Original Broadway Cast of Sweeney Todd & Len Cariou
Len Cariou, Victor Garber & Merle Louise
Len Cariou
Angela Lansbury
Angela Lansbury
Len Cariou & Angela Lansbury
Original Broadway Cast of Sweeney Todd
Sarah Rice
Sarah Rice, Victor Garber & Merle Louise
Victor Garber
Original Broadway Cast of Sweeney Todd
Joaquin Romaguera
Original Broadway Cast of Sweeney Todd
Angela Lansbury
Cris Groenendaal, Frank Kopyc & Richard Warren Pugh
Edmund Lyndeck
Sarah Rice & Victor Garber
Jack Eric Williams, Edmund Lyndeck, Victor Garber & Sarah Rice
Len Cariou & Edmund Lyndeck
Len Cariou & Angela Lansbury
Len Cariou & Angela Lansbury
Original Broadway Cast of Sweeney Todd & Ken Jennings & Angela Lansbury & Len Cariou
Len Cariou, Victor Garber, Merle Louise & Sarah Rice
Len Cariou & Angela Lansbury
Original Broadway Cast of Sweeney Todd & Victor Garber & Len Cariou
Ken Jennings & Angela Lansbury
Jack Eric Williams, Angela Lansbury & Ken Jennings
Original Broadway Cast of Sweeney Todd
Original Broadway Cast of Sweeney Todd
“By The Sea” is Mrs. Lovett’s Act II “I want” song. Nearly all of Mrs. Lovett’s actions throughout the musical are informed by her desire to climb out of her working-class existence or to be with Sweeney Todd.
In this song, she combines both of these dreams in a seaside fantasy with the unresponsiv...
[MRS. LOVETT]
Ooh, Mr. Todd
I'm so happy
I could eat you up, I really could!
You know what I'd like to do, Mr. Todd?
What I dream?
If the business stays as good
Where I'd really like to go?
In a year or so...
Don't you want to know?
[TODD, spoken]
Of course.
[MRS. LOVETT]
Do you really want to know?
[TODD, spoken]
Yes, yes, I do, I do.
[MRS. LOVETT]
By the sea, Mr. Todd
That's a life I covet
By the sea, Mr. Todd
Oh, I know you'd love it!
You and me, Mr. T.
We could be
Alone
In a house wot we'd almost own
Down by the sea...
[TODD]
Anything you say...
[MRS. LOVETT]
Wouldn't that be smashing?
With the sea at our gate
We'll have kippered herring
Wot have swum to us straight
From the Straits of Bering
Every night in the kip
When we're through our kippers
I'll be there slippin' off your slippers
By the sea...
With the fishies splashing
By the sea...
Wouldn't that be smashing?
Down by the sea...
[TODD]
Anything you say
Anything you say
[MRS. LOVETT]
I can see us waking
The breakers breaking
The seagulls squawking
Hoo! Hoo!
I'll do me baking
Then I go walking
With you—hoo...
Yoo-hoo...
I'll warm me bones
On the esplanade
Have tea and scones
With me gay young blade
Then I'll knit a sweater
While you write a letter
Unless we've got better
To do—hoo...
[TODD, spoken]
Anything you say...
[MRS. LOVETT]
Think how snug it will be
Underneath our flannel
When it's just you and me
And the English channel
In our cozy retreat
Kept all neat and tidy
We'll have chums over every Friday
By the sea...
[TODD]
Anything you say...
[MRS. LOVETT]
Don't you love the weather?
By the sea
We'll grow old together
By the seaside
Hoo! Hoo!
By the beautiful sea
(spoken)
Oh, I can see us now—in our bathing dresses—you in a nice navy—and me, stripes perhaps.
(sung)
It'll be so quiet
That who'll come by it
Except a seagull?
Hoo! Hoo!
We shouldn't try it
Though, till it's legal
For two—hoo!
But 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—hoo!"
By the sea, in our nest
We could share our kippers
With the odd-paying guest
From the weekend trippers
Have a nice, sunny suite
For the guest to rest in—
Now and then, you could do the guest in—
By the sea
Married nice and proper
By the sea—
Bring along your chopper
To the seaside
Hoo! Hoo!
By the beautiful sea!
By the Sea was written by Stephen Sondheim.
By the Sea was produced by Thomas Z. Shepard.
Len Cariou & Angela Lansbury released By the Sea on Tue Apr 17 1979.