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TODD: Why doesn�t Beadle Bamford come? �Before the week is out�-- that�s what he said. MRS. LOVETT: And who says the week is out yet? It�s only Tuesday. Easy now, Hush, love, hush, Don�t distress yourself, What�s your rush? Keep your thoughts nice and lush. Wait. Hush, lvoe, hush, Think it through. Once it bubbles then what�s to do? Watch it close. Let it brew. Wait. I�ve been thinking flowers� Maybe Daisies� To brighten up the room. Don�t you think some flowers, Pretty daisies, Might relieve the gloom? [as Todd doesn�t respond] Ah, wait, love, wait! TODD: And what about the judge? When will I get to him? MRS. LOVETT: Oh, can�t you think of nothing else? Always brooding on yer wrongs what happened heaven knows how many years ago. [TODD turns away with a hiss.] Slow, love, slow. Time�s so fast. Now goes quickly� See, now is past! Soon will come, Soon will last. Wait. Don�t you know, Silly man, �alf the fun is to plan the plan. All good things come to Those who can Wait. [looking around the room] Gillyflowers, maybe, �Stead of daisies� I don�t know, though� What do you think? TODD: Yes. Mrs. LOVETT: [gently taking the razor from him] Gillyflowers I�d say. Nothin� like a nice bowl of gillies. [ANTHONY enters and excitedly tells TODD and MRS. LOVETT that he has fallen in love with a beautiful girl named Johanna, but that her guardian, Judge Turpin, keeps her locked in her room. Now, ANTHONY continues, Johanna has dropped a key out of her window, and he is going to ask her to marry him, but he needs a place to take her. TODD and MRS. LOVETT look at each other, then tell ANTHONY to bring her to Fleet Street. He has no sooner gone than Pirelli, accompanied by TOBIAS, comes to the shop. Mrs. Lovett takes the boy downstairs while Pirelli and Todd confer. Having worked briefly for Benjamin Barker year ago, Pirelli recognized TODD�s razor during their contest and realized his true identity. Pirelli tries blackmail. Enraged, TODD grabs him and begins to strangle him. Suddenly, TOBY calls, and TODD dumps the half-dead Pirelli into the trunk just as the boy enters. TODD gets rid of TOBIAS by assuring him MRS. LOVETT will give him another pie-�and a �nice big tot of gin.� As soon as he leaves, TODD opens the trunk and slashes Pirelli�s throat. The scene freezes.] Not While I�m Around TOBIAS: You know, ma�am, there�s nothing I wouldn�t do for ya�. If there was a monster or and ogre, or anything bad like that wot was after ya�, I�d rip it apart with my bare fists, I would. MRS. LOVETT: Ooh! What a sweet child it is. TOBIAS: Even if it was ust a man. MrRS. LOVETT: A man, dear? TOBIAS: A man�wot was bad, and wot might be luring you all unbeknownst, into �is evil deeds, like. MRS. LOVETT: Dear, what is this? What are you talking about? TOBIAS: Nothing�s gonna harm you, Not while I�m around. Nothing�s gonna harm you, No, sit, Not while I�m around. Demons are prowling Everywhere Nowadays, I�ll send �em howling, I don�t care� I got ways. MRS. LOVETT: Of course you do� What a sweet affectionate child it is. TOBIAS: No one�s gonna hurt you, No one�s gonna dare. Others can desert you� Not to worry� Whistle, I�ll be there. Demons�ll charm you With a smile For a while, But in time Nothing can harm you, Not while I�m around. Not to worry, not to worry, I may not be smart but I ain�t dumb. I can do it, Put me to it, Show me something I can overcome. Not to worry, mum. Bein� close and bein� clever Ain�t like bein� true. I don�t� need to, I won�t never Hide a thing from you, Like some. [Mrs. Lovett lifts up her skirt, takes a bon-bon from her purse and offers it to Tobias. His hand goes out to take it, then freezes as he recognizes the purse as Pirelli�s. Quickly she draws him down beside her and put the muffler around his neck] MRS. LOVETT: Now let�s stop all this foolish chatter and just site here, nice and quiet. Nothing�s gonna harm you, Not while I�m around! Nothing�s gonna harm you, Toby, Not while I�m around. TOBIAS: Demons are prowling Everywhere Nowadays. I�ll send �em howling, I don�t care� MRS. LOVETT: Boys and their fancies. What will we think of next? TOBIAS: No one�s gonna hurt you, No one�s gonna dare. Other�s can desert you� Not to worry� Whistle, I�ll be there. Demons�ll charm you With a smile For a while, But in time Nothing�s gonna harm you, Not while I�m around! [Realizing that TOBIAS has just about guessed what happened to Pirelli, Mrs. Lovett offers him the opportunity to go into the bakehouse and help make the pies�something he has not been allowed to do. The boy is thrilled. She shows him the oven and explains the meat grinder. �And you know the secret that makes the pies so sweet and tender?� she continues. �Three times. You must put the meat through the grinder three times�Smoothly, smoothly.� As TOBIAS happily begins to work, MRS. LOVETT goes out, locking the door behind her. She runs upstairs look for TODD, but he is not there. The sound of her harmonium startles her, and she hurries back down to her parlor to find BEADLE there.] All lyrics written by Stephen Sondheim and are from the musical Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street. What's YOUR favourite song from Sweeney Todd? |
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