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
Spoiler Warning
Song bios and annotations may include spoilers.
In 1846, young sailor Anthony Hope and Sweeney Todd, whom Anthony has recently rescued at sea and befriended, dock in London, where a half-crazed Beggar Woman sexually solicits them, appearing to briefly recognize Todd.
In the Broadw...
[ANTHONY]
I have sailed the world, beheld its wonders
From the Dardanelles
To the mountains of Peru
But there's no place like London!
I feel home again
I could hear the city bells
RIng whatever I would do
No, there's no place—
[TODD]
No, there's no place like London
[ANTHONY, spoken]
Mr. Todd, sir?
[TODD]
You are young
Life has been kind to you
You will learn
(spoken)
So Anthony, it is here we go our separate ways. Farewell. I shall not soon forget the good ship Bountiful nor the young man who saved my life.
[BEGGAR WOMAN]
Alms! Alms!
For a miserable woman
On a miserable chilly morning
Oh thank yer, sir, thank yer...
'Ow would you like a little squiff, dear
A little jig jig
A little bounce around the bush?
Wouldn't you like to push me crumpet?
It looks to me, dear
Like you got plenty there to push
Alms! Alms!
For a pitiful woman
Wot's got wanderin' wits—
Hey, don't I know you, mister?
[TODD, spoken]
Must you glare at me, woman? Off with you! Off, I say!
[BEGGAR WOMAN]
Then 'ow would you like to fish me squiff, mister?
We'll go jig jig
A little—
[TODD, spoken]
Off, I said. To the devil with you!
[BEGGAR WOMAN]
Alms! Alms!
For a desperate woman...
[ANTHONY, spoken]
Pardon me, sir, but there's no need to fear the likes of her. She was only a half-crazed beggar woman. London's full of them.
[TODD]
There's a hole in the world
Like a great black pit
And the vermin of the world
Inhabit it
And its morals aren't worth
What a pig could spit
And it goes by the name of London
At the top of the hole
Sit the privileged few
Making mock of the vermin
In the lower zoo
Turning beauty into filth and greed
I too
Have sailed the world and seen its wonders
For the cruelty of men
Is as wondrous as Peru
But there's no place like London!
No Place Like London was written by Stephen Sondheim.
No Place Like London was produced by Thomas Z. Shepard.
Len Cariou, Victor Garber & Merle Louise released No Place Like London on Tue Apr 17 1979.