PRETTY WOMEN    Stephan Sondheims music is often criticized for its complex and difficult melodic and harmonic constructions. His lyrics, on the other hand, are recognized as some of the most ingenious and clever ever created for the Broadway stage.
From Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street , Sondheim penned a tribute to pretty women and the power they have to excite the emotions of male admirers,
In the musical, Sweeney and Judge Turpin, who has imprisoned Sweeney's daughter Joanna but plans to marry her eventually. Sweeney ends up killing thwe Judge who end up as one of Mrs. Lovett's meat pies. Gruesome indeed. Listening to this lovely melody one would have no idea about what will eventually happen.
In their own very different ways, they both love and praise the charms of " Pretty Women ."

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