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Transcript: Profile: Music goes onstage; literally, in "Sweeney Todd"
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- November 19, 2005
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SCOTT SIMON
Weekend Edition - Saturday (NPR)
11-19-2005
Profile: Music goes onstage; literally, in "Sweeney Todd"
Host: SCOTT SIMON
Time: 1:00-2:00 PM
SCOTT SIMON, host:
"Sweeney Todd" is Stephen Sondheim's dark masterpiece about a murderous barber and a woman who bakes his victims into meat pies. Now when it opened on Broadway in 1979, it featured not only a cast of 27 people but an orchestra of the same size and it sounded like this.
(Soundbite of "Sweeney Todd")
Unidentified Performer #1: (Singing) Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd.
SIMON: The new Broadway revival of "Sweeney Todd," which opened two weeks ago to rave reviews, sounds a little different.
(Soundbite of "Sweeney Todd")
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