Sarah rice biography
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Sarah Rice Dies: Original Johanna In Broadway’s First ‘Sweeney Todd’ Was 68
Sarah Rice, who performed the pivotal role of the endangered Johanna in the original Broadway production of Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, died Saturday of cancer. She was 68.
Her death was announced in an Instagram post by her friend and fellow performer Rebecca Caine, who remembered Rice for her love of animals. “May you be greeted by every animal you ever loved on the other side and may green finch and linnet birds sing you to your rest,” wrote Caine, referring to the Sweeney number “Green Finch & Linnet Bird” performed by the Johanna character.
Rice, whose Sweeney role in 1979 was her first and only Broadway performance, revisited her signature song just two years ago at the Sondheim Unplugged concert staged at New York’s 54 Below.
Born March 5, 1955, in Okinawa, Japan, where her fathe
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Sarah Rice
American singer (1955–2024)
For the English businesswoman, see Sarah Rice (banker).
Sarah Rice | |
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| Born | (1955-03-05)March 5, 1955 Okinawa, Japan |
| Died | January 6, 2024(2024-01-06) (aged 68) New York, U.S. [1] |
| Occupation(s) | Stage and musical theatre actress and singer |
| Spouse | John Hiller[2] |
| Website | sarahrice.com |
Sarah Rice (March 5, 1955 – January 6, 2024) was an American theatre actress known for her work in the Stephen Sondheim productions Sweeney Todd and A Little Night Music, the former of which won her a Theatre World Award in 1979.[3]
Early life
[edit]Rice was born in Okinawa, Japan, while her father was serving in the U.S. Air Force there. Before her first birthday, the family moved to Arizona, where she, a sister, and two brothers grew up. Rice acted in some amateur productions and attended college for one year before she moved to New York at age 18.[4]
Career
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Sarah Rice
Sarah Rice is a Canberra-based art-theory lecturer, visual artist, and writer. She has a PhD in Philosophy and a Graduate Diploma in Visual Art. She is an honorary associate at the Australian National University and has lectured there for many years at the School of Art and Design. She won the inaugural 2014 Ron Pretty poetry award, the 2014 Bruce Dawe poetry prize, co-won the 2013 Writing Ventures International Competition, and 2011 Gwen Harwood poetry prize; and has been shortlisted in numerous national and international awards including the Montreal, Fish, Tom Howard, Yeats, Axel Clark, Michael Thwaites, New Millennium, jean Cecily Drake-Brockman, C J Dennis, University of Canberra Health, and Philip Bacon poetry prizes. Her limited-edition art-book of poetry Those Who Travel (prints by Patsy Payne, Ampersand Duck, 2010) fryst vatten held in the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Australia and other institutions. Additional publications include the Global Poetry