I love his reaction when the woman kinda screamed. ".....on the top of mi head"

@orgulasaxios3567

3 жыл бұрын

It’s only made even better when you realise the role he plays is a kid, so he probably have no idea why she’s screaming

@keenanwark5905

Жыл бұрын

@@orgulasaxios3567 toby isnt a kid in the original musical

@paradoxical7782

Жыл бұрын

@@keenanwark5905 they call him “lad” and lovett refers to him like shes his mother? 💀

@keenanwark5905

Жыл бұрын

@@paradoxical7782 in the original musical, hes meant to be a mentally challenged adult. They decided to make him a child for the movie version

@jaeblack4752

Жыл бұрын

@@paradoxical7782 Hes an adult with a mental disability so everyone treats him like a kid, hes only actually a kid in Tim Burtons movie. I understand the confusion though

Neil Patrick Harris is amazing, this is a lot harder than it looks. He has an amazing vocal range and he made it unique with that accent, doesn't matter what it sounds like we get the point. He's talented

@adrianmedeiros8431

4 жыл бұрын

Is it just me, or does anyone else wanna see him play Sweeney?

@99lodewijk

4 жыл бұрын

@@adrianmedeiros8431 I want to see him play mr. Lovett.

@adrianmedeiros8431

4 жыл бұрын

@@99lodewijk that would also be killer

@redhood7650

3 жыл бұрын

Music Meister singing opera is odd

@orlandolee4438

Жыл бұрын

Yeah Neill Patrick Harris is too old for the role...

The guy playing Pirelli, Stanford Olsen, has the best delivery of the "My elixir is piss?? / Who says this?" line.

@Wattywatasaurus

2 жыл бұрын

I think it’s the fact that when he gets to the line, he tones down the hammy fake Italian accent, which allows him to sound more genuinely indignant at the accusation.

NPH killed this performance. This song has a ton of words, several different keys and delivered in an English accent! Did all this while dancing, running around and acting. Hats off to you Neil!!!

I love how the actor who plays Todd looks at the camera with the line "piss with ink".

@notsusan

5 жыл бұрын

that's my man George Hearn, best Sweeney Todd ever

@alexandersean4708

Жыл бұрын

@@notsusan Late, but YOU CAN SAY THAT AGAIN.

@finleyforevermore

2 ай бұрын

​@@alexandersean4708 BEST SWEENEY TODD EVER!

Sweeney: "These [razors] are my friends" Also Sweeney: "See these razors? I lay these against £5 that you are no match for me." Mrs. Lovett, you really should've seen it coming at the end.

@yawnguy94

5 жыл бұрын

Shut up fool Go eat your lunch Then bed X love you Sleep tight

@omershaik6374

5 жыл бұрын

Well to be fair he never said she's his friend. His friends are the razors and the new chair

@yawnguy94

5 жыл бұрын

Waiting

@yawnguy94

5 жыл бұрын

0mer shaik lol You indian fool

@georgegriffiths1437

4 жыл бұрын

he knew he was going to win though

Gotta love Hearn's face when he says "This is piss, piss with ink!" XD NPH is just made of awesomeness!

“Instruments like these once seen, can not be soon forgotten” I love that bit of foreshadowing.

George Hearn is still the best Sweeney Todd, and this proves that even after nearly 20 years, he still put on a stunning performance!

@LauraSeabrook

9 жыл бұрын

such a recognisable voice! :D

@BooBop1987

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, he is a very good actor indeed!

@notsusan

5 жыл бұрын

more than 20, no? at any rate him Hearn/Lansbury is my all-time favorite Sweeney/Lovett, I think I've watched the recording with that cast a million times.

@ashb2483

4 жыл бұрын

Harris does so well in this, too!

@jws1272

2 жыл бұрын

Len Cariou may have been the first actor to play Sweeney, but George Hearn has made that role his own. Hearn is to Sweeney Todd what Michael Crawford is to The Phantom Of The Opera.

"When they see how thick, sir, You can have your pick, sir, of the girls." This line stood out to me for some reason.

@hatterwashere

4 жыл бұрын

mongorians22 oH

such a brilliant cast. hearn and lupone are perfect and so is harris

I was thinking: "is that Neil Patrick Harris?" then I saw the video title. Awesome performance from him! I often forget he can sing!

Honestly, NPH is extremely talented! He sang a very difficult piece!!!

I love Neil Patrick Harris here! He's as good a singer as an actor--who knew??

@Beanoz4

9 жыл бұрын

Everyone since 1988 knew.

@nikitakade5242

9 жыл бұрын

Scott Gerrard OK, so sue me--that was before my time, but at least I caught up with his talent, and appreciate it..

@Beanoz4

9 жыл бұрын

It was before my time too xD.

@nikitakade5242

9 жыл бұрын

Scott Gerrard OK, I hope we're square then; we can't know everything about everybody, but when we discover something wonderful, it's great to embrace and share it :)

@shawn.spencer

6 жыл бұрын

Well, good actors tend to be good singers, too. Because of the vocal lessons they've had to make their speech better.

NPH is just brilliant in this portrayal. And what makes it so much more is that you can understand every single word.

I love NPH as a performer, and he really has a great voice. He just looks nervous.

@MANB91UK

9 жыл бұрын

It's called acting... He's playing an orphaned child whose job it is is to perpetuate an arrant scam, if he fails to do so he'll be mercilessly beaten by Pirelli and is being revealed as nothing more than a fraud... Wouldn't you be pretty nervous?

@lucialanave8105

9 жыл бұрын

Matthew Battles trust me- I know he's acting. You can be playing a character that is nervous, but you can still be kind of out of it. Neil is definitely kind of out of it.

@Beanoz4

9 жыл бұрын

Matthew Battles He's not playing a child..

@MANB91UK

9 жыл бұрын

Scott Gerrard Is

@Beanoz4

9 жыл бұрын

Toby is meant to be in his late 20s or early 30s..

Whenever I'm sad, I stop being sad and sing Sweeny Todd instead. True Story.

@daelen.cclark

4 ай бұрын

True, sir, true.

Neil Patrick Harris truly never disappoints.

No matter how many times I watch this, the ''piss'' parts still make me laugh xD and Neil is awesome :DDD

After seeing him with this hair and his slouching (02:16), I think he'd make a gggreat Riff Raff :o

@nunya069

4 жыл бұрын

Oh true that

Stinson`s Hangover Fixer Elixier :D :D :D

@claralampricht8991

7 жыл бұрын

Haha 😂

@brobz8189

5 жыл бұрын

Smells like old soda

@redhood7650

3 жыл бұрын

@@brobz8189 this is old soda with honey!

Does the actor for Sweeney Todd look like Peter capaldi to anyone else?

@classickar

7 жыл бұрын

Muppets156 I THOUGHT SO TOO

@JackDearnley

6 жыл бұрын

I thought so and now I want nothing more than to see Capaldi play Sweeney Todd

@sford557

6 жыл бұрын

Um no can't see it at all, honey.

@conorq4611

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah he does

@eclairz9275

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, it's the eyes.

'Smells like WHEW!' Best bit XD

I never knew he did this. He plays it great.

Legend-----Dairy

@mimikiryuu

8 жыл бұрын

HIGHFIVE!

@nottocleverxx614

8 жыл бұрын

😂

:) The actor singing Sweeney Todd's part is George Hearn, the second man to play the role on Broadway. He is also the man featured in the 1982 film version (available on DVD)

NPH really looks like the tobi from the 1982 production

@luigicavallo270

2 жыл бұрын

He is just taller

Neil looks awesome with long hair :)

I AM SO OBSESSED WITH THIS

DARY!!!!! Legandary!!!

Amazing! that is NPH, just awsome.

это можно смотреть вечно, какое же исполнение шикарное

Just brilliant and a great Toby -im impressed

Neil Patrick Harris!

this is a good song to show how amazing he is

how can one person be so perfect

This just made me so happy

Fabulous! NPH is an amazing singer/performer!

this is just great

I'm playing Tobias this April! Can't wait!

He is the reason I’m proud to be Aussie😂

@phoenixcolombick9972

10 ай бұрын

neil patrick harris was born and raised in new mexico

LOVE IT!

Sweeney: "Either accept my challenge or reveal yourself as sham." NPH: "CHALLENGE ACCEPTED."

The mighty and inimitable George Hearn. He's getting kind of old, but you should check him out in the touring production with Angela Lansbury. Best Sweeney ever cast.

He is great!!!didnt expect that!

Yeah I wanna see it too,I think they are wonderful!!

My clarinet teacher was Toby in Sweeney Todd in Syndey about 20years ago I think. Anyway, every lesson he sings this for me. I sing the extra bits. I love my lessons. And 2:38, that bit is hilarious, Harris' hand moments.

This helped me rehearse thx

best musical and wonderful performance! go NPH!

Love it

02:56 masterpiece.

True story, I've been singing this song and watching "How I Met Your Mother" all day when I stumbled upon this! What a weird coincidence!

The look when he sang 'marvellous' haha :D he's so fabulous, eerrr, awesome! :D

god i love neil

Damn I wish I got to see this live seems like a good show

bondfool helped me already. Thank you, though! I appreciate it!

I cant take Neil serious! i L O V E him! but he's always making me laugh!

Love u neil

I was excited. then that accent..

@BlackoutCYANIDE

8 жыл бұрын

From London to Boston back to London then a trip to Manhattan

@conorq4611

5 жыл бұрын

Same

@JoeMama-tw6gu

4 жыл бұрын

yeah it’s BAD

@nunya069

4 жыл бұрын

It was good

@WKPlugins

3 жыл бұрын

@@nunya069 Its shit mate

That's a good question, and one that I'm now asking myself!!!!

I love the accent he does for it. Reminds me of the film

Yes it is George Hearn as Sweeney Todd. It's also Patti LuPone as Mrs. Lovett.

He is so good on this! He did an amazing Todd!

NPH does a great job of this.

i love nph

the best tobias!! Love him!!

sondheim songs are so hard to sing but they are amazing

12:29 AM is when I watched this. It is definitely something.

Oh my God... Neil! How did I not know this existed?

English: Snake oil French: Poudre de perlimpinpin Sondheim: Pirelli's

NPH is just adorable in this!!

All respect to NPH, at the top of his (or any other's) performing game. That's a given. But you have to have something to perform. And Sondheim (with whom I was blessed enough to have studied) gives him everything. Ev. Er. Ry. Thing. The fly-fisherman's let-it-out, let-it-in dexterity with the material. The hold-your-breath, here's another ix-ir rhyme. The gleeful key-changes, which only a composer-lyricist could bring off. The look, here's Cockney 19th-century English: another colour with which I can make still-more-luminous this palette, forging rhymes which would never chime in received American pronunciation. And look again, here is cod-Italian, arriving like the cavalry. Blessed I was. But blessed we all were and are, to be alive at the same time as Stephen Sondheim.

In this video Sweeney Todd reminds me of Tywin Lannister

@cannibalisticrequiem

6 жыл бұрын

PiccoloChaos This is an unrelated, but fun fact: Tywin Lannister, or rather Charles Dance, did something Broadway-related (in loose terms). He starred in a TV miniseries as Erik, or The Phantom, of Phantom of the Opera fame. The Broadway part comes in to play, with the miniseries not being based on the Lloyd Webber musical, but the unproduced (at the time) musical, Phantom, which was written by Maurie Yeston and Arthur Koppit-- the duo behind the Broadway musical, Nine.

@maggyfoster8699

6 жыл бұрын

PiccoloChaos same

@michaelwilliamybarra2409

4 жыл бұрын

@@cannibalisticrequiem Also to add to your Phantom quizzer, this production also has a Lloyd Webber Phantom, David Gaines, playing Anthony Hope!

Oh wow didn't know he can sing that well. Awesome!

Epic, I was 15 when that movie came out

When NPH goes bald, he just stops being bald and grows hair made of awesome instead... True story!

Großartig....:)

he is perfect

LEGEN-wait for it .... .... DARY LEGENDARY!!!!

You can just imagine it can't you?

"On the top of me head.....o_O" I spat out my tea at the screen, ohgod.

Gold

neil patrick harris plays such an adorable toby!!!

God George Hearn is this role through and through

Starship FUCKING Troopers!

I love th way Patti says "Flies do too!"

wooww he sounds good

"Talk to him!"

How did I go this long not realizing it was Stanford Olsen playing Pirelli!! For those of you who don't know, he's....kind of a big fucking deal.

Congrats on winning the internetz.

i will try it

Neil is great here.

I never knew Toby was meant to be a handicapped man: I did Sweeney Todd a few years ago as the school play (only a chorus member sadly, though I did want to be Toby) so obviously it was a kid playing him then too...

@OptimusPhillip

6 жыл бұрын

As far as I can tell, it depends on the production and the interpretation of the viewer. I generally read him as a little boy, because that's what he is in most versions, unless he's specifically portrayed otherwise.

I DIDN'T KNOW HE WAS IN SWEENY TODD OMGGG

Lol gently dab it... *me starts dabbing uncontrollably*

oh my god how did I not know this existed

I NEED TO GRAB HIM

How I want to be part of that choir!

Holy shit!

To be fair, no one in that period (or any period) would walk around singing with a full orchestra backing them up, either.