Wigmaker Sequence / The Ballad of Sweeney Todd: Sweeney’d waited too long before… / The Letter
~ Recording by Len Cariou, Victor Garber / Quintet: Carole Doscher, Skip Harris, Betsy Joslyn, Craig Lucas, Robert Ousley / Quintet, Len Cariou
Annotation
the Quintet (members of the Company) is comprised of: Carole Doscher, Skip Harris, Betsy Joslyn, Craig Lucas, and Robert Ousley
were it not for the oddity of repetitive colons, this would be titled:
"Wigmaker Sequence: The Ballad of Sweeney Todd: Sweeney'd Waited Too Long Before... / The Letter" or perhaps
The Ballad of Sweeney Todd: Sweeney'd Waited Too Long Before... / The Letter (Wigmaker Sequence)
it is one of several ballads sung by the Company throughout the course of the musical to present a narrative of sorts to the audience, and the Wigmaker Sequence is just a particular scene in the musical when this ballad is performed.
Appears on releases
| # | Title | Length | Track artist | Release title | Release artist | Release group type | Country/Date | Label | Catalog# |
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| 2.4 | Wigmaker Sequence / The Ballad of Sweeney Todd: Sweeney’d waited too long before … / The Letter | 3:39 | Len Cariou, Victor Garber / Quintet: Members of the Company / Quintet, Len Cariou | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1979 original Broadway cast) (extra tracks, original recording remastered) | Stephen Sondheim; Angela Lansbury, Len Cariou | Album + Soundtrack |
| Masterworks Broadway | 82876-68639-2 |
| 2.4 | Wigmaker Sequence / The Ballad of Sweeney Todd: Sweeney’d waited too long before… / The Letter | 3:40 | Stephen Sondheim | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1979 original Broadway cast) | Stephen Sondheim; Angela Lansbury, Len Cariou | Album + Soundtrack |
| RCA Red Seal | 3379-2-RC |
Relationships
| recording engineer: | Anthony Salvatore (engineer) (from 1979-03-12 until 1979-03-13) |
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| producer: | Thomas Z. Shepard |
| vocals: | Len Cariou (from 1979-03-12 until 1979-03-13) Carole Doscher (from 1979-03-12 until 1979-03-13) Victor Garber (Canadian actor/singer) (from 1979-03-12 until 1979-03-13) Skip Harris (from 1979-03-12 until 1979-03-13) Betsy Joslyn (from 1979-03-12 until 1979-03-13) Craig Lucas (playwright, screenwriter, director, and actor) (from 1979-03-12 until 1979-03-13) Robert Ousley (from 1979-03-12 until 1979-03-13) |
| conductor: | Paul Gemignani (from 1979-03-12 until 1979-03-13) |
| phonographic copyright (℗) by: | RCA Records (not for release label use! for the imprint, please use “RCA” instead) (in 1979) |
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| recorded at: | RCA Studio A (New York) in New York, New York, United States (from 1979-03-12 until 1979-03-13) |
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| recording of: | 1. The Ballad of Sweeney Todd: Sweeney’d waited too long before… (reprise 4) (from 1979-03-12 until 1979-03-13) 2. Sweeney Todd: The Letter (from 1979-03-12 until 1979-03-13) |
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Related works
Sweeney Todd: The Letter
| orchestrator: | Jonathan Tunick |
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| lyricist: | Stephen Sondheim |
| part of: | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (order: 28) |
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The Ballad of Sweeney Todd: Sweeney’d waited too long before… (reprise 4)
| orchestrator: | Jonathan Tunick |
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| lyricist and composer: | Stephen Sondheim |
| part of: | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (order: 27) |
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| quotes music from: | Missa pro defunctis: Sequentia “Dies irae” (plainchant) |
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