SWEENEY TODD
musical show
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Orig prod. MUSIC & WORDS: Stephen Sondheim. ORCH: Jonathan Tunick. COND: Paul Gemignani. CAST: Angela Lansbury, Len Cariou, Victor Garber, Sarah Rice, Merle Louise, Ken Jennings, Joaquin Romaguera, Jack Eric Williams, Edmund Lyndeck. (RCA CBL2-3379; CD/RCA 3379-2-RC. Highlights: CD/RCA RCD1-5033. Excerpts: "Pretty Women," "Epiphany" (ALB-997) "A Little Priest" (ALB-997, ALB-1755, ALB-2314) "God, That's Good!" (ALB-1626) "The Ballad of Sweeney Todd," "Green Finch and Linnet Bird" (ALB-2314).)
Records by members of orig prod. Len Cariou: "Ballad of Sweeney Todd" (1995: ALB-1674) (1998: ALB-1934) Cris Groenendaal (a replacement in orig prod): "Johanna" (1983: ALB-901)
1985 records by members of early 1980s prods. Steven Jacob (of touring prod): "Not While I'm Around" Joyce Castle (of operatic prod): "The Worst Pies in London," "A Little Priest" (the latter with Timothy Nolen) (ALB-1001)
1996 records by members of 1994 Los Angeles prod. Robert Almodovar: "The Ballad of Sweeney Todd" Orville Mendoza, Freda Foh Shen: "My Friends" Linda Igarashi: "Green Finch and Linnet Bird" (ALB-1751)
2000 New York Philharmonic concert prod, rec live. ORCH: Jonathan Tunick. COND: Andrew Litton. CAST: George Hearn, Patti LuPone, Audra McDonald, Davis Gaines, Heidi Grant Murphy, Neil Patrick Harris, Paul Plishka, John Aler, Stanford Olsen. (CD/New York Philharmonic NYP-2001/2)
2005 prod. ORCH & COND: Sarah Travis. CAST: Patti LuPone, Michael Cerveris, Benjamin Magnuson, Lauren Molina, Mark Jacoby, Manoel Felciano, Alexander Gemignani, Donna Lynne Champlin. (CD/Nonesuch 79946-2. Excerpt: "The Worst Pies in London" (ALB-2314). Excerpts on promo CD: "The Ballad of Sweeney Todd," "Not While I'm Around," "A Little Priest" (CD/Nonesuch STCD-301936).)
2007 film soundtrack. ORCH: Jonathan Tunick. COND: Paul Gemignani. CAST: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman, Timothy Spall, Sacha Baron Cohen, Jayne Wisener, Jamie Campbell Bower, Laura Michelle Kelly, Edward Sanders. (CD/Nonesuch 368572-2)
From: Show Music on Record by Jack Raymond
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