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Video: Ben Serves Spooky with Choreo from SWEENEY TODD
May 16, 2024
In this video, watch as Ben kicks off spooky season with Steven Hoggett's Tony-nominated choreography from Sweeney Todd with the help of dance captains Samantha Pollino and Taeler Cyrus.
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Hello, you big beautiful Broadway world
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It's me, your Broadway buddy Ben Cameron, and you're watching a very serious and macab edition
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of Dance Captain Dance Attack. Because today, it's all about that demon barber Fleet Street
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Sweeney Todd. It's so cool, and I'm so excited to learn this
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But of course, it takes more than just me. It takes dance captains
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That's the whole point. That's the whole reason that we're here. So please welcome the Sweetie Todd Broadway Dance Captains
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Samantha Polino and Taylor Cyrus! Yeah! Yay! Oh, it's so good work
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I'm being all dark and evil and sinister, and you guys are like, but you know
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Let's get ready. Are you ready? Let's have... Let's go. A dance captain
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Dance and dance and dance! So you're stepping on every
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on every beat per se. Okay. Your arms are going every other. So you're going swipe, step, swipe, step
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swipe, step. And then this is what we call a blanket toss
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Your feet stay the same, but your arms are going up, down
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Swing you can all right. I'm messing up now. Why, sweetie, hold it to the sky
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Swipes again with the right. freely flows the blood of those who moralize
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He gets to a nice deep contraction. I would love to, thank you for asking
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That contraction makes you turn over your right shoulder. You stay down below and slowly roll it on that back up the center
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Oh my gosh, you're moralizing in our humanity. Yeah. Turn his needs, refute, his room is bare
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Tick, tick, tick. So right, left, right. And they're just little ticks like
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You can almost think like, I've heard this, but I'm not sure if it happened or..
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Did I hear that right? You're telling the story at this moment
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So we have to have their solos and they're going to pop out and they're going to sing
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And it's their moment to tell their version of what they've heard or what they've experienced
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And also your head on those ticks stays here so that you kind of..
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It's almost like your chin is in line with your shoulder for these ticks. Yeah
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It is like, if we're all in a come together and we're like doing a couple. ticks and we all we all just go down at the same time so we go um tick tick a lava
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and a fancy chair and um you almost like have a little bit of a wrap up just for the next one Oh yeah Exactly And in the show Taylor actually has one of the solos here Ah
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Can you show him what you would take... So I'm dropping bombs
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You're gonna drop and I'm going to push you down and sing my line out to the audience
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Just as you start to get up a little bit, she'll push you down again. Oh! Yes. Exactly
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Just to get you out of here after that, D'Sweeney-Ty-Ton. You do start to actually get up without another bomb drop Okay
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To come up a demon barber And then you step seam on same leg forward right left of fleet street
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This is when the everyone starts singing different parts And your movement is very much based on what part you're seeing Okay
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So obviously the one I start singing first And so we start tilting outstage and so we start tilting outstage
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The Jets take a step back Um, and then, you start these breaths
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The idea is that it's like, it's not a body roll, but there is, but there is like a bit of a
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it's almost like your chest is coming up, to then like sink down
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You'll go in conspicuous, he was quick and quiet, he was. Okay, my arm's still
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So all in your chest. Cors and ho. Up here. Yes. Yes
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So you do that for a while. Yes. Like six, seven minutes
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We have on in conspicuous, Swinie was quick and wide to clean
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He was back with a smile under his word. Sweeney. There music that nobody heard
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Sweetie pondered and swingy plan like a perfect machine. Okay. That's it. Yeah
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Talk about with this right play. Okay. You're creating like a little, you're taking
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you're creating train tracks. Yeah, they're parallel to each other. Not too close
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One, two, three, four. four one two three and it's like you're hitting the space in between each one of the train tracks
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sweeping the slewis sweet with subtle sweetly with thick and rats with scuttle that's i got there
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yeah yes now we set some weeds out so okay we are starting to mimic a boat because the next
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scene is sweetie arriving in a boat and now we are everything that we're doing is like we're creating
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waves of boat okay coming going out and coming in so Start on top of your head
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Lean, you have a step, step, step. You do it again. Lean and a step, step, step, step. Yes
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Is they give you a sweetie was, with you quiet like a perfect love You have sheenie Was You gonna give two reaches and they not set but you can just go
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Sheenie Was. Sheenie Was, da-da-da-da-da-da, Yeah, okay. Two, okay. You have about eight walks
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All right. Straight down into that famous power cord. So we have, Sheenie was, was, sweetie
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Keeney was, was sweetie, sweetie, sweetie, sweetie, sweetie, sweeten, sweetie, Sweetie, sweetie, sweetie, Mey
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On this backup, I mean, depending on what side of the stage you're on, I think it is like French doors
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Like we're kind of like folding back this way, but it's also like, it's a moment where I think this
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the sweet of sweetie is forward and then as we back up
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you can connect with the person next to you, like there's fear. Yeah. You're like, he's kind. Yeah
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Like I every night I connect with people on this back up here. Oh, he comes from straight down and front
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You have a... Big creepy blob. Sweetie, Sweetie, two, four, five, six, seven, eight, one, two, three, four
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He sings, attend the tale of sweetie Todd. Aten the tale of sweetie Todd
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Walk up. And recover. The cover. You served a dark and a bench, forgot
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Oh, God, damn. You're down here. You just tilting it fell. You're going to have what happened then
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Well, that's the play. You're going to look at that corner. And then he says, but he, who snap our heads into him
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and he's straight at him. He's straight, right. Yeah. Slow this all back out to the audience, not sweetie
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Whoa, okay. Not sweetie. Not sweetie Todd. This is a fun part
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Let's say that you're going to jump into the boat. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So the boat has opened up behind us. Okay
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There's a little bit of the stage. Okay. Everybody for the last fleet street looks one way
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and looks the other and you run off stage. Some can run into the boat, some people run
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straight stage left. Yeah? You're going to run upstage into the boat
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I'll go, I'll go. I'm going to go left. I'm going into the boat
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Because there's no place like London. Exactly. We just went, not Sweeney, he taught the demon barbara
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of let's all look to the left fleet. And it's a contraction where you're like, is he over there
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He might be. You look over your right shoulder, straight. And then you're going to turn over your right shoulder
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and go straight upstate into your boat. Bo! Turn and turn and. All right, there's nothing on the button that goes, da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-ta-da
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All right, there's nothing left to do. Let's get in our big, creepy cloth
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Are you ready to have a Sweeney Dance captain dance a dance attack Yeah Swing your race a white sweetie
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Hold into the skies Freely foods the blood of those who moralize
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his need for few his room was bare A lava bow and a fancy chair
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A mug of sud in the leather straw An apron and towel a pail and a mop
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For neatness he deserves a nod To Sweeney Todd The demon barber of Fleet Street
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Inconsticuous Sweeney was Quick and quiet and clean he was Back of his ston
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Attend the tale of Sweeney Tart. Attend the tale of Sweeney Tart
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He served a dark and a vengeful guard. He served a dog in a vengeful God
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What happened then? Well, that's the play. He wouldn't want us to give it away
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Not Sweeney. Not Sweeney Tart. The demon bother of feet
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I just want to say thank you to the incredible dance captains from Sweetie Todd on Broadway
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Sam Polino and Taylor Kaiser, not Kaiser, Cyrus. That's a little joke for us
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Right, Peanuts? Now it's your return. Now that you've learned all the steps
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Fill yourself too again, throw it on social media, tag us app, official Broadway
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Prolipendez, Broadway, Hashtagasc, D-C-D-A. and show us your moves. And join us next time
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We'll raise a high, ma'am. A broken chair. What was it? A lava death and a broken chair
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Bye, we're all dead now
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