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      • The production closed on September 3, 1989, after 765 shows, although most of the original cast reunited for a tenth anniversary benefit performance on November 9, 1997.
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  2. Into the Woods opened on Broadway at the Martin Beck Theatre on November 5, 1987, and closed on September 3, 1989, after 765 performances.

    • The Giant & Giantess
    • The Big Bad Wolf
    • Jack's Mother
    • The Baker's Wife
    • The Witch?

    I thought we'd start out with some of the least depressing goodbyes of the bunch. That's not to say that these giants deserved such a grim fate, but I think it's safe to say the male giant definitely overreacted a bit when Jack stole the magical harp. I mean, dude was cool with giving up golden eggs, but a singing harp was out of the question? Stra...

    Let's be honest, this fedora-wearing wolf had it coming what with eating grannies, little girls, and such. However, I would've liked to have seen Johnny Depp a little more than what the movie allotted, especially since there was so much hype surrounding his particular casting. So to only have him appear for 10 minutes (at best) throughout the entir...

    Here's where things started getting really depressing, especially since it was done completely by accident. As the giantess demanded to know the whereabouts of Jack, his mother immediately came to his aid, but was shoved aside by the king's Steward and fatally hit her head on a fallen tree. So just like that, poor Jack became an orphan. But at leas...

    Proving that no bad deed goes unpunished, just after having a romantic encounter with Cinderella's prince, the Baker's Wife ends up falling from a cliff, leaving her newborn baby motherless, much like Jack. But the truly tragic part came afterwards when Corden's Baker found out the terrible news and realized he'd be raising their child all on his o...

    This, I would say, is completely up for interpretation. I chose to believe that when the Witch threw away her beans, she simply vanished and reverted back into her old and ugly self somewhere else in the world. Is that naive? Maybe. Or perhaps I just don't want to live in any world where Meryl Streep doesn't exist in one form or another. (Can you b...

    • Kelly Schremph
  3. Into the Woods, with book by James Lapine and music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, premiered in San Diego, California, at the Old Globe Theatre on December 4, 1986. It ran for 50 performances. The musical later opened on Broadway on November 5, 1987, at the Martin Beck Theatre.

  4. What happened to the Baker's Wife in the very first production? Learn how Into the Woods changed from its premiere performance on stage to the Disney motion picture.

  5. Into the Woods premiered in 1986 in San Diego, California, before moving to Broadway in 1987. A West End production opened in 1990. As critic William A. Henry III wrote in a glowing review in Time magazine in 1987: [B]y the end of the first act the fairy-tale figures have bonded into a community and sing and dance about living happily ever ...

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  6. Jan 25, 2022 · Discover more about the legacy of Stephen Sondheim's greatest musicals, including Into the Woods and Gypsy in the West End, on Broadway, and beyond.

  7. By the end of Act I, everyone has gotten their wish and will seemingly live happily ever after. But in Act II, when Jack’s beanstalk brings them a visit from an angry Giant, we see how the consequences of their actions haunt them in disastrous ways.

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