I just found your channel, and i am in love. I grew up with this into the woods, and for that and many other reasons it is near and dear to my heart. This clip is so perfect I was giggling the whole time! thank you so much for making this and doing what you do!!
I just saw this play. I had to watch a couple of videos, to learn what I had just been too. My niece was Cinderella. It was a great play. I only wish I knew what was going on before hand!
I love this show! Listened to it on the way to State with my whole Cross Country Team. It was really nice because our race courses often took us INTO THE WOODS!
Ah yes, I remember when my middle school performed this musical (only the first half of course, because children). I played a tree. Also a towns person. Good times...
...that's the funniest line in the show for you? You haven't watched this show enough. Everything else is spot-on, though! Loooove your minute-ish musicals!
GAH! It annoys me so much - why does everyone always say that Jack is singing about breasts! I know it's a joke, but geez louise! "She draws you close to her giant BREAST" The definition being the same as when a man 'beats his breast' -- it just talking about the upper torso area! Anyone can hug anyone to their breast! I know that into the woods has a lot of mature themes, including sexualisation around the wolf and his infatuation with Red Riding Hood, but that is a major part of her story and growth into maturity as a woman! Jack's story about maturity is not about that at all, but about standing up for yourself and not being supported by others (aka his mother)! ... *sheeesh*
IMO, Jack's song is pretty unambiguously about his blossoming giant kink. I mean, if we can agree that LRRH's story is about rape (as per the Wolf's very unambiguously ambiguous song, and his very visible organ), then note how Giants in the Sky duplicates the "I know things now" line from ... 'I Know Things Now', Red's song. (Also the very noticeable emphasis on "lady giant." The husband did not get classified as a "man giant.") But it's also a bit muddled and confused, because these songs are confused because the moral is confused because the fairy tales are confusing, but also first-time sexual experiences are confusing. Am I saying Jack had sex with the giant? No. Am I saying he had a stiffy the whole time? Probably, yeah.
All stage productions as early as Middle School are better than the movie. Not horrible as a movie but has to be one of the worst film adaptations of a musical ever.
Fun Fact: Tom Aldredge (the actor who played the Narrator and the Mysterious Man) had the fastest quick change in the original Broadway production. Bernadette Peters makes her witch transformation in 12 seconds, but Aldredge only takes 10 seconds between dying as the Mysterious Man and his next Narrator line.
Musical Theatre Mash I don't know whether I'd be more stressed about making the narrator's quick change or the witch's quick change! The narrator's is faster, but the witch's is onstage - or at least it was in our local production of Into the Woods Jr. The only time I've seen the full show, they used two different actresses for the witch so one could disappear and the other could reappear as young and pretty, so I don't know how it's normally done.
+RianeBane Well in this Version (the original Broadway one) the witch also did it on stage, AND it was the same glorious Bernadette Peters, of course. ;) The whole Thing is on YT and well worth a watch... or two... or ten, really.
I don't know if this is because I've only seen the film version with Meryl Streep, but I really didn't like the second half. The Baker's Wife being seduced by the prince seems out of nowhere and after pursuing Cinderella relentlessy, why throw that away for some random woman in the woods? Then the Baker's Wife is killed for her infidelity but nothing bad happens to the prince at all. Plus all the deaths are really ambiguous. What the hell happens to the witch?? Did she die? Why?? Jack's mum dying seemed really arbitrary and out of nowhere. Then the Baker decides to abandon his son after resenting his own father for doing the exact same thing to him?The first half even feels like a complete story, it makes no sense for it to continue.
I haven't watched the film version, but if you haven't watched the original stage version yet, please watch it! It's so good and all the stuff actually makes sense.
