Word: rapunzel
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INTO THE WOODS Stephen Sondheim's best musical yet, gorgeous to look at and haunting to hear. A fractured fairy tale bringing into the same forest Cinderella, Rapunzel and the like and asking what comes after happily-ever- after...
...work. Says he: "The point of being in the theater is to try one idea after another, maybe realize your first was the best, but be able to know -- which just about no other art form can allow." For Woods -- a sort of Fractured Fairy Tales in which Cinderella, Rapunzel, Jack of Beanstalk fame and other beloved characters all meet in the same forest at the same time and blunder into one another's stories -- Sondheim and Director-Librettist James Lapine started sketching ideas soon after the premiere of their first collaboration, Sunday in the Park. Through three workshop productions...
Into the Woods is a musical fairy tale in which Jack, of beanstalk fame; Little Red Ridinghood; Cinderella, Rapunzel and their respective princes; Sleeping Beauty; Snow White -- and, of course, a wicked witch and a menacing giant -- are living out their stories in the same forest at the same time, bumping into each other and entangling one another's narratives. As funny as Sondheim's A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, as musical as his A Little Night Music, as morally inflamed as his Sweeney Todd, yet more forgiving and affirmative than anything he has written...
...invented tale called The Baker and His Wife, about a couple who long to escape the curse of childlessness inflicted by the "witch next door." Inasmuch as the holy grails that will lift the witch's spell are Jack's beloved white cow, Little Red Ridinghood's crimson cape, Rapunzel's yellow hair and Cinderella's golden slipper, by the end of the first act the fairy-tale figures have bonded into a community and sing and dance about living happily ever after...
Cinderella, Rapunzel and Little Red Ridinghood meet in Into the Woods, Stephen Sondheim' s brilliant new Broadway musical...