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Into the Woods is a 1986 musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine. The musical intertwines the plots of several Brothers Grimm fairy tales , exploring the consequences of the characters' wishes and quests.
They collaborated on Into the Woods (1987), a musical based on several Brothers Grimm fairy tales. Although Sondheim has been called the first composer to bring rap music to Broadway (with the Witch in the opening number of Into the Woods), he attributed the first rap in theater to Meredith Willson's "Rock Island" from The Music Man (1957). [26]
In 1994, lyrics from the song was emblazoned on a signed charity t-shirt for the Minnesota AIDS Project. [ 5 ] Rob Marshall recounted a story where he heard President Barack Obama quote the song during a speech at the 10th anniversary of 9/11, which inspired him to direct the film version of the stage musical. [ 6 ]
In “Into the Woods,” the audience laughs at the gluttony of the Little Red Ridinghood character, especially in the earliest, most deliberately cartoony parts of the production. But in a sense ...
Stephen Sondheim circa 1970. Stephen Sondheim was an American composer and lyricist whose most acclaimed works include A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962), Company (1970), Follies (1971), A Little Night Music (1973), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1979), Sunday in the Park with George (1984), and Into the Woods (1987).
James Elliot Lapine (born January 10, 1949) is an American stage director, playwright, screenwriter, and librettist.He has won the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical three times, for Into the Woods, Falsettos, and Passion.
Into the Woods is the soundtrack album to the 2014 Walt Disney Pictures musical fantasy film of the same name.The album features music written and composed by Stephen Sondheim, and featuring vocals from the film's ensemble cast including Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt, James Corden, Anna Kendrick, Chris Pine, Johnny Depp, Daniel Huttlestone, Lilla Crawford, MacKenzie Mauzy, Tracey Ullman, Christine ...
[10] Bobby Patrick of BroadwayWorld wrote "the 2022 Cast Album of the revival production of Into The Woods offers this generation of The Broadway Musical fans palpably wonderful renditions of Mr. Sondheim's score. it is safe to say that those who believe the OG cast is the end all/be all/there-is-no-other actually will find a lot to like here ...