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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.
Into the Woods was Sondheim and Lapine’s second collaboration, following 1984’s Sunday in the Park with George, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The idea for the project arose naturally as Sondheim and Lapine continued their working relationship.
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Rob then checked the score and told him that it’s written as “woods.” And Sondheim told him that was because “woods” is what the Baker’s Wife is saying.
Nov 14, 2014 · Everyone starts to reap what they sowed, including the so-called heroes, and there are consequences that they never could have imagined. What is the history?
Dec 24, 2014 · With Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s twist on fairy tales opening on Christmas Day tomorrow as a huge Disney movie, allow Vulture to explain precisely why your theater-geek friends are...
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Published and produced in 1986, Into the Woods bears many of the hallmarks of having been written in the 1980s. The setting, the music, and the language is timeless, and the content is applicable to the commonalities of human experience, but the play does bear the subtle fingerprint of that decade.
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Into the Woods is a 2014 American musical fantasy film directed by Rob Marshall, with a screenplay by James Lapine based on his and Stephen Sondheim's 1987 Broadway musical of the same name.
