Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
by Stephen Sondheim
- Type: Album
- Released: 17 April 1979
- Label: RCA Red Seal
- Country: United States
- Length: 1:56:42
- Community rating: 4.71/5 from 1 rating
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Thomas Z. Shepard produced this original Broadway cast recording with Angela Lansbury as Mrs Lovett and Len Cariou as the demon barber, preserving Jonathan Tunick's orchestrations in full. The album won the Grammy Award for Best Cast Show Album and was selected for the National Recording Registry in 2014.
Genres
Descriptors: operatic, orchestral, theatrical, storytelling, vocal
Tracklist
- Prelude: The Ballad of Sweeney Todd: "Attend the Tale of Sweeney Todd" (3:34)
- No Place Like London (3:39)
- The Barber and His Wife (2:40)
- The Worst Pies in London (2:25)
- Poor Thing (3:27)
- My Friends (2:43)
- The Ballad of Sweeney Todd: "Lift Your Razor High, Sweeney!" (0:54)
- Green Finch and Linnet Bird (2:29)
- Ah, Miss (2:23)
- Johanna (1:57)
- Pirelli's Miracle Elixir (3:49)
- The Contest (5:11)
- The Ballad of Sweeney Todd: "Sweeney Pondered and Sweeney Planned" (0:31)
- Wait (2:17)
- The Ballad of Sweeney Todd: "His Hands Were Quick, His Fingers Were Strong" (0:40)
- Johanna - Mea Culpa (3:39)
- Kiss Me (1:31)
- Ladies in Their Sensitivities (3:57)
- Pretty Women (4:38)
- Epiphany (3:17)
- A Little Priest (7:17)
- God, That's Good! (6:27)
- Johanna - Quartet (5:29)
- By the Sea (3:32)
- Wigmaker Sequence: The Ballad of Sweeney Todd: "Sweeney'd Waited Too Long Before" / The Letter (3:39)
- Not While I'm Around (3:56)
- Parlor Songs (3:35)
- Final Sequence (13:22)
- The Ballad of Sweeney Todd: "Attend the Tale of Sweeney Todd" (2:56)
- Symphonic Sondheim: Sweeney Todd (7:30)
- Green Finch and Linnet Bird (From "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street") (3:02)
Credits
- Stephen Sondheim - primary artist, music by, lyrics by
- Angela Lansbury - primary artist, vocals [mrs. lovett]
- Len Cariou - primary artist, vocals [sweeney todd]
- Jane T. Brier - booklet editor [editorial supervision]
- Larry Fuller - choreography [dance and movement by]
- Tommy Valando - copyist [music publisher]
- Al Miller - copyist [musical preparation]
- Mathilde Pincus - copyist [musical preparation]
- Martha Swope - photography by [photos: album back cover, booklet cover], photography by [photos: inner spread]
- J. J. Stelmach - art direction
- Franne Lee - costume designer [costumes designed by]
- Harold Prince - directed by
- Ruth Mitchel - directed by [assistant to mr. prince]
- Anthony Salvatore - engineer [recording engineer]
- Ken Billington - lighting [lighting designed by]
- Robert Kimball - liner notes
- Paul Gemignani - music director [musical director]
- Charles McCracken - performer [additional personnel for recording]
- Dan Reed - performer [additional personnel for recording]
- Evalyn Steinbock - performer [additional personnel for recording]
- Harry Glickman - performer [additional personnel for recording]
- John Beal - performer [additional personnel for recording]
- Joyce Flissler - performer [additional personnel for recording]
- Judy Geist - performer [additional personnel for recording]
- Julien Barber - performer [additional personnel for recording]
- Julio Ruggiero - performer [additional personnel for recording]
- Julius Brand - performer [additional personnel for recording]
- Marilyn Wright - performer [additional personnel for recording]
- Nick Cerrato - performer [additional personnel for recording]
- Raymond Kunicki - performer [additional personnel for recording]
- Seymour Benstock - performer [additional personnel for recording]
- Van Williams - photography by [photos: inner spread]
- Susan Krause - producer [album production assistant]
- Jerry Sirchia - producer [assistants to the producer]
- Sam Crothers - producer [assistants to the producer]
- Jay David Saks - producer [associate album producer]
- Marc Howard - producer [associate producer]
- Thomas Z. Shepard - producer [produced for records by]
- Eugene Lee - set designer [production designed by]