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Final Scene

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Final Scene

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Mrs. Lovett:

Toby, where are you, love

(spoken)

where is he?

nothing's gonna harm you, not while I'm around

Sweeney Todd:

(spoken)

Toby, Toby

Mrs. Lovett:

nothing's gonna harm you, darling, not while I'm around

Sweeney Todd:

(spoken)

Toby?

Anthony:

(spoken)

Mr Todd! (to Johanna) you wait for him here. I'll return with the coach in less than half an hour. don't worry. no one will

recognize you. you're safe now.

Johanna:

(spoken)

safe? so we run away and then all our dreams come true?

Anthony:

(spoken)

I hope so

Johanna:

(spoken)

I've never had dreams... only nightmares

Anthony:

(spoken)

Johanna, when we're free of this place all the ghosts will go away.

Johanna:

(spoken)

No, Anthony, they never go away.

Anthony:

(spoken)

I'll be right back to you. half an hour and we'll be free!

Beggar Woman:

Beadle, Beadle,

no good hiding i saw you.

are you in there still, beadle,

beadle, beadle, dear beadle

beadle deedle deedle

deedle deedle dumpling

beadle dumpling

ba deedle deedle deedle

deedle deedle deedle deedle

deedle deedle deedle deedle

deedle deedle

Sweeney Todd:

(spoken)

who are you? What are you doing here?

Beggar Woman:

(spoken)

Evil it is, Sir. the stink of evil from below! From her! she's the devil's wife! beware of her sir. She, with no pity in her

heart!

(sung)

hey, don't i know you mister?

Judge Turpin:

(spoken)

Mr. Todd?

where is she?

Sweeney Todd:

(spoken)

below, your honor, with my neighbor. Thank heavens the sailor did not molest her. thank heavens too, she has seen the error

of her ways.

Judge Turpin:

(spoken)

she has?

Sweeney Todd:

(spoken)

oh, yes, your lesson was well learned. she speaks only of you, longing for forgiveness.

Judge Turpin:

(spoken)

then she shall have it!

she'll be here soon, you say?

Sweeney Todd:

(spoken)

yes!

Judge Turpin:

(spoken)

Excellent, my friend!

Sweeney Todd:

(spoken)

how bout a shave?

sit, sir, sit!

Judge Turpin:

Oh, Pretty Women

Sweeney Todd:

Pretty Women, Yes!

Judge Turpin:

Johanna, Johanna.

Sweeney Todd:

pretty women, pretty women are a wonder. pretty women!

Todd: Turpin:

Pretty Women what would we do

for women

Turpin&Todd:

blowing out their candles

or combing out their hair

Judge Turpin:

then they leave

Todd: Turpin:

even when they even when they

leave they still leave you and

are there, there vanish they

there somehow can still

remain there with

you there

Judge Turpin:

(spoken)

how seldom it is one meets a fellow spirit

Sweeney Todd:

(spoken)

with fellow taste... in women at least

Judge Turpin:

(spoken)

what's that?

Sweeney Todd:

(spoken)

the years no doubt have changed me, sir, but now i suppose the face of a barber the face of a prisoner in the dark is not

particularly memorable.

Judge Turpin:

(spoken)

Benjamin Barker!

Sweeney Todd:

(spoken)

BENJAMIN BARKER!

(sung)

rest now my friend

rest now forever

sleep now the untroubled

sleep of the angels

(spoken)

"don't i know you", she said... you knew she lived.

Mrs. Lovett:

(spoken)

i was only thinking of you

Sweeney Todd:

(spoken)

you lied to me

Mrs. Lovett:

no, no, not lied at all

no i never lied

Todd: Lovett:

Lucy, said she took a

poison, she did,

i've never said that she

died! poor thing,

come she lived, but it

left her weak in the

home head all she did for

months was just lie

again there in bed. should

have been in

Lucy! hospital, wound up

in bedlam instead

oh my poor thing, better

you should think she

God was dead, yes i lied

cause i love you.

Lucy I'd be twice the

wife she was i

what love you. could that

thing have cared for

have I you, like me?

done?

Sweeney Todd:

Mrs. Lovett, you're a bloody wonder, eminently practical and yet appropriate as always. as you've said repeatedly there's

little point in dwelling on the past

Todd: Lovett:

now come here do you mean it?

my love everything I did

nothing I swear I thought

to fear was only for the

my love best. belive me!

what's dead Can we still be

is dead married?

Sweeney Todd:

the history of the world, my pet

Mrs. Lovett:

Oh, Mr. Todd

Oh, Mr. Todd

leave it to me!

Sweeney Todd:

is learn forgiveness

and try to forget

Mrs. Lovett:

by the sea, Mr. Todd

we'll be comfy, cozy

by the sea Mr. Todd

where there's no one nosy

Sweeney Todd:

life is for the alive, my dear

so let's keep living it

Todd&Lovett

just keep living it

Really Living it

Mrs. Lovett:

(screams)

AHHHH AHHHHH AAHHHHHHHH AHHH AHH AH AH

Sweeney 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--

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