Spencer On Sondheim: "No Place Like London" from "Sweeney Todd"
“No Place like London” is, like “Color and Light” a great example of a Sondheimian scene. The dialogue and music is intertwined so beautifully, it gives the impression of an opera, even though it is clearly not. But this is what Sondheim was going for in Sweeny Todd, a quasi-parody of opera.
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