Into the Woods
Into the Woods,a 1987 Broadway musical by James Lapine (libretto) and Stephen Sondheim (music and lyrics) that utilized familiar and original fairy tales. In a storybook setting, various characters set off into the woods with particular tasks. Jack goes to sell the family cow, Little Red Riding Hood travels to see her grandmother, Cinderella steals away to visit the grave of her mother and, in an original sub‐plot, a baker and his wife search for specific items demanded by a witch that has rendered the couple childless. The same witch holds her daughter Rapunzel a prisoner in a tower. Once in the forest, Jack obtains the magic beans that allow him to climb the beanstalk to kill the giant. Cinderella goes to the festival and meets her Prince while Little Red outwits the wolf and he is killed, and Rapunzel is rescued by her Prince. The...
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