Sweeney OBC Question.

[javertim]

Posted: 4/7/07 at 8:52am

I have a question about the ensemble cast of the Sweeney OBC recording. In the "Ballad" right after "My Friends" -- the one that begins with "lift your razor high, Sweeney" -- a number of cast members have little solos or duets. It starts with Jack Eric Williams as the Beadle, then there is a group of women, then Walter Charles, then all of them as a group, and then two men. One of the two men seems to be Richard Warren Pugh, but the other is a mystery to me. The mystery guy has an incredibly deep voice and I am unable to locate him anywhere else on the recording.

He doesn't sound anything like the first soloist at the beginning in the first ballad, nor does he sound like Walter Charles or Edmund Lyndeck. I know that one of the two policemen who duet at the beginning of the final ballad is usually played by a bass, but the guy who does that sounds like the first soloist at the beginning.

So, yeah, I know this is a long shot, but I figured I would ask. It's been on my mind for a while now.