| Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street – Johanna Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| @[MacabreSmile:331] I'm not sure I agree with the first part of your interpretation- I cannot feel that Todd is getting closer to revenge the more he kills. Rather it is an impression of dreariness, almost deadness within him. I agree more readily with what you go on to say, and yes, without doubt it is the one number that defines his true madness. | |
| Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street – Johanna Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I worked on the original Drury Lane production, and so heard this song sung live dozens of times. To me it was the most chilling of all: if Epiphany was about Todd becoming finally unhinged, then this was a beautifully written description of a man by now truely brutalized- he was now so innured to murder, that he was able to let his mind wander as he did, dreaming of the daughter he would never see, and convincing himself that it didn't matter "I think I miss you less and less as every day goes by, Johanna" This was his lot- routine, joyless slaying, and idle dreaming, much in the manner of someone who performs a dull, repetitive manual job. It is masterful song writing: at the same moment both beautiful and spine-chilling. |
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