Sweeney Todd
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They all deserve to die. Tell you why, Mrs. Lovett, tell you why! Because in all of the whole human race, Mrs. Lovett, there are two kinds of men and only two. There's the one staying put in his proper place and one with his foot in the other one's face. Look at me, Mrs Lovett! Look at you! No, we all deserve to die... Even you, Mrs Lovett, even I! Because the lives of the wicked should be made brief. For the rest of us death will be a relief. We all deserve to die... And I'll never see Johanna, no I'll never hug my girl to me... FINISHED!
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Sweeney Todd
[ending monologue; last lines]
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...
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There's a hole in the world like a great black pit, / And the vermin of the world inhabit it, / And its morals aren't worth what a pig could spit, / And it goes by the name of London. At the top of the hole sit a privileged few / Making mock of the vermin of the lower zoo. Turning beauty into filth and greed.
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Sweeney Todd
[singing]
Alright! You, sir? How about a shave? Come and visit your good friend Sweeney! You sir! Too, sir. Welcome to the grave... I will have vengeance. I will have salvation... Who, sir? You sir!No one's in the chair. Come on, come on! Sweeney's waiting. I want you bleeders. You sir? Anybody? Gentlemen, now don't be shy. Not one man... No, nor ten men... Nor a hundred can assuage me. I will have you! And I will get him back even as he gloats; In the meantime I'll practice on less honorable throats... And my Lucy lies in ashes, and I'll never see my girl again. But the work waits! I'm alive at last, and I'm full of joy!
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Sweeney Todd
The history of the world, my pet...
Mrs. Lovett
Oh, Mr. Todd! Ooh, Mr. Todd! Leave it to me!
Sweeney Todd
Is learn forgiveness and try to forget!
Mrs. Lovett
By the sea, Mr. Todd we'll be comfy-cozy / By the sea, Mr. Todd, where there's no one nosy!
Sweeney Todd
And life is for the alive, my dear / So let's keep living it.
Sweeney Todd
Sweeney Todd, Mrs. Lovett: Just keep living it! Really living it - !
Sweeney Todd
[Throws Mrs. Lovett into the oven]
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Mrs. Lovett
We could have a life we two, maybe not like you remember. Maybe not like I imagined. But we could get by.
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Sweeney Todd
[with a smile]
These are desperate times, Mrs. Lovett and desperate measures are called for...
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Sweeney Todd
[sings]
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... naive. / There was another man who saw / That she was beautiful, / A pious vulture of the law, / Who with a gesture of his claw / Removed the barber from his plate. / Then there was nothing but to wait / And she would fall, / So soft, / So young, / So lost, / And oh, so beautiful.
Anthony Hope
And the lady, sir, did she succumb?
[turns and speaks to Anthony]
Sweeney Todd
I'd like to thank you, Anthony. If you hadn't spotted me, I would be lost on the ocean still.
Anthony Hope
Will I see you again?
Sweeney Todd
You might find me, if you like, around Fleet Street, I wouldn't wonder.
[looks down the street]
[Sweeney ignores Anthony and walks down the street]
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Sweeney Todd
Noooooo! Would no one have mercy on her?
Mrs. Lovett
So it's you. Benjamin Barker
Sweeney Todd
Where's Lucy? Where's my wife?
Mrs. Lovett
She poisoned herself, arsenic from the apothecary round the corner, I tried to stop her, but she wouldn't listen to me, and he's got your daughter.
Sweeney Todd
He? Judge Turpin?
Sweeney Todd
15 years sweating, and living hell, for a false charge. 15 years dreaming I might come home to a wife and child.
Mrs. Lovett
Well, I can't say the years have been particularly kind to you, Mr. Barker.
Sweeney Todd
No, not Barker. That man is dead. It's Todd now. Sweeney Todd... and he will have his revenge.
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Johanna
If I cannot fly, let me sing...
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Anthony Hope
[singing in the first lines]
I have sailed the world, beheld its wonders, from the Dardanelles to the mountains of Peru. But there's no place like London.
Sweeney Todd
No, there's no place like London.
Sweeney Todd
You are young. Life has been kind to you. You will learn.
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Mrs. Lovett
[starts singing]
Wait! What's your rush? / What's your hurry? / You gave me such a... / Fright. I thought you was a ghost. / Half a minute, can'tcha? / Sit! Sit you down! Sit! / All I meant is that I / Haven't seen a customer for weeks. / Did you come in for a pie, sir? / Do forgive me if me head's a little vague... / What is that? / But you'd think we had the plague... / From the way people... / Keep avoiding... / No you don't! / Heaven knows I try, sir! / But there's no one comes in even to inhale... / Right you are, sir. Would you like a drop of ale? / Mind you, I can't hardly blame them.
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Sweeney Todd
You have a room over the shop, don't you? If times are so hard, why don't you rent it out?
Mrs. Lovett
People think it's haunted.
Sweeney Todd
Haunted?
Mrs. Lovett
Yeah. And who's to say they're wrong? You see, years ago, something happened up there. Something not very nice.
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Judge Turpin
How seldom it is one meets a fellow spirit.
Sweeney Todd
With fellow tastes... in women at least.
Sweeney 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.
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Sweeney Todd
What may I do for you today, sir? A stylish trimming of the hair? A soothing skin massage? Sit, sir, sit.
Judge Turpin
[singing]
You see, sir, a man infatuate with love, her ardent and eager slave. So fetch the pomade and pumice stone and lend me a more seductive tone, a sprinkling perhaps of French cologne, but first, sir, I think... a shave.
Sweeney Todd
The closest I ever gave.
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Mrs. Lovett
Barker, his name was. Benjamin Barker.
Sweeney Todd
What was his crime?
Mrs. Lovett
Foolishness.
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Mrs. Lovett
[sings]
Mrs. Mooney has a pie shop, / Does a business, but I noticed something weird: / Lately all her neighbor's cats have disappeared. / Have to hand it to her, / What I calls / Enterprise / Popping pussies into pies. / Wouldn't do in my shop; / Just the thought of it's enough to make you sick. / And I'm telling you, them pussycats is quick.
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Anthony Hope
[Johanna is being hauled off to the asylum]
Where are you taking her? Tell me or I'll...
Judge Turpin
You'll kill me, boy? Well here I stand!
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Mrs. Lovett
Yes, yes, I know, my love.
Sweeney Todd
We'll take the customers that we can get.
Mrs. Lovett
High-born and low, my love.
Sweeney Todd
We'll not discriminate great from small. / No, we'll serve anyone...
Sweeney Todd
Sweeney Todd, Mrs. Lovett: Meaning/We'll serve anyone, / And to anyone at all!
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Toby
Let Pirelli's / Miracle Elixir / Activate your roots, sir...
Sweeney Todd
Keep it off your boots, sir- / Eats right through.
Toby
Yes, get Pirelli's! / Use a bottle of it! / Ladies seem to love it...
Mrs. Lovett
Flies do, too!
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Sweeney Todd
What is THAT?
Mrs. Lovett
[sings]
Sir, it's too good, at least. Then again, they don't commit sins of the flesh... so it's pretty fresh.
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Mrs. Lovett
What, Mr. Todd? What, Mr. Todd? What is that sound?
Sweeney Todd
Those crunching noises pervading the air!
Mrs. Lovett
Yes, Mr. Todd! Yes, Mr. Todd! It's all around!
Sweeney Todd
It's man devouring man, my dear!
Sweeney Todd
Sweeney Todd, Mrs. Lovett: And/Then who are we to deny it in here?
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Sweeney Todd
"Don't I know you?" she said. You knew she lived!
Mrs. Lovett
I was only thinking of you!
Mrs. Lovett
Said she took the poison, she did, / Never said that she died. / Poor thing, she lived...
Mrs. Lovett
But it left her weak in the head, / All she did for months was just lie there in bed...
Mrs. Lovett
Should've been in hospital, / Wound up in Bedlam instead, / Poor thing!
Mrs. Lovett
Better you should think she was dead. / Yes, I lied 'cause I love you!
Mrs. Lovett
I'd be twice the wife she was!
[he turns toward Mrs. Lovett in anger]
Sweeney 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
Do you mean it?
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Beggar Woman
[to Sweeney]
'ey, don't I know you, mister?
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Judge Turpin
You're in a merry mood today, Mr. Todd.
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Beggar Woman
[singing about Todd and Mrs. Lovett's incinerator]
Smoke! Smoke! Sign of the devil! Sign of the devil! City on fire!
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Sweeney Todd
What is that?
Mrs. Lovett
It's fop, / Finest in the shop. / Or we have shepherd's pie peppered with actual shepherd on top. And I've just begun. Here's the politician, so oily it's served on a doily, have one.
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Sweeney Todd
Pretty women.
Judge Turpin
Silhouetted.
Sweeney Todd
Stay within you.
Judge Turpin
Glancing.
Sweeney Todd
Stay forever.
Judge Turpin
Breathing lightly.
Sweeney Todd
Pretty women.
Sweeney Todd
Sweeney Todd, Judge Turpin: Pretty women!
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Anthony Hope
You wait for him here. I'll return with a coach in less than half an hour. Don't worry no one'll recognize you. You're safe now.
Johanna
Safe? So we run away and then all our dreams come true?
Anthony Hope
I hope so.
Johanna
I've never had dreams. Only nightmares.
Anthony Hope
Johanna... when we're free of this place, all the ghosts will go away.
Johanna
No, Anthony. They never go away.
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Toby
[Toby invites customers to the pie shop; "God, That's Good" begins]
Ladies and gentlemen, / May I have your attention, puh-lease? / Are your nostrils aquiver and tingling as well / At that delicate, luscious ambrosial smell? / Yes they are, I can tell. / Well, ladies and gentlemen, / That aroma enriching the breeze / Is like nothing compared to its succulen source, / As the gourmets among you will tell you, of course. / Ladies and gentlemen, / You can't imagine the rapture in store... / Just inside of this door!
[Goes into the pie shop]
Toby
There you'll sample / Mrs. Lovett's meat pies, / Savory and sweet pies, / As you'll see. / You who eat pies, / Mrs. Lovett's meat pies / Conjure up the treat pies / Used to be!
Mrs. Lovett
Toby!
Toby
Coming!
Mrs. Lovett
Ale there!
Toby
Right, mum!
Mrs. Lovett
Quick, now! / Nice to see you, dearie, / How have you been keeping? / Cor, me bones is weary! / Toby! One for the gentleman... / Hear the birdies cheeping - / Helps to keep it cheery... / Toby! / Throw the old woman out! /... What's my secret? / Frankly, dear - forgive my candor - / Family secret, / All to do with herbs. / Things like being / Careful with your coriander, / That's what makes the gravy grander!
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Judge Turpin
Oh yes... such practices. The Geishas of Japan, the concubines of Siam, the catamites of Greece, the harlots of India. I have them all here, drawings of them. Everything you've ever dreamed of doing with a woman. Would you like to see?
Anthony Hope
I think there's been some mistake.
Judge Turpin
I think not. You gandered at my ward, Johanna. You gandered at her. YES, sir, you gandered!
Anthony Hope
I meant no harm.
Judge Turpin
Your meaning is immaterial. Mark me! If I see your face again on this street, you'll rue the day you were born.
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Mrs. Lovett
Mr. T, you didn't!
[looks into the chest, sees Pirelli's dead body and gasps. Shuts it]
Mrs. Lovett
You're barking mad! Killing a man what done ya no harm!
Sweeney Todd
[polishing his razor]
He recognized me from the old days. Tried to blackmail me. Half me earnings.
Mrs. Lovett
[relieved]
Oh, well that's a different matter then. For a moment there I thought you lost your marbles.
[opens the chest again and stares]
Mrs. Lovett
Ugh! All that blood. Poor bugger. Oh well!
[looks through Pirelli's jacket before removing his money pouch and examining its contents]
Mrs. Lovett
Well, waste not, want not!
[tucks it into her bodice]
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Signor Adolfo Pirelli
[singing]
I am Adolfo Pirelli, da king of da barbers, da barber of kings, e buon giorno, good day. I blow you a kiss! And I, the so famous Pirelli, I wish-a to know who has-a da nerve-a to say my Elixir is piss! Who says this?
Sweeney Todd
I do. I'm Mr. Sweeney Todd from Fleet Street. I have opened a bottle of Pirelli's Elixir and I say to you, it is nothing but an errant fraud, concocted from piss and ink. And furthermore, "Signor", I have serviced no kings, yet I wager that I can shave a cheek with ten times more dexterity than any street mountebank.
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Mrs. Lovett
That lad is drinking me out o' house an' home.
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Sweeney Todd
Now, with a sigh / You grow warm in my hand.
Sweeney Todd
My friend.
Sweeney Todd
My clever friend.
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Mrs. Lovett
[sings about Benjamin Barker]
He had this wife, you see, / Pretty little thing. / Silly little nit / Had her chance for the moon on a string... / Poor thing. Poor thing. / There was this Judge, you see, / Wanted her like mad. / Every day he'd send her a flower, / But did she come down from her tower? / Sat up there and sobbed by the hour, / Poor fool. / Ah, but there was worse yet to come... / Poor thing.
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Sweeney Todd
[singing about razors]
These are my friends. / See how they glisten. / See this one shine, / How he smiles in the light. / My friend, my faithful friend. / Speak to me, friend. / Whisper, I'll listen. / I know, I know- / You've been locked out of sight all these years- / Like me, my friend. / Well, I've come home / To find you waiting. / Home, and we're together, / And we'll do wonders, won't we?
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Johanna
[after Turpin discovers her packing]
Sir, a gentleman knocks before entering a lady's room.
Judge Turpin
Indeed, he does, but I see no lady. I told myself the sailor was lying, that my Johanna would never betray me, never hurt me so.
Johanna
Sir, I will leave this place.
Judge Turpin
I think that's only appropriate since you no longer find my company to your liking.
[the Beadle appears at the door]
Judge Turpin
We shall provide you with new lodgings. Until this moment I have spared the rod. But the ungrateful child has broken my heart. When you've learned to appreciate what you have done, perhaps we shall meet again. Until then, think on your sins.
[the Beadle takes Johanna away by force]
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Judge Turpin
I have news for you, my friend. In order to shield her from the evils of this world, I have decided to marry my dear Johanna.
Beadle
Ah, sir, happy news indeed.
Judge Turpin
Strange, though, when I offered myself to her, she showed a certain reluctance.
Beadle
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Excuse me, my lord. / May I request, my lord, / Permission, my lord, to speak? / Forgive me if I suggest, my lord, / You're looking less than your best, my lord, / There's powder upon your vest, my lord, / And stubble upon your cheek. / And ladies, my lord, are weak.
Judge Turpin
Stubble, you say? Perhaps I am a little overhasty in the morning.
Beadle
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Fret not though, my lord, / I know a place, my lord, / A barber, my lord, of skill. / Thus armed with a shaven face, my lord, / Some eau de cologne to brace my lord / And musk to enhance the chase, my lord, / You'll dazzle the girl until...
Judge Turpin
Until?
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Mrs. Lovett
So what are we gonna do about the boy?
Sweeney Todd
Send him up!
Mrs. Lovett
No, Mr. T. Surely one's enough for today. Besides, I was thinking of hiring the lad to help me run the shop. Your poor knees aren't what they used to be.
Sweeney Todd
All right.
Mrs. Lovett
Of course, we're gonna have to stock up on the gin. Boy's drinking like a sailor.
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Sweeney Todd
What for?
Signor Adolfo Pirelli
Because you entered our little wager under false pretense. So as you don't make the same mistake again, I'll be taking half your profits from herewith, share and share alike. Is that alright... Mr. Benjamin Barker?
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[Judge Turpin leaves from the barbershop thanks to Anthony's blundering]
Anthony Hope
Mr. Todd... you have to help me!
[Anthony runs out, and Mrs. Lovett hurries in]
Mrs. Lovett
There, there, dear, calm down...
Sweeney Todd
No! I had him! His throat was there, and now he'll never come again!
Sweeney Todd
*When*?
Mrs. Lovett
What's your rush?
Sweeney Todd
Why did I wait? / You told me to wait! / Now he'll never come again!
[he goes toward the window and looks at it]
Sweeney Todd
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, / But not for loooong!
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Sweeney Todd
And who may it be said is your intended, sir?
Judge Turpin
My ward... and pretty as a rosebud.
Sweeney Todd
Pretty as her mother?
Sweeney Todd
Nothing, sir. Nothing. May we proceed?
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Sweeney Todd
Is those below serving those up above.
Mrs. Lovett
Everybody shaves, so there should be plenty of flavors.
Sweeney Todd
How gratifying for once to know...
Sweeney Todd
Sweeney Todd, Mrs. Lovett: That those above will serve those down below!
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Anthony Hope
[sings]
I feel you, Johanna, / I feel you. / Do they think that walls can hide you? / Even now I'm at your window. / I am in the dark beside you, / Buried sweetly in your yellow hair, / Johanna...
Sweeney Todd
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And are you beautiful and pale, / With yellow hair, like her? / I want you beautiful and pale, / The way I've dreamed you were, / Johanna...
Anthony Hope
Johanna...
Sweeney Todd
And if you're beautiful, what then, / With yellow hair, like wheat? / I think we shall not meet again, / My little dove, my sweet Johanna...
Anthony Hope
I'll steal you, Johanna...
Sweeney Todd
Goodbye, Johanna. / You're gone, and yet you're mine. / I'm fine, Johanna, / I'm fine.
Anthony Hope
Johanna...
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Sweeney Todd
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And if I never hear your voice, / My turtledove, my dear, / I still have reason to rejoice: / The way ahead is clear, / Johanna...
Sweeney Todd
And in that darkness when I'm blind / With what I can't forget / It's always morning in my mind, / My little lamb, my pet, / Johanna... / You stay, Johanna, / The way I've dreamed you are. / Oh look, Johanna, / A star! / A shooting star!
Anthony Hope
Buried sweetly in your yellow hair...
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Sweeney Todd
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And though I'll think of you, I guess, / Until the day I die, / I think I miss you less and less / As every day goes by, / Johanna...
Sweeney Todd
And you'd be beautiful and pale, / And look too much like her. / If only angels could prevail, / We'd be the way we were, / Johanna...
Anthony Hope
I feel you, Johanna...
Sweeney Todd
Wake up, Johanna! / Another bright red day! / We learn, Johanna, / To say / Goodbye...
Anthony Hope
I'll steal you...
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[the shaving contest has just started]
Signor Adolfo Pirelli
Now, signorini, signori, / We mix-a da lather / But first-a you gather / Around, signorini, signori, / You looking a man / Who have had-a da glory / To shave-a da Pope! / Mr. Sweeney whoever - / I beg-a your pardon - 'll / Probably say it was only a cardinal... / Nope! / It was-a da Pope!
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[Anthony barges into the barbershop, not realizing that Todd and the Judge are there]
Anthony Hope
Mr. Todd! I'm running away with Johanna! She'll marry me Sunday!
[He stops short as he sees the judge in the barber's chair]
Anthony Hope
[the Judge hears this and gets angry]
Judge Turpin
You... there is indeed a higher power to warn me thus in time.
[wipes his face and goes to Anthony]
Judge Turpin
Johanna, elope with you? I'll make sure that neither you nor any other man shall ever set eyes in her again!
[turns to Todd]
Judge Turpin
And as for you, barber... that's all too clear what company you keep! Serve them well and hold their custom, for you'll have none of mine!
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Mrs. Lovett
[continues singing]
No denying times is hard, sir - / Even harder than the worst pies in London. / Only lard and nothing more - / Is that just revolting? / All greasy and gritty, / It looks like it's molting, / And tastes like - / Well, pity / A woman alone / With limited wind / And the worst pies in London! / Ah sir, / Times is hard. Times is hard.
Mrs. Lovett
[finishes singing]
Trust me, dearie, it's gonna take a lot more than ale to wash that taste out. Come with me; we'll get you a nice tumbler of gin, eh?
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Signor Adolfo Pirelli
To shave-a da face/ To trim-a da beard/ To make-a da bristle/ Clean like a whistle/ Dis is from early infancy/ Da talent give to me/ By God./ It take-a da skill/ It take-a da brains/ It take-a da will/ To take-a da pains!/ It take-a da pace/ It take-a da graaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaace!
Beadle
And the winner is Todd!
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[from trailer]
Anthony Hope
[comes rushing in looking for Sweeney only to see Mrs.Lovett]
Oh, I'm sorry. Excuse me...
Mrs. Lovett
Mrs.Lovett, son.
Anthony Hope
A pleasure, ma'am.
[he finally see's Sweeney]
Anthony Hope
[really quickly]
Mr.Todd, there's a girl who needs my help. Such a sad girl, and lonely but beautiful to and...
Anthony Hope
[sits down]
Yes, I'm sorry. This girl has a guardian who keeps her locked away, but then this morning she dropped this
[holds up a key]
Anthony Hope
surely a sign that Johanna wants me to help her. That's her name, Johanna, and Turpin is her guardian. He's a judge of some sort. Once he goes to court, I'm going to skip into the house, release her, and beg her to come away with me tonight!
Mrs. Lovett
Oh, this is very romantic.
[he turns back to Todd]
Anthony Hope
But I don't know anyone in London, you see, and I need somewhere safe to bring her until I've hired a coach to take us away. If I could keep her just for an hour or two, I'd be forever in your debt.
Mrs. Lovett
Bring her 'ere, love.
Anthony Hope
[to Todd]
Anthony Hope
Mr.Todd...?
Sweeney Todd
[Sweeney can only nod in agreement]
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Anthony Hope
Is everything alright, Mister Todd?
Sweeney Todd
I beg your indulgence, Anthony. My mind is far from easy. In these once familiar streets I feel shadows... everywhere...
Anthony Hope
Shadows?
Sweeney Todd
...Ghosts.
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Sweeney Todd
And I will get him back even as he gloats in the mean time I'll practice on less honorable throats, and my Lucy lies in ashes and I'll never see my girl again!
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Signor Adolfo Pirelli
Mr.Todd?
Sweeney Todd
Signor Pirelli.
Signor Adolfo Pirelli
[reverting to a Cockney accent]
Call me Davy. Davy Collins is the name when it isn't professional.
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[Sweeney Todd and Mrs. Lovett buy what appears to be Pirelli's Miracle Elixir]
Mrs. Lovett
What is this?
Sweeney Todd
Smells like piss.
Sweeney Todd
Looks like piss.
Sweeney Todd
This is piss. / Piss with ink.
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Man in street - greets Todd after competition
Congratulations, Mr. Todd. May I ask you, sir, do you have your own establishment?
Mrs. Lovett
He certainly does. Sweeney Todd's Tonsorial Parlor, above my Meat Pie Emporium in Fleet Street.
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Sweeney Todd
Soon I'll unfold you.
Sweeney Todd
Soon you'll know...
Sweeney Todd
Sweeney Todd, Mrs. Lovett: [in harmony] Splendors you never have dreamed all your days...
Mrs. Lovett
Will be yours. I'm your friend.
Mrs. Lovett
And you're mine.
Sweeney Todd
Till now your shine...
Mrs. Lovett
Don't they shine beautiful?
Sweeney Todd
You shall drip rubies, / You'll soon drip precious rubies...
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Sweeney Todd
At your service... an honor to receive your patronage, my lord.
Judge Turpin
Do you know me, sir?
Sweeney Todd
Who in this wide world does not know the great Judge Turpin?
Judge Turpin
These premises are hardly prepossessing. And yet the Beadle tells me you're the most accomplished of all the barbers in the city.
Sweeney Todd
That is gracious of him, sir.
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Mrs. Lovett
I was only thinking of you.
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Mrs. Lovett
Everything I did I swear I thought was only for the best!
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Mrs. Lovett
We could have a life, us two. Maybe not like I dreamed. Maybe not like you remember. But we could get by.
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Sweeney Todd
And though I'll think of you, I guess, until the day I die, I think I miss you less and less as every day goes by!
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Toby
[to man in the audience]
Let Pirelli's activate your root, sir.
Toby
Yes, get Pirelli's. Use a bottle of it. Ladies seem to love it.
Mrs. Lovett
Flies do too.
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Beadle
[after the judge has sentenced a boy to death by hangin]
Thank you, your honor, just the sentence we wanted.
Judge Turpin
Was he guilty?
Beadle
Well, if not, he'd certainly done something to warrant a hanging.
Judge Turpin
What man has not?
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Sweeney Todd
At last! My arm is complete again.
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Mrs. Lovett
Hold it! / Bless my eyes - / Fresh supplies!
[a customer walks up to Todd's barbershop]
Mrs. Lovett
How's about it, dearie? / Be here in a twinkling!
Toby
[unison]
Is that a pie / Fit for a king...
Mrs. Lovett
Just confirms my theory.
Toby
[unison]
A wonrdous sweet...
Mrs. Lovett
Toby...! God watches over us.
Toby
[unison]
And most delectable thing?
Mrs. Lovett
Didn't have an inkling...
Toby
[unison]
You see, ma'am...
Mrs. Lovett
Positively eerie...
Toby
[unison]
Why there is no meat pie...
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Judge Turpin
Pretty women... wearing dresses...
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Mrs. Lovett
A Customer!
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Sweeney Todd
[singing] Pretty women, Fascinating, Sipping coffee, Dancing, Pretty women, Are a wonder, Pretty women, Sitting in the window or, Standing on the stair, Something in them, Cheers the air...
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Mrs. Lovett
How long till Pirelli gets back?
Sweeney Todd
[cleaning his razor] He won't be back.
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Mrs. Lovett
[singing] I mean, with the price of meat what it is, When you get it, If you get it
Sweeney Todd
Ahh...
Mrs. Lovett
Good, you got it...
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Beggar Woman
[singing] Beadle? Beadle? Beadle, dear Beadle? Beadle deedle deedle deedle deedle dumpling, Beadle dumpling...
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Johanna
[singing] How can you remain, Staring at the rain, Maddened by the stars?
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Anthony Hope
It's very large on the map, but I keep getting lost.
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Beggar Woman
That's Johanna, his pretty little ward. Keeps her snug, he does. All locked up. So don't you go trespassing there or it's a good whipping for you - or any other young man with mischief on his mind.
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Mrs. Lovett
Come in. Nothing to be afraid of, love.
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Anthony Hope
It's embarrassing for a sailor to lose his bearings, but - there you are.
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Judge Turpin
A sailor must know the ways of the world, yes? Must be practiced in the ways of the world. Would you say you were practiced, boy?
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Mrs. Lovett
[singing] Time's so fast, Now goes quickly, See, now it's past, Soon will come...
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Mrs. Lovett
[singing] Wait, I've been thinking flowers, Maybe daisies, To brighten up the room, Don't you think some flowers, Pretty daisies, Might relieve the gloom? Ah, wait, Love, wait...
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Mrs. Lovett
Can't you think of nothing else? Always brooding away on your wrongs and what happened heaven knows how many years ago.
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Mrs. Lovett
Seems like the Fates are favoring you at last, Mr. T.
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Mrs. Lovett
[singing] Gillyflowers, maybe, 'Stead of daisies, I don't know, though, What do you think?
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Mrs. Lovett
I like to see a man with a healthy appetite. Reminds me of my dear Albert. Liked to gorge himself to bloatation, he did.
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Mrs. Lovett
[singing] Wait, Don't you know, Silly man, Half the fun is to plan the plan? All good things, Come to those who can, Wait...
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Mrs. Lovett
Would you look at it now? You wouldn't mind if I gave it a nice juicy meat pie, would you?
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Mrs. Lovett
You ought to slow down a bit, lad. It'll go straight to your head.
Toby
[pouring another glass of gin] They used to give it to us in the workhouse so as we could sleep. Not that you'd want to sleep in that place, ma'am. Not with the things that would happen in the dark.
Mrs. Lovett
That's nice, dear.
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Judge Turpin
Take me to him.
Beadle
His name is Todd, my lord, and he is the very last word in barbering.
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Mrs. Lovett
[singing] No one should swallow it twice...
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Sweeney Todd
[singing] Awful lot of fat
Mrs. Lovett
Only where it sat...
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Mrs. Lovett
[singing] Business needs a lift, Debts to be erased, Think of it as thrift, as a gift, If you get my drift...
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Mrs. Lovett
[singing] Now a pussy's good for, Maybe six or seven at the most, And I'm sure they can't compare as far as taste
Sweeney Todd
Mrs. Lovett, what a charming notion...
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Mrs. Lovett
[singing] A seaside wedding could be devised, Me rumpled bedding legitimized, Me eyelids'll flutter, I'll turn into butter, The moment I mutter, "I do!"...
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Mrs. Lovett
[singing] Mr. Todd, I'm so happy, I could eat you up, I really could, You know what I'd like to do, Mr. Todd?
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Sweeney Todd
Why don't you come upstairs? Let me pamper you.
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Toby
[singing] Demons are prowling everywhere nowadays...
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Mr. Fogg
Brunettes. Redheads. I keep the blondes in here. It was yellow hair you was looking for, sir?
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