Over the Rainbow
Showdate November 12, 2000
" Sweeney Todd Part Two "
This week, I played the second act of Stephen Sondheim and
Hugh Wheeler's Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet
Street, recorded live this past May with the New York
Philharmonic. This recording is far too good and the word too complex
to put it all in one hour, so I divided the show between two weeks. Act
Two was much easier to handle in a one-hour format: Act One, on this CD
set has a running time of about 75 minutes, Act Two is only about 50
minutes.
Songs I played:
" God, That's Good! " from Sweeney Todd
" Johanna " from Sweeney Todd
" By the Sea " from Sweeney Todd
" Not While I'm Around " from Sweeney Todd
" Wigmaker Sequence " from Sweeney Todd
" City On Fire " from Sweeney Todd
" The Judge's Return " from Sweeney Todd
" The Final Scene " from Sweeney Todd
" The Ballad of Sweeney Todd " from Sweeney Todd