Tracks: 1. Prelude/The Ballad of Sweeney Todd: Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd...
2. No Place Like London/The Barber And His Wife
3. The Worst Pies In London
4. My Friends/The Ballad of Sweeney Todd: Lift Your Razor High, Sweeney!...
5. Johanna
6. The Ballad of Sweeney Todd: Sweeney pondered and Sweeney planned.../Wait
7. Kiss Me/Ladies in Their Sensitivities
8. Pretty Women/Epiphany
9. A Little Priest
10. God, That's Good!
11. Johanna
12. By The Sea
13. Not While I'm Around
14. Final Sequence (Excerpt)/The Ballad of Sweeney Todd: Attend The Tale of Sweeney Todd...
Posted 2008-08-10 15:18:35: 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 > 2 Comments
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