The Barber and His Wife
Len Cariou * Track #3 On Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Original Cast Recording)
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Album Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Original Cast Recording)
- #1Prelude: The Ballad of Sweeney Todd: “Attend the Tale of Sweeney Todd”
Original Broadway Cast of Sweeney Todd & Len Cariou
- #2No Place Like London
Len Cariou, Victor Garber & Merle Louise
- #3The Barber and His Wife
Len Cariou
- #4The Worst Pies in London
Angela Lansbury
- #5Poor Thing
Angela Lansbury
- #6My Friends
Len Cariou & Angela Lansbury
- #7The Ballad of Sweeney Todd: “Lift Your Razor High Sweeney!”
Original Broadway Cast of Sweeney Todd
- #8Green Finch and Linnet Bird
Sarah Rice
- #9Ah, Miss
Sarah Rice, Victor Garber & Merle Louise
- #10Johanna
Victor Garber
- #11Pirelli’s Miracle Elixir
Original Broadway Cast of Sweeney Todd
- #12The Contest
Joaquin Romaguera
- #13The Ballad of Sweeney Todd: “Sweeney Pondered and Sweeney Planned”
Original Broadway Cast of Sweeney Todd
- #14Wait
Angela Lansbury
- #15The Ballad of Sweeney Todd: “His Hands Were Quick, His Fingers Strong”
Cris Groenendaal, Frank Kopyc & Richard Warren Pugh
- #16Johanna
Edmund Lyndeck
- #17Kiss Me
Sarah Rice & Victor Garber
- #18Ladies in Their Sensitivities
Jack Eric Williams, Edmund Lyndeck, Victor Garber & Sarah Rice
- #19Pretty Women
Len Cariou & Edmund Lyndeck
- #20Epiphany
Len Cariou & Angela Lansbury
- #21A Little Priest
Len Cariou & Angela Lansbury
- #22God, That’s Good!
Original Broadway Cast of Sweeney Todd & Ken Jennings & Angela Lansbury & Len Cariou
- #23Johanna
Len Cariou, Victor Garber, Merle Louise & Sarah Rice
- #24By the Sea
Len Cariou & Angela Lansbury
- #25Wigmaker Sequence / The Ballad of Sweeney Todd: ”Sweeney’d Waited Too Long Before” / The Letter
Original Broadway Cast of Sweeney Todd & Victor Garber & Len Cariou
- #26Not While I’m Around
Ken Jennings & Angela Lansbury
- #27Parlor Songs
Jack Eric Williams, Angela Lansbury & Ken Jennings
- #28Final Sequence
Original Broadway Cast of Sweeney Todd
- #29The Ballad of Sweeney Todd: “Attend the Tale of Sweeney Todd”
Original Broadway Cast of Sweeney Todd
The Barber and His Wife by Len Cariou
Release Date
Performed by
Len CariouProduced by
Thomas Z. ShepardWrited by
Stephen SondheimAbout
Todd tells Anthony of his troubled past as a naïve barber, when a crooked judge banished him in order to pursue his wife.
In the Broadway production, this song follows No Place Like London and precedes The Worst Pies in London.
The Barber and His Wife Lyrics
[TODD]
There was a barber and his wife
And she was beautiful
A foolish barber and his wife
She was his reason and his life
And she was beautiful
And she was virtuous
And he was—
Naïve
There was another man who saw
That she was beautiful
A pious vulture of the law
Who with a gesture of his claw
Removed the barber from his plate
Then there was nothing but to wait
And she would fall
So soft
So young
So lost
And oh, so beautiful!
[ANTHONY, spoken]
The lady, sir—did she succumb?
[TODD]
Oh, that was many years ago…
I doubt if anyone would know
(spoken)
Now leave me, Anthony, I beg of you. There's somewhere I must go, something I must find out. Now. And alone.
[ANTHONY, spoken]
So long, then, Mr. Todd.
[TODD]
There's a hole in the world
Like a great black pit
And it's filled with people
Who are filled with shit
And the vermin of the world
Inhabit it…
The Barber and His Wife Q&A
Who wrote The Barber and His Wife's ?
The Barber and His Wife was written by Stephen Sondheim.
Who produced The Barber and His Wife's ?
The Barber and His Wife was produced by Thomas Z. Shepard.
When did Len Cariou release The Barber and His Wife?
Len Cariou released The Barber and His Wife on Tue Apr 17 1979.