into the woods its time to go..

[WICKEDcool19]

into the woods its time to go..#0

Posted: 1/10/06 at 2:59pm

heyy i just got cast as the WITCH in into the woods (stephen sondheim) and yah... has anyone ever been this role or in the show?? does ne1 have good advice for meeee?? itd be appreciated!

jack: I buried her in a footprint.

[children&art]

re: into the woods its time to go..#1

Posted: 1/10/06 at 3:05pm

i played this role (the ugly witch) in college - im a man - we had a girl take over when she becomes beautiful at the end of act 1.

Don't f*ck with me fellas. This ain't my first time at the rodeo.

[dramatothemax]

re: into the woods its time to go..#2

Posted: 1/10/06 at 3:20pm

I've never been cast as the witch, but I've been in 2 productions of Into the Woods. Advice I have for you doesn't just go for into the woods, really for any character you're playing. But especially for such a crazy character like the witch, you can't limit yourself anything. You have to take risks with your acting choices. Don't be afraid to be out there. One of the best compliments a director can give you is to 'take it down'. Being too big is 100% better than being too little in the choices you make. So have fun with it!!!! and congrats!

[stylinbohemian]

re: into the woods its time to go..#3

Posted: 1/10/06 at 4:23pm

Congrats! Im doing Into the Woods too. Mines for my performance arts center I start rehersals this week...and I still do not get the plot at all...we're doing workshops as the characters to cast it for ours.

"If There's One Thing to Learn it's You Just Can't Go Wrong If You Follow Your Heart, and End With A Song"

[Isabella2]

re: into the woods its time to go..#4

Posted: 1/11/06 at 12:21am

make sure you pronounce everything really clearly. after all it is sondheim.

[dramatothemax]

re: into the woods its time to go..#5

Posted: 1/11/06 at 12:36am

indeed. into the woods is a great show, take advantage of it's every moment!

[to the stage]

re: into the woods its time to go..#6

Posted: 1/13/06 at 6:24pm

i played little red, last year. it's a fantastic show. probably one of my alltime favorites. but isabella2 is right on, pronounciation is key. especially for the witch. her songs are killer. (i.e. prologue)

congratulations, break a leg!

if no one laughs at your dreams you aren't dreaming big enough

[MTVMANN]

re: into the woods its time to go..#7

Posted: 1/13/06 at 8:16pm

Sing it more like Bernadette Peters and less like Vanessa Williams.
Congratulations!

[Isabella2]

re: into the woods its time to go..#8

Posted: 1/14/06 at 12:13am

haha i agree. when i first listened to vanessa williams and didn't know who she was, i imagined her as a really old and fat wrinkled white woman. haha.

but you shouldn't have to copy anyone. make it your own. do what feels right to you and don't be afraid to lsiten or watch any other versions of what has already been done.

[dramatothemax]

re: into the woods its time to go..#9

Posted: 1/14/06 at 10:23am

never imitate the cd!

[stylinbohemian]

re: into the woods its time to go..#10

Posted: 1/14/06 at 4:38pm

WICKEDcool19 okay so yesterday was our first rehersal for INto the Woods. And we havent started the show casting etc yet, because my director is rewriting a lot of it, music, script, some characters to fit what we have cause like theres 4 guys ones just in 6th grade in both the musical theater class I&II so like one guys the wolf and a prince, another is going to be the baker and jack, and another a prince and possibly the old man. but the majority of our class are females so he's doing that. so it should be interesting. Ill be sure to post once i kno the casting, which he isnt annoucing til after we get through doing One Day More from Les Mis...its suppose to help us come together as an ensamble! so theres my little update

"If There's One Thing to Learn it's You Just Can't Go Wrong If You Follow Your Heart, and End With A Song"

[cathyhyatt]

re: into the woods its time to go..#11

Posted: 1/15/06 at 12:32pm

Okay, so this is slightly off-topic but it still has to do with into the woods. Yesterday I had my audition at Marymount Manhattan and in my audition group this kid did a monologue from into the woods. First of all you can't do monologues from musicals and second of all he took "hello, little girl" and turned it into a monologue. This basically consisted of him speaking the lyrics and looking rather idiotic. It wasn't even funny, I felt mortified for the kid. (Oh, yeah and he also sang defying gravity. enough said.)

I really hope to God he's not reading this because then I'd feel worse. But I honestly felt so bad for the kid because he had no idea what he was doing.

"You won't fight without layers of armor Suit on up and come brace my sword You look back when the pieces are missing Hollowed out hope that no time can restore."

[MTVMANN]

re: into the woods its time to go..#12

Posted: 1/15/06 at 12:38pm

Yeah, I was just kinding from the comment above, but yeah make it your own. I'm just saying that I thought that Bernadette had the better voice than Vanessa(though I like her :), so you obvious want to be like the better one.

Here is a thought, I have the Into the Woods DVD and I have seen other productions of it. With the Witch, I like how Bernadette Peters didn't go too far over-the-top with her witch character voice. In Some of the local productions that I've seen the witches had these annoying stereotypical witch voices. That may be fine, but I just like Bernadette's voice better. Not to say that you shouldn't become a witch, but the voice is one thing that I thought of. Some may think differently, and that's okay.

[dramatothemax]

re: into the woods its time to go..#13

Posted: 1/16/06 at 2:00am

agreed, bernadette will always and forever be the best witch!....and how, may i ask, will one person play the baker AND jack? dont they have scenes together...hahaha

[GypsyRoseLee]

re: into the woods its time to go..#14

Posted: 1/16/06 at 11:28am

okay, HOLD THE F-ING PHONE...

stylinbohemian...your director is REWRITING SOME OF THE MUSIC!??!?!?!? This is Sondheim! You can't rewrite Sondheim! The man is quite possibly the greatest living American composer. Wow...just...wow.

"This is what I trained to do, and this is what I love about theater. What I love about being an actress is being able to really look into myself and understand another human being. And out my own self, to shape and form and fashion a real human being--and to present that in such a way that people see something of themselves or their own understanding in that human being." --Phylicia Rashad