Posted on 10/22/06 at 05:23 AM

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From the Daily Mail: "Helena Bonham Carter is undergoing a strict regime to keep her voice tip top for the film version of Stephen Sondheim's musical Sweeney Todd.
Even though her partner, Tim Burton, is directing the film, she still had to jump through vocal hoops before Sondheim agreed to her being cast as Mrs Lovett, who turned the murderous barber's victims into pies.
Helena can carry a tune, but the score is demanding and she will work with a singing coach until she, Johnny Depp (in the title role) and other cast members - rumoured to include Sacha Baron Cohen (whose Borat film is the side-splitter of the year) and Laura Michelle Kelly - go into a recording studio next month and start laying down tracks.
Filming will be at Pinewood Studios and across London in the New Year.
. . .Once upon a time, Sam Mendes had an idea of making Sweeney Todd, with Russell Crowe as the demon barber of Fleet Street... "


21st October, 2006

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