Are you ready for some Stephen Sondheim dense melodies about a murderous barber that looks like the older, decrepit uncle of Edward Scissorhands?
Of course you are. As you surely know by know (and as we’ve reported) Johnny Depp is playing the singing, bloody barber in Tim Burton’s adaptation of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s 1979 Tony Award–winning musical “Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street.”
The soundtrack is due December 18 and the macabre musical and typically goth film hit theaters December 21. As for those inelegant melodies, even Depp thinks they’re hard to take, not to mention hard to sing. “It’s really obtuse stuff. When you start to take those pieces apart, melody line by melody line, it’s a lot of half-steps, which is not real easy to do,” Depp told EW recently. “Kind of go G to A-flat to A to B-flat. It’s super, ultra complicated, these notes that shouldn’t work together at times. But he made them so.”
Nothing like shoe-horning in melodies. Oh yeah, Depp skipped any formal training for this one too.
The cast, who sing all their parts, include aside from Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman, and Sacha Baron Cohen among others. Eager nerdlinger fans of this soundtrack have already been taking parts of the audio and making their own videos on youtube (other examples below).
Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street tracklist
01. Opening Title
02. No Place Like London
03. The Worst Pies in London
04. Poor Thing
05. My Friends
06. Green Finch & Linnett Bird
07. Alms Alms
08. Johanna
09. Pirelli’s Miracle Elixir
10. The Contest
11. Wait
12. Ladies and Their Sensitivities
13. Pretty Women
14. Epiphany
15. A Little Priest
16. Johanna
17. God, That’s Good!
18. By the Sea
19. Not While I’m Around
20.Final Scene
Watch/Listen: Epiphany by Johnny Depp
