Broadway’s original Johanna has died

Broadway’s original Johanna has died

RIP

norman lebrecht

January 07, 2024

The singing commuinity is mourning the death of Sarah Rice, a popular soprano who sang the first Johanna in Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd on Broadway.

Aside from singing musicals and operas, she had a sideline playing the Thereminovox wherever ethereal sounds were required. Not many such specialists left.

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