Into the Woods
Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Cast of Characters
Narrator.................. Tom Heintzelman
Cinderella............... Mary Crowley
Jack........................ Dale Mason
Jack's Mother......... Lori Ann Fahnders
Baker...................... Ed Macmurdo
Baker's Wife.......... Cynda Wrightsman
Cinderella's Stepmother.. Debbie Rudis
Florinda................... Karee Prince
Lucinda.................. Sara Sherrrow
Cinderella's Father.. Gil Opferman
Littler Red Ridinghood... Rachel Friedman
Witch....................... Nancy Diefenback
Cinderella's Mother/ Granny... Tamera Turner
Mysterious Man............. Dennis Rendleman
Wolf........................... Matt Schwartz
Rapunzel.................... Katie O'Brien
Rapunzel's Prince...... Victor Holstein
Cinderella's Prince...... Steve Williams
Steward........................ Sean-Edward D. Hall
"Into The Woods," is a mixture of Cinderella, Little Red Ridinghood, Jack In The Bean Stalk, Rapunzel, and The Baker and The Baker's Wife. It was held at the Springfield Theatre on Lawrence Street, on the eighth day of the tenth month of the year 2000. The plays were not separated in their own section the whole time. They mixed them all together most of the time. It was very interesting and entertaining. This musical was set in the woods (the whole time). Every skit was just like the original ones, but they put a little twist to them to make them funnier.
When I went, I had gotten there just in time. There were three women there that had an extra ticket, and to top it off their tickets/seats were in the front row center. So I had a very good view. As I sat down, I noticed on the stage one of the actors. He was Jack for "Jack in the Bean Stalk." Jack is one of the teachers at Ursuline Academy, Dale Mason. He was not my teacher, but I did know him. I thought that that was pretty cool.
I liked everything about the musical "Into The Woods." It was not even that long. It was only an hour and a half. It was funny and entertaining. The actors/actresses were very much into the play. They all sang and danced, and they looked like they were having fun at what they were doing. That makes a show better to watch. I would like to see it again, only if I didn't have to pay $9 for it. I would even recommend a friend to go and see it. There was nothing that I did not like about the musical. The whole thing was just wonderful.
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In society there is a longing for a story to have a nice and neat happy ending. Broadway and the theater originally would give this to their audience, especially in America. Give the audience what the want! They want happy endings that mirror their own values and interpretations of how the world should be and at the end of it should be, “and they all lived happily ever after.” The fairy tale ending is something society hopes, dreams, and strives for since we could listen to our parents read us fairy tales with these sweet stories of finding true love and having to fight the odds to be the Prince or Princess you deserve to be. With Into the Woods, Lapine and Sondheim sought out to explore what could go wrong with “happily ever after.” Effectively leaving the audience with the adage, “be careful what you ask for…”
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