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Sweeney Todd
by: Original Broadway Cast Recording

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0828766863925
Format: Soundtrack
Label: RCA
Manufacturer: RCA
Number Of Discs: 2
Publisher: RCA
Release Date: May 28, 2007
Running Time: 117 minutes
Studio: RCA
Sales Rank: 1952
MPN: 68639

Disc 1:
  1. Attend The Tale Of Sweeney Todd
  2. Tale Of Sweeney Todd
  3. No Place Like London
  4. Barber And His Wife
  5. Worst Pies In London
  6. Poor Thing
  7. My Friends
  8. Lift Your Razor High Sweeney
  9. Green Finch And Linnet Bird
  10. Ah Miss Johanna
  11. Pirelli's Miracle Elixir
  12. Contest
  13. Sweeney Pondered And Sweeney Planned
  14. Wait
  15. His Hands Were Quick His Fingers Strong
  16. Johanna
  17. Kiss Me
  18. Ladies In Their Sensitivities
  19. Quartet
  20. Pretty Women
  21. Epiphany
  22. Little Priest
Disc 2:
  1. God That's Good
  2. Johanna
  3. By The Sea
  4. Wigmaker Sequence
  5. Sweeney's Waited Too Long Before
  6. Letter
  7. Not While I'm Around
  8. Parlour Songs/City On Fire
  9. Attend The Tale Of Sweeney Todd (1)
  10. Johanna
  11. Little Priest
  12. Not While I'm Around
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Editorial Review:

From Amazon.com:
Despite being known for her televised sleuthing these days, Angela Lansbury once managed to both spook and delight Broadway audiences as the maker of very particular delicacies in Victorian London. In this macabre extravaganza, Lansbury's Nellie Lovett is the accomplice of Len Cariou's Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. After he slashes his victims, she turns them into her meat pies' main ingredient. For this most ghoulish of shows, Sondheim looked for inspiration in the way the music is used in horror and suspense movies, particularly in the soundtracks of Bernard Herrmann. The winner of nine Tony Awards in 1979, Sweeney Todd may not be Sondheim's most accessible score, but its operatic complexity (it is almost entirely sung-through) makes it darkly spellbinding. --Elisabeth Vincentelli
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - The original...
Although the amazon site includes the wrong sound samples above (they are from the LaPone revival), this item is indeed the original cast recording with Lansbury and Cariou. Even better, it's been remastered and includeds 2 bonus track not featured on the original (and much more expensive) RCA double disc. What a find!


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - GREAT RECORD OF A GREAT SHOW
I have seen many Sweeneys over the years from Alun Armstrong (wonderful actor, perhaps not the greatest singer) to Sir Tom Allen (excellent on both fronts but in an overblown production), from George Hearn and Dennis Quilley (both a bit too musical-comedy) to Paul Hegarty in the slimmed down Watermill production - and not forgetting Leon Greene in a memorable production at the theatre where Sondheim first saw the play that sparked off his interest in the story. But the most complete Sweeney of all is still the creator of the role, Len Cariou. His Epiphany remains one of the scariest things I have ever seen in a theatre, with a wonderfully in-tune out-of-tune climax. No-one made the humour of A Little Priest blacker, the dreamy amorality of ... Read More:


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - The Operatic Masterpiece of the American Musical Theater
"Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" is closer to the operatic world of Verdi and Donezetti than it is to Rogers & Hammerstein or Lerner & Lowe, and there have been times when it has been performed in opera houses as well it should. This show is replete with arias and quintets, duets and chorus numbers. More than any other American "musical" I can think of, there are different characters singing different things at the same time, just what you would expect to find in an opera. Besides, like an opera, most of the main characters are dead by the time the curtain rings down.

This is Sondheim at his best, coming up with some of his most beautiful melodies in a show where the "hero" and "heroine" cut people's throats ... Read More:


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Antidote to 'Oliver!'
With this show, Sondheim nails the myth of a cosy Dickensian London flocking with endearing cockneys and benevolent toffs. In a grim and grimly funny comment on 19th century society he shows us a corrupt and poisonous judiciary at the top and a naive or downright stupid working-class at the bottom, separated by the rapacious, sentimental bourgeoisie - Mr Todd and Mrs Lovett - happily selling everyone to everybody, literally. Exquisite production values further point up the ironic beauty of these superb tunes and lyrics - but it's a lot to pay for 2 CDs; and the highlights have all the fun without the plot points that give the game away if you haven't seen the show - so spend the extra money to go and see it somewhere!


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Sondheim... A genius.
Sweeny Todd. The most famous barber of Fleet Street. Stephen Sondheim's work is always fantastic, and this is no exception. This two disc set has ALL the music from the stage show (none of this 'highlight' nonsense). If you've seen the stage show, you'll love this. If you haven't seen the stage show, don't worry. Get this and hear the way Sondheim harmonises the lyrics and music into a pure symphony of sound. Wonderful!
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