Josh Groban's Sweeney Todd

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🗓️ 12 January 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

The Grammy-Award winning baritone first auditioned to play the Demon Barber of Fleet Street back in high school. He didn't get the part then; but he starred in in the latest Broadway revival. Groban will leave the role this month. He spoke with Fresh Air's Ann Marie Baldonado about his affinity for Stephen Sondheim, poking fun at his own image on TV, and starting his singing career as a teen.

Also, Justin Chang reviews the new film Memory.

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0:16.0	This is Fresh Air. I'm Tanya Mosley.
0:19.0	Swimming with Sweening with Sweening with Sweening with Sweening with Sweening with Binging and rats with scuttle.
0:23.0	Sphing we are fast,
0:26.0	big quiet and nice, the hovel
0:27.0	We're shinning,
0:28.0	and we're swimming, swimming, swimming, swimming,
0:30.0	or swimming, swimming, swimming, swimming, swimming, swimming,
0:32.0	swimming, swimming,, sweetie, sweetie, sweetie,
0:36.0	Sweetie,
0:40.0	A 10 the tale of Sweeney Tard.
0:45.0	A tale of Sweeney Tard.
0:48.0	He served a dark and a vengeful God.
0:51.0	He served a dark and a vengeful God. We served a dog in avenge for God.
0:54.0	What happened then? Well, that's the play.
0:57.0	He wouldn't want us to give it away.
1:00.0	Not sweetie's heart.
1:05.0	its heart.
1:06.0	The demon butter of the feet.
1:10.0	Street.
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