Stephen Sondheim Sweeney Todd Original Broadway 14x22" Window Card

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Stephen Sondheim Sweeney Todd Original Broadway 14x22" Window Card
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"My
Sweeney
art was based on an old woodcut, and I added Mrs. Lovett drawn in the same style," Verlizzo says. "I had met with Harold Prince, who showed me costume sketches in which the Mrs. Lovett character appeared very fat. He explained he was going to talk to his star, Angela Lansbury, about wearing padding but hadn’t yet. I was asked to go to her apartment to show her the artwork so she could approve it. I fortunately thought to render other Mrs. Lovetts in various weights ranging from obese to svelte. Ms. Lansbury couldn’t have been nicer, but was taken aback by the girth of some of my renderings. I told her I’d heard mentioned the possibility of her wearing a 'fat suit.' Without missing a beat, her response was, 'I’ll just play it fat. Let’s go with the thinnest drawing.' The final suggestion Stephen Sondheim made: 'Add more blood.'" -
Frank “Fraver” Verlizzo