From All Music Guide: Recording Info: Air Lyndhurst Studios, London; Out of Eden, London

From All Music Guide: Stephen Sondheim's 1979 Broadway musical Sweeney Todd has been hailed as the composer's best work and the best musical of its decade, if not of the last three decades of the 20th century. It has been revived frequently and, as a work that straddles the line between musical theater and opera, adopted for the repertories of opera companies. When a stage musical is adapted into a motion picture, it is often the case that the score is given a bigger treatment. Broadway shows use a limited number of musicians, and, due to union regulations, Broadway cast albums tend to be recorded in a single day by casts also performing the music eight times that week on-stage. When the same score gets to Hollywood, producers often employ much larger orchestras and more elaborate recording techniques, for better or worse. Something like the opposite seems to have happened with director Tim Burton's 2007 film version of Sweeney Todd. Burton has cast the movie with actors not previously known as singers, sta...

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