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| - Poor Thing is the third song in the movie. It is sung by Mrs. Lovett. During this song, we learn the name that Sweeney Todd used to go by, Benjamin Barker, and we're treated to a flashback which has Lucy Barker, Benjamin's wife, being brought to the house of Judge Turpin by Beadle Bamford, who tells her that the Judge is remorseful for what he has done to her husband. Unfortunately for Lucy, there's a wild masked ball well underway when she enters the Judge's mansion. Confused and disoriented from the sights and sounds of the party and from the drinks that she has, Lucy winds up in the hands of Judge Turpin himself, who is anything but remorseful, and who has used this ball as a means to get her alone and defenseless. The Judge rapes Lucy amid the cruel laughter of the gathered crowd, none
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| - Poor Thing is the third song in the movie. It is sung by Mrs. Lovett. During this song, we learn the name that Sweeney Todd used to go by, Benjamin Barker, and we're treated to a flashback which has Lucy Barker, Benjamin's wife, being brought to the house of Judge Turpin by Beadle Bamford, who tells her that the Judge is remorseful for what he has done to her husband. Unfortunately for Lucy, there's a wild masked ball well underway when she enters the Judge's mansion. Confused and disoriented from the sights and sounds of the party and from the drinks that she has, Lucy winds up in the hands of Judge Turpin himself, who is anything but remorseful, and who has used this ball as a means to get her alone and defenseless. The Judge rapes Lucy amid the cruel laughter of the gathered crowd, none of them having any mercy upon her. Sweeney, horrified at this despicable act, is further grieved to learn that Lucy poisoned herself soon after the rape, and that Judge Turpin kidnapped and adopted his daughter Johanna as his own. His family and former life all but destroyed, Sweeney vows vengeance against Judge Turpin and the Beadle. In the stage musical, the song is a little different. It's mentioned that both the Judge and the Beadle wanted Lucy, and there's a verse just before the main action of the Beadle inviting Lucy to the Judge's house which mentions the transportation of Benjamin Barker in Mrs. Lovett's own words and is a little more indicative of how little Mrs. Lovett thinks of Lucy.
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