TODD - Act 1 "VI. The Death Machine"

The Butcher: New era! The age of the machines! The progress has reached unprecedented peaks!

The chorus: The technological progress!

Lovett: Well, let me look!

The Butcher: A new purchase! It is a meat grinder!

The chorus: Oh, the wonder of wonders!

The Butcher and the chorus: It minces meat, cuts veins and grinds bones. Such a high productiveness! Minces... cuts... grinds...

The Butcher: We will put the machine in the kitchen!

Lovett: It will not be of much help if the meat will go bad again...

The chorus: The chemical process!

The Butcher: Science and progress bring capital.

Lovett: Rather, the machine will destroy the cellar!

The chorus: Oh, the wonder of wonders!

The Butcher and the chorus: It minces meat, cuts veins and grinds bones. Such a high productiveness! Minces... cuts... grinds...

Lovett: Did you hear? "Progress!?!" And I shall grind the organ! In that case, buy a monkey to it, as well!

The chorus: What a crazy stress!

The Butcher: Even ten meat grinders with a butcher will not help with mincing all the words, which this lady’s tongue "grinds"!

The chorus: Oh, the wonder of wonders!

The Butcher and the chorus: It minces meat, cuts veins and grinds bones. Such a high productiveness! Minces... cuts... grinds...

The narrator’s voice: The Butcher goes to Sweeney to shave. Of course, for free, because he is the owner of the house. Relaxed in the armchair, the Butcher brags that he got this house for next to nothing, thanks to his friendship with the Judge. Here, Sweeney understands who wrote a false accusation against him. The razor froze at the butcher’s throat.

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TODD - Акт 1 "Машина Смерти" - Король и Шут