Johanna (character)

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Johanna Barker
Jayne Wisener as Johanna
Portrayed by	Sarah Rice (original 1979 Broadway cast) Betsy Joslyn (1982 tour) Lisa Vroman (2001 concert) Lauren Molina (2005 Broadway revival) Lauren Molina (2007-2008 Canada and U.S. National Tour) Jayne Wisener (2007 film) Maria Bilbao (2023 Broadway)
In-universe information
Gender	Female
Spouse	Anthony Hope (1979 Sondheim musical and 2007 Tim Burton musical adaptation) Mark Ingestrie (Original story)

Johanna is a fictional character appearing in the story of Sweeney Todd. In the original version of the tale, the penny dreadful The String of Pearls (1846–7), her name is Johanna Oakley and she is no relation of Todd.^[1] In the popular musical adaptation by Stephen Sondheim, inspired by Christopher Bond's play Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1973), she is the daughter of Benjamin Barker and his wife, Lucy. In this version she is the ward of Judge Turpin, the man who falsely convicted her father and raped her mother.