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 enlarge | Artists: Stephen Sondheim, Len Cariou, Angela Lansbury
Label: RCA
Category: Music
List Price: $24.98
Buy New: $10.38
You Save: $14.60 (58%)
New (31) Used (11) from $10.38
Avg. Customer Rating:  106 reviews
Sales Rank: 3504
Format: Cast Recording, Extra Tracks, Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 68639
UPC: 828766863925
EAN: 0828766863925
ASIN: B0009941IE
Release Date: March 20, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
Sweeny Todd: Demon Barber of Fleet Street February 15, 2008
I saw the movie with Johnny Depp. It was great and wanted to buy the sound track. Mentioned wanting to buy it to the theatre director where I go to see college plays. They do a great job there and the director told me that the Broadway version is better, so I took his word for it and bought this one and he was right! The musical score from the movie is good too. It's all a matter of personal taste. The music is very pretty and the singers are very good. If a person didn't know what this was about, and just heard the music and liked musicals or light opera, they would love the songs. Very lovely.
Angela or Helena ? February 11, 2008
2 out of 7 found this review helpful
In Acapulco in '79 I met by chance a vacationing couple who had invested in the Broadway Show and were enjoying the early, but modest fruits, of their risk investment.
Shortly after I went to see the show on Broadway - original cast.
I then bought the two music cassette show album - pictured here- big format and good text book. I still have it and get it out from time to time.
In the '90s I took an Oxford University Summer School for adults course - "Words and Music" - presented by Paul Newbury, who knew and studied with Sondheim. The geniality of "Sweeney Todd" was clearly brought home to me by Paul's enthusiasm, which also led me to exploring and getting to know well the rest of Sondheim.
In 2007 I bought from Amazon the DVD album of a Canadian production with Angela and George. Good, but not quite up to Angela and Len of a few years earlier.
Last night I went to a Cinemex in Mexico City to See Johnny Depp and Helena in the Tim Burton movie. The Saturday night show at 7.30 pm was less than 1/3rd full. The subtitles got some laughs from the audience and nobody left. I suppose we all enjoyed the blood and tension, and the story and the music and the actors. I had my money's worth any way.
So I am checking out what the movies earnings are to date - not too bad- and seeing what versions are available of Sweeney Todd. I'm probably going to order the original broadway cast version- in a re-mastered CD form- to substitute my ageing casettes ... and deck. I have enough visual impressions so my mind's eye and creativity can fill in the pictures and control the horror and let me again enjoy Sondheim's great musical'dramma giocosa'.
Ian Thomas. Mexico City. Feb. 2008
5 stars for the original cast, 2 stars for the Remastered 2007 cd February 2, 2008
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
For those of you who already have the original issue of this cd and are wondering if the remastered version is worth investing in, let me save you some trouble. There is almost no audible difference in the remastered version, unless you count the fact that they've added a ton of reverb - for those who don't know, it's the sound of singing in a cave. The cd here is otherwise still "trebly," and the discrepancies in volume level are still there. Don't get me wrong, this cast is amazing, but don't pay again for this "remastered" version, unless of course you're dying to hear Julie Andrews sing the second part of "Sweet Polly Plunkit" as a bonus track.
Edit: How could I forget my other big gripe? NO LYRICS! "MasterworksBroadway," who reissued this along with a bunch of other Sondheim, decided to axe lyrics that were previously available in favor of fat, uninspired essays. I've confirmed this with my Into the Woods "Remastered" edition (treble and reverb in full effect) which lacks the lyrics the original cd had.
The Best You'll Ever Hear February 1, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Have listened to and loved The original stage version of Sweeney Todd with Len Cariou and Angie Lansbury for the last 25 years. This listener has yet to tire of listening to it. This is music that will be loved and listened to 100 years from now.
"God That's Good!" January 28, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
this by far, is still one of the best musicals by Stephen Sondheim ever! It is smart and witty and very dark....Fantastic!
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