What Happens to Johanna?
Plus, a Sondheim/Lloyd Webber crossword and more from our conversation with Lucy May Barker
Sweeney Todd ends without an epilogue for Johanna. Barber, baker, beggar, Beadle, and Judge are dead. Toby’s fate is little better. And somewhere offstage, Johanna and Anthony are running. What happens next is entirely ours to construct.
We asked the 10 performers who spoke to us for last Sunday’s Johanna feature what they imagined for her future. Their answers were as divergent, and as revealing, as you might expect...