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3	!![[Theatre/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet The musical]]
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5	* Tragically left out of the film adaptation, sweet little Johanna shoots the asylum worker holding her captive, something Anthony had been unable to do.
6	* "I will have vengeance! I will have salvation!"
7	* Also sadly left out of the film, "The Ballad of Sweeney Todd". It's meant to sound like a ''Dies Irae''.
8	* The song "A Little Priest" (special props to the [=Patti LuPone=]/George Hearn concert version). Utterly breathtaking, utterly hilarious, and a perfect finale to the first act.
9	* Watching Sweeney take his sweet time shaving his guy and ''still'' beating Signor Pirelli is pretty awesome.
10	* Michael Ball's entire performance in the 2012 London revival. He's a terrific musical theatre actor and singer, but he's also one of the last people you would think of for the title role, which is a 180-degree turn from all of the roles for which he's most famous. He ends up knocking it out of the park with an utterly ''terrifying'' portrayal.
11	* The opening to the 2014 concert production. It starts out with everyone in fancy dress and seemingly like a normal concert production of a stage musical, until Bryn Terfel drops his concert book on the floor, with the rest of the principal cast following suit. The entire cast, including the choir, then proceeds to TrashTheSet, with Emma Thompson tearing up her dress and Terfel opening a box and handing out props to the choir, culminating in a fake piano being overturned, at which point Terfel has changed from his tuxedo into a leather jacket and let his hair down, completing his transformation into Sweeney. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQpmnMy53gQ It must be seen to be believed.]]
12	* Toby may be simple, but he's the only one (other than the Beggar Woman) to realise that Todd is ''bad news'' and try to warn Mrs. Lovett, unaware that she's also a villain.
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14	!![[Film/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet The 2007 film]]
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16	* "At last! My arm is complete again." This one's a Moment of Awesome mainly because of the SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic that kicks in as the camera pans out, which replaces "Lift your razor high, Sweeney! / Hear it singing, yes!" from the stage version.
17	* An understated moment occurs when, after initially having entertained the thought of killing Beadle Bamford in broad daylight (which Mrs.Lovett prudently pre-empts as ill-advised), Sweeney instead spots an opportunity to exploit his barbering duel with Signore Pirelli to impress the only man who could get Judge Turpin within reaching distance of his blades, simply by making Bamford the contest adjudicator.
18	* Similarly, his duet with Judge Turpin in "Pretty Women", which is bone-chillingly creepy-awesome.
19	* Sweeney going into StartOfDarkness mode in "Epiphany":
20	--> '''Sweeney:''' I will have vengeance! / I will have salvation!
21	* Mrs. Lovett, after Sweeney has killed Signore Pirelli and has suggested merely burying him in a secret place, instead suggests they ''bake him into pies and sell him to the people of London.'' In fact, Lovett kills two birds with one stone by giving Sweeney a discreet outlet for his bloodlust which also allows her business to profit from what she outsources out of Sweeney's handiwork, which also keeps her love interest close to her and in his good graces in her efforts to win him over. It's.. utterly deranged, and unquestionably brilliant.
22	--> '''Sweeney:'''(emotionally reciprocating her presence for the first time with great delight) ..What a charming notion! [[PragmaticVillainy Eminently practical]], yet appropriate as always!
23	* Anthony rescuing Johanna from BedlamHouse and then leaving Mr. Fogg, the asylum keeper, at the mercy of his "children." Bad. Ass.
24	* And of course:
25	--> '''Judge Turpin:''' How seldom it is one meets a fellow spirit.\
26	'''Sweeney Todd:''' With fellow tastes... in women at least.\
27	'''Judge Turpin:''' [''unsettled''] What's that?\
28	'''Sweeney Todd:''' [[NoDoubtTheYearsHaveChangedMe The years, no doubt, have changed me]], sir. But then I suppose the face of a barber, the face of a prisoner in the dock, is not particularly memorable.\
29	'''Judge Turpin:''' [''[[OhCrap with immense shock]]''] Benjamin... Barker...\
30	'''Sweeney Todd:''' '''BENJAMIN BARKER!!!''' [''cue the bloodiest vengeance ever'']
31	* The ever practical Mrs. Lovett's "That's all very well, but what are we gonna do about him?"
32	** And of course the ''danse macabre'' after Todd realizes he killed his wife and that Mrs. Lovett had lied to him about her being dead -- complete with him complimenting Mrs. Lovett on being "eminently practical and appropriate as always" before throwing her into her own oven.
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