Annaleigh was playing Miss Hannigan, not Mrs. Lovett. The mugging and scenery chewing and playing everything for laughs
That's not Miss Hannigan to me, either. One can play a comic role like Hannigan creditably without the mugging and scenery chewing and playing everything for laughs. It does sound like Jackie Hoffman's take on Madame Dilly in the last On The Town revival, though.
