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Tomorrow is the Big Day. By the Big Day, I mean it is the day that I finally see Sweeney Todd at City Opera. Which I'm afraid of. I've been afraid of this musical since I saw the 1979 version with ~~George Hearn~~ Len Cariou* and Angela Lansbury on PBS years ago and taped it sight unseen.

I taped it on the same tape as The Purple Rose of Cairo and I haven't been able to watch that movie since then because I'm too scared of that tape. I had them hide that tape. Like when Joey has to put The Shining in the freezer.

It scared me so much I couldn't eat meat for at least a week afterwards. And I'm a big meat-eater.

I'm talking major trauma. You couldn't even say the words "Sweeney Todd" around me for years. It still makes me cringe. Ask anyone in my family what's meant by "the scary musical". They'll know.

Why am I going to see this thing again?

Oh yeah. It's Sondheim, and it's free (from Tante Joan.) That's all it takes with me, apparently.

I'm scared.

*Proof that no one who reads my blog knows or cares what I'm talking about. ;)

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