Sweeney Todd (2005 Broadway Revival Cast)
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Edition: Music CDCD Release Date: 2006-01-31
Music Label: Nonesuch
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- The Ballad of Sweeney Todd
- No Place Like London
- The Worst Pies in London
- Poor Thing
- My Friends
- The Ballad of Sweeney Todd
- Green Finch and Linnet Bird
- Ah, Miss
- Johanna
- Pirelli's Miracle Elixir
- The Contest
- The Ballad of Sweeney Todd
- Johanna
- Wait
- Kiss Me
- Ladies in Their Sensitivities
- Kiss Me
- Pretty Women
- Epiphany
- A Little Priest
- God, That's Good!
- Johanna
- By the Sea
- Not While I'm Around
- The Judge's Return
- The Ballad of Sweeney Todd
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Free Music Review: In this case, less is NOT more!
Hit: 1 Stars
To anyone looking to buy the best recorded version of the Sweeny saga, stick with the original cast version with Len Cariou and Angela Lansbury. It cannot be beat! The soundtrack to the Burton film falls flat because the singers on it cannot sing and arguably the best piece of music in the score - the Ballad - is excised for some bizarre reason. Now - as to this version - I heard snippets in the store on the tease-machine. If I had heard more, I would not have wasted my money on it. I did not realize it was a stripped down orchestra - and nowhere on the back of the CD does it inform the unwary of this essential fact. And - believe me - the full orchestration (as on the original Broadway cast) is absolutely vital. One example should suffice: On this recording "Epiphany" loses all of its impact without the crashing drums echoing Sweeny's complete breakdown. Listen to this version and then the original version and you'll be amazed at the dramatic difference in the two. Also, in this lame version all of the songs are sung much too slow. There is no frenzied verve, no insane intensity. Sure, you can hear every single word sung - but there is NO passion in the vocals to match the driving power of Cariou and Lansbury, etc. So - if you want to hear this masterpiece of a musical in its richest incarnation - stick with the original Broadway recording. And if you want to see the best filmed version, watch the DVD of the Broadway show and you will see how the Burton film pales in comparison.
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The 2005 revival of Stephen Sondheim's 1979 Grand Guignol masterpiece Sweeney Todd illustrates what happens when you have a director with genuine vision. The show has been completely reivented, yet at the same time its dark core has been masterfully unveiled, not betrayed. In John Doyle's radically pared-down version (which originated in England), there's no orchestra in the pit: Each member of the small cast is on stage the entire time and plays one or more instrument in addition to singing. Thus Michael Cerveris (Sweeney) also plays guitar, Patti LuPone (Mrs. Lovett) plays percussion and tuba, Donna Lynne Champlin (Pirelli) plays accordion, piano, and flute, etc. Of course this means that those used to hearing Sondheim's operatic score delivered by a full orchestra (LuPone herself starred in a 2000 version recorded with the New York Philharmonic) will have to get used to Sarah Travis's minimalist arrangements. But the setting works wonders and the cast rises to the challenge. Cerveris is intensely charismatic as the murderous barber and LuPone finds great dark humor in Mrs. Lovett, while the younger Lauren Molina (Johanna) and Manoel Felciano (Tobias) aptly go from innocence to despair. While completely different in style, this recording stands proudly next to the original one. No small feat, that. --Elisabeth VincentelliTony Award winners Michael Ceveris (Assassins) and Patti Lupone (Evita) lead a ten-person ensemble as Sweeney Todd and Mrs. Lovett in the cast album from the celebrated new Broadway production of Sweeney Todd: the Demon Barber of Fleet Street, with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Originally produced in 1979, and considered a core work of Sondheim canon, Sweeney Todd has not been seen on Broadway in more than sixteen years. The revival opened to unanimous raves at the Eugene O'Neill Theater.
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