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List Price: $15.93 | | Label: RCA
Salesrank: 3831
Released: March 20, 2007 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Editorial Review:
A Classic Stephen Sondheim Musical Available Now at a New Low Price!
Features bonus tracks, digitally remastered and new liner notes.
Description of Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1979 Original Broadway Cast):
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
Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1979 Original Broadway Cast) Reviews:
Wierd but good 
2009-06-24 - Sweeney Todd, if you haven't seen it, is a bit odd but we like it. The music is awesome. Highly recommend, but be careful; it may not be your style of music.
Sweeney Todd
2009-06-01 - WOW! thats all I can say for this CD masterpiece! It has the missing songs that were left off the Soundtrack Movie CD. The acoustics are out of this world, even on a cheap old CD player, great sound! Enjoyable and a forever favorite.
Bloody, marvelous fun!
2009-04-29 - If you like musicals and have a fondness for the macabre, this is for you-- the songs are delivered with a slosh of wry and a slice of hate. Bwahahahahaaa...
A Cut Above
2008-11-25 - sondheim at his best. seering score, soaring and haunting sound. add this to your sondheim collection and weep!
Probably the best Sondheim 
2008-05-04 - Having seen the original Broadway and subsequent revivals in NYC and LA, I must say that "Sweeney" never ceases to thrill - scored and written brilliantly. My only complaint with this particular 2-disc set (this was a replacement to an earlier 2-disc set) is that the libretto is not included.
