Wondering if there was as much blood in the stage production of SWEENY TODD?

Question:The movie was full of blood

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: The movie was full of blood

Generally no, but I think the amount of blood shown in a stage production is left up to the director. I haven't seen the movie yet, but I did see a production of it at UNCG a few months back. For a stage production, I thought that there was quite a bit of blood. You'd see it spurt every time he'd slit someone's throat, and they also built this machine where blood would run out of a tube and into a barrel at random moments. When I talked to the director, she said that she had it built to give the play a more sinister feel to it, so that's where I'm drawing the conclusion that the amount of blood is left up to the director. As for the movie, have you ever known a movie not to go all out with blood and gore? In any movie I've seen that involves even the smallest amount of blood, the producers try to make it bigger than it's really supposed to be. It just makes it more interesting on the big screen. Also, movies have a much larger budget than a stage production, so they have more money to spend on things like that.

yeah...but not as much in detail

Not especially,but the stage version was about an hour longer.In the play,a lot of the blood-letting was implied(after all,it IS a musical)
TL

There is some blood type stuff that gets on the victim's necks when Sweeney runs the razor across their necks, but it is in no way graphic.
For refrence, watch the filmed stage version of it, it stars Angela Lansubury, there are lots of clips on the internet, or, if you have netflix, they have it there.

I think the amount of blood is down to the director's/designer's choice. I saw two different productions of Sweeney Todd years ago. One had, I think, blood bags covered by fake skin on the necks of the victims. As the knife was drawn across it, blood seeped out. The other production had the knives with some sort of spray, so as it was drawn across the neck, you could hear the hiss as the blood came out. The first method was far more realistic. Sometimes though, imagination works brilliantly and you think that you have seen blood and gore, when in fact, there hasn't been any.

Not a lot it's just a thin line as he cuts across the victims’ throat and if you see them after words in the case of Lucy, Turpin, and Todd you can really tell its fake. Sondheim's genius was always in his subtleties (certain lines in the songs or the way a scene is set) and not sheer gore like Burton.