Nonesuch has released the soundtrack to DreamWorks and Warner Bros. Pictures’ Tim Burton-directed Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. The film is an adaptation by John Logan of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s 1979 Tony Award-winning musical. It stars Johnny Depp (Sweeney Todd), Helena Bonham Carter (Mrs. Lovett), and Alan Rickman (Judge Turpin). Sweeney Todd will be in cinemas from 7 February 2008.Longtime Sondheim collaborators orchestrator Jonathan Tunick and music supervisor Paul Gemignani also worked on the soundtrack, which was produced by Mike Higham and recorded in London. Rounding out the cast - all of whom sing their own parts - are Timothy Spall (Beadle Bamford), Sacha Baron Cohen (Adolfo Pirelli), Jayne Wisener (Johanna), Jamie Campbell Bower (Anthony), Laura Michelle Kelly (Beggar Woman), and Edward Sanders (Tobias Ragg).
Sweeney Todd is based on the nineteenth century legend - from an adaptation by Christopher Bond - of a London barber who is driven to crime when a malevolent judge takes his wife and child from him. His plan for revenge includes a cut-throat partnership with Mrs. Lovett, an enterprising businesswoman, who is soon producing the tastiest meat pies in London.
Watch out for the soundtrack review on MovieXclusive.com soon!
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