I watched this interview with Tim Burton and Johnny Depp. Burton says when he watched the muical "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" he was facinated by the hybrid genre: the mixture of nice melodic songs, contrasting with the dramatic graphic visuals and the melodrama. This made him want to make the film reflect the muscial as best as possible, having those same elements.
It also seems that having Depp as the main character was more important than wheather he could sing as he was casted without a singing audition. Could this suggest the institutions main aim is to have a hollywood actor to appeal to larger audiences!
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