Into the Woods: Directed by Rob Marshall. With Anna Kendrick, Daniel Huttlestone, James Corden, Emily Blunt. A witch tasks a childless baker and his wife with procuring magical items from classic fairy tales to reverse the curse put on their family tree.
Reviews: Into the WoodsReview by Mark Brown
Into the Woods Brothers Grimm fairy tales come to living, singing life inInto the Woods, a long-in-development adaptation of Stephen Sondheim’s Tony Award-winning Broadway musical from 1986. The original and much-celebrated production featured Bernadette Peters and Joanna Gleason in key roles, bu...
Can the movie adaptation of a Broadway show actually improve on the original? I can’t think of another example, offhand, until Into the Woods. This is a completely subjective statement, as there are many Stephen Sondheim aficionados who love the 1987 show as is. I am one of those naysay...
Into the Woods review: How does the Meryl Streep, James Corden, Johnny Depp musical fare? An all-star cast get hopelessly lost in the fairytale forest of Into the Woods. By Stella PapamichaelPublished: 17 December 2014Director: Rob Marshall; Screenwriters: James Lapine, Stephen Sondheim...
the Beanstalk” fame (Daniel Huttlestone) tries to convince his mother (Tracey Ullman) not to sell his beloved cow; and Little Red Riding Hood (Lilla Crawford) heads to her grandmother’s house with a basket full of sweets. All these characters cross paths in the woods thanks to the ...
In Sondheim’s world, the woods are a metaphor for the adventure of life, they represent boundlessness and possibility – we may stray but we may also have our wish granted, or find the treasures that we seek. In this production, however, it manifests as a dark and somewhat unimaginative...
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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live ...