As this is a workshop unit, we don't want our version of Sweeney to be too long. We had already decided that we were going to do the movie version of the songs, as these are all a lot shorter. Therefore, our first step to cutting down our script was to cut out the parts of the songs that aren't in the movie versions.
Our next step was to try and shorten scenes that involved Dan, Tom, Taylor and Alice - as these cast members are not actually in our class and so are not in all of our lessons, we have cut the beggar woman's appearance on pages eight and nine as it is not necessary. We decided that we didn't need Todd and the beggar woman to meet, as it isn't essential to the plot (as Todd only realises at the end, that his wife Lucy lived). Furthermore, we also cut the bottom half of page 23 and the top of 24 - this is a section of a song sung by Anthony - we kept in the first verse but felt no need for the rest of it - it would only make the show longer, and more for our additional cast members to learn.
We managed to cut down a couple of lines from various scenes, but shall do more cutting whilst we are workshopping scenes - as we could work out what feels right and what isn't needed when actually working on the scenes (rather than sitting round a table with pens).
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