The cast included original members like Terfel, Thompson and Quast, as well as new actors like John Owen-Jones and Rosalie Craig. In the early 2000s, Sweeney Todd gained acceptance with opera companies throughout the United States, Canada, Japan, Germany, Israel, Spain, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and Australia. This production was also broadcast on Spanish television. The music helps to give it that dimension. Angela Lansbury, one of the most beloved and respected performers in show business, passed away October 11. It starred Anthony Warlow as Sweeney Todd, Gina Riley as Mrs. Lovett, Debra Byrne as the Beggar Woman, Michael Falzon as Adolfo Pirelli, Jonathan Hickey as Tobias Ragg, and Daniel Sumegi as Judge Turpin. The cast consisted of Lajos Miller as Sweeney Todd, Zsuzsa Lehoczky as Mrs. Lovett, Sndor Sasvri as Anthony, Mnika Vsri as Johanna, Rbert Rtonyi as Judge Turpin, Tibor Olh as Tobias, Pter Kocsmros as Pirelli, Ildik Kishonti as Lucy/Beggar woman, and Istvn Rozsos as Beadle Bamford. Todd drives Anthony out in a fit of fury and, reminded of the evil he sees in London, resolves to depopulate the city by murdering his future customers since all people deserve to die: the rich to be punished for their corruption, and the poor to be relieved of their misery ("Epiphany"). But other than that, it's all phenomenal-- Angela Lansbury *made* the role of Mrs. Lovette, and she just does it so well. The food is very popular ("God, That's Good!"). The British native did expect tea (preferred type: Yorkshire Gold) and never coffee during set breaks, Cariou recalled. Barber Sweeney Todd returns to London to uncover the past, along the way meeting pie shop owner Mrs. Nellie Lovett, and begins to start his life of crime. The production closed on November 14, 1980. There are opera audiences, and there is an opera sensibility. In spring 2006, the production toured the UK with Jason Donovan as Todd and Harriet Thorpe as Mrs. Lovett. Todd has acquired a special mechanical barber's chair that allows him to kill clients and then send their bodies directly through a chute into the pie shop's basement bakehouse. It is based on the 1970 play Sweeny Todd by Christopher Bond. [48], The Lyric Stage Company of Boston produced a run in September and October 2014 with the company's Artistic Director Spiro Veloudos staging and directing the show. PBS - Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street For almost two centuries, the enduring legend of maniacal barber Sweeney Todd and his savory human pies has inspired terror in the. Nellie Lovett: [singing] Sir, it's too good, at least. The first Broadway revival opened on September 14, 1989, at the Circle in the Square Theatre, and closed on February 25, 1990, after 189 performances and 46 previews. [78], A performance of the 1980 touring company was taped before an audience in 1981 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles during the first national tour, with additional taping done in an empty theatre for a television special. An expanded edition appeared in 1850, an American version in 1852, a new play in 1865. In April 2017, five of the cast members left the show, replaced by Norm Lewis as Sweeney Todd, Carolee Carmello as Mrs. Lovett, John-Michael Lyles as Tobias, Stacie Bono as The Beggar Woman and Pirelli, and Jamie Jackson as Judge Turpin. The production opened originally at the Cottesloe Theatre on June 2, 1993, and later transferred to the Lyttleton Theatre on December 16, 1993, playing in repertory and closing on June 1, 1994. Despite being cut in previews for reasons of length, these numbers were included on the Original Cast Recording. In 1993, the show received its first London revival at the Royal National Theatre. That's what the play's about to him; Sweeney Todd is a product of that age. The cast included David Arnsperger as Sweeney Todd and Janis Kelly as Mrs. Lovett. [84] The producers originally planned only a single-disk "highlights" version; however, they soon realized that they had recorded more music than could fit on one disk and it was not financially feasible to bring the performers back in to re-record. In 2009, Sweeney Todd embarked upon an equity tour of the U.K. and Ireland. . [44], The 2008 Gothenburg production premiered on May 15, 2008, at The Gteborg Opera. There are opera houses. This production closed February 5, 2005. It was essentially charming over there because they don't take Sweeney Todd seriously. It was based on Brining's previous smaller productions from Dundee Rep in 2010, West Yorkshire Playhouse and Royal Exchange Manchester in 2013. In the interview with The Associated Press, he recalled the concerns they shared about taking on Sweeney Todd, which he described as a pretty bizarre piece., We were both a little trepidatious about it. Anthony leaves to seek a coach after he and Johanna reaffirm their love ("Ah Miss" reprise). There is an operatic kind of music, of singing, of staging. Music Direction by Charles W. Johnson. The production received 5 Ovation Awards including the Franklin Levy Award for Best Musical (Smaller Theatre) and Best Director (Musical) for Dang. 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[64] McDonald was not announced as the Beggar Woman: she was a surprise, her name only being revealed at the time of the first performance. With Tenor, maker of GIF Keyboard, add popular Sweeney Todd animated GIFs to your conversations. Other changes included Michael James Leslie as Judge Turpin and Zachary Noah Piser as Tobias. Cariou played the title character in the macabre "Sweeney Todd," a London barber who dispatches customers with a razor and turns their bodies over to Lansbury's Mrs. Lovett, a baker who. Sweeney Todd: [singing] Haven't you got poet, or something like that? When Anthony tells Todd of his plan to ask Johanna to elope with him, Todd, eager to reunite with his daughter, agrees to let them use his barbershop as a safehouse. Cariou played the title character in the macabre Sweeney Todd, a London barber who dispatches customers with a razor and turns their bodies over to Lansbury's Mrs. Lovett, a baker who repurposes them for meat pies. The Tale of Sweeney Todd is a 1997 American crime-drama/horror television film directed by John Schlesinger and starring Ben Kingsley and Joanna Lumley. In 1846,[9] young sailor Anthony Hope and the mysterious Sweeney Todd, whom Anthony has recently rescued at sea and befriended, dock in London. Sweeney Todd: [singing] Awful lot of fat. Worst Pies In London. Directed by Steven Stead and designed by Greg King, the production starred Jonathan Roxmouth (Sweeney Todd), Charon Williams-Ros (Mrs Lovett), Michael Richard (Judge Turpin), Jaco van Rensburg (Tobias), Anne Marie Clulow (Beggar Woman), Adam Pelkowitz (Beadle Bamford), Cameron Botha (Anthony), Sanli Jooste (Johanna), Germandt Geldenhuys (Adolfo Pirelli) and Weslee Swain Lauder (Jonas Fogg). The Sunday Times wrote that "The black backdrop of David Farley's rough hewn set and the stark minimalism of Rick Fisher's lighting suggest a self-conscious edginess, with Shannon's stylised make-up, long leather coat and brooding countenance only adding to the feeling. For other uses, see, "Pretty Women" redirects here. Downstairs, Mrs. Lovett is struggling with the dying Judge, who claws at her. He knows Todd's true identity (having recognized Barker's illustrious shaving tools during their earlier competition) and demands half his income for life. Original orchestrator Jonathan Tunick revised his large orchestration for the 1993 London revival, adding a dirtier, grittier texture to the score's arrangements. [77] It was selected by the National Recording Registry for preservation in 2013. Look at you! Hearing the Judge outside, a frantic Todd kills the beggar woman, sending her body down the chute barely a moment before the Judge bursts in. The 1982 taped stage version of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, starring Angela Lansbury and George Hearn, will air on Turner Classic Movies March 21 at 1 PM ET; check local . A modern American opera."[3]. They have been restored in subsequent productions. There would have been screams and yells but I wouldn't have given a damn. Have a little priest. They made a point of speaking on their birthdays Oct. 16 for Lansbury, Sept. 30 for Cariou and on each anniversary of the play's opening night, Cariou said Wednesday, a day after Lansbury, 96, died in her Los Angeles home. In 1995, the Barcelona cast recorded a cast album sung in Catalan. The other voices in the cast also were known quantities. NYMT took the show, directed by Martin Constantine, out of a conventional theatre space and staged it within a converted Victorian warehouse in the city's East End. In his proper place. On September 12, 2015, Sweeney Todd opened at the San Francisco Opera with Brian Mulligan as Todd, Stephanie Blythe as Mrs. Lovett, Matthew Grills as Tobias, Heidi Stober as Johanna, Elliot Madore as Anthony and Elizabeth Futral as the Beggar Woman/Lucy. The cast features metal band front singers Nina Osegueda (A Sound of Thunder) as Mrs. Lovett, Andrew Lloyd Baughman (Diamond Dead) as Sweeney Todd, Rob Bradley (Aries and Thrillkiller) as Pirelli, and Irene Jericho (Cassandra Syndrome) as Beggar Woman. Sweeney Todd rises forth ("The Ballad of Sweeney Todd"), and introduces the drama. Todd sneers at the audience for a moment and vanishes. 2015 London and 2017 Off-Broadway revival, 2010 National Youth Music Theatre, London. The production was eager to disassociate itself with recent West End backlash regarding Stunt Casting and so the tour was cast through an open call audition process. A story called The String of Pearls was published in a weekly magazine during the winter of 184647. 2014 prog metal version, Landless Theatre Company, Washington, D.C. Knapp, Raymond. "[4], When it came to casting, Sondheim thought stage veteran Angela Lansbury would add some needed comedy to the grim tale as the lunatic Cockney shopkeeper, but Lansbury needed to be convinced. Directed by James Brining and designed by Colin Richmond, the production was set in the 1970/80s, and was performed in Cardiff before touring to Southampton, Bristol, Llandudno, Oxford, Liverpool, Birmingham before returning to Cardiff. She makes meat pies from Todd's victims. The 24-hour marathon will include some of her most memorable films including Gaslight and The Manchurian Candidate, as well as an airing of the 1982 filmed production of Sweeney Todd. CAPTION. [67], A feature film adaptation of Sweeney Todd, directed by Tim Burton with a screenplay by John Logan, was released on December 21, 2007. Sweeney Todd: [singing] Is it really good? [66] This production transferred to London Coliseum Theatre for 13 performances from March 30 through April 12, 2015. The Judge recognizes him as "Benjamin Barker!" The teleplay by Peter Buckman was adapted from a story by Peter Shaw.It was broadcast in the United States by Showtime on April 19, 1998, and released on videotape in France the following month. On the other hand, it can be seen as a precursor to the later trend of musicals based on horror themes, such as Little Shop of Horrors (1982), The Phantom of the Opera (1986), Jekyll & Hyde (1997) and Dance of the Vampires (1997), which used the description of the trend, "grusical", as its commercial label. Sweeney Todd is a man bent on personal revenge, the way we all are in one way or another, and it has nothing whatsoever to do with the time he lived in, as far as I'm concerned.[4] However, Sondheim accepted Prince's vision as a different way to do the show, and as an opportunity to do the show on a large scale, knowing that small-scale productions could be done at any time. A version of the John Doyle West End production transferred to Broadway, opening on November 3, 2005, at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre with a new cast, all of whom played their own instruments, as had been done in London. ANN MARIE BALDONADO, BYLINE: Josh Groban first auditioned for the role of Sweeney Todd back in high school for a summer camp production of the musical. [71] He also relies heavily on leitmotif at least twenty distinct ones can be identified throughout the score. Said Sondheim, "Hal's metaphor is that the factory turns out Sweeney Todds. After 15 years in exile, Sweeney Todd, an unsettling man with a mysterious past, arrives in a dark and gritty London, hungry for vengeance against the judge who destroyed his life. Hutchins, Michael H. (February 18, 2006). Pieter Toerien and KickstArt produced a production at the Pieter Toerien Monte Casino Theatre in Johannesburg, which ran from October 10 December 13, 2015, before transferring to the Theatre on the Bay in Cape Town from February 19 April 9, 2016. The play was translated into Hungarian by Tibor Mikls and Gyrgy Dnes. The cast included Christopher Chew as Sweeney Todd and Amelia Broome as Mrs. The ensemble cast, soon joined by the risen Todd and Mrs. Lovett, sing a final reprise of "The Ballad of Sweeney Todd" warning against revenge (though admitting that "everyone does it"). The character Sweeney Todd originated in serialized Victorian popular fiction, known as penny dreadfuls. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. He returned to the role . He picks up Todd's fallen razor and slits Todd's throat. She recalled, "I just ran with it. [51], In 2015, Victorian Opera's production was performed at the Melbourne Arts Centre. Times Is Hard. In 2004, John Doyle directed a revival of the musical at the Watermill Theatre in Newbury, England, running from July 27, 2004, until October 9, 2004. The centerpiece of Mimi Lien's shapeshifting scenic design is an . Sweeney Todd has its occasional operatic moments, but its music overall has the chest notes, the harmonic language, the muscularity, and the edge of Broadway theater. Sondheim's score is one of his most complex, with orchestrations by his long-time collaborator Jonathan Tunick. Upstairs, she encounters the Beadle at her harmonium; he has been asked by Lovett's neighbors to investigate the strange smoke and stench from the pie shop's chimney. Directed by Melissa Baughman. Stephen Sondheim & Hugh Wheeler's masterpiece, 1979 at the Uris theater on Broadway The production began a workshop three days after Sondheim's death who had been planning to attend the workshop's final day. A corrupt judge who became obsessed with Lucy Barker, and later with her daughter Johanna. It was well received and most performances sold out. >>LABEL: RCACATALOG #: CBL2-3379COMPOSER: STEPHEN SONDHEIM / Harold PrinceWORKS: SWEENEY TODD - Original Cast Recording.PERFORMERS: Angela Lansbury, Len Cariou, etc . Never before or later in his work did Sondheim utilize music in such an exhaustive capacity to further the purposes of the drama. As Anthony leaves, Pirelli and Tobias enter, and Mrs. Lovett takes Toby downstairs for a pie. The production was nominated for three Primetime Emmy Awards, winning one for Outstanding Special Class Program. Todd joins forces with Mrs. Lovett, the unhinged proprietress of a failing pie shop, and together they develop a spinetingling plot to exact revenge. [61] The same production played at the Ravinia Festival in Chicago on August 24, 2001, with most of the cast from the preceding concerts, except for Plishka and Clark, who were replaced by Sherrill Milnes and Hollis Resnik. The State Opera of South Australia presented Australia's first professional production in Adelaide in September 1987. Share to Twitter. Rather, it seemed to me that the attempt to actually sing the Sondheim score, which relies heavily on a dramatic parlando or speaking style, mainly showed how far from the operatic vocal tradition the work lies. Like the 1979 Broadway original, which starred Angela Lansbury and Len Cariou, Kail's production is jaw-dropping in its scale. On the Saturday performances, Bryonha Marie Parham played the role of the Beggar Woman, while McDonald played it at the other performances. As Todd falls dead and Toby drops the razor, Anthony, Johanna and some others break into the bakehouse. See production, box office & company info, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street in Concert, Sweeney Todd: El barbero diablico de Fleet Street, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles County Music Center - 135 N. Grand Avenue, Downtown, Los Angeles, California, USA. [19] It was later released on both VHS and DVD.[79]. Remembering Toby, Todd starts to leave, but, realizing he has left his razor behind, returns just as the disguised Johanna rises, horrified, from the trunk. Share to Pinterest. [56], Produced by Atlantis Theatrical Entertainment Group and directed by Bobby Garcia with musical direction by Gerard Salonga, it starred Jett Pangan as Sweeney Todd, Lea Salonga as Mrs. Lovett, Gerald Santos as Anthony Hope, Nyoy Volante as Adolfo Pirelli, Mikkie Bradshaw-Volante as Johanna, Ima Castro as the Beggar Woman, Andrew Fernando as Judge Turpin, Luigi Quesada as Tobias, Arman Ferrer as Beadle, and Dean Rosen as Jonas Fogg. However, once Anthony has departed, Todd sends a letter informing the Judge that Anthony will bring Johanna to his shop just after dark, and that he will hand her over ("The Letter") in order to lure him back to the shop. "[75], Donal Henahan wrote an essay in The New York Times concerning the 1984 New York City Opera production: "The difficulty with Sweeney was not that the opera singers were weaklings incapable of filling the State Theater with sound Miss Elias, who was making her City Opera debut, has sung for many years at the Metropolitan, a far larger house. Tickets are $152 to $458 . The score is just amazing-- by far Sondheim's best, and probably one of the best scores written for a musical ever. With Ben Kingsley, Campbell Scott, Joanna Lumley, Selina Boyack. Nellie Lovett: [singing] No, you see the trouble with poet is how do you know it's deceased try the priest! The cast featured Michael McCarthy as Sweeney Todd and Rosemary Ashe as Mrs Lovett and David Shannon this time as Anthony. Mrs. Lovett then tells Todd she loves him and would be a better wife than Lucy ever could have been. The cast included Jeremy Secomb as Sweeney Todd, Siobhn McCarthy as Mrs. Lovett, Nadim Naaman as Anthony, Ian Mowat as the Beadle, Duncan Smith as the Judge, Kiara Jay as Pirelli and the Beggar Woman, Joseph Taylor as Tobias and Zoe Doano as Johanna. Notably the 2004 production starred Mark Delavan and Elaine Paige. "Not just music hall but dotty music hall", as she put it. Based off of a play of the same name by Christopher Bond (which, in turn, had been based off of an old London legend), Sondheim did a wonderful job bringing it to the musical theatre stage. I know she's with Peter (Shaw) now, her husband, who I think she missed terribly. (In the film, the name is not Daniel O'Higgins but "Davy Collins".) The look of the production was quite abstract. [4], Music proved to be a key element behind the impact of Sweeney Todd on audiences. London's Royal Festival Hall hosted two performances on February 13, 2000, starring Len Cariou as Todd, Judy Kaye as Mrs. Lovett, and Davis Gaines as Anthony. The angry judge storms out, vowing never to return and to send Johanna away. Conducted by John DeMain, the production used scenic designs by Eugene Lee, costume designs by Franne Lee, and lighting designs by Ken Billington. [30], Cameron Mackintosh produced the West End transfer of the Tooting Arts Club production of the show which ran at Harrington's Pie Shop in Tooting, London in October and November 2014. The production ran for 349 performances and 35 previews, and was nominated for six Tony Awards, winning two: Best Direction of a Musical for Doyle and Best Orchestrations for Sarah Travis who had reconstructed Jonathan Tunick's original arrangements to suit the ten-person cast and orchestra. We found out pretty early on that we had to be very careful or it could go over the top pretty easily and become farcical, Cariou said. George Hearn was a good replacement for Len Cariou in the title role, and Ken Jennings gives a great performance as Tobias. Anthony and Johanna (now disguised as a sailor) arrive at Todd's empty shop. The stage and screen star may have been known around the world as Murder, She Wrote 's. The character of Sweeney Todd first appeared in a Victorian penny dreadful titled The String of Pearls. [57][58], The first opera company to mount Sweeney Todd was the Houston Grand Opera in a production directed by Hal Prince, which ran from June 14, 1984, through June 24, 1984, for a total of 10 performances. [17], The first national U.S. tour started on October 24, 1980, in Washington, D.C. and ended in August 1981 in Los Angeles, California. A mad crone whose interjections go unheeded, eventually identified as Benjamin Barker's wife, Lucy, who was raped by Judge Turpin. WBAL NewsRadio 1090/FM 101.5 - Angela Lansbury and Len Cariou were partners-in-crime on stage in "Sweeney Todd" and crime busters in episodes of TV's "Murder, She Wrote." (Reprise 1)" Company, Judge, Beadle, "Ah, Miss" Anthony, Johanna, Beggar Woman, "Pirelli's Miracle Elixir" Tobias, Todd, Mrs. Lovett, Crowd, "The Contest (Part 1): Shaving Scene" Pirelli, "The Contest (Part 2): Tooth-Pulling Scene", "The Ballad Of Sweeney Todd: 'Sweeney Pondered and Sweeney Planned' (Reprise 2)" Company, Beggar Woman, "The Ballad Of Sweeney Todd: 'His Hands Were Quick, His Fingers Strong' (Reprise 3)" Tenor Trio, "Ladies In Their Sensitivities"/"Kiss Me (Quartet)" Beadle, Johanna, Anthony, Judge Turpin, "God, That's Good!" Anthony arrives at the asylum to rescue Johanna, but is exposed when Johanna recognizes him. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Sweeney Todd - Rare Vintage VHS - Broadway Musical - Angela Lansbury - 1982 at the best online prices at eBay! Prog Metal Orchestration by The Fleet Street Collective (Andrew Lloyd Baughman, Spencer Blevins, Charles Johnson, Lance LaRue, Ray Shaw, Alex Vallejo, Andrew Siddle). Report. Four roles (Todd, Lovett, Johanna, and Turpin) were double-cast or triple-cast in the NYCO production, with the two/three actors in each role singing alternate performances. The citizens of London, who act as a Greek chorus throughout the play, drop a body bag and pour ashes into a shallow grave. And the one with his foot. It was revealed that the production has a budget of $14 million with a cast of 26 and an orchestra of 27. With critical acclaim and audience applause (Sondheim traveled to Barcelona after hearing the success it was having and was delighted with the production), it later moved to Madrid. The score is one vast structure, each individual part meshing with others for the good of the entire musical machine. In the crowded London marketplace, flamboyant Italian barber Adolfo Pirelli and his simple-minded young assistant Tobias Ragg pitch a dramatic cure-all for hair loss ("Pirelli's Miracle Elixir"). Copy embed to clipboard. Sondheim felt that the addition of music would greatly increase the size of the drama, transforming it into a different theatrical experience, saying later: What I did to Chris' play is more than enhance it. Original Language: English. Lansbury was joined by Hearn[18] and this version was taped during the Los Angeles engagement and broadcast on The Entertainment Channel (one of the predecessors of today's A&E) on September 12, 1982. Prince's scenic metaphor for Sweeney Todd was a 19th-century iron foundry moved from Rhode Island and reassembled on the stage, which critic Jack Kroll aptly described as "part cathedral, part factory, part prison, that dwarfed and degraded the swarming denizens of the lower orders. Valtru produced the first Mexican production of Sweeney Todd. Angela. Todd's beautiful young daughter, raised by Judge Turpin as his ward. (The number of percussionists may vary for different shows, though the percussion book is written for two players). "[5], It is said that on opening night Harold Clurman, the doyen of American theatre critics, rushed up to Schuyler Chapin, former general manager of the Metropolitan Opera, demanding to know why he had not put it on at the Met. "[23] This production received Olivier Awards for Best Musical Revival, Best Actor in a Musical (Armstrong) and Best Actress in a Musical (McKenzie), and Best Director Of A Musical for Donnellan. It won the Tony Award for Best Musical and Olivier Award for Best New Musical. It consists of the characters Sweeney Todd and. Lansbury died Oct. 11. Instead, the characters emotional and psychological depths are examined, so that Sweeney Todd is understood as a victim as well as a perpetrator in the "great black pit" of humanity.[70]. It was also the first time the show had been presented in an intimate house (Equity 99-seat). Sweeney. The Icelandic Opera performed Sweeney Todd in the fall of 2004, the first time in Iceland. Toby, heedless of them, begins turning the meat grinder, crooning Mrs. Lovett's previous instructions to him ("Final Scene"). It's the story of your [own] life."[3]. The show did a four-week run and ended on June 8, 2008.[45]. When the lights go down and the curtain goes . When the show transferred to the Lyttleton, Quilley replaced Armstrong in the title role. The fictional tale of the murderous nineteenth century barber (Sir Ben Kinglsey) who sold his kills to a neighboring butcher (Joanna Lumley) for her renowned meat pies. Nellie Lovett: [singing] It's priest. Translated by Juice Leskinen[40], As part of the Kennedy Center Sondheim Celebration, Sweeney Todd ran from May 10, 2002, through June 30, 2002, at the Eisenhower Theatre, starring Brian Stokes Mitchell as Sweeney Todd, Christine Baranski as Mrs. Lovett, Hugh Panaro as Anthony, Walter Charles (a member of the original cast), as Judge Turpin, Celia Keenan-Bolger as Johanna, Mary Beth Peil as The Beggar Woman, Mark Price as Tobias Ragg, Ray Friedeck as Beadle Bamford and Kevin Ligon as Pirelli. By what name was Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1982) officially released in Canada in English? This production was taped for PBS and broadcast in 2001, and won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Classical Music-Dance Program. George Hearn and Angela Lansbury star as Sweeney Todd and Mrs. Lovett in the musical, which features music and lyrics by Sondheim and book by Hugh Wheeler.Filmed at the conclusion of a ten-month . 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