Wigmaker Sequence/The Ballad of Sweeney Todd: Sweeney'd Waited Too Long Before/The Letter

[ANTHONY, spoken]
Mr. Todd, Mr. Todd! I found her! I found Johanna!
[TODD, spoken]
You have?
[ANTHONY, spoken]
That monster of a judge has had her locked away in Fogg's Asylum! Oh, Mr. Todd, she's in there with those screeching, gibbering maniacs—
[TODD, spoken]
A madhouse! A madhouse!
Johanna is as good as rescued.
[ANTHONY, spoken]
She is?
[TODD, spoken]
Where do you suppose all the wigmakers of London go to obtain their human hair?
[ANTHONY, spoken]
Where?
[TODD, spoken]
Bedlam! They get their hair from the lunatics at Bedlam. For the right amount, they'll sell you the hair off any madman's head. Come, we will write a letter arranging a visit and offering to this Mr. Fogg the highest price for hair of the exact shade of Johanna's—which I trust you know?
[ANTHONY, spoken]
Yellow?
[TODD, spoken]
No, not exact enough!
I must make you into a credible wigmaker—and quickly.
(sung)
There's tawny, and there's golden saffron
There's flaxen, and there's blonde
(spoken)
Repeat that. Repeat that!
[ANTHONY, spoken]
Yes, Mr. Todd!
[TODD, spoken]
Well?
[ANTHONY]
There's tawny, and there's golden saffron
There's flaxen and there's blonde
[TODD]
Good
There's coarse and fine
There's straight and curly
There's gray, there's white
There's ash, there's pearly
[ANTHONY]
There's coarse and fine
There's straight and curly
[TODD]
There's corn-yellow
Buff and ochre and
Straw and apricot...
[ANTHONY]
There's gray, there's white
There's ash, there's pearly
There's corn-yellow...
[SOLO ALTO & SOLO TENOR]
Sweeney'd waited too long before—
"Ah, but never again," he swore
[SOLO BARITONE & SOLO BASS]
Fortune arrived. "Sweeney!" it sang
Sweeney was ready and Sweeney sprang
[SOLO ALTO & SOLO TENOR]
Sweeney's problems went up in smoke
All resolved with a single stroke
[SOLO BARITONE & SOLO BASS]
Sweeney was sharp, Sweeney was burning
Sweeney began the engines turning
[QUINTET, variously]
Sweeney's problems went up in smoke
All resolved
And completely solved
With a single stroke
By Sweeney!
Sweeney didn't wait
Not Sweeney!
Set the bait
Did Sweeney!
Sweeney! Sweeney! Sweeney!
[ANTHONY]
With finer textures
Ash looks fairer
[TODD, spoken]
Good.
[ANTHONY]
Which makes it rare
But flaxen's rarer—
[TODD]
No, no!
The flaxen's cheaper...
[ANTHONY]
Yes, yes, I know—
Cheaper, not rarer
[TODD, spoken]
Now off with you, off! But Anthony, listen to me once again. When you have rescued her, bring her back here. I shall guard her while you hire the chaise to Plymouth.
[ANTHONY, spoken]
We'll be with you before the evening's out.
[TODD, spoken]
Good.
[ANTHONY, spoken]
Thank you, Mr. Todd. Thank you.
[SOLO BASS]
Most Honorable Judge Turpin—
[SOLO TENOR]
Most Honorable—
[SOLO SOPRANO & ALTO]
Honorable!
[SOLO BASS]
I venture thus to write you this
[SOLO BARITONE & BASS]
Urgent
[SOLO BARITONE]
Note to warn you
[SOLO BARITONE & BASS]
That the hot-blooded—
[QUINTET]
Young—
[SOLO BARITONE & BASS]
Sailor
[SOLO SOPRANO & ALTO]
Has abducted your ward Johanna—
[SOLO BARITONE & BASS]
(Johanna!)
[SOLO TENOR]
(Johanna!)
[SOLO SOPRANO & ALTO]
From the institution
Where you
[SOLO TENOR, BARITONE & BASS]
So wisely
[SOLO SOPRANO & ALTO]
Confined her
[SOLO BARITONE]
But, hoping to earn your favor
[SOLO TENOR & BARITONE]
I have persuaded the boy to lodge her here tonight
[SOLO TENOR, BARITONE & BASS]
At my tonsorial parlor
[SOLO ALTO, TENOR, BARITONE & BASS]
In Fleet Street
[QUINTET]
If you want her again in your arms
Hurry
After the night falls
[SOLO TENOR]
She will be waiting
[SOLO SOPRANO, ALTO, BARITONE & BASS]
Waiting...
[SOLO BARITONE & BASS]
Your obedient humble servant
[TODD]
Sweeney Todd