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Kathleen Mullins is flawless as Mrs. Lovett, Todd's partner in crime. A Boston Conservatory student, Mullins is a brilliant comic actress as well as a good singer. In her first number, "The Worst Pies in London," Mullins sings an incredibly difficult song, stays in character and rolls out meat pies all at the same time. In a cast of varying English accents, Mullins' stands out as the most authentic...
...cartoon shorts by Tex Avery at MGM and by Bob Clampett and Chuck Jones at Warner Bros. -- has the form been so commercially successful and artistically exhilarating. Moreover, at a time when mass art is fragmented, even divisive -- when virtually no species of entertainment has universal appeal -- the hip, comic ingenuity and emotional breadth of the best cartoons reunite the consumers of popular culture with Hollywood's surest instinct to please in a vast Saturday matinee of the spirit...
Casting is as crucial a decision for cartoons as for live-action films. Aladdin's voice cast includes curmudgeonly comic Gilbert Gottfried as Jafar's parrot and Lea Salonga, the original Miss Saigon, as the singing voice of Jasmine. But the true inspiration was to have the Genie voiced by Williams, whose comedy routines pinball from one manic impression to another. Every time Williams would lurch into a new character, even if for a second, the Genie would assume that form. In five recording sessions spanning 15 months, Williams simply revolutionized cartoon voice acting. "Until now," Katzenberg notes, "we have...
...Clayton wonders why all this freedom left him and everyone close to him so anxious, addled and unhappy: "The present is Paradise, yet our brain forbids our living in it long." Beneath the comic excessiveness of his meditations can be glimpsed some somber spiritual shadows: "Everything was out of the closet, every tabu broken, and still God kept His back turned, refusing to set limits...
...drunk (Elijah Aron) provides some of the only real comic relief during the one hour and helps facilitate more movement on an otherwise relatively still stage. The little amount of action on stage, however, is for the most part necessary: it keeps the audience riveted on the two central characters...