Who are we to deny it in here?
Jim Allen was saying that when he plays Sondheim at Marie's, he simplifies a lot of it because the dissonances just sound wrong and out of tune on the piano (as opposed to orchestra).
I was listening to the OCR of Sweeney, and when it got to "A Little Priest", I was reveling in the harmonies they cut from the movie adaptation (one of my few disappointments with the film). And it hit me just how wacky Mrs. Lovett's harmonies are there- I'd assumed that they were cut because they were just too difficult for an untrained singer like HBC to hit- but it's possible they were cut because they just didn't sound right in the movie- they might have sounded like HBC was out of tune, even if she was hitting the "right" notes.
I was listening to the OCR of Sweeney, and when it got to "A Little Priest", I was reveling in the harmonies they cut from the movie adaptation (one of my few disappointments with the film). And it hit me just how wacky Mrs. Lovett's harmonies are there- I'd assumed that they were cut because they were just too difficult for an untrained singer like HBC to hit- but it's possible they were cut because they just didn't sound right in the movie- they might have sounded like HBC was out of tune, even if she was hitting the "right" notes.