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  • there goes my perception of childhood fairytales haha how many people died? about 6 or 7? :| Sondheim is pure genius

  • XD

    Pause at 7:59 and look at Bernadette.  LOL

  • Er, sorry, 7:58

  • i love this play it's so amazing, and the singing is awsome.

  • it kind of angers me that the baker didnt get that much applause

  • we did this whole musical at our school. it was great. a lot of things messed up though. like the golden agg broke and things like that. it just made it even more funny because we had to add lib to make up for it.

  • The reprise of "No one is alone" just gets to me every single time I listen/watch it. One of the most intelligent and witty musicals EVER!

  • we're doing this for a school play not act II tho, im the mysterious man

  • 6:05

    The look Joanna has and how it slowly developes into a small smile... It's haunting and makes me cry. It's perfect.

  • aww its soo saddddd:(

  • This musical. Is. AMAZING. OMGWTFBBQ.

  • I love the finale!!!

  • Bravo!Sondheim a genious again!His work is genious!Especially Sweeney Todd!Seriously watch that!This and that show are amazing!

  • Sondheim did Sweeney Todd?! No way! That's my other favorite musical!!

  • Lol yep.I love it he did that amazing

  • I'm not sure I get Sweeney Todd . . . can you explain to me what all the fuss is about??.? I absolutley adore Into the Woods tho

  • The fuss about what,Sweeney Todd?

  • haha the first person to answer's name is sweeneytodd98

  • Ummm......how is that possible? This is damn near all singing!

  • I absolutely love the song Children Will Listen!

  • Thank you so much for posting this! I'm so glad that I finally got to see it!

  • little red- I'll be your mother! lol so sad

  • foreshadowing for teenage pregnancy. lol

  • yeah wow....that would almost ruin it!!! ...poor people in the audience...

  • Those are my favorite lines: "Witches can be right. Giants can be good. You decide what's right. You decide what's good." It's great.

  • i'm afraid i will cry on stage.. it's so sad!

    i'm rapunzel in my school's production =]

  • thats ok, you'll look like a serious actor ;-)

  • into the woods rox! we did it for school! i was milky white. (the cow) it was cool, but we did into the woods jr.

  • I think it's so wonderful how two of the weakest characters who couldn't make up their own minds were guiding the two strongest characters... so sweet... What a wonderful play!  I was in the orchestra pit for this-- flute and piccolo... my sister was the stepmother! :)

  • I love this musical! I always cry at the end. It's just such a powerful story and funny too! I've been trying to convince my director to do this one next year, but he never seems to listen. Hopefully next year!

  • Awesome! I've always wanted to see this play with the original Broadway cast. This cast is definitely one of the best casts I've ever seen.

    Thanks for posting!

  • Our school did this musical three years ago. I never saw it, though. Although, I was even more interested when I discovered that it was a Stephen Sondheim production. Sweeney Todd (the film)was what I saw first. It's excellent, as is this musical.

    Heck! Who am I kidding? I just love musicals!

  • i'm a sophomore and i got Jack's mother in our school's production of this show! it is going to be great and i am totally psyched!

  • This show has so many interesting themes relating to morality

    And some gorgeous music

  • Best Parts of the whole show:

    "I don't have a child." "That's ok too!"

    and

    "You can talk to birds?"

    lol!

  • I cried...

    What can I say??? It was sad!!!

  • I am snow white lol but i got in and i am only a freshman so yeah but i love being Snow white i get to yawn!!!!

  • i'm a freshman too. i got cinderella's mother.

  • this play likes it when the drama interupts the songs.

    Cool little tree-swing-thingy!

  • Yeah, it does...

    They finish the song on the cast recording though, and it sounds amazing.

  • did the witch die???

  • i think so.

  • she just leave

  • NO lolz!

  • This is sad guys!

  • yes she did

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  • well I guess they didn't need the narator after all.

  • i miss the narrator..lol

  • Thank you soooo much for posting this i love this play

    "ill be ur mother now" HA HA HA = D

  • one of my favorite musicals!

  • Careful before you say "listen to me", children will listen.

    Wishes come true, not free.

    Great lines!

  • she shouldn't have died. :( :(

  • The slotted spoon can catch the potato.

    That rocks!!!!!!!!

  • "I think I see a glimmer..."

    Best line ever.

  • Does anyone know who did the Giant's Wife's voice? There are callbacks at my school and I got a callback for her. Just wondering...

  • Bernadette Peters is AMAZING. I think "Children will Listen" is one of her best songs. Along with "Move On" from Sunday in the Park with George.

  • New age musical composers take heed. THis musical is a classic. Compose in the style of Stephen. Make your musicals have meaning.(Unlike Rent)

  • What do you mean? Rent conveys a message of licing life at the fullest, along with plenty of other messages.

    But, I DO agree with you that musicals should have meaning. Poppy little cheese-fest musicals are fun, but they pale in comparison to shows like these.

  • Bwahahahah! So true.

    The funny thing is My high school is doing into the woods and our neighboring school is doing rent junior. Bwahahahaha!

    I don't know how they can but they are.

  • I saw Chip Zien as Thenardier in Les Mis last year. He was good, but The Baker is definitely his role.

  • I love how repunzel walks in and just simply goes "Aaah aah aah ah ah aah aah"!

  • jeez...violent! I think I like act 1 better!

  • Fairy tales can be VERY violent.

  • But SHOULD we have violent fairy tales?

  • Well, originally, fairy tales were told to distract children from the harsh lives that they were living, thus violence was not quite so shocking to them. However, in OUR society, I believe children should be spared of violent and morbid themes until later on in life. Then again, that's just my opinion.

  • Yes but islying for protection really protection?

  • Hm...we shall continue this discussion over messaging, since I don't want to take up too much space on this page.

  • I disagree. By listening to the children's version I felt cheated but subconcioulsy it made me feel ugly because all the beautiful girls end up with princes and really puts them down and makes them think about what they don't have.

    Personally I prefer the violent versions because it makes the fairy tale more realistic in a sense. In this world we do have violence and the first time I read a violent 1 I felt... better about myself (too long 2 explain). I also liked it bcos of wat u said.

  • I definitely agree. My school is debating whether to include the second. I think they should bcuz 1. Your Reason and 2. It is much more interesting

  • Hurray! Got someone to agree with me! That's a thumbs up for you! (Y)

  • Plus, it wouldn't be satisfying without the final numbers, and there would be plot holes if you did JUST those songs, so u defiantly should do act 2, just do a little...censorship

  • this play follows closer to the original Brother's Grimm Fairy Tales then the "Disney" movies of the stories are.

  • I most definitely agree with you... The Brothers Grimm definitely collected a lot of rather morbid tales... But you learn something from them at least ^_^

  • Very true. also alot of the old nursery rhymes are violent too. There is this band called the Tiger Lillies and they take old songs and stories and make them a bit more morbid... But they were used to teach children lessons... Just like alot of kids are afraid of the boogeyman... same concept

  • Beautiful ;_;

  • fantastic! loved it

  • this is by far the best musical by Sondheim.

  • Sweeney Todd is Sondheim's masterpiece, in my opinion, but this is one hell of a show.

  • Absolutely amazing.

  • This musical is true magic! Sondheim always knows how to make an audience cry, eh?

    He had me going there for a moment...

    BRAVO to that marvelous cast!

  • Absolutly hes the best and this is my favorite...he rocks:

    Sweeney Todd

    Candide

    West Side Story...

    The Mans A Genius

  • Thank you so much for posting this. I used to watch it on tape when I was a kid all the time. Favorite :)

  • I love the finale!! the last 10 minutes are serious magic.

  • whoa! what fell exactly??? the big thing???

  • That was supposed to be the body of the giant.

  • im tring out 4 this play at my school

  • me too

  • i was the cow when our school did this play

  • woo love ur bit!

  • omg this is a great musical!! i love it!! :D

  • this musical is hackin amazing this is my first time wtching it an di am inlove and i am so hackin exited that we are actually do tis at my school! also i love the part when Jack goes "I want a friend and a PET!" lmao that was so funny! I AM INLOVE WITH THIS MUSICAL! AMAZING!

  • This is a brilliant musical, and I love it, but I must say it is very very very dark! The first act is all happy and cheery, but act two is so so so dark and has a lot of dark overtones. Still great though.

  • The baker's wife's spirit in the end made me cry. D:

  • i think i've learned EVERYTHING i've ever needed from Sondheim musicals...

  • dang that sucks i miss the bakers wife because they went though all of that just to have a kid now she dies and the kid has no mom but also its sad when she comes back as a spirt comment on my page if u agree

  • did the bakers wife come back 2 life i want to know cuz i cryed when she died but she cheated on the baker and i love this movie

  • um... musical...

  • rawrrrr keep those claws in.... this is a theatre environment....and geez yourself..... thankyou and please enjoy the videos you watch ahead.

  • b/c youtube only allows you to upload 10 mins of something geez

  • "We'll move in with you...it'll be fun." Haha so funny!

  • "I'll be your mother now!"

    Red has the funniest lines in the entire musical

  • Either her or the Baker's Wife! lol

  • aurgh that was beautiful i have tears on my cheeks! how ilove this musical! and bernadette!!

  • LMAO @ repunazal

  • I think they didn't clap as much as they should have when Chip Zien bowed. he did phenominal!!

  • its funny when lil red says 2 jack that she'll be his mother!!

  • no one is alone makes me want to cry, my eyes well up with tears every time I hear it. Alot of people don't like the second act because it makes everything sad but thats how life is, it's perfect and then it gets sad, no matter what you do. But there is always happy times agianst the bad, it makes life liveable.

  • Amen to that Dragonfire909. Thank you again, Alexisme.

  • why didnt they say the last SIDE?

  • They didn't say it because the giant came, and if they were real people and you were with them you wouldn't continue your song if you were going to die.

  • This truly tells people how we truly are, imperfect. we all need to learn we are human, we are people who can make mistakes, as the shadows cannot be cast without sun. Truly, we are more like the characters than we know. Damn that was a long post.

  • well, not the song lol.

  • the endings sad :'(

  • I kind of knew that the baker and Cinderella would end up together, and that Jack and Little Red would, too. And that was the first time I ever saw this.

  • love this play

  • im in this play!at skewl im the evil stepmother!!!!!

  • This show is GODLY. <3 It never fails to make me laugh, weep, and think.

  • Chip Zien is za lord!!!!

  • I loved how Bernette Peters got the loudest applaus!

  • "I want a friend..and a pet."

  • That was fantastic, I'm so happy I watched this.

    Thanks so much for posting this!

  • I have a Question So did Cinderellas Father and Stepmother and Stepsisters end up dying or did they just get lost?

  • they died

  • I don't know why this comment has gotten so many thumbs downs...

    They DID die. They clearly state so themselves. They got lost and starved. They appear with the rest of the 'ghosts'.

    Right? :D

  • Even though Sleeping Beauty and Snow White are REALLY small parts, I love their costumes. They're pretty.

  • too bad Into the Woods had to compete against Phantom of the Opera for the Tonys-ITW should have won best musical (the 2002 revival is, at best, in my opinion, a make-up for not awarding the original production-it looks like cheap high school production! Unlike this original beauty).

  • Really I Don't think the Original Looks really good i mean i never seen the revivil but the original is good

  • I don't want another mother, I want a friend. And a pet.

    Lovely

  • and a pet...

  • soooooooooo funny and gr8 i love into the woods

  • For all you Hardcore "Woods" fans out there, I plan on directing this movie once I make it to Hollywood. You needn't worry that I fuck it up, I've been watching this play ever since I was 5 years old (on a crappy old VHS that I STILL have :P). Rest assured, I'll be fighting as hard as I can to cast Bernadette Peters as the Witch. She's a bit older now, but she's still hot and, come on, who ELSE could play her?

  • Oooh, Bower as Jekyll would be fun. :) And no better way to stretch an actor's legs than to have him play both hero AND villain.

  • yeah, He would really do well in Confronation. I can just imagine him right now fighting an uglier version of himself in the lab.

  • Hey, hey, hey...whoever gave me a -3, those are only my thoughts, unless someone else has some better suggestions for the leads.

  • I'd rather see Broadway people doing Broadway leads-even if it is for a movie. Or, at least people who aren't known for gimmicky roles in gimmicky movies.

  • quoting sondheim, I'd rather have actors who can sing than singers who can act-and I want the whole package. Alright, so my dream leads for Wicked may not be likely or realistic, and it is not a good suggestion (I'm reconsidering that myself). Who would you recommend for Glinda and Elphaba, since my suggestions aren't well liked?

  • Well, I'd really like to see Kristin Chenowith and Idina Menzel take up the roles again, since both of them have proven their worth on screen as well as stage, and basically ARE the parts. But I really have no idea on my own.

  • harietamidala1691-

    Since you like actors who can sing, I reccomend watching some videos with Julia Murney as Elphaba [she is absolutely amazing, her acting is so fantastic and her voice is so powerful, especially in No Good Deed] and Kendra Kassebaum as Glinda is just amazing. Check them out if you like actors who can sing : ]

  • Susan Sarandon (She kicked ass as Narissa in Enchanted.)

  • Huh. That's an interesting idea... :)

    But I'm STILL gonna fight for Peters as long as I can! *lol*

  • i am Jack right now. great play, so much fun!

  • wow the giant is looking kinda mumifyed lol i love this video

  • 2:48-2:55

    Rapunzel unable to think of anything to say was Lol worthy.

  • Honestly, was the giant REALLY wrong, she didnt mean to kill rapunzel and she loved her husband

  • totally right

  • I cry every single time I watch this... EVERY time! It's so sad, and all of the actors are amazing beyond belief!

  • amazing!

    we're going to do into the woods at my school next year and sondheim is ridiculously hard...

  • we are doing it this year at my school. i play the witch the part is pretty hard. my teacher said it's one of the hardest ones to put on.

  • in our skool (jr.) production i play rapunzel. How could i die AND my prince leave me for Snow White. WTF (what the freak)!!! The play is still coolio though

  • THANK YOU!!!

  • I feel that this production totally trumps the revived Broadway one. Vanessa Williams kinda kills the witches character made by Bernadette.

  • This musical is beautiful. It makes me cry sometimes.

  • Joanna and Bernadette both smiled at each other when they were singing.

    I love that.

  • Just a couple of weeks ago, we were doing the jr. version, and i watched the second act and said to my friend, "Like, everyone freakin dies!"

  • Cinderella looks very pretty at 0:43 seconds. And Danielle Ferlands' (Little Red) teras are real in that scene. There must have been such emotion in the atmosphere.

  • The witch trew away her beans and left the people alone

  • I can never remember all the aphorisms that where said in Act I and how they relate to the Act II aphorisms. Other than "a slotted spoon-"

  • It's funny at the end because some characters get more claps and cheers than the others. Like Little Red, the baker's wife, and the Witch got the most claps and cheers. Woot!

  • That usually happens for most shows. People clap more for the parts they see as "better" for whatever reasons they have. Plus Bernadette Peters is beyond amazing (the witch). Also the curtain call tends to be organized by part, going from smaller and/or less important roles up to the biggest/most important character.

  • when she says "hold him to the light now" i  half expected him to lift the baby up like lion king

  • me too! ^^

  • its end is sad...i cried, and cried..., but i love the show!!!!

  • Does anyone know if Snow White get to dance with the cast?

  • i watched this play in my humanities class =] haha

  • Joanna Gleason looks just like my math teacher!!!

  • what is it with couples? haha.. but ye the baker and cinderella...

    red and jack...

    even the baker's wife and the prince...

    ;D