Favorite Sweeney Todd Quote

[Katurian2]

Posted: 1/17/06 at 10:14pm

OK- yet another Sweeney Todd board. What is your favorite quote from the musical Sweeney Todd?

Updated On: 1/17/06 at 10:14 PM

[Isabella2]

Posted: 1/17/06 at 10:30pm

"How can you remain staring at the rain, maddened by the stars?"

-Johanna

[Attendthetale331]

Posted: 1/17/06 at 10:32pm

My favorite quote is:

"And though I'll think of you I guess until the day I die, I think I miss you less and less as everyday goes by, Johanna..."


There is so much meaning behind that quote, it shows how Sweeney is losing his main focus and how his revenge has driven him mad. It's perfect.

[crzyrocket]

Posted: 1/17/06 at 10:32pm

"Me rumpled bedding legitimized"

-Mrs. Lovett, "By the Sea"

[almostxfamous]

Posted: 1/17/06 at 10:53pm

If we're going for funny classic ...

"And actor that's compacter..."
"Yes, and always arrived overdone!"

Uhm. So. True.

[Jenny1284]

Posted: 1/17/06 at 11:04pm

Attendthetale took mine!

I also like:
"The more he bleeds, the more he lives. He never forgets and he never forgives. Perhaps today you gave a nod to Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street."

And because I just really love this part:
"Mrs. Lovett, you're a bloody wonder eminently practical and yet appropriate as always. Mrs. Lovett, how I've lived without you all these years I'll never know!"

[bially082]

Posted: 1/17/06 at 11:10pm

You are young; Life has been kind to you; you will learn.

[ALWrules]

Posted: 1/17/06 at 11:14pm

" They all deserve to die! Tell ya why, Mrs. Lovett, tell ya why!"

I don't think I have ever heard so much philosophy in so little words in my entire life. This quote is so broad and amazing in what it is communicating. It also is the most amazing part of the character of Sweeney Todd in the entire show.

[jam_man]

Posted: 1/17/06 at 11:14pm

"Have charity towards the world, my pet!"
"Yes, yes, I know, my love."
"We'll take the customers that we can get."
"High born and low, my love."
"We'll not discriminate great from small -
no, we'll serve anyone -
meaning anyone -
And TO anyone -
AT ALL!"


"You're in a merry mood today, Mr. Todd."

[ByMySide25]

Posted: 1/17/06 at 11:18pm

What Sondheim lyric isn't likable?

[ALWrules]

Posted: 1/17/06 at 11:19pm

Answer ByMYSide:

" It's alarming how charming I feel."
That's the classic one that both Sondheim and a lot of his fans laugh about.

[wherethehorizonlies]

Posted: 1/17/06 at 11:24pm

"and we have some shepard's pie peppered with actual shepard on top!"


really - all of A Little Priest - it's just so great

[ALWrules]

Posted: 1/17/06 at 11:27pm

That song probably is the song with the best lyrics of any.

[wherethehorizonlies]

Posted: 1/17/06 at 11:40pm

hysterical and quite brilliant

it's probably my favorite in the show...or in the top three at least

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 1/17/06 at 11:42pm

"popping pu**ies into pies"

I mean COME ON!

"Shepherd's Pie peppered with actual shepherd on top"


Updated On: 1/17/06 at 11:42 PM

[C is for Company]

Posted: 1/17/06 at 11:57pm

Oh man, more like this is my favorite book of a show ever just cause so many fun lines. I think I would get yelled at if I listed them all. Okay heres one
"Stop Mr. Fogg, or I'll fire!"
"Fire and I will stop!"

[LostLeander]

Posted: 1/18/06 at 12:09am

PUSSIES! It's not sexual!

CATS! I don't think it even really works as innuendo.

Anywho, I CRY everytime I hear that sudden switch in music at the finale, right after Lovette's out cry of, "I LOOOOVE YOU!", and the A Little Priest Reprise starts...

So blood chillingly good. The slow ritard. and crescendo into the first beat of the reprise is Sweeney LOSING it, and.... SNAP!, Mrs. Lovette, you're a bloody wonder, imminently practical and yet appropriate, as always.. etc.

Pure brilliance.

Other brilliance:

"That's all very well, but what are we gonna do about the eye-talian..
...
"Well, you know me, bright eye keep.. POPPIN into me head, and keep thinkin'...Seems a downright shame."
"Shame?"
"Seems an awful waste. Such a nice plump frame what's 'is name 'as. 'Ad. 'AS! Nor it can't be traced. Business needs a lift, debts to be erased. Think of it as thrift, as a gift... if you get my drift. No?"

LOOOVE IT.

[truffula]

Posted: 1/18/06 at 12:16am

Look at my signature.

[SahDu]

Posted: 1/18/06 at 2:32am

I dont know why but I love:

See that chap with
Hair like Shelley's?
You can tell 'e's
Used Pirelli's!


Updated On: 2/15/14 at 02:32 AM

[EugLoven]

Posted: 1/18/06 at 4:59am

I don't agree with either philosophies in the following lyrics. But I do love the lyrics because they ooze such a sinister monster... and I'm a sucker for rapid lyrics.

"There's a hole in the world like a great black pit and it's filled with people who are filled with sh*t and the vermin of the world inhabit it."

"Cuz in all of the whole human world, Mrs. Lovett, there are two kinds of men and only two. There's the one staying put in his proper place and the one with his foot in the other's one's face. Look at me, Mrs. Lovett, look at you."

Johana to Anthony:
"I knew I'd be with you one day even not knowing who you were."

Not to mention the punchy one liners from Mrs. Lovett:

"With the price of meat what it is, when you get it, if you get it..."
PAUSE
"HUH!"
"Good you got it."

"Well of course, we could do that..."

And all of the Ballads. Mainly because of the boisterous all-power ensemble parts and the Beadle's falsetto. And the xylophone.
Updated On: 1/18/06 at 04:59 AM

[jasobres]

Posted: 1/18/06 at 8:43am

Lovett: "It's a bit stringy, but then again, it is fiddle player."
Todd: No, it isn't fiddle player, it's piccolo player.
Lovett: How can you tell?
Todd: It's piping hot!
Lovett: Blow on it then!

Then again, I agree with wherethehorizonlies.

Updated On: 1/18/06 at 08:43 AM

[Wanna Be A Foster]

Posted: 1/18/06 at 9:04am

Anything spoken by that older actress with the American accent. What a special character, she sticks out like a sore thumb.

[kgee30]

Posted: 1/18/06 at 2:17pm

Nah; Patti rocks.

I'll take all of "By the Sea" as my favorite -- that song amazes me.

[Nothatsmrt]

Posted: 1/18/06 at 2:32pm

"What happened then, well, that's the play, and he wouldn't want us to give it away...not Sweeney...not Sweeney Todd...the demon barber of Fleet Street."

[Color and Light]

Posted: 1/18/06 at 2:38pm

"The history of the world, my sweet, is who gets eaten and who gets to eat. But forunately it's also clear that everybody goes down well with beer!"

"The history of the world, my love, is those below serving those up above. How gratifying, for once, to know that those above will serve those down below!"

Those two quotes always make the hairs on my neck stand up ...


And somebody already pointed it out, but I lose it during all of Sweeney's version of "Johanna" ... Sweeney's just so blinded by his rage and grief. Augh.

... Just ... so ... great. ::collapses::