Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street: The Motion Picture Soundtrack Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street: The Motion Picture Soundtrack Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street: The Motion Picture Soundtrack is a soundtrack to the , released on December 18, 2007. "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" is the second film in Burton's directing career not to include music composed by Danny Elfman (the first being "Ed Wood"). Burton wanted to avoid the traditional approach of patches of dialogue interrupted by song. He cut the show's famous opening number, "The Ballad of Sweeney Todd", explaining, "Why have a chorus singing about 'attending the tale
Not While I'm Around (Sweeney Todd) I’m Around,' sung protectively to Mrs. Lovett by her young aide, Tobias Ragg". Not While I'm Around (Sweeney Todd) "Not While I'm Around" is a song from the Stephen Sondheim musical "". It is a duet between Tobias Ragg and Mrs. Lovett. "Sweeney Todd" opened on Broadway in 1979. In the pie shop that Mrs. Lovett owns, she has taken in young Tobias, who was homeless, to be her helper. Tobias expresses suspicions about Sweeney Todd and states his desire to protect Mrs. Lovett, whom he has come to view as a mother figure. Mrs. Lovett is revealed to be