Sweeney Todd Cast Recording Added to the Library of Congress Registry
Sweeney Todd Cast Recording Added to the Library of Congress Registry
#1Sweeney Todd Cast Recording Added to the Library of Congress Registry
Posted: 4/2/14 at 8:36pmSo happy that a classic and moving piece of theatre has been added! Such an achievement. Both Angela and Len were exquisite in their roles, and that score is breathtakingly gorgeous! One of my favorite shows, and it rightly swept the Tonys. So wonderful!
"Sticks and stones, sister. Here, have a Valium." - Patti LuPone, a Memoir
#2Sweeney Todd Cast Recording Added to the Library of Congress Registry
Posted: 4/4/14 at 3:11pmThe production of the recording is also masterfully executed
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#2Sweeney Todd Cast Recording Added to the Library of Congress Registry
Posted: 4/4/14 at 5:29pmNice!
Just give the world Love.
mjohnson2
Broadway Star Joined: 11/2/13
#3Sweeney Todd Cast Recording Added to the Library of Congress Registry
Posted: 4/4/14 at 7:10pmFantastic recording of one of the greatest scores ever written for the theatre. If only they could take out that whistle in the ballad.
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#4Sweeney Todd Cast Recording Added to the Library of Congress Registry
Posted: 4/4/14 at 7:12pm
Are you kidding?!
I LOVE that whistle. You might as well ask them to take out the razors and blood, too.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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#5Sweeney Todd Cast Recording Added to the Library of Congress Registry
Posted: 4/4/14 at 7:14pmThe whistle is great. Would you have them replace it with an electronic air horn :P?
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
#6Sweeney Todd Cast Recording Added to the Library of Congress Registry
Posted: 4/4/14 at 8:15pmI also love the whistle. The first time I listened to it it literally made me jump (I had only seen the movie at the time). The same thing happened when my sisters listened to it. Such a wonderful effect after that brooding prelude.
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chewy5000
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/1/09
#7Sweeney Todd Cast Recording Added to the Library of Congress Registry
Posted: 4/4/14 at 9:00pmI studied that whistle back at school. Our teacher thought it might actually be a violin.
mjohnson2
Broadway Star Joined: 11/2/13
#8Sweeney Todd Cast Recording Added to the Library of Congress Registry
Posted: 4/4/14 at 9:02pmI think it works very well on stage, and also on the cast album, but I just can't ever listen to my favorite song from ST because that freaking whistle hurts my ears so much.
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#9Sweeney Todd Cast Recording Added to the Library of Congress Registry
Posted: 4/4/14 at 9:49pmThey could replace it with a kazoo, but then that didn't work for the COMPANY revival, either.
Well-well-well-what-do-you-think-of-that-I-have-nothing-here-to-pay-my-train-fare-with-only-large-bills-fives-and-sevens....
#10Sweeney Todd Cast Recording Added to the Library of Congress Registry
Posted: 4/4/14 at 10:48pmI'm now picturing the reverse- the whistle cutting through "Side By Side" after Bobby's bit- and it's hysterical.
