London's Sweeney Todd Cast Recording with Michael Ball....how is it?
London's Sweeney Todd Cast Recording with Michael Ball....how is it?
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Broadway Star Joined: 11/9/10
#1London's Sweeney Todd Cast Recording with Michael Ball....how is it?
Posted: 5/6/13 at 10:10pm
I am on Amazon now and I am about to purchase the Michale Ball recording of Sweeney Todd. But, I want to know what people think of it. Please let me know if it is worth the purchase...it is kind of pricey!
Thanks in advance!
Updated On: 5/6/13 at 10:10 PM
#2London's Sweeney Todd Cast Recording with Michael Ball....how is it?
Posted: 5/7/13 at 12:30amThe show was a masterpiece of musical theatre, I would say yes.
Well I didn't want to get into it, but he's a Satanist.
Every full moon he sacrifices 4 puppies to the Dark Lord and smears their blood on his paino.
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#2London's Sweeney Todd Cast Recording with Michael Ball....how is it?
Posted: 5/7/13 at 1:04am
It's a highlights recording focused mostly on Sweeney and Mrs. Lovett so some important songs are missing like "Green Finch and Linnet Bird" and there's no sign of Pirelli at all on the recording.
That aside I still think it's a great recording and it preserves Michael and Imelda's amazing performances.
Still sad that they weren't allowed to do a DVD release like they had planned though.
jo
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#3London's Sweeney Todd Cast Recording with Michael Ball....how is it?
Posted: 5/7/13 at 1:18amThe production recently won OLIVIER honors for Best Musical Revival and Best Acting Honors in Musical Theatre for Michael Ball and Imelda Staunton.
#4London's Sweeney Todd Cast Recording with Michael Ball....how is it?
Posted: 5/7/13 at 2:11amAssuming you already have the indispensable 1979 original cast recording. the Michael Ball is a good single disc highlights version. Beware there is not much in the booklet/insert at all.
Cast albums are NOT "soundtracks."
Live theatre does not use a "soundtrack." If it did, it wouldn't be live theatre!
I host a weekly one-hour radio program featuring cast album selections as well as songs by cabaret, jazz and theatre artists. The program, FRONT ROW CENTRE is heard Sundays 9 to 10 am and also Saturdays from 8 to 9 am (eastern times) on www.proudfm.com
#5London's Sweeney Todd Cast Recording with Michael Ball....how is it?
Posted: 5/7/13 at 3:47amPoor Thing is dearly missed.
"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
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