Breaking News: Lilla Crawford Joins INTO THE WOODS Film as 'Little Red'; Stephen Sondheim Pens New Song — Page 2

No offence to Annette Crosbie, who I'm sure will be wonderful, but it's such a missed opportunity not to have Angela Lansbury playing Granny.

I couldn't find smaller pictures of Abigail from CALLER, but Little Red she ain't. I didn't recognize her at all. She's turned into a beautiful young woman. I don't know if she's Cinderella though.

I wonder if Sophia Grace was ever really cast or if it was just nonsense tweeted by her family.

From SG's father's Twitter:

"@DominicBrownlee

After careful consideration we the parents of Sophia Grace felt that as rehearsals progressed that she was too young for this part.

It was a joint decision between us and the director and producer of "Into the woods" to withdraw Sophia Grace from the film."

So, there we go. Glad the producer and the director FINALLY got their senses back and good for her parents for thinking of their daughter first before $$.

All you need to know about the situation is summed up from this sentencein the press release:

"Most recently, Lapine directed the Annie revival that Crawford starred in."

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Thank Christ about this. Why didn't the producers just consult us re: Sophia Grace in the first place???

I don't buy the story from Sophia Grace's parents that they pulled her from the movie because they felt uncomfortable with the material for a second. This is a girl who made her "career" performing a vulgar Nicki Minaj song that's a hell of a lot more suggestive than "Hello, Little Girl". She went through an extremely strenuous audition process that lasted several months, so her parents knew exactly what they were getting her involved with from the beginning.

As I said earlier, I'm sure her lack of film (and acting) experience left her sorely unprepared for the demands that come with a project this big, and I'm sure that was painfully evident once formal rehearsals began. It's a sad situation for everyone involved, but she's a talented young girl who has plenty of time to bounce back.

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Updated On: 9/17/13 at 12:38 AM

Lansbury would have been great fun, just because she's Sondheim royalty (not to mention she Angela Effin' Lansbury). But Annette Crosbie is a truly wonderful actor. Most of her work has been on TV, so she's never gotten the recognition I thought she should.

I wonder if this will be another Little Night Music or will it be a Sweeny Todd

How much of the score will get **** canned?

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That's a relief.

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And isn't Cinderella at the Grave gone? Is First Midnight still in? It seems like something that could be easily cut.

Regardless, it didn't seem like much is being cut to me, either, until I started adding it up. More than 16 minutes of music is gone, which is nearly 1/4 of the score! We didn't lose this many entire songs for Les Miserables. The cuts for that movie were much more subtle.

HBP, I'm right there with you re "Maybe They're Really Magic," it's one of my favorite tracks in the cast recording, but I think I'm only so obsessed with it because Joanna Gleason delivers it with perfection; the song is a bit of a throaway in the hands of other actresses I've listened singing it, and no part of me thinks Blunt will be the one to match Gleason's beautiful, outstanding performance of those few bars.
Oh, and is anyone really buying the whole thing from Sophia Grace's parents? I think I'd rather go out with some dignity than provide this feeble, completely unbelievable account that they released. As I said in the other thread, it's understandable that such a young girl would have difficulty acting at her best in front of someone like Johnny Depp in a multi-million dollar film like this.

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Okay, I'm smoking crack and so are others here who have checked out the leaked screenplay. I just looked again ...

"Lament" IS still in the movie. However, it is a truncated version that uses about two-thirds of the song as a lead-in to the new song.

But to say "Lament" is cut, would be incorrect.

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