City on Fire!, Searching, The Judge's Return, Final Scene, The Barber & His Wife (Reprise) & The Ballad of Sweeny Todd (Finale)
Song(s): City on Fire!, Searching, The Judge's Return, Final Scene, The Barber & His Wife (Reprise) & The Ballad of Sweeny Todd (Finale)
Artist: From, Sweeny Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2023 Broadway Cast)
You scared? Or are you thirsty for more? 😈🪒 Let's finish this!
City on Fire!
This one is soooo scary for soooo many reasons!! 😱😱 The crazy lady, the choir, Sweeny Todd and Mrs. Lovett luring Toby to them so they can KILL HIM!!! All because he found out their heinous secret of where the "meat" for their pies come from...🤮 See what I mean about this song coming back around in the most disturbing and evil way possible!?! How dare that lunatic of a woman use such a beautiful song to lure an innocent boy to his death!? Abominable!
[LUNATICS:]
City on fire!
Rats in the grass
And the lunatics yelling in the streets!
It's the end of the world! Yes!
City on fire!
Hunchbacks dancing!
Stirrings in the ground
And the whirring of giant wings!
Watch out! Look!
Blotting out the moonlight
Thick black rain falling on the
City on fire!
City on fire!
City on fire!
[JOHANNA:]
Will we be married on Sunday?
That's what you promised
Married on Sunday!
That was last August...
Kiss me!
[LUNATICS:]
There! Look!
Crawling on the chimneys
Great black crows screeching at the
City on fire!
City on fire!
City on fire!
[MRS. LOVETT:]
Toby!
Where are you, love?
[TODD:]
Toby!
Where are you, lad?
[MRS. LOVETT:]
Nothing's gonna harm you...
[TODD:]
Toby!
[MRS. LOVETT:]
Not while I'm around ...
[TODD:]
Toby!
[MRS. LOVETT:]
Where are you hiding?
Nothing's gonna harm you
Darling...
[TODD:]
Nothing to be afraid of, boy...
[MRS. LOVETT:]
Not while I'm around
[TODD:]
Toby...
[MRS. LOVETT:]
Demons are prowling everywhere
Nowadays...
[TODD:]
Toby...
[LUNATICS:]
City on fire!
Rats in the streets
And the lunatics yelling at the moon!
It's the end of the world! Yes!
[BEGGAR WOMAN (TODD):]
Beadle... Beadle!... (Toby...)
[BEGGAR WOMAN:]
No good hiding, I saw you!
Are you in there still
Beadle?... Beadle?...
Get her, but watch it!
She's a wicked one, she'll deceive you
With her fancy gowns
And her fancy airs
And her—
Mischief! Mischief!
Devil's work!
Where are you, Beadle?
Beadle...
[LUNATICS:]
Rats in the streets
And the lunatics yelling at the moon!
It's the end of the world! Yes!
City on fire!
Hunchbacks kissing!
Stirrings in the graves
And the screaming of giant winds!
Watch out! Look!
Crawling on the chimneys
Great black crows screeching
City on fire!
Searching
The Beggar Woman's parts are all very disturbing...this song may feel out of place among the other selections I've been sharing but just wait...it will make sense very soon....
[ANTHONY:]
Mr. Todd?
[JOHANNA:]
No one here. Where is this Mr. Todd?
[ANTHONY:]
No matter. He'll return in a moment, for I trust him as I trust my right arm. Now, you wait for him here, and I'll return with the coach in less than half an hour.
[JOHANNA:]
But they are after us still. What if they trace us here? Oh, Anthony, please let me come with you.
[ANTHONY:]
No, my darling, there's no safety for you in the street.
[JOHANNA:]
But dressed in these sailor's clothes, who's to know it is I?
[ANTHONY:]
No, the risk is too great.
Ah, miss
Look at me, look at me, miss, oh
Look at me please, oh
Favor me, favor me with your glance
Ah, miss
Soon we’ll be, soon we'll be gone
And sailing the seas
And happily, happily wed in France
[JOHANNA & ANTHONY:]
And we'll sail the world
And see its wonders
From the pearls of Spain
To the rubies of Tibet—
[ANTHONY (JOHANNA):]
And then come back to London (And then home)
[JOHANNA & ANTHONY:]
Some day
[ANTHONY:]
I'll return to you before those lips have time to lose that smile.
[BEGGAR WOMAN:]
Beadle!
[JOHANNA:]
Someone calling the Beadle. I knew it!
[BEGGAR WOMAN:]
Beadle! Where are you?
Beadle, dear!
Beadle!
Beadle deedle deedle deedle deedle dumpling
Be-deedle dumpling
Be-deedle deedle deedle deedle deedle deedle deedle
Deedle deedle deedle deedle deedle...
[TODD:]
You! What are you doing here?
[BEGGAR WOMAN:]
Ah, evil is here, sir. The stink of evil—from below—from her!
Beadle dear, Beadle!
[TODD:]
Out of here, woman.
[BEGGAR WOMAN:]
Oh, she's the devil’s wife! Oh, beware of her, sir. Beware her. She with no pity in her heart.
[TODD:]
Out, I say!
[BEGGAR WOMAN:]
Hey, don't I know you, mister?
[TODD:]
The judge. I have no time.
*SPOILER ALERT: Todd just killed the Beggar Woman and sent her down the chute because he hears his true victim coming, the man he's been waiting months to get his razor on, Judge Turpin approaching and can't deal with this woman's lunacy at the moment. Todd has become so desensitized to killing and death (see Epiphany) it doesn't faze him one bit to literally murder a person in order to get them out of his hair! 😖
The Judge's Return
This song 😳😱💀....the plot thickens!! It's very, very dark and gory but we've almost made it to the end!! Just endure a little longer with me! For context, creepy, old Judge Turpin who banished Todd years ago in order to get to his wife, is now attempting to marry Sweeny's grown daughter, who's been the Judge's ward for the past 18 or so years and Sweeny is tricking the Judge into believing he's got Johanna to hand over to the Judge, all in a big attempt to get him back in the chair for his ultimate revenge! 😈🪒🩸 "Lift your razor high, Sweeney!" This is all very, very icky 😖
[JUDGE TURPIN:]
Where is she? Where is the girl?
[TODD:]
Below, your honor. In the care of my neighbor, Mrs. Lovett. Thank heavens the sailor did not molest her. Thank heavens, too, she has seen the error of her ways.
[JUDGE TURPIN:]
She has?
[TODD:]
Oh yes, your lesson was well learned, sir. She speaks only of you, longing for your forgiveness.
[JUDGE TURPIN:]
And she shall have it. She'll be here soon, you say?
[TODD:]
I think I hear her now
[JUDGE TURPIN:]
Oh, excellent, my friend!
[TODD:]
Is that her dainty footstep on the stair?
[JUDGE TURPIN:]
I hear nothing.
[TODD:]
Yes, isn't that her shadow on the wall?
[JUDGE TURPIN:]
Where?
[TODD:]
There!
Primping
Making herself even prettier than usual
[JUDGE TURPIN:]
Even prettier...
[TODD:]
If possible
[JUDGE TURPIN:]
Oh, pretty women!
[TODD:]
Pretty women
Yes, sir...
[JUDGE TURPIN:]
Quickly, sir, a splash of bay rum!
[TODD:]
Sit, sir, sit.
[JUDGE TURPIN:]
Johanna, Johanna...
[TODD:]
Pretty women...
[JUDGE TURPIN:]
Hurry, man!
[TODD:]
Pretty women
Are a wonder...
[JUDGE TURPIN:]
You're in a merry mood again today, barber.
[TODD:]
Yes, sir.
Pretty women!
[JUDGE TURPIN:]
What we do for
[JUDGE TURPIN & TODD:]
Pretty women!
Blowing out their candles or
Combing out their hair—
[JUDGE TURPIN (TODD):]
Then they leave...
Even when they leave you (Even when they leave)
And vanish, they somehow (They still)
Can still remain (Are)
There with you (There)
There (They're there)
[JUDGE TURPIN:]
How seldom it is one meets a fellow spirit!
[TODD:]
With fellow tastes in women, at least.
[JUDGE TURPIN:]
What? What's that?
[TODD:]
The years no doubt have changed me, sir. But then, I suppose, the face of a barber—the face of a prisoner in the dock—is not particularly memorable.
[JUDGE TURPIN:]
Benjamin Barker!
[TODD:]
Benjamin Barker!
Rest now, my friend
Rest now forever
Sleep now the untroubled
Sleep of the angels
Tobias!
[COMPANY:]
Lift your razor high, Sweeney!
Hear it singing, "Yes!"
Sink it in the rosy skin
Of righteousness!
[MRS. LOVETT:]
Die! Die! God in heaven—die! You! Can it be? Have all the demons of hell come to torment me? Quick, to the oven.
[TODD:]
Why did you scream? Does the Judge still live?
[MRS. LOVETT:]
Ah, he was clutching, holding on to my skirt, but n-now he's finished.
[TODD:]
Leave them to me. Open the doors.
[MRS. LOVETT:]
No!
[TODD:]
Open the doors, I said!
[MRS. LOVETT:]
No! No! Don't touch her!
[TODD:]
What's the matter with you? It's only some meddling old beggar wo—
Final Scene
AND THE PIECES FALL INTO PLACE!!! 😱 This one was such a SHOCK!! 🤯
[TODD:]
Oh no! Oh God... "Don't I know you?" she said…
You knew she lived. From the first moment I walked into your shop you knew my Lucy lived!
[MRS. LOVETT:]
I was only thinking of you.
[TODD:]
Lucy
[MRS. LOVETT:]
Your Lucy! A crazy hag picking bones and rotten spuds out of alley ash cans. Would, would you have wanted to know that was all that was left of her?
[TODD:]
You lied to me!
[MRS. LOVETT:]
No, no, not lied at all
No, I never lied
[TODD:]
Lucy…
[MRS. LOVETT:]
Said she took the poison—she did!
Never said that she died
Poor thing!
She lived—
[TODD:]
I've come home again
[MRS. LOVETT:]
But it left her weak in the head
All she did for months was just lie there in bed—
[TODD:]
Lucy...
[MRS. LOVETT:]
Should've been in hospital
Wound up in Bedlam instead
Poor thing!
[TODD:]
Oh, my God...
[MRS. LOVETT:]
Better you should think she was dead
Yes, I lied 'cause I love you!
I'd be twice the wife she was!
[TODD:]
Lucy…
[MRS. LOVETT:]
I love you!
[TODD:]
What have I done?…
[MRS. LOVETT:]
Could that thing have cared for you like me?
[TODD:]
Mrs. Lovett
You're a bloody wonder
Eminently practical and yet
Appropriate as always
As you've said repeatedly
There's little point in dwelling on the past
[MRS. LOVETT (TODD):]
Do you mean it? (No, come here, my love...)
Everything I did
I swear I thought
Was only for the best (Not a thing to fear)
Believe me! (My love...)
Can we (What's dead)
Still be (Is dead)
Married?
[TODD:]
The history of the world, my pet—
[MRS. LOVETT:]
Oh, Mr. Todd
Ooh, Mr. Todd
Leave it to me...
[TODD:]
—Is learn forgiveness and try to forget
[MRS. LOVETT:]
By the sea, Mr. Todd
We'll be comfy-cozy
You and me, Mr. Todd
Where there's no one nosy…
[TODD:]
And life is for the alive, my dear
So let's keep living it!
[MRS. LOVETT & TODD:]
Just keep living it
Really living it*
*SPOILER ALERT: After discovering that the Beggar Woman was Sweeny's wife and Mrs. Lovett knew she was alive this whole time, and Sweeny realizing he KILLED her (at the end of the song Searching) he commences to push Mrs. Lovett into the oven and burns her alive!! 🔥😱 So gruesome, I'm so sorry to anyone going on this journey. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad that wicked woman is dead but...it's quite a disturbing ending...
The Barber & His Wife (Reprise)
For some reason, the ending of this song is the scariest part of the entire play for me! It's the part that genuinely starts freaking me out at night when it's dark...for more info as to why, see the * below.
[TODD:]
There was a barber and his wife
And she was beautiful
A foolish barber and his wife
She was his reason and his life
And she was beautiful
And she was virtuous
And he was—
Naïve
[TOBIAS:]
Razor. Razor!
Cut, cut, cut, cut, cut, cut.
Mr. Todd?
Pat him, prick him, mark him with a B
And put him in the oven for baby and me.
*Toby, who's gone mad after all he's discovered and been through the last few hours, babbling nursery rhymes to himself, comes up behind a distraught Sweeny who is clutching the body of his dead wife, and proceeds to...cut his throat and kills him! 😱😱 IT'S SO CREEPY AND VIOLENT AND DARK AND AHHH!! DO YOU SEE WHY THIS ONE KEEPS ME UP AT NIGHT!?!
The Ballad of Sweeny Todd (Finale)
Finally!! It's the END!! I'm genuinely so disturbed with myself for sharing as much of this musical as I have...like what is wrong with me!? This is soooo not my thing!! I don't even know if I'll ever be able to listen to any of these songs again. I can't lie though, the music is kinda catchy in a dark and twisted way. I've found myself humming "Attend the tale of Sweeny Todd" to myself more than once and I'm like "Ahhh!! STOP IT!!"
[TOBIAS:]
Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd
His skin was pale and his eye was odd
[JOHANNA & ANTHONY:]
He shaved the faces of gentlemen
Who never thereafter were heard of again
[TWO POLICEMEN:]
He trod a path that few have trod
[POLICEMEN, JOHANNA & ANTHONY:]
Did Sweeney Todd
[POLICEMEN, JOHANNA, ANTHONY & TOBIAS:]
The demon barber of Fleet Street
[BEGGAR WOMAN:]
He kept a shop in London Town
Of fancy clients and good renown
[JUDGE TURPIN:]
And what if none of their souls were saved?
They went to their maker impeccably shaved
[BEGGAR WOMAN, JUDGE TURPIN & POLICEMEN:]
By Sweeney
By Sweeney Todd
[ALL:]
The demon barber of Fleet Street
[PIRELLI & BEADLE:]
Swing your razor wide, Sweeney!
Hold it to the skies!
Freely flows the blood of those
Who moralize!
[COMPANY:]
His needs are few, his room is bare
He hardly uses his fancy chair
The more he bleeds, the more he lives
He never forgets and he never forgives
Perhaps today you gave a nod
To Sweeney Todd
The demon barber of Fleet Street
[WOMEN:]
Sweeney wishes the world away
Sweeney's weeping for yesterday
Hugging the blade, waiting the years
Hearing the music that nobody hears
Sweeney waits in the parlor hall
Sweeney leans on the office wall
[MEN:]
No one can help, nothing can hide you—
Isn't that Sweeney there beside you?
[COMPANY:]
Sweeney wishes the world away
Sweeney's weeping for yesterday
Is Sweeney!
There he is, it's Sweeney!
Sweeney! Sweeney!
Sweeney! Sweeney!
There! There! There! There!
There! There! There!
There!
[SWEENEY TODD:]
Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd!
[COMPANY:]
Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd!
[SWEENEY TODD:]
He served a dark and a hungry god!
[COMPANY:]
He served a dark and a hungry god!
[SWEENEY TODD:]
To seek revenge may lead to hell
[MRS. LOVETT:]
But everyone does it, if seldom as well
[SWEENEY TODD & MRS. LOVETT:]
As Sweeney
[COMPANY:]
As Sweeney Todd
The demon barber of Fleet—
Street!
THE END!!!
So happy we can move on tomorrow!! If you are confused by some of the things I left our or didn't take the time to explain at all (like who Anthony and Johanna are and more about the evil Judge Turpin and his awful demise) and you feel like you can stomach it...feel free to go read the synopsis and find out more for yourself! You'll probably regret it and feel a little sick and disturbed the rest of the day like I did, but at least you can satisfy your curiosity...just remember what it did to the cat!!🐱💀 Sadly, I was "the cat" only last week...and learned my lesson! But I guess this is what Halloween is all about right?? Scaring yourself a little?😨 😳 Let's pretend these last three days never happened, okay?? 😓
THIS IS THE END OF SWEENY TODD...THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET! 😈🪒🩸😓
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