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Anonymous
If anything the singing was too good, let me explain. In the original show, the actors knew how to properly "roughen" their singing to be believable in the context of their characters. George Hearn (in the original title role) would barely even sing some parts, at times speaking (and almost growling) in a convincingly mad way. The way you'd expect Sweeney Todd to sing. The same goes for Angela Lansbury. If anything, the movies cast (Depp and Bonham-Carter) sing their parts with far too much care towards clarity and accuracy (As you'd expect from a novice singer more concerned with sounding good than sounding right). Depp sounds like a one-off boy-band member. And Hellena Bonham-Carter (although more convincing than Depp), her voice comes off far too pure and pretty.
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