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Sydney Zarlengo | Madness & Insanity in Sweeney Todd - Part 1: The History [CC] @disabled.autistic.lesbian | Uploaded January 2024 | Updated October 2024, 14 minutes ago.
Hi so I accidentally wrote this video to be almost precisely the length of Sweeney Todd (with Part 1 and 2 timed accordingly with Act I and II) soooooo here’s part 2 - youtu.be/G0GyKlDlnZo

Sources & Resources (further autism resources below!):
My access review - disabledautisticlesbian.com/access-reviews-sweeney-todd
NYPL access review - disabledautisticlesbian.com/access-reviews-nypl-toft
Disability theatre deep dives - youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvsi-cBrFY4CJz5CV_BGHWKiRWiWkDf7r&si=-DYkuV4_aSLDB3J2

The String of Pearls; or, The Barber of Fleet Street. A Domestic Romance by James Malcolm Rymer and Thomas Peckett Prest (1846)
The original play (Christopher Bond) - thescriptsavant.com/movies/Sweeney_Todd_The_Demon_Barber_Of_Fleet_Street.pdf
Mad World: The Politics of Mental Health by Micha Frazer-Carroll
Sweeney Todd, A Tale of Adaptation - (@TheDramaDorks) - youtube.com/watch?v=65UmN0LIHE8&ab_channel=TheDramaDorks
SWEENEY TODD - Script - 2000 Edition - music & lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, books by Hugh Wheeler, and introduction by Christopher Bond
The Unraveling of Sweeney Todd - fromscoretostage.com/post/2018/02/03/the-unraveling-of-sweeney-todd
Northern Ireland Opera & Lyric Theatre Sweeney Todd Resource Pack - lyrictheatre.s3-assets.com/Sweeney-Todd-Resource-Pack.pdf
Casa Mañana Theatre Apprentice Program Sweeney Todd Research Packet (this is my favorite one!) - static1.squarespace.com/static/60380d2a23854f2d6a99f61b/t/603db69b32c6ef79430a18f8/1614657189132/SWEENEY+RESEARCH+PACKET.pdf
Attend the Tale of Sweeney Todd (PBS) - pbs.org/kqed/demonbarber/index.html
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Commedia discussion) - travistee34.wordpress.com/2019/10/03/sweeney-todd-the-demon-barber-of-fleet-street
Sweeney Todd - Interview with Stephen Sondheim - youtube.com/watch?v=naHgXkV-JlI&ab_channel=BonhamCarterFan
Washington Post Assassins Review - washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/2004/04/23/sondheims-assassins-illuminates-nine-dark-hearts/f5554855-bd5f-48d5-8ae9-a055edb1db33
"Every Now and Then a Madman's Bound to Come along…" the Use of Disability Metaphor in the Musicals of Stephen Sondheim: Freak Shows and Freakish Love - Heidi A. Temple - https://diginole.lib.fsu.edu/islandora/object/fsu:176131/datastream/PDF/view
​​"Is That Just Disgusting?" Mapping the Social Geographies of Filth and Madness in "Sweeney Todd" - Aleksei Grinenko - jstor.org/stable/26367397
The Secret History of Buying and Selling Hair - smithsonianmag.com/history/secret-history-buying-and-selling-hair-180961080
Mayhem and Morality in Sweeney Todd - Alfred Mollin - jstor.org/stable/3051688
Arsenic Toxicity - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK541125
Molecular Mechanism of Arsenic-Induced Neurotoxicity including Neuronal Dysfunctions - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8471829/#:~:text=Arsenic%20easily%20crosses%20blood%E2%80%93brain,changes%20in%20the%20brain%20cells.
The Effects of Arsenic Exposure on Neurological and Cognitive Dysfunction in Human and Rodent Studies: A Review - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4026128/#:~:text=We%20provide%20a%20detailed%20review,learning%2C%20memory%2C%20and%20locomotion.

Time Codes:
00:00 Intro
07:40 Show Summary
24:30 Themes
26:33 Brief History of Disability/Madness
31:21 The Original Story (1846)
47:49 Story History (1846-1973)
49:46 Original Play (1973)
53:28 Sondheim’s Sweeney (1979-Present)
55:48 Where Did The Story Come From?
58:46 Historical Context
1:01:24 Logistics Of Pie-Making
1:04:31 Historical Context 2
1:05:45 Institutions & Deinstitutionalization
1:13:55 Sondheim & Madness

If you want to support me financially - paypal.com/paypalme/sydneyzarlengo
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Check out my work! - disabledautisticlesbian.com/curious-incident
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Autism Resources:
Ultimate resource guide - disabledautisticlesbian.com/resource-guide
How to support an autistic person - disabledautisticlesbian.com/im-the-parent-of-an-autistic-kid
Help! I think I’m autistic - disabledautisticlesbian.com/help-i-think-im-autistic
Unmasking/How to Start Over - disabledautisticlesbian.com/i-want-to-start-over
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[I took out the links to my music to make room for my source list, if you wanna check that out you can find it here in all of my recent non-Sweeney video descriptions]
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