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With Into the Woods, songwriter Stephen Sondheim and librettist/director James Lapine retold a group of children's stories in an intricate, moving way that worked on many levels. In the show, which opened on Broadway on November 5, 1987, and ran 764 performances before closing on September 3, 1989 (making it Sondheim's most popular work in 25 years), Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Rapunzel, and other familiar fairy tale characters, joined by a few newly invented ones, engage in interrelated adventures. Sondheim and Lapine's interpretation is informed by child psychologist Bruno Bettelheim's book The Uses of Enchantment, and they not only retain some of the gorier aspects of the original tales, but also add adult complexities. Sondheim's score for Into the Woods is one of his most tuneful, and slyly acknowledges the melodic simplicity of the Disney movie versions of some of these fairy tales, but his lyrics are typically witty and, not infrequently, employ tongue twisters. Song highlights include Cinderella's "On the Steps of the Palace"; the two versions of "Agony," sung by two princes; and "Hello, Little Girl," sung to Little Red Riding Hood by the Wolf. An ensemble cast led by Bernadette Peters (as a witch) navigates those words well. Particularly impressive are Danielle Ferland as Little Red Riding Hood; Robert Westenberg, who plays both the Wolf and Cinderella's Prince; and Tony winner Joanna Gleason. Into the Woods succeeded in enchanting children (some of whom, it must be admitted, probably could have left after the deceptive "happy ending" that closed the first act) along with adults who understood the grown-up references. Recorded at a time when the advent of CDs was expanding the previous length limitations of albums, the original Broadway cast recording used its 69-minute running time to give a good sense of the show as a whole rather than being just a collection of musical highlights.
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Tom Aldredge, Vocal - Stephen Sondheim, Composer, Lyricist - Paul Goodman, Recording Engineer - Jay David Saks, Producer - Anthony Salvatore, Recording Engineer - Original Broadway Cast of Into the Woods, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
(P) 1988 Sony Music Entertainment
Paul Gemignani, Conductor - Merle Louise, MainArtist, Vocal - Kim Crosby, MainArtist, Vocal - Stephen Sondheim, Composer, Lyricist - Paul Goodman, Recording Engineer - Jay David Saks, Producer - Anthony Salvatore, Recording Engineer - Into the Woods Orchestra, AssociatedPerformer - Original Broadway Cast of Into the Woods, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
(P) 1988 Sony Music Entertainment
Paul Gemignani, Conductor - Robert Westenberg, MainArtist, Vocal - Danielle Ferland, MainArtist, Vocal - Stephen Sondheim, Composer, Lyricist - Paul Goodman, Recording Engineer - Jay David Saks, Producer - Anthony Salvatore, Recording Engineer - Into the Woods Orchestra, AssociatedPerformer - Original Broadway Cast of Into the Woods, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
(P) 1988 Sony Music Entertainment
Paul Gemignani, Conductor - Chip Zien, MainArtist, Vocal - Ben Wright, MainArtist, Vocal - Joanna Gleason, MainArtist, Vocal - Stephen Sondheim, Composer, Lyricist - Paul Goodman, Recording Engineer - Jay David Saks, Producer - Anthony Salvatore, Recording Engineer - Into the Woods Orchestra, AssociatedPerformer - Original Broadway Cast of Into the Woods, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
(P) 1988 Sony Music Entertainment
Paul Gemignani, Conductor - Danielle Ferland, MainArtist, Vocal - Stephen Sondheim, Composer, Lyricist - Paul Goodman, Recording Engineer - Jay David Saks, Producer - Anthony Salvatore, Recording Engineer - Into the Woods Orchestra, AssociatedPerformer - Original Broadway Cast of Into the Woods, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
(P) 1988 Sony Music Entertainment
Paul Gemignani, Conductor - Chip Zien, AssociatedPerformer - Robert Westenberg, AssociatedPerformer - Ben Wright, MainArtist, Vocal - Tom Aldredge, AssociatedPerformer - Merle Louise, AssociatedPerformer - Kim Crosby, MainArtist, Vocal - Danielle Ferland, AssociatedPerformer - Joanna Gleason, MainArtist, Vocal - Chuck Wagner, AssociatedPerformer - Pamela Winslow, AssociatedPerformer - Edmund Lyndeck, AssociatedPerformer - Stephen Sondheim, Composer, Lyricist - Bernadette Peters, AssociatedPerformer - Paul Goodman, Recording Engineer - Jay David Saks, Producer - Barbara Bryne, AssociatedPerformer - Lauren Mitchell, AssociatedPerformer - Anthony Salvatore, Recording Engineer - Joy Franz, AssociatedPerformer - Into the Woods Ensemble, MainArtist, Vocal - Into the Woods Orchestra, AssociatedPerformer - Kay McClelland, AssociatedPerformer - Original Broadway Cast of Into the Woods, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
(P) 1988 Sony Music Entertainment
Paul Gemignani, Conductor - Robert Westenberg, MainArtist, Vocal - Chuck Wagner, MainArtist, Vocal - Stephen Sondheim, Composer, Lyricist - Paul Goodman, Recording Engineer - Jay David Saks, Producer - Anthony Salvatore, Recording Engineer - Into the Woods Orchestra, AssociatedPerformer - Original Broadway Cast of Into the Woods, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
(P) 1988 Sony Music Entertainment
Paul Gemignani, Conductor - Chip Zien, MainArtist, Vocal - Joanna Gleason, MainArtist, Vocal - Stephen Sondheim, Composer, Lyricist - Paul Goodman, Recording Engineer - Jay David Saks, Producer - Anthony Salvatore, Recording Engineer - Into the Woods Orchestra, AssociatedPerformer - Original Broadway Cast of Into the Woods, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
(P) 1988 Sony Music Entertainment
Paul Gemignani, Conductor - Pamela Winslow, MainArtist, Vocal - Stephen Sondheim, Composer, Lyricist - Bernadette Peters, MainArtist, Vocal - Paul Goodman, Recording Engineer - Jay David Saks, Producer - Anthony Salvatore, Recording Engineer - Into the Woods Orchestra, AssociatedPerformer - Original Broadway Cast of Into the Woods, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
(P) 1988 Sony Music Entertainment
Paul Gemignani, Conductor - Kim Crosby, MainArtist, Vocal - Stephen Sondheim, Composer, Lyricist - Paul Goodman, Recording Engineer - Jay David Saks, Producer - Anthony Salvatore, Recording Engineer - Into the Woods Orchestra, AssociatedPerformer - Original Broadway Cast of Into the Woods, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
(P) 1988 Sony Music Entertainment
Paul Gemignani, Conductor - Tom Aldredge, MainArtist, Vocal - Stephen Sondheim, Composer, Lyricist - Paul Goodman, Recording Engineer - Jay David Saks, Producer - Anthony Salvatore, Recording Engineer - Into the Woods Ensemble, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Vocal - Into the Woods Orchestra, AssociatedPerformer - Original Broadway Cast of Into the Woods, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
(P) 1988 Sony Music Entertainment
Paul Gemignani, Conductor - Tom Aldredge, MainArtist, Vocal - Stephen Sondheim, Composer, Lyricist - Paul Goodman, Recording Engineer - Jay David Saks, Producer - Anthony Salvatore, Recording Engineer - Into the Woods Ensemble, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Vocal - Into the Woods Orchestra, AssociatedPerformer - Original Broadway Cast of Into the Woods, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
(P) 1988 Sony Music Entertainment
Paul Gemignani, Conductor - Robert Westenberg, MainArtist, Vocal - Chuck Wagner, MainArtist, Vocal - Stephen Sondheim, Composer, Lyricist - Paul Goodman, Recording Engineer - Jay David Saks, Producer - Anthony Salvatore, Recording Engineer - Into the Woods Orchestra, AssociatedPerformer - Original Broadway Cast of Into the Woods, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
(P) 1988 Sony Music Entertainment
Paul Gemignani, Conductor - Stephen Sondheim, Composer, Lyricist - Bernadette Peters, MainArtist, Vocal - Paul Goodman, Recording Engineer - Jay David Saks, Producer - Anthony Salvatore, Recording Engineer - Into the Woods Orchestra, AssociatedPerformer - Original Broadway Cast of Into the Woods, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
(P) 1988 Sony Music Entertainment
Paul Gemignani, Conductor - Robert Westenberg, MainArtist, Vocal - Joanna Gleason, MainArtist, Vocal - Stephen Sondheim, Composer, Lyricist - Paul Goodman, Recording Engineer - Jay David Saks, Producer - Anthony Salvatore, Recording Engineer - Into the Woods Orchestra, AssociatedPerformer - Original Broadway Cast of Into the Woods, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
(P) 1988 Sony Music Entertainment
Paul Gemignani, Conductor - Chip Zien, MainArtist, Vocal - Ben Wright, MainArtist, Vocal - Kim Crosby, MainArtist, Vocal - Danielle Ferland, MainArtist, Vocal - Stephen Sondheim, Composer, Lyricist - Bernadette Peters, MainArtist, Vocal - Paul Goodman, Recording Engineer - Jay David Saks, Producer - Anthony Salvatore, Recording Engineer - Into the Woods Orchestra, AssociatedPerformer - Original Broadway Cast of Into the Woods, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
(P) 1988 Sony Music Entertainment
Paul Gemignani, Conductor - Chip Zien, MainArtist, Vocal - Tom Aldredge, MainArtist, Vocal - Stephen Sondheim, Composer, Lyricist - Paul Goodman, Recording Engineer - Jay David Saks, Producer - Anthony Salvatore, Recording Engineer - Into the Woods Orchestra, AssociatedPerformer - Original Broadway Cast of Into the Woods, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
(P) 1988 Sony Music Entertainment
Paul Gemignani, Conductor - Chip Zien, MainArtist, Vocal - Ben Wright, MainArtist, Vocal - Kim Crosby, MainArtist, Vocal - Danielle Ferland, MainArtist, Vocal - Stephen Sondheim, Composer, Lyricist - Paul Goodman, Recording Engineer - Jay David Saks, Producer - Anthony Salvatore, Recording Engineer - Into the Woods Orchestra, AssociatedPerformer - Original Broadway Cast of Into the Woods, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
(P) 1988 Sony Music Entertainment
Paul Gemignani, Conductor - Stephen Sondheim, Composer, Lyricist - Bernadette Peters, MainArtist, Vocal - Paul Goodman, Recording Engineer - Jay David Saks, Producer - Anthony Salvatore, Recording Engineer - Into the Woods Ensemble, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Vocal - Into the Woods Orchestra, AssociatedPerformer - Original Broadway Cast of Into the Woods, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
(P) 1988 Sony Music Entertainment
Albumbeschreibung
With Into the Woods, songwriter Stephen Sondheim and librettist/director James Lapine retold a group of children's stories in an intricate, moving way that worked on many levels. In the show, which opened on Broadway on November 5, 1987, and ran 764 performances before closing on September 3, 1989 (making it Sondheim's most popular work in 25 years), Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Rapunzel, and other familiar fairy tale characters, joined by a few newly invented ones, engage in interrelated adventures. Sondheim and Lapine's interpretation is informed by child psychologist Bruno Bettelheim's book The Uses of Enchantment, and they not only retain some of the gorier aspects of the original tales, but also add adult complexities. Sondheim's score for Into the Woods is one of his most tuneful, and slyly acknowledges the melodic simplicity of the Disney movie versions of some of these fairy tales, but his lyrics are typically witty and, not infrequently, employ tongue twisters. Song highlights include Cinderella's "On the Steps of the Palace"; the two versions of "Agony," sung by two princes; and "Hello, Little Girl," sung to Little Red Riding Hood by the Wolf. An ensemble cast led by Bernadette Peters (as a witch) navigates those words well. Particularly impressive are Danielle Ferland as Little Red Riding Hood; Robert Westenberg, who plays both the Wolf and Cinderella's Prince; and Tony winner Joanna Gleason. Into the Woods succeeded in enchanting children (some of whom, it must be admitted, probably could have left after the deceptive "happy ending" that closed the first act) along with adults who understood the grown-up references. Recorded at a time when the advent of CDs was expanding the previous length limitations of albums, the original Broadway cast recording used its 69-minute running time to give a good sense of the show as a whole rather than being just a collection of musical highlights.
© William Ruhlmann /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 22 track(s)
- Total length: 01:16:04
- Main artists: Original Broadway Cast of Into the Woods
- Composer: Stephen Sondheim
- Label: Masterworks Broadway
- Genre: Soundtracks Musicals
(P) 1988, 2006 BMG Music
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