Hannah Waddingham and Jenna Russell to go "Into the Woods" in London

[AC126748]

Hannah Waddingham and Jenna Russell to go "Into the Woods" in London#1

Posted: 3/31/10 at 10:04am

As The Witch and The Baker's Wife, respectively. PERFECT casting!
http://westend.broadwayworld.com/article/Waddingham_Russel_et_al_go_INTO_THE_WOODS_in_London_20100331

"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body

[PiraguaGuy2]

Hannah Waddingham and Jenna Russell to go 'Into the Woods' in London#2

Posted: 3/31/10 at 10:24am

I've wanted her (Russell) to play that role for so long.

Now would it be too much to ask for Daniel Evans as the Baker and Boyd Gaines as Narrator/Mysterious Man?

Hmmm...I might have to make a pilgrimage to the West End pretty soon...

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[Scripps2]

Hannah Waddingham and Jenna Russell to go 'Into the Woods' in London#2

Posted: 3/31/10 at 2:19pm

So, she's not too young for the role this time?

[husk_charmer]

Hannah Waddingham and Jenna Russell to go 'Into the Woods' in London#3

Posted: 3/31/10 at 4:40pm

^ I was just thinking, didn't she (Russell) play Cinderella at the Donmar?

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[TheBoyDownstairs]

Hannah Waddingham and Jenna Russell to go 'Into the Woods' in London#4

Posted: 3/31/10 at 4:45pm

I think Jenna Russell will make a great Baker's Wife...nice casting.

[AC126748]

Hannah Waddingham and Jenna Russell to go 'Into the Woods' in London#5

Posted: 3/31/10 at 5:05pm

So, she's not too young for the role this time?

Does The Witch's age matter at all. In fact, the younger the better: the more alluring she'll look in the transformation.

"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body