Lovett, who uses the bodies as meat-pie ingredients. Todd, as you may recall, is the vengeful Demon Barber of Fleet Street who slices his customers' throats for his landlady, Mrs.
Sondheim's music is mostly declaimed or half-spoken and probably was meant to be sung by actors trained to ignore pitch and quality in favor of word clarity. Moreover, the voices had to battle to make themselves heard, let alone understood, because of the antivocal, unsympathetic orchestration and an eccentric amplification system.īy the end of the evening, the sound was improved, but its very presence forced the listener to question the score's presumptions. Sondheim's sing-song score than was good for it. The operatic setting served chiefly to focus more attention on Mr. That hope would seem difficult to justify based on the new production of ''Sweeney'' unveiled last night by the New York City Opera. "City on Fire" / "Searching" - Johanna, and Beggar Woman / Mrs.THE decision to transfer ''Sweeney Todd,'' the Broadway success of 1979 to the opera house must have been based on the hope that with trained voices in the leading roles Stephen Sondheim's gory argument in favor of vegetarianism would reveal itself as a work of real musical substance. The Ballad of Sweeney Todd (Reprise 5)" - Chorus, Lunatics
"Johanna (Quartet)" - Anthony, Todd, Beggar Woman, Johanna "Kiss Me (Quartet)" - Johanna, Anthony, Beadle, Judge Turpin "Ladies in their Sensitivities" - Beadle, Judge Turpin "The Ballad of Sweeney Todd (Reprise 3)" - Tenor Trio "The Ballad of Sweeney Todd (Reprise 2)" - Chorus "Pirelli's Miracle Elixir" - Tobias, Todd, Mrs. "Ah, Miss/Green Finch and Linnet Bird (Reprise)" - Anthony, Johanna, Beggar Woman
"The Ballad of Sweeney Todd (Reprise 1)" - Chorus "The Barber and His Wife (Reprise)/Poor Thing" - Mrs. "No Place Like London" - Anthony, Todd, Beggar Woman "The Ballad of Sweeney Todd" - Chorus, Todd Robert Fryer, Mary Lea Johnson, Martin Richards Producers: Richard Barr, Charles Woodward, When he meets up with his now-widowed neighbour – the impoverished pie-maker Nellie Lovett – the pair embark on a murderous scheme to turn those looking for a shave into meat pies.ġ979 Broadway: Uris (now Gershwin) Theatre Premise: Benjamin Barker, a London barber banished to Botany Bay on a trumped-up charge, returns to the city 15 years later as Sweeney Todd to wreak his revenge on the Judge and Beadle who sent him down. Book: Book by Hugh Wheeler based on the 1973 play Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street by Christopher Bond
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