Michael Ball and Imelda Staunton - Sweeney Todd

      ‘Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street’ é uma peça de teatro musical inspirada no livro de Hugh Wheeler, com música e adaptação de Stephen Sondheim, cujo enredo se baseia numa lenda local criada por Christopher Bond. Em 2007, a peça esteve em cena na Broadway e recentemente foi adaptada ao cinema.

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Mrs. Lovett: Business needs a lift, debts to be erased. Think of it as thrift, as a gift! If you get my drift... No, seems an awful waste... I mean, with the price of meat. What it is, when you get it... if you get it...

Sweeney Todd: "ah!"

Mrs. Lovett: good, you got it! Take for instance, Mrs. Mooney and her pie shop! Business never better, using only pussycats and toast! 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!

Mrs. Lovett: Well, it does seem a waste...

Sweeney Todd: Eminently practical and yet appropriate as always! Mrs. Lovett, how I live did without you all these years I'll never know! How delectable! Also undetectable! How choice! How rare!

Mrs. Lovett: Think about it! Lots of other gentlemen'll soon be comin' for a shave. Won't they? Think of all them pies!

Sweeney Todd: What's the sound of the world out there?

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! Yes, all around!

Sweeney Todd: It's man devouring man, my dear

Both: And who are we to deny it in here?

Mrs. Lovett: It's priest. Have a little priest

Sweeney Todd: Is it really good?

Mrs. Lovett: Sir, it's too good, at least! Then again, they don't commit sins of the flesh. So it's pretty fresh

Sweeney Todd: Awful lot of fat?

Mrs. Lovett: Only where it sat.

Sweeney Todd: Haven't you got poet or something like that?

Mrs. Lovett: No, you see, the trouble with poet is, how do you know it's deceased? Try the priest!

Mrs. Lovett: "Lawyer's rather nice"

Sweeney Todd: If it's for a price.

Mrs. Lovett: Order something else, though, to follow since no one should swallow it twice!

Sweeney Todd: Anything that's lean?

Mrs. Lovett: Well, then, if you're British and loyal. You might enjoy royal marine! Anyway, it's clean. Though of course, it tastes of wherever it's been!

Sweeney Todd: Is that squire. On the fire?

Mrs. Lovett: Mercy no, sir, look closer, you'll notice it's grocer!

Sweeney Todd: Looks thicker more like vicar!

Mrs. Lovett: No, it has to be grocer... It's green!

Sweeney Todd: The history of the world, my love...

Mrs. Lovett: Save a lot of graves. Do a lot of relatives favours.

Sweeney Todd: Is those below serving those up above!

Mrs. Lovett: Everybody shaves. So there should be plenty of flavours!

Sweeney Todd: How gratifying for once to know

Both: That those above will serve those down below!

Sweeney Todd: "What is that?"

Mrs. Lovett: It's fop, finest in the shop or we have some shepherd's pie peppered with actual shepherd on top! And i've just begun... Here's the politician, so oily. It's served with a doily. Have one!

Sweeney Todd: Put it on a bun. Well, you never know if it's going to run!

Mrs. Lovett: Try the friar Fried, it's drier!

Sweeney Todd: No, the clergy is really too coarse and too mealy!

Mrs. Lovett: Then actor. It's compacter!

Sweeney Todd: Yes and always arrives overdone. I'll come again when you have judge on the menu! Have charity towards the world, my pet!

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… meaning anyone.

Mrs. Lovett: We'll serve anyone

Both: And to anyone, at all!