...Sweeney Todd The barber Sweeney Todd (aka the Demon Barber) was a character from a 19th Century penny dreadful1, made popular by Stephen Sondheim's musical, a razor-wielding barber who killed his customers for cash and turned them into meat pies. He first appeared in 1846 as a secondary character in a short story called The String of Pearls a Romance by Thomas Prest, which was published in The People's Periodical. A hack playwright by the name of George Dibdin Pitt, who commonly filched other people's stories, dramatised the story for the stage as The String of Pearls The Fiend on Fleet Street, and advertised it as 'founded on fact'. The play debuted at London's Hoxton Theatre on 1 March, 1847, and ever since then people have speculated as to whether Sweeney Todd really had existed, or if he was simply a fictional bogeyman invented to sate the appetite of the morbid Victorian imagination. Did Sweeney Todd really exist? Up until recently, nobody knew, A number of daily newspapers at the time had reported real-life horror stories that bore certain similarity to the ghastly tale of Sweeney Todd. Stories of fainting ladies aside, the Victorian community had an enormous, morbid appetite for all things ghastly. Shocking tales of crime like this would have been spread through word of mouth like wildfire, although they were also probably embellished along the way. ...
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...a history like Sweeney Todd. This production features a psychologically-driven barber, filled with hatred because of a terrible past experience. This hatred brings out a monster in him, and he goes on a killing spree in London. He lures his victims into his shop with an awkward charm and slashes their throats with a straight razor. His victim's bodies are then dumped into the basement of the shop, where they are minced and cooked into meat pies that are sold in Mrs. Lovett's store. Mrs. Lovett is Sweeney Todd's accomplice in his scheme for revenge. She is infatuated with him and cannot help but to assist him with these crimes. This twisted plot, the setting, and the musical score make for a darker production that is not seen very often from Broadway acts. “For Sweeney Todd is surely the angriest major musical ever written, a sensibility that here becomes a galvanizing asset” (Ben Brantley 2005). A now dated production, Sweeney Todd premiered on March 1, 1979. This took place at Uris Theatre in New York City. The production was eventually closed but not before it had over 500 runs. The show was reopened near its ten year anniversary in 1989. This time, the show ran for almost 200 runs before it was shut down again. In 2005, it was decided that Sweeney Todd was to be opened for viewing again. This time, it was showed over 300 times. It was eventually decided to close Sweeney Todd yet again. There have been multiple revival productions of Sweeney Todd run by different production...
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...2 March 2014 MUSC 1301 Sweeney Todd: Robert E. Lee High School Musical I am not a fan of horror or scary theatrics, so I was a little nervous about going to see Sweeney Todd, even if it was just a high school musical. I was quite impressed overall with the musical. The young actors and actresses did very well performing the story of Sweeney Todd. The story of Sweeney Todd was actually quite interesting. I was shocked that an elderly woman would even think to serve humans in pie form, but I guess she had to do what she felt necessary to keep her business open. The musical was not as scary as I initially thought it would be. The original musical’s music and lyrics were written by Stephen Sondheim. One of the main characters Sweeney Todd was played by Octavio de la Pena. He played his character very well. Throughout the musical Octavio never went out of character and he portrayed the different emotions well. He even used an English accent to go with the setting of the musical. The young man had great diction and his inflection was very natural. He did not sound as though he was acting, but that he was actually feeling each emotion. He also had great diction while singing songs that required him to sing very fast. I was able to understand every word as he sped through lyrics in the songs. I was surprised by one scene when Sweeney Todd actually showed some sort of compassion and allowed an unsuspecting victim to live. Sweeney Todd saw the man’s wife and child just...
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...Political Science – I Comm 2 - K Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Movie Review) What would you do if everyone you love was taken away from you? Are you going to stand and stare and wait for them to return? Or would you dare to take revenge to the person who took everything from you? Here comes now the story of Benjamin Parker, or more known as Sweeney Todd. Benjamin Barker, arguably the most accomplished barber in all Victorian London, is married to the pretty Lucy, the two who have an infant daughter, Johanna. Lusting after Lucy, a sadistic judge named Turpin wrongfully has Barker sent to prison in Australia so that he can have Lucy to himself. Fifteen years later, Barker, who has rechristened himself Sweeney Todd, returns to London to seek revenge by killing Turpin and his accomplice Beadle Bamford, using the instruments of his trade to slit their throats. Below Todd's old barber shop is now a meat pie shop run by Mrs. Lovett, who admits to making the worst meat pies in London. She tells Todd that Lucy poisoned herself after being raped by Turpin, and that Johanna, now a young woman, is Turpin's ward. Johanna and a young honorable sailor named Anthony Hope, who Todd met, sailing into London, have fallen in love with each other from afar. Much like his feelings for Lucy, Turpin lusts after Johanna and wants to marry her, and thus he will do whatever he needs to get Anthony out of the way. Back at the barber shop, Todd changes his plans for revenge solely on...
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...Mary Todd Lincoln Mary Todd Lincoln was a strong woman. Although she went through some hard times, she always pulled through and proved that she was not going down without a fight. She considered her early life as unhappy, even though she went to a great school and had parents who supported her. Her midlife was not something one could ever imagine. Through her last years of being First Lady, two of her sons died and her husband was shot while sitting right next to her. Lastly, after her third son passed away, Mary Todd-Lincoln's last living son put her in a mental asylum. Through all of this, Todd-Lincoln stayed strong, and did not let anything get in her way. Marry Todd Lincoln was born on December 13, 1818, to Eliza Parker and Robert Smith Todd. She was born and raised in Lexington, Kentucky, on a slave owning property. She was considered to have had a happy and energetic childhood with a high spirited social life, but when asked to describe her childhood, she would describe it as unhappy or lonely. When Todd-Lincoln was seven years old, her mother passed away. Soon after, her father...
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...Jessica McManness American Musical Theater Mr. Holdren 19 October 2014 An Analysis of Sweeney Todd and His Mental Collapse The curtain first rose for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street on Broadway in 1979 (“Sondheim”). Stephen Sondheim wrote the music and lyrics with Hugh Wheeler responsible for the book (“Sondheim”). The musical tells the story of a barber named Benjamin Barker, a man with a beautiful wife and daughter who is banished from London by the lustful Judge Turpin. After 15 long years, he returns to London on a ship with young sailor, Anthony Hope, in the hopes of finding them. The tale goes on to show Sweeney’s mental decline as he struggles to avenge the life stolen from him, his wife’s suicide, and his daughter’s...
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...verse to contribute. For example, after the first day of class, Todd writes “Carpe Diem” on his paper, dreaming of what it would be like if he, too, could contribute a verse and be great like those in the picture. His insecurity gets the better of him, though, and he throws out the paper believing he has nothing to contribute. Later, in class, after being asked to write a poem, Todd tells Keating he never completed the assignment after he spent many hours writing and revising his poem only to have thrown it away before class. This is a prime example of Todd’s struggle between romanticism and realism, where Todd begins dreaming of future possibilities and ways of expressing himself only to have his realistic expectations crash down on him and diminish his thoughts of potential greatness. Keating sees through Todd’s fear and first makes him yawp, and later makes him say whatever comes to mind. This is the beginning of the change in Todd. “I close my eyes and this image floats beside me The sweaty-toothed madman with a stare that pounds my brains His hands reach out and choke me And all the time he’s mumbling Truth, like a blanket that always leaves your feet cold. You push it, stretch it, it will never be enough Kick it beat it, it will never cover any of us. From the moment we enter crying, to the moment we leave dying, it will just cover your face as you wail and cry and scream.” In this poem, Todd is saying that the madman is passion, but passion (the blanket)...
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...iscuss the Case from the Standpoint of OD Values and Ethics. The Kindred Todd case illustrates a realistic dilemma an Organization Development Practitioner (ODP) may face while properly performing his role of helping the client organization maximize humanistic benefits and achieve organizational effectiveness. The ODP is a qualified professional who facilitates change within the client organization that involves encouraging open communication, employee involvement and personal growth and development. Although some ODP’s may specialize in a specific technical area, all possess common skills in the social processes of organizations. The very nature of the ODP helping role lends itself to the potential for misconduct, intentional or unintentional, because the ODP wields significant power and influence over his client. He has gained the client’s trust, holds in his possession intimate knowledge about the organization’s culture and operations, and is positioned to guide the implementation of the program jointly developed with the client, thereby the client relies on his expertise and guidance at every step in the change process. Without professional values and ethics to guide the ODP’s every interaction, communication, and activity, he may find it difficult to navigate the client relationship as both client and ODP roles and goals may often come into conflict or become clouded by ambiguity. Values and ethics help the keep the ODP’s his role in focus and act to guide...
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...For the case involving Todd Martin and Amy Craft, I think that both of them are at fault in this predicament. During my time in college I have witnessed situations of the sort. It never turns out pretty but regret is basically guaranteed. As an adult you have to be responsible for your actions and that includes knowing your alcohol and moral limits. I don’t necessarily agree with Todd’s conviction; I don’t think charges should have even been placed against Todd. I don’t feel I have enough information to make a guilty conviction for one specific participant. This could easily be a false accusation or Todd could have had sex with Amy without her full or conscious consent. I feel that a resolution to the situation that would be fair to all parties would be to learn from this matter. They both were being irresponsible; Amy could have monitored her drinking better and Todd could have called campus police for assistance in getting Amy home. Both of them should bare minimum have to speak with a campus counselor. This situation could also allow either of them to participate in some awareness classes whether they be alcohol awareness or sexual abuse/discrimination awareness classes. This could even drive Amy (or Todd if he felt so inclined) to maybe start a club/group on campus for other females and even males who feel they have been a victim of rape or participated in over consumption of alcohol leading to questionable decision making skills. Amy’s school seemed to react in the...
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...Laura Den Bleyker Organizational Development Week 3Individual Work Everest University May 22, 2015 Kindred Todd and the Ethics of OD Introduction We have learned that ethics that are based on value can only assist an Organizational Development Practitioner guide themselves as they move along the paths of their work. Values can be described “as a set of manners that individuals learn while growing up. At times values are different from ethics because usually ethics is publicly agreed upon and for a practice in a profession (“Organizational Development,”). This paper will show the ethical dilemmas and values regarding the role of Kindred Todd. It will explain why it is so important for the OD practitioner to have their values and how important it is because their “judgement will depend on their values. It is also very important that the OD practitioner and the organization be aligned in their values so that they can work “hand in hand” and there will be a purpose for what they are doing (“Organizational Development.”). ...
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...1. What personality traits do leaders like Todd McFarlane possess that distinguish them from other individuals? Todd McFarlane has task orientation ability to assembly many different artists to leave Marvel Comics in 1992 at the peak of their careers. Todd McFarlane wanted royalties from the characters that he was creating for Marvel Comics but as an Artist you only received you monthly pay check. Todd McFarlane is credit for creating a Spider-Man villain called Venom. In 1992 he left Marvel Comics too alone with other artist to create Image Comics. Todd McFarlane had the following personality traits to be a successful leader he was honest to his fellow artists; he inspired them to leave their jobs from Marvel Comics to start their own company. He was also competent in his ability to lead other artists to leave Marvel Comics and to accomplish their goals of starting a new company. 2. How have global competition and technology advances changed business conditions and leadership challenges? Many business meeting was performed behind closed doors which prevent the everyday citizen from knowing what is going on in the world. Now with things like Facebook, twitter, and MySpace have changed business conditions and leadership challenges since whatever you do now is judged in the court of public opinion. Public Opinion can destroy a person. Would Barry Bonds, Mark McGuire, Sammy Sosa or Roger Clemens be in the Baseball Hall of Fame if not the public belief that they all used...
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...P.65 Toying with Success: The McFarlane Companies What personality traits do leaders like Todd McFarlane possess that distinguish them from other individuals? The McFarlane Toy Company Todd McFarlane, president and CEO of the McFarlane Companies, is an entrepreneur who understands the importance of product development. Comics, sports, toys, and rock-and-roll have all benefited from his creativity. While working many hours for low pay at Marvel Comics, he made a name for himself and became the highest paid comic book artist in the industry. But when his creativity was not been appreciated and differences arisen, not to mention his desire to own the rights to his characters, he quit and took six other artists with him and started his own company. McFarlane knew what he wanted and went for it. He knew where he wanted to be and through perseverance and hard work he stayed focused on his goal (Vision and ability). Although people predicted he would last less than a year, he kept going and first comic book sold 1.7 million copies. He had the confidence because he knew was he was good at and that drove his aspirations. He had the drive and determination to stick with his dream. He was determined to succeed. Even after he didn’t succeed as a major league baseball player he still was determined to be successful. He remained optimistic and believed he could become an entrepreneur (Self Confidence and Enthusiasm and Persistence). He had the courage to move forward and start his own...
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...MGMB 223: Organizational Theory: Group Assignment. You are required to study a particular company. The requirements of the chosen company are: 1. It must have been established more than 20 years. 2. It must be a company that employs more than 10k employees 3. It must be a global company (doing businesses in multiple regions) 4. Diverse workforce. Your assignment is due 8th April 2016 You ought to be able to discuss the company’s establishment in your assignment. Here are some questions that could be your guideline for this assignment. 1. Historical background of the company. 2. Describe the way the company has grown and developed over the years since its establishment. 3. What are the company’s goals and objectives (short and long term?) 3. What does the company do? What kind of services and products that it produces? 4. Who are their stakeholders? Categorized and explain. 5. Prepare and explain the organizational design. In your opinion, what can be done with regards to the company’s design in order to make it more competitive and more dynamic? 6. Explain the line of authority and what kind of structure does the company adapt. Why it use this structure? 7. Describe the company’s general and specific environments/how do the environment affect its operations? 8. Describe briefly the company’s working culture and how it affects the way it operates? 9. Explain the company’s major competitive advantages. How does the company utilize its competitive advantages to maintain...
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...Samantha Forsee Honors English 11 October 2015 Period 8 Amanda Todd: Suicide, Social Media, and Stereotypes People make mistakes, some bigger than others, and due to social media these mistakes can become bigger messes than they really should, and they never fully go away either. Video-Chats, a harmless environment, except when a video-chat becomes a horrific game, such as when an older man begins to chat with an 11 year-old minor. Amanda Todd at the age of 11 was sent down a route of bullying, stereotypes, and sexual extortion, due to a man who knew enough to manipulate her into showing him her breasts, a small action, that caused so much commotion.("Amanda Todd's Story: Struggling, Bullying, Suicide, Self Harm") Amanda Todd struggled after...
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...The role visual style plays in communicating the ideas, themes and issues raised by the film Before to the introduction of ‘auteur theory’ Douglas Sirk directed films that were illustrious for classical Hollywood narrative. However, he used his power as director to step outside of the Mainstream Hollywood narrative and stylistic conventions (Core 1994), using techniques such as mise-en-scene to communicate the ideas, themes and issues raised in his films. All That Heaven Allows directed by Sirk is a perfect example of his clever use of visual style to communicate themes of social status, repression and nature. The film was popular at its release as ‘critics were well aware that Sirk's films attracted a humorous popular reception’ (Philip Core p132) but was critically dismissed as a women’s weeping movie (Nick James, 1994). Told from a women's point of view and post WWII exposure gives a sense of context and what life was like for women of the time. As Carrie quotes from ‘walden’s book’ it becomes evident that mise-en-scene enriches the film and gets an insight into post WW2 life. Carrie is trapped, however it is not just the dialogue of the film that is used to expose her entrapment. Carrie is represented as a prisoner in her own home. The use of the TV double comments on what Carrie is going through. Sirk presents the television as a symbol of repression and defeat, a tiresome life. Sirk uses the television set to explore the theme of Carrie as an onlooker on life and...
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