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Early attempts to adapt Into the Woods to film occurred in the early 1990s, with a script by Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel. A reading was held with a cast that included Robin Williams as the Baker, Goldie Hawn as the Baker's Wife, Cher as the Witch, Danny DeVito as the Giant, Steve Martin as the Wolf, and Roseanne as Jack's Mother. [ 30 ]
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.
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- Adventure, Comedy, Drama
- Rob Marshall
- 2014-12-25
The cast included Amy Adams as the Baker's Wife, Donna Murphy as the Witch, Denis O'Hare as the Baker, Chip Zien (the Baker in the 1987 Broadway cast) as the Mysterious Man/Cinderella's Father, Ivan Hernandez as the Wolf/Cinderella's Prince, Jessie Mueller as Cinderella, Jack Broderick as the young Narrator, Gideon Glick as Jack, Cooper Grodin ...
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The Witch comes from the concept of the Rapunzel fairy tale from the Brother Grimm's fairy tales. She is based off of Dame Gothel (otherwise known as Mother Gothel) and based on this logic (though it is never stated in the show) it can be assumed that is also her name. The plot follows that of the original fairy tale - A man and his wife, in some v...
The Witch's first appearance is as an elderly woman: long curly grey hair with a pink bow in it, a long crooked nose, warts, and sharp nails. She wears a long embellished black velvet cloak(hood) detailed with red roses and red patterned fabric on the underside, a dull tattered/layered lavender dress, a brown pouch and a red jewelled necklace along...
Act I
In Act I, the Witch first appears as a haggard and elderly woman, who approaches the Baker and his wife. She tells them that she has cursed his family to be barren due to his father's actions (stealing her beans), but she will be able to break the curse and grant their wish under these conditions: getting a cow as white as milk, a cape as red as blood, hair as yellow as corn, and a slipper as pure as gold; before the chime of midnight in three days' time, she will grant them a child. It is al...
Act II
The start of Act II follows a similar prologue, interrupted by a crash. The witch enters once again into the Baker's home, and she helps them come to the conclusion that it was a giant's foot that destroyed their home and her garden. ("Prologue: So Happy") Shortly after, she runs into Rapunzel in the woods, who is a screaming mess. She asks her faux-daughter what she is doing there, to which she replies "oh, nothing," and proceeds to vent about how the witch treated her, locking her in a towe...
Deceased Mother
The Witch's relationship with her mother is only briefly mentioned in her songs. It can be gathered that her mother was a somewhat cruel and strict woman with the Witch, most likely a witch herself, considering that despite the fact shewasn't the one to lose the beans and they were stolen from her, she still was cursed into being what is generally perceived as 'ugly' due to being old. When the Witch has enough of the main cast in Act 2, she refers to her mother again, implying that she dies a...
Rapunzel
The Witch has a fairly straightforward relationship with Rapunzel that is mostly loving and somewhat strained. It is believed that the Witch perceives Rapunzel as pure in a sense and she will always love her. It is unknown if the Witch is aware of how Rapunzel feels about her that is mostly negative and confusing. Notably, Rapunzel symbolises female seduction, physical attraction - desire and premature sexuality that mostly comments on the idea of beauty. The beans and garden on top of this a...
Rapunzel's Prince
The Witch has very little direct interaction with Rapunzel's Prince, yet it is clear that she despises him. She blinds him for being with Rapunzel, causing him to dive head first into thorns she grows with her magic. In the end of Act I, she requests Rapunzel to go with her and he holds onto her. In Act I, during the confrontation of the Giant, Rapunzel rushes to the Witch in her fear and the Witch immediately goes to her. He appears, asking Rapunzel to come to him, and as the witch turns to...
"Of course you have no bread!" "It's not what I wish. It's what you wish." [Pointing to Baker's Wife belly.]"Nothing cooking in there now, is there?" "She took one look at my beautiful garden, and told your father, that what she wanted, more than anything in the world, was..." "Greens, Greens, and nothing but greens:" [Conversational] "Parsley, pep...
Act I
1. Prologue: Into the Woods 2. Our Little World 3. First Midnight 4. Stay With Me 5. Second Midnight 6. Ever After
Act II
1. Prologue: So Happy 2. (Witch's) Lament 3. Your Fault 4. Last Midnight 5. Finale: Children Will Listen
Bernadette Peters, the original actress for The Witch, was actually called in to work on the production by Stephen Sondheim as a favour. She was not planned to stay in the role for long, nor become...Donna Murphy, Mother Gothel's voice actor in the 2010 Disney film "Tangled" auditioned for the role originally as she also extensively worked with Sondheim. She did not get the role at the time, ho...Catherine Zeta-jones, Michelle Pfeiffer, Penelope Cruz, Donna Murphy, Idina Menzel, Miranda Richardson, Kate Winslet and Nicole Kidman were also considered for the role of the witch in the 2014 fil...Also understudied by Joy Franz, Cinderella's Stepmother and Marin Mazzie who replaced Rapunzelfor the original Broadway cast.I'm the witch. You're the world. Witch : Stay a child while you can be a child.
I went to see the musical when it was on Broadway, with the great Bernadette Peters playing the Witch, and I thought it was fantastic. There is no one like Stephen Sondheim. There is no one who writes sing-able, character-driven music that tells a story.
