Swing Your Razor Wide, Sweeney!

I enjoyed Tim Burton's adaptation of Sweeney Todd tremendously, and I plan to grab the video soon after it comes out this week. But I also was glad to discover on Youtube what looks like a close to complete version of the George Hearn/Angela Lansbury version of Sweeney Todd. I remember watching this production on--well, memory fails me but I think it was Showtime--in the early 1980s. It had a profound influence on my literary and theatrical tastes. (Readers of my first published short story "The Knife Man" or the people who saw my senior project at Lawrence can testify to this.)

Here's the opening. It takes some doing, but the rest of the segments are available as well: