in November.

That's right.

Good luck, Sweeney, Sweeney Todd on Halloween.

Yeah, it's gonna-

No.

So the first introduction I had to theater or, or like a stage was I was in high school, and they were doing Sweeney Todd at, um, St. Gab.

Shout out to St. Gabriel's, little plug in Bury.

Shout out.

Um, [laughs] we were doing, um, they were doing Sweeney Todd, and they were like, "Yeah, you'd be good in this.

Come and do it." I was doing the ensemble, and I, I knew all, I was loving the songs.

Um, didn't go on Spotify or anything to, to have a listen, but I wanted to play football.

Yeah, on a dark day in Wimbledon.

We also met Christina years before that when you were Joanna in Sweeney Todd.

Did we?

and i had yeah you wouldn't remember i had just graduated i came to see you was that and i was doing the panto at the mercury and you were doing that

Dave O'Dell are obsessed.

I loved him.

He was just in Sweeney Todd in Birmingham.

He was great in that.

And TV show, yeah, soundtracks.

I was listening to Sweeney Todd whilst I was making burgers the other day.

I love that fucking soundtrack.

And it was like, I listened to the Vampire Lestat's album pretty much on repeat since season two.

... "Steve," like, "what are you talking about?" Like, "This is a lot.

That's a lot of stuff." And I was like, "Also, we need a producer that's gonna mix this and produce this that, like, really knows how to do big theatrical, epic songs." So they brought in a guy named Jason Larocca, and Jason did Josh Groban's Sweeney Todd on Broadway.

Cool.

He was nominated for a Grammy for producing that album, right? So, like, big, you know, and then he did God of War and stuff, and so-

This was a little bit different from a lot of other things that she did.

This is a historical piece, but it's not like a Sweeney Todd historical piece.

It wasn't like a...

Joseph and the Amazing Technical Dreamcoat.