Why is locksmith so funny with Mrs. Lovett suggests it?



Amanda S asked:

Sweeney Todd is a Sondheim musical about murdering people and putting them in meat pies. In A Little Priest Mrs. Lovett is suggesting various professions and ends with locksmith in one bridge and either she laughs, Sweeney laughs or the audience does in various versions. I never got it.

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stevensontj @ 12:10 am

Chastity belts. Locksmith was a good profession if you wanted to have sex.

Rob Hargreaves @ 7:56 pm

Stevenson got it right – it’s all about chastity belts. Back in the days when the crusades were ever so trendy (poor souls – what were they thinking?) – the knights and other men of certain wealth, left their poor wives with these heavy annoying chastity belts. These horrible belts is a satanic invention. Just to show that there’s absolutely no line between being good and evil…

Adi @ 10:58 pm

lol… either that or being some kind of Hudini…

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