Johanna - George Hearn / Davis Gaines - Sweeney Todd
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- čas přidán 24. 04. 2008
- Davis Gaines, George Hearn, Victoria Clark and Lisa Vroman sing "Johanna" from "Sweeney Todd."
0:00 Davis Gaines intro (sung to Lisa Vroman)
2:10 Amazing "Johanna Quartet" begins - often in counterpoint
2:19 Davis Gaines
3:03 Hearn/Gaines duet in counterpoint
4:10 Victoria Clark
4:40 Hearn/Vroman/Gaines trio in counterpoint
5:42 Victoria Clark
6:14 Beautiful conclusion by Hearn/Vroman/Gaines in counterpoint
Excerpts are from the 2001 DVD "Sweeney Todd In Concert." The DVD is Region 1, so plays in DVD players sold in the US/Canada, special region-free DVD players, or almost all PC DVD players worldwide.
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I swear George Hearn’s voice is the most beautiful male voice I’ve ever heard.
I can never look at the sweeney todd movie the same away again after seeing both this and the 1982 production. I love this musical. Everyone is just fantastic in this.
Have you seen the Bryn Terfel/EmmaThompson version? Its on youtube now. Quite superb.
@@CuddlyGayBear I think I might actually like the Terfel/Thompson one second to Hearn/Lansbury. The only casting I really liked in that dreadful Tim Burton version was Borat as Pirelli
@@notsusan have you heard a little priest with Michael cerveris, George Hearn, and Patti lupone together? It's pretty great
@@CuddlyGayBear I wish so bad I could agree with you. Emma sounded like she was struggling the entire performance and Byrn was devoid of any energy whatsoever. The choir and orchestra were better than this 2001 performance but below the 82 version.
@@tylertheleper8468 Philip Quast and Audra Mcdonald were the best part of that Production
The best Sweeney Todd ever. The breath control and the beauty of George Hearns voice is astonishing
I am going to have the privilege of performing this number in a stage act on the 21st. I only hope I can do it justice!
Moral of the story: Always bring your family with you to the barber.
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I saw this performance at the Lincoln Center a few years ago. This was a tough New York audience. After Gaines sang the longer version of Johanna, the audience stood for 17 minutes of applause. I'm glad someone actually videotaped it...it was an incredible moment. I've seen Sweeney Todd about 20 times -- Gaines was the best...
Love love love George Hearn's voice in this
He's like, "What?! I have to actually SHAVE this one?"
Davis Gains has a voice like no other! He is so amazing!! His voice can make me cry it's so beautiful. I saw him in Phantom of the Opera, so many times, I just couldn't hear his voice enough!
George Hearn's face is priceless when the little girl comes in with her father. He's all O_o XD
"Shit! A witness!"
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My fav song from Sweeney Todd. The harmonies on this and "Pretty Women" just amaze me
Davis Gaines' Johanna is one of the best renditions I have heard. I just love his voice. I agree George Hearn IS Todd. Some roles are hard to separate from the actor that embodied it first and this is the case here.
Davis Gaines is truly one of the great vocalists. A role here not stereotyped into his full baritone but more reserved for a light bar/tenor. Sings it with beautiful sensitivity and not overpowering to lose content.....a stunning performance.
He's not as high as some people think. He's really more of a high baritone. The true tenors of the show are Toby, Pirelli, and the Beadle. Davis Gaines by my figure is more of a dramatic dark baritone. Which would make him a good Phantom. I think he still captures a good deal of Anthony's innocence though.
Lincoln center
He WAS the Phantom at some point!
Very true, I mean listen to him at 4:02 - not a lot of tenors could be so resonant down to a low G#2 like that
this song has been in my head for months..almost a year now. no matter how much i practice i can't replicate davis gaines.
Davis Gaines voice is pure gold 🥺😭
I love him so much ❤❤
Wow, my throat was just slit. Just gonna walk away...
lmao
Davis Gaines...
Best male voice in history
Beautiful rendition . .brings tears to my eyes .the range of both men .. amazing!
you see, underneath the yellow hair, there's a head which is usually thought to think or contain thoughts and logically, in order for Anthony to be in Johanna's head, he has to be in her thoughts
and so he is buried in her head or she is thinking of him
it's a very sweet line
Thank you Davis for your amazing & beautiful voice.
George's I'm fine Johanna is actually a heartbreaking delivery. There is so much self denial in how he sang that.
This is very beautiful. I feel like crying.
He sings Johanna beautifully! Wow. What a voice! He was the phantom before?? :O
This show makes me glad I'm a woman, and therefore only really need to shave my legs and under my arms.
I don't want to know what you're implying
Coral Roper heh this just makes me glad that we have safety razors today...
Coral Roper Amen sistah
George Hearn IS this character. I didn't like the movie purely because the lack of Hearn.
Jonathan B. Agreed, but what do you think of the other Todds? Like Cariou, Armstrong and Ball?
R Madayag don’t forget the great Timothy nolen!
He was my favorite Todd! And my first Todd!
@@RosesNightengales I enjoyed brian stokes mitchell
@@manie.8241 Cariou is untouchable to me
Probably the cutest Anthony, too.
Almost exactly my thoughts, all customers are like "What, no shave? Well I'm out of this shit". Well, it does not lessen the awesomeness.
Davis Gaines is the best
I love his face at 6:23 XD
Davis is awesome, as usual!!!
What you have to remember is that the tour wasn't played for the cameras but for the audience, and the theater that they played in was huge (it was actually an old factory hall) and he had to be loud even to the people in the back row - the updated and far better sound eqiupment of this production (also played in an actual playhouse designed for carrying sound to the back of the house), he was able to play a more subdued Sweeney - that is my theory, anyway. :)
I love this song but it makes me so sad, if only he could forget his hate and be with Johanna and recognize Lucy
6.23 'oh FFS he brought his kids I can't kill him!'
davis we miss you... hope 2 see u again n sosmentor...
Whoever is playing the sailor is knocking it out of the park! Goddamn!
Amazing performance. Joanna Areana I love you.
Best one.
@93142 Not only was Davis Gaines the Phantom, but Timothy Nolen, who plays Judge Turpin, has played the part as well.
this is so nice, it is making me smile :)
It is funny when he realises that he can't slit the guys throat, but I sort of liked the way that in the movie we didn't know if that was the customers child or Todds imagining of how life could of been. That's how saw that scene anyhow.
You know--David Gaines really is a great Anthony! I mean, we all are in agreement that George's the perenial Sweeney, but David needs some props--usually the "buried sweetly in your yellow hair" is a rather disturbing line, but he managed to make it sound...nice
He's, hands down, my favorite Anthony.
Cool Singing!
I bought Davis Gaine's wonderful CD some time ago but was sorely disappointed when no Sweeney Todd songs were on it. It's still beautiful, but I'll have to be content with my concert DVD. Love him.
....... o my lol dats very romantic, yet disturbing.....I love it!
AGREED!!!!
true, it is a little strong. But I love the fullness in his voice.
Incredible vocal performance. No one like SS
I wish Lisa Vroman was in the CD ):
RIP Sondheim
@GrobanitePhan couldn't agree more!
demon violinist at 1:14
@GrobanitePhan You should see him sing Song on the Sand. it's phenomenol!
NTHONY]
I feel you, Johanna
I feel you
Do they think that walls can hide you?
Even now I'm at your window
I am in the dark beside you
Buried sweetly in your yellow hair
Johanna…
[TODD]
And are you beautiful and pale
With yellow hair, like her?
I'd want you beautiful and pale
The way I've dreamed you were
Johanna…
And if you're beautiful, what then
With yellow hair, like wheat?
I think we shall not meet again
My little dove, my sweet
Johanna…
Goodbye, Johanna
You're gone, and yet you're mine
I'm fine, Johanna
I'm fine
[ANTHONY]
Johanna…
I'll steal you, Johanna…
Johanna…
[BEGGAR WOMAN]
Smoke! Smoke!
Sign of the devil! Sign of the devil!
City on fire!
Witch! Witch!
Smell it, sir! An evil smell!
Every night at the vespers bell-
Smoke that comes from the mouth of Hell-
City on fire!
City on fire!
Mischief! Mischief!
Mischief…
[TODD]
And if I never hear your voice
My turtledove, my dear
I still have reason to rejoice:
The way ahead is clear
Johanna…
And in that darkness when I'm blind
With what I can't forget
It's always morning in my mind
My little lamb, my pet
Johanna…
You stay, Johanna
The way I've dreamed you are
Oh, look, Johanna
A star!
A shooting star!
[JOHANNA]
I'll marry Anthony Sunday
Anthony Sunday
[ANTHONY]
I feel you
Johanna
[JOHANNA]
I knew you'd come for me one day
Come for me one day
[ANTHONY]
Johanna
Buried sweetly in your yellow hair
[BEGGAR WOMAN]
There! There!
Somebody, somebody look up there!
Didn't I tell you? Smell that air!
City on fire!
Quick, sir! Run and tell!
Warn 'em all of the witch's spell!
There it is, there it is, the unholy spell!
Tell it to the Beadle and the police as well!
Tell 'em! Tell 'em!
Help! Fiend!
City on fire!
City on fire!
Mischief! Mischief! Mischief!
Fiend!
Alms, alms...
[TODD]
And though I'll think of you, I guess
Until the day I die
I think I miss you less and less
As every day goes by
Johanna…
[ANTHONY]
Johanna…
[JOHANNA]
With you beside me on Sunday
Married on Sunday…
[TODD]
And you'd be beautiful and pale
And look too much like her
If only angels could prevail
We'd be the way we were
Johanna…
[ANTHONY]
I feel you
Johanna
[JOHANNA]
Married on Sunday
Married on Sunday[TODD]
Wake up, Johanna!
Another bright red day!
We learn, Johanna
To say goodbye…
[ANTHONY]
I'll steal you…
Was that for people without hearing?
Personally, I prefer Timothy Nolen as Sweeney Todd (he’s the greatest ST in my opinion), but George is fantastic too
Deadass thought that was Doctor Cox from Scrubs for a sec
well, if said in the wrong tone, it could sound assuming and a bit self-absorbed (assuming that a girl, after only meeting once, would think of you)
and the lyrics before it can be taken to be a bit creepy ("I'll steal you...I am in the dark beside you...") and so the rest of the lot is assumed to be just as creepy
I have to admit, at first I found it creepy bu, after analyzing it, it's simply a dark way of looking at a love at first sight
wat exactly does he mean by buried sweetly in your yellow hair?
then why are people making it seem like its a perverted line?
Also, hair could be on other parts of the body...
Some plS stan Davis Gaines with me 😂
I agree, I think this Anthony's voice (although lovely) is too deep for the role.
@kojbo theatre by its very nature is overdone. He is acting so the person in the back row and see him. thats what its SUPPOSED to be
I have to disagree regarding Hearn in the tour production. He's my favorite Sweeney. But I see what you mean about the shouting, at least in Epiphany. Still, I think we can all agree that his singing in this video is wonderful.
I think it's because he had his daughter with him - I don't think he could take a father away from his family.
That's giving Sweeney a bit too much credit. The only reason he doesn't kill the man who comes in with his family is because the wife and child would be witnesses and he'd have to kill them all - in which case there would absolutely be screaming and shouting and he'd almost certainly be caught.
Sweeney by this point is totally unhinged and amoral. He will do and kill whatever and whoever he has to, to get revenge on Turpin. He's even planning to kill Anthony once he brings Johanna home from the asylum, so he can also kill her (yes, he wants to kill her too, listen to the song closely and you'll find that he's pretending each patron he kills is Johanna). This song, funnily and fittingly enough, is the last bit of genuine emotion Sweeney displays until the final sequence - when he finally, truly snaps. More than anything, I think this song is meant to show how Sweeney could never truly have a normal life again, and that his lamentations about Johanna are legitimately a farewell to her, because he knows he can never be with her again now that he's descended into this murderous madness, and would rather kill her himself than just never see her again. It's perverse and grotesque, yes, but also deeply sad.
Michael Stokes True, but he could’ve had a bit of morality here simply because robbing the man from the wife and daughter is exactly what happened to his own family. The fact that he’s literally singing about his daughter here kind of shows that it’s still on his mind (in fact, it’s constantly on his mind), so it’s likely he didn’t want the same thing to happen to the woman and the little girl.
Idk why but Davis Gaines sounds flat to me. This version is definitely the best, though.
that was a bit too much vibrato for my personal taste, but his emotion was incredible. i guess this comment is a bi unfair because I love Bernadette and she puts too much vibrato on everything...
Such a lovely stalker song
Not really in the context of the play
I worked with Davis on the reprise at the LA ahmanson in 2000.. I agree with you...the vibrato is a WEE bit much but such a sweet guy! Very nice man.. i'd hate to be the person he's singing to.. he spits like a whale hehehe
...whut?
I respect this version and the original but I really appreciated it in the movie. The youth in the movie actors voice moved me more, the beginning is here is brilliant though such control!
I just really love George Hearn's voice
Personally I don't like all the vibrato he does. It ruins his voice.
Next time leave the dialogue IN
So... Todd wants to kill Johanna. Am I getting the right read from this song?
Jes Lightning no, in his mind he will never see his daughter, mourning his loss
Ive only seen the movie lmao and this was my least favourite song. My surprise when Gaines is the one singing it in theatres , he’s probably my favourite of all times.
LMAO the customer's deaths are so fucking bad, how is it possible to be that bad at acting?
He is overdoing it , the kid in the movie is better
The actress who plays Johanna in this looks manlier than Jamie Campbell Bower. lol don't get me wrong, he was great, I just had to say it.
Connor Lachmanec It's not that *she* looks more masculine, it's that Jamie Campbell Bower looks like he got too much botox, or his plastic surgery just doesn't look natural.