[SOLO BASS]
Most Honorable, Judge Turpin

[SOLO TENOR]
Most Honorable

[TODD]
Ha

[SOLO SOPRANO & ALTO]
Honorable

[SOLO BASS]
I venture thus to write you this

[SOLO BARITONE & BASS]
Urgent

[SOLO BARITONE]
Note to warn you

[SOLO BARITONE & BASS]
That the hot-blooded

[QUINTET]
Young
[TODD, spoken]
Ha

[SOLO BARITONE & BASS]
Sailor

[SOLO SOPRANO & ALTO]
Has abducted your ward Johanna

[SOLO BARITONE & BASS]
(Johanna)

[SOLO TENOR]
(Johanna)

[SOLO SOPRANO & ALTO]
From the institution
Where you

[SOLO TENOR, BARITONE & BASS]
So wisely

[SOLO SOPRANO & ALTO]
Confined her

[SOLO BARITONE]
But hoping to earn your favor
[SOLO TENOR & BARITONE]
I have persuaded the boy to lodge her here tonight

[SOLO TENOR, BARITONE & BASS]
At my tonsorial parlor

[SOLO ALTO, TENOR, BARITONE & BASS]
In Fleet Street

[QUINTET]
If you want her again in your arms
Hurry
After the night falls

[SOLO TENOR]
She will be waiting

[SOLO SOPRANO, ALTO, BARITONE & BASS]
Waiting

[SOLO BARITONE & BASS]
Your obedient humble servant

[TODD]
Sweeney
Todd