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The musical showcases a spellbinding rating, atmospheric stage design and reimagined characters with misguided motives.
Considered one of Stephen Sondheim’s most revered musical theater masterpieces, Into The Woods, merges beloved bedtime tales with bloodshed.
The present uproots fairytale protagonists Cinderella, Rapunzel, Little Purple Driving Hood and Jack — he of the beanstalk fame — from their peaceable homelands and thrusts them right into a darkish forest haunted by a vengeful witch’s curse. Regardless of its acquainted solid, this triple Tony Award-winning story is all its personal, showcasing a spellbinding rating, atmospheric stage design and reimagined characters with misguided motives.
Regardless of the presence of its fairy story protagonists, the story on the core of Into The Woods is that of a baker and his spouse who need nothing greater than to have a toddler. When the couple discovers the witch’s curse as the reason for their infertility, they embark on a harmful quest to interrupt the spell. The fairy story crew be a part of the pair as they undertake the journey, and every brings alongside their very own want that may solely be fulfilled by defeating the witch.
After going to unthinkable lengths to interrupt the witch’s curse, every of the characters will get what they set out for, however not with out morbid and seemingly insurmountable penalties.
$18-$32, 7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday Sept. 1-24, Surprise Theatre at Woodlawn Theatre, 1920 Fredericksburg Street, (210) 267-8388, wondertheatre.org.
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