SWEENEY (spoken):
Anthony!
ANTHONY (spoken):
Mr. Todd!
I found Johanna!
That monster of a judge has her locked away in a madhouse!
SWEENEY:
Where?
ANTHONY:
Where no one can reach her!
At Fogg's Asylum!
Oh, Mr. Todd!
She is in there with these screeching, gibbering maniacs!
SWEENEY:
A madhouse!
A madhouse?
Johanna is as good as rescued!
Where do you suppose all the wigmakers in London go to obtain their human hair?
Bedlam!
They get their hair from the lunatics at Bedlam!
For the right amount, they'll sell you any hair off any madman's head.
We'll write a note to this Mr. Fogg at the highest price for the exact shade of Johanna's!
Which I trust you know?
ANTHONY:
Yellow?
SWEENEY:
No!
That's not exact enough!
I must make you into a credible wigmaker!
And quickly, too!
SWEENEY (sung):
There's tawny, and there's golden sapphron
There's flaxon, and there's blonde!
Repeat that!
ANTHONY (sung):
Yes, Mr. Todd!
There's tawny, and there's golden sapphron
There's flaxon, and there's blonde!
SWEENEY:
Good!
There's coarse, theres straight, there's fine and curly
There's grey, there's white as ashes...
CHORUS:
Sweeney waited too long before
But never again, he swore
Fortune arrived, Sweeney had sang,
Sweeney was ready and Sweeney sprang
Sweeney's problems went up in smoke
All within a single stroke
Sweeney was sharp, Sweeney was burning
Sweeney began the end inferno
Sweeney! Sweeney! Sweeney! Sweeney!
ANTHONY:
There's finer texture, ash looks fair!
Which makes it rare, but flaxon's rare...
SWEENEY:
No, no!
The flaxon's cheaper!
ANTHONY:
Flaxon's cheaper, not rarer!
SWEENEY (spoken):
Now off with you, Anthony!
And remember, when you have rescued Johanna, bring here here!
And I will guard her while you hire the chase to Plymouth.
ANTHONY (spoken):
I will be with you before the evening's out, Mr. Todd!
Thank you,
Friend!
MALE SOLOIST 1:
Most honorable Judge Turpin
MALE SOLOIST 2:
Most honorable
2 FEMALE SOLOISTS:
Honorable
MALE SOLOIST 1:
I venture thus to write you this
MALE SOLOIST 1 AND 3:
Urgent
MALE SOLOIST 3:
Note to warn you
MALE SOLOIST 1 AND 3:
That the hot blooded
MALE SOLIST 2 AND FEMALE SOLOISTS:
Young
MALE SOLIST 1 AND 3:
Sailor
FEMALE SOLISTS:
Has abducted your ward Johanna
MALE SOLIST 1 AND 3:
Johanna
MALE SOLIST 2:
Johanna
FEMALE SOLOISTS:
From the institution where you
MALE SOLOISTS:
So wisely
FEMALE SOLOISTS:
Confined her
MALE SOLOIST 1:
But
Hoping to earn your favor
MALE SOLOIST 1 AND 2:
I have persuaded the boy lodge her here tonight
MALE SOLOISTS:
At my tonsorial parlor
All FIVE:
In Fleet Street
If you want her again in your arms
Hurry
After the night falls
MALE SOLOIST 2:
She will be waiting
ALL FIVE:
Waiting
MALE SOLOIST 1 AND 3:
Your obedient humble servant
MALE SOLOIST 1:
Sweeney Todd
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