Into the Woods: Complete Finale (1991) 

Every time I have to use a slotted spoon I hear Jack's mom say "A slotted spoon can catch the potato."

One thing I love about Steve's musicals is that they are all utterly perfectly cast, and *Into the Woods* is no exception. Fine-tuned perfection.

Gotta love Bernadette peters. That role was simply meant for her!

Joanna Gleason was flawless as the Baker's wife!

little staging/choreography choices i read too much into for my heart to handle: 11:19 the baker's wife and the witch linking arms - _"into the woods but mind the past!"_ 11:28 the witch reaching backward for jack's hand and him accepting it 11:53 cinderella and the baker's wife passing through the middle - _"into the woods to find there's hope of getting through the journey"_ 12:01 the baker carefully slowing his steps as he handles the baby, and the witch appearing to wave him off with glee/encouragement 12:04 cinderella, jack, the baker and his son dancing in a circle... housemates... 12:16 the baker pulling his father back to the ensemble.

My parents and I went to see this play at one particular theater. This theater added an interesting detail to the play. It starts off with hearing voices telling a boy how he is not so good which causes him to run away. He crashes the night in an abandoned house. While there, he founds a stack of old fairytales. He grabs out his notebook and decides to combine all the fairytale into one, thus making him the narrator of Into The Woods. Just like in this play, he is sacrificed to the giant's wife. At the end of the play, the boy's father arrives at the abandoned house and finds the boy asleep. He wakes him up and the boy shows his father his notebook. The father begins reading it aloud, just like how the baker begins telling the story at 9:14. The thing is the father is played by the same actor who played the baker. So the baker's story of Into The Woods was a way of the boy can be closer to his father. As the boy and the father leave the abandoned house to go him, the boy turns to the audience and says "I wish!" just like Cinderella at 12:21.

A lot of actors have to try to cry. Red looks like she's trying to not cry.

I did Into the Woods and oh my gosh listening to this I can just hear all my former cast mates and their voices and with that all the memories I had; all the times I laughed where I could breathe among new friends I had the most fun with, my friend and I singing Agony backstage, the baker I secretly admired and wrote a poem for, the days my friend and I would walk around the track and talk about rehearsal, how alive I felt on stage because of how connected I felt to the show and its cast, this show is so special, I was beyond grateful to perform it, now that it is over I feel empty.

Absolutely beautiful! RIP Steven Sondheim, composers like you deserve all the praise!

"I wish" "I know"

When the Baker (Chip Zien) declaims at 7:18: "Oh, no no no no no - no, goodness no - my house is a shambles!" I can't help but think Steve was digging at Frank Rich just a bit!

Bernadette should have had more songs. She’s my favorite part in this song. So beautiful

I’m so excited to be in this as Rapunzel…well, excited and scared.

Why does this song make me ball up 😭😢

I'm going to be in it. It's opening on Thursday. SO EXCITED!!!

2:05 don't ask me questions, i'm frightened of questions

whats funny is the hair color in the production i was in was vice versa Red Riding Hood had dark brown/black hair and cinderella had blonde :P

GOD, I LOVE THIS SHOW

7:47-10:52 love how it mirrors the opening did you notice that the baker is saying the exact line the narrator did at the start of the show? Pretty moving that he went from letting someone else tell his story to telling it himself. (even if he didn't really have a choice due to certain events...)

This was truly an amazing cast, i heard of Joanna, but i didnt know she was so talented, then you have Bernadette Peters rocking the show down

I’m always surprised that Kim Crawford wasn’t a bigger name. She seemed like the Julia-Louis Dreyfus of musical theater

R.I.P. Steven Sondheim!

What a great play. I love it so much. ❤

I don't get Rapunzel's moral at the end LOL

I liked it!! It won me over after a few clips

Thank you for explaining the appropriate response, and my apologies for not using the correct terms. May your memory be a blessing, Mr. Sondheim!

I love the mysterious man doing the piece sign at end. I just can't believe I noticed that.

Unpopular opinion: Joanna Gleason was the most talented in this production

9:20 Bernadette Peters. Wow.

I feel like this sometimes in my life but if I can take a tiny bit of this scene and put it into my story I think I got a really good ending

Perfection.

I love how the giant sounds

I saw Kim Crosby as the Bakers wife very good!

I've actually always had an hard crush on this jack

I love this song!!

The way her voice wavers on "No one is alone" at 8:46 breaks me into pieces.

:wishes come true... not free!"

you shouldn't have cut the part where the casts are bowing to audience

That's love . Love Burnadette 💖

"Jack, your mother is dead" Bruh you couldve said that better...not straight forward

12:20 [CINDERELLA] I wish

10:50 her switch up makes my heart skip a beat every single time🥵

Joanna Weeks is great

I just realized ealized that the Witch doesn't have her cape in the finale.

Writing many of these parts for specific actors made for an amazing original production, but it also means no one else quite holds up. Sure, I’ve seen some great productions of this show- amazing even- but never quite as perfect

then she should have said that instead of singing "aaahaaaha"

@h193013 I'm guessing it's keep what you're doing and don't change ways when you're not ready, haha.

that is rhe Spel

DVD or netflix

0:44 yall fr gone let that slide?

Did the stepfamily die at the end someone said they starved to death

5:44 9:30 10:50

Where can the entire show be watched?

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