(Antony)
I have sailed the world
beheld its wonders
from the dardinells,
to the mountains of Peru,
But there’s no place like London!
(Sweeney Todd)
No there’s…
No place like London…
(Antony)-spoken
Mr. Todd
(Sweeney Todd)
You are young…
Life has been kind to you…
You will learn.
There’s a whole in the world like a great black pit
and the vermin of the world inhabit it
and its morals aren’t worth what a pin can spit
and it goes by the name of London.
At the top of the hole sit the previlaged few
Making mock of the vermin in the lonely zoo
turning beauty to filth and greed…
I too have sailed the world and seen its wonders,
for the cruelty of men is as wonderous as Peru
but there’s no place like London!
(Antony - spoken)
Is everything alright Mr.Todd?
(Mr.Todd - spoken)
I beg your indulgance
my mind is far from easy
For in the once familiar streets I feel shadows everywhere
(Antony - spoken)
shadows?
(Mr.Todd - spoken)
Ghosts
There was a barber and his wife
and she was beautiful…
a foolish barber and his wife.
She was his reason for his life…
and she was beautiful, and she was virtuous.
And he was nieve.
There was another man who saw
that she was beautiful…
A biased vulture of the law
who, with a gesture of his claw
removed the barber from his plate!
And there was nothing but to wait!
And she would fall!
So soft!
So young!
So lost and oh so beautiful!
Antony (spoken)
The lady, sir, did she, sir, come?
Sweeney Todd (sung)
Ah, that was many years ago…
I doubt if anyone would know.
(spoken)
Now leave me, Antony.
There is somewhere I must go,
something i must find out.
Now, and alone.
Antony (spoken)
But surely we will meet again before I am off to Plymouth?
Sweeney Todd (spoken)
If you want you may well find me around Fleet Street. I wouldn’t wander.
(sung)
There’s a hole in the world like a great black pit
and it’s filled with people who are filled with shit!
And the vermin of the world inhabit it!