Song:Prologue: Into The Woods
Album:Into The Woods: Original Broadway Cast
Stephen Sondheim's musical Into The Woods interweaves several popular fairy tales. You may be familiar with the 2014 film adaptation. But it was first performed on Broadway in 1987. The show won three Tony awards. The show was a big hit and it has been revived several times. Sondheim wrote the music and lyrics. James Lapine wrote the book and it looks like he also directed the show. Into The Woods takes Little Red Riding Hood, Jack and the Beanstalk, Rapunzel and Cinderella and ties it up with the story of a baker and his wife trying to start a family. That's actually the beginning of Rapunzel. Prologue: Into The Woods leads off the show and is performed by the majority of the cast. The video is from PBS's American Playhouse which aired Mar. 15, 1991. The narrator who ties the whole show together is played by character actor Tom Aldredge. He was a five time Tony nominee and he won a 1978 Daytime Emmy for playing William Shakespeare in Henry Winkler Meets William Shakespeare. The biggest star in this show is Bernadette Peters who plays The Witch. Others include Chip Zien as the Baker and Joanna Gleason as his wife, Robert Westenberg as the Wolf and Cinderella's Prince, Kim Crosby as Cinderella, Danielle Ferland as Little Red Ridinghood, Ben Wright as Jack and Barbara Bryne as Jack's Mother, Pamela Winslow as Rapunzel and Chuck Wagner as Rapunzel's Prince. Jean Kelly played Snow White in the original show. She was replaced by Cindy Robinson for the TV show. The cast album is available as a budget CD. So if you liked the 2014 film of Into The Woods you should check out the original version. Here's Tom Aldredge and company performing Prologue: Into The Woods on PBS's American Playhouse Mar. 15, 1991. This is available on DVD, VOD and you can watch the whole show on Youtube.
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