"A Little Priest" Opening Night - Sweeney Todd OBC (Audio Only)

This is supposedly the recorded audio taken of "A Little Priest" from Sweeney Todd's opening night on Broadway back in March 1979 - performed of course by Angela Lansbury and Len Cariou. For whatever reason these opening night clips were taken off of YouTube, so I thought I'd put this one back up along with some old photos of the original production.

If this clip violates any copyright laws or anything I will surely remove it upon request. For entertainment purposes only. I did not record this.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Sweeney
• Todd
• Little
• Priest
• Stephen
• Sondheim
• Angela
• Lansbury
• Len
• Cariou
• Victor
• Garber
• Sarah
• Rice
• Edmund
• Lyndeck

[grhmdove93]

where did you get these photos from?

[JourneysEnd99]

Either from the internet or I scanned the rest from various books I have that feature the show. There are still some more photos in them that I didn't use. If you want the names of the books send me a message.

[grhmdove93]

Give me the names of the books please

[JourneysEnd99]

I just sent you a pm

[machunski]

The audience was amazing in this. That was the first audience to hear any of these songs. Very interesting.

Thank you so much for posting this. :) I really enjoyed it.

[jgmes2001]

I love the guy in the audience going "Ho ho ho" halfway through!

[spotoftrouble]

This recording shows the good old laugh you should get from it :') I'd love to watch Sweeney with an audience like that :D

[tagdam1]

Thank you for posting this!

[tagdam1]

@HipHopInHD The String of Pearls

[HipHopInHD]

Is Sweeney Todd a book too?

[EkseteraEksetera]

@innergogo Thanx me too (maybe i'll try and get my school to stage it, would be epic)

[innergogo]

@EkseteraEksetera I've been lucky, I've seen it on stage twice. Two very different productions, but each was terrific. Wish I could've seen Lansbury as Mrs. L., though. I do like the movie too. Hope you get to see it on stage!

[EkseteraEksetera]

@innergogo To each their own i though Helena was amazing and very funny and dark humoured. But this is good too. I love the movie though, brilliant musical- would love to see it on stage,

[innergogo]

@evaevita1919 Yeah, that was the point of the character. Read Sondheim. He considered Mrs. L the true villain of the piece.

Lansbury's Mrs. Lovett is a brilliant and appropriate parody of music hall shallow, sentimental types. Chill, evaevita1919. There's room for more than one interpretation of the character. (Though I thought Helena Bonham Carter's Mrs. L. in Burton's movie didn't work very well. Too humorless .)

[Wagnerlover777]

@evaevita1919 First off, you're way off-base comparing the two. Secondly, Lupone did a good job, but Lansbury was the FIRST. Every performance following it was compared to hers. She played it as a comic character gone wrong, while Lupone took it more seriously, and while it may have been a tragedy musical, it had enough (basically countless) places to insert comedy and Lansbury took them that way.