The Broadway show 'Wicked' is making history this Black History Month.
She joked that the first week in her new job has been the longest in her life,"because so much has happened."
"It was one of those moments where you have to be Glinda," she said."You're Glinda right now. You're not Brittney. You're Glinda, because if I'm Brittney, I'm going to cry." She'd played the role before as an understudy, going on a few times starting in 2019, when the performer hired to do the job wasn't available. But the milestone means even more to Johnson as Broadway springs back to life.
"Everyone is excited to be back in a theater period post-COVID," she said."But there is something that happens to you when you get to see yourself represented onstage, and it's important for people to see what is possible for them.""The first Broadway show that I saw was '110 in the Shade' with Audra McDonald," she said."That was the first time I recognized myself onstage. I realized there was a place for me.
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