Product Description

Sweeney Todd won eight Tony Awards when it debuted on Broadway in 1979, including Best Score and Best Musical. With music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, Sweeney Todd returned to Broadway in 2005 and was made into a movie in 2007.

There are 32 tracks on this album: Tracks 1-16 contain the background tracks and guide vocals; tracks 17-32 contain the accompaniment tracks alone. This album is a re-recording in the original show key and show tempo.

There are no on-screen lyrics or lyric booklet provided.

Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. The Ballad of Sweeney Todd (complete track)
2. The Worst Pies in London (complete track)
3. Poor Thing (complete track)
4. My Friends (complete track)
5. Green Finch and Linnet Bird (complete track)
6. Johanna (Anthony) (complete track)
7. Wait (complete track)
8. Kiss Me / Ladies in their Sensitivities / Kiss Me (pt. II) (complete track)
9. Pretty Women (complete track)
10. Epiphany (complete track)
11. A Little Priest (complete track)
12. God, That's Good! (complete track)
13. Johanna (Todd) (complete track)
14. By the Sea (complete track)
15. Not While I'm Around (complete track)
16. The Ballad of Sweeney Todd (reprise) (complete track)

Disc 2:

1. The Ballad of Sweeney Todd (accompaniment track)
2. The Worst Pies in London (accompaniment track)
3. Poor Thing (accompaniment track)
4. My Friends (accompaniment track)
5. Green Finch and Linnet Bird (accompaniment track)
6. Johanna (Anthony) (accompaniment track)
7. Wait (accompaniment track)
8. Kiss Me / Ladies in their Sensitivities / Kiss Me (pt. II) (accompaniment track)
9. Pretty Women (accompaniment track)
10. Epiphany (accompaniment track)
11. A Little Priest (accompaniment track)
12. God, That's Good! (accompaniment track)
13. Johanna (Todd) (accompaniment track)
14. By the Sea (accompaniment track)
15. Not While I'm Around (accompaniment track)
16. The Ballad of Sweeney Todd (reprise) (accompaniment track)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #142126 in Music
• Released on: 2007-12-20
• Number of discs: 2
• Dimensions: .25 pounds

Customer Reviews

Sweeney Karaoke
This is a great recording! My daughter and her friends are putting on a ST production for fun, and this will be a great addition. The music is very well done, and the practice singers are all fine.

Great Accompaniment
This is a really great product, especially because Sweeney karaoke tracks are hard to come by. The instrumentation and quality of the songs is impressive, and they are in both the original keys and tempos. I'd recommend this product to anyone rehearsing for a production of the show or for any fan wanting to sing-along to a great, classic musical!

Excellant Orchestration
I bought this CD bc I needed to perform a song from it for a Musical Review and needed a good accompaniment. This CD did just that. The Orchestrations and tempos are very accurate to the Original Cast Recording and do well for supplying a professional sounding back-up track.

That being said, I must say I was just a tad disappointed when I heard the very synthesized brass blaring at the beginning of "God, That's Good!". This particular recording uses keyboards and computers to reproduce the score. Although you can't really tell for the most part, sometimes it can be rather obvious. The singers are a tad annoying here as well. They are very good singers, however, they really aren't acting the role well. They play their charecters undeveloped and sound like they don't really know what their charecter is doing or feeling. I know it's not a Cast Recording and they aren't supposed to be acting it, but it's still irritating when any performace of "A Little Preist" feels hollow and unfun. Also, the CD boasts being in the same Keys and Tempos of the Original Cast Recording, the very beginning of "Pretty Women" is obiously slower. Although I prefer the slower recording, I was surprised that they made a change after making such a blatent claim.

In Conclusion, The CD works well for what it is intended for, but not much else.