Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street: The Motion Picture Soundtrack threatens to burst forth every time he slowly takes a breath and is poised to speak. Yet when he sings, his voice crackles and breaks with sadness." <br><br> 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
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street New York, this tale of horrors was transformed into a mountain of steel in motion. Prince's scenic metaphor for "Sweeney Todd" was a 19th-century iron foundry moved from Rhode Island and reassembled on the stage, which critic Jack Kroll aptly described as "part cathedral, part factory, part prison, that dwarfed and degraded the swarming denizens of the lower orders." The massive scope of Prince's setting went beyond even Sondheim's intentions. Sondheim admits that his conception of the show differed from that of Prince: "Hal's metaphor is that the factory turns out Sweeney Todds. It turns out soulless, defeated, hopeless people.