The complete music for the up-coming Tim Burton
movie-musical adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd is available now for Pre-Order on Amazon.com.
The 2-CD complete soundtrack features bonus
content in a specially-packaged deluxe edition with bound booklet. The soundtrack is set for release December 18, 2007 under
the Wea/Atlantic/Nonesuch label.
Sweeney Todd will open nation-wide December 21, 2007. Sweeney Todd,
a co-production between DreamWorks and Warner Bros., marks the 6th
collaboration between the Depp and Burton.
Production began on February 5th, 2007.
The film stars Johnny Depp
as Sweeney Todd with Helena Bonham
Carter as Mrs. Lovett, Alan Rickman
as Judge Turpin, Jayne Wisener as Johanna and Sacha Baran Cohen as Pirelli, as
well as Jamie Bower as Anthony, Ed Sanders as Tobias, Timothy Spall as Beadle
Bamford, Laura Michelle
Kelly as the Beggar Woman, with Christopher
Lee, Michael N. Harbour, Peter Bowles,
Anthony Head
and Ian Burford.
Walter Parkes and Laurie MacDonald partner with Richard Zanuck and John Logan
to produce the screenplay adaptation which is written by Logan (The Aviator, Gladiator). Paramount will distribute for DreamWorks
domestically and Warner Bros. internationally.
The story of Sweeney
Todd is of a wrongfully imprisoned barber in Victorian England who sets out
to seek revenge on the judge who imprisoned him. He is helped by Mrs. Lovett,
who bakes Sweeney's victims into "the worst pies in London."
The Broadway production of Sweeney Todd, with Stephen
Sondheim's music and lyrics and a book by Hugh Wheeler based on the play by
Christopher Bond, opened in 1979 and won eight Tony Awards, including Best
Musical. "Its mix of the comic, the dramatic and the macabre held together
by Sondheim's movie-like score has had hundreds of productions throughout the
world," according to press notes. John Doyle's
highly acclaimed revival (for which he won a Tony) recently played the Eugene
O'Neill Theatre; Michael
Cerveris and Patti LuPone
starred.
