Many fans of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's musical Into the Woods, a mash up of Grimm's Fairy Tales that is both funny and serious, just got their wish. A production of the show, starring Sara Bareilles, that had a limited run at New York's City Center in the spring, has moved to Broadway, where it's received rave reviews and is playing to sold out houses. For those familiar with the original, it's a different kind of production.
Fresh off their Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Sunday in the Park with George, composer/lyricist Stephen Sondheim and librettist James Lapine wanted to write a new show together and landed on the idea of taking various fairy tales – Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Jack and the Beanstalk, among them – and mixing them all together, with their own story of a childless baker and his wife.
