Sweeney Todd Soundtrack Highlights
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Composer: Stephen SondheimConductor: Paul Gemignani
Performer: Andy Richards
Performer: Alan Rickman
Performer: Helena Bonham Carter
Performer: Edward Sanders
Performer: Helena Bonham Carter
Performer: Jamie Bower
Performer: Jayne Wisener
Performer: Johnny Depp
Performer: Laura Michelle Kelly
Performer: Sacha Baron Cohen
Edition: Music CD
Format: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 2007-12-18
Music Label: Nonesuch
Soundtracks:
- No Place Like London
- The Worst Pies in London
- Poor Thing
- My Friends
- Green Finch & Linnett Bird
- Johanna
- Pirelli's Miracle Elixir
- The Contest
- Wait
- Pretty Women
- Epiphany
- A Little Priest
- Johanna
- God, That's Good!
- By the Sea
- Not While I m Around
Music reviews of Sweeney Todd Soundtrack Highlights
Music Review: Bait and Switch ... spend a little extra on the complete soundtrack.
Rating: 1 Stars
Not only is the "Highlights" disc missing some of the cues... it's missing any trace of spoken dialogue. This album is only the music track. The lack of dialogue in "Epiphany" flat out ruins it for me.
Nonesuch should only have released the full soundtrack, not a "Highlights" disc that is missing several songs and the accompanying dialogue. When I sold my copy at a used music store, I noticed there were 4 other copies of the "Highlights" on the shelf, but no copies of the complete soundtrack. Looks like I'm not the only one who got gipped. The beauty part is, if you mistakenly buy the Highlights and open it (to play it), you can't return it. You'll have to shell out more cash to get the one you wanted in the first place (which is still ridiculously overpriced).
Description of Sweeney Todd Soundtrack Highlights
Stephen Sondheim's Grand-Guignol blend of opera and musical theater is a perfect match for director Tim Burton's gothic sensibility. The result of their encounter is a superb screen musical that, despite early fears from the show's fans, preserves most of the score ("The Ballad of Sweeney Todd" being the most egregious loss) and, perhaps even more importantly, its spirit (regular Sondheim orchestrator Jonathan Tunick did the new arrangements). And yes, Johnny Depp can sing. Granted, singing in a movie is easier than it is onstage, but still, Depp is at ease with the material, if a little thin-voiced. Helena Bonham Carter is a bit more problematic as Mrs. Lovett (there's a reason this character has been played by the likes of Angela Lansbury and Patti LuPone on stage) and her take on "The Worst Pies in London" tries hard but lacks gleeful gusto (she fares better on "By the Sea"). More convincing are Sacha Baron Cohen, appropriately outlandish as Pirelli ("The Contest"), Jayne Wisener as Johanna ("Green Finch and Linnet Bird"), and Alan Rickman as Judge Turpin (a good duet with Depp on "Pretty Women"). Sondheim fans won't be disappointed, and the film should also bring new converts into his world. --Elisabeth VincentelliA Tim Burton film. Directed by Tim Burton. Music & lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Screenplay by John Logan. Based on the musical by Stephen Sondheim & Hugh Wheeler. Book by Hugh Wheeler. Originally staged by Harold Prince. From an adaptation by Christopher Bond.
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