Into the Woods
Into the Woods
GretchaSketh
Broadway Star Joined: 6/9/04
#0Into the Woods
Posted: 7/3/04 at 11:50pmOk, It's playing on bwayworld radio right now. I don't like it. What recording is this? I've never heard it. I guess I just really like Bernadette. I just think it sounds kinda bad. Jack's mother...too many dipthongs!!
GretchaSketh
Broadway Star Joined: 6/9/04
#1re: Into the Woods
Posted: 7/3/04 at 11:53pmOk, It's not all bad, but the witch doesn't sound very witchlike/scary. and I guess i'm just not a very big fan of jack's mother. anyway, it's the one that was released in 2002. Who was in that? Cinderella sounds good. Does anyone agree with me?
#2re: Into the Woods
Posted: 7/3/04 at 11:54pmI love the revival. Laura Benanti is Cinderella and she was wonderful.
Matt_G
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/1/04
#3re: Into the Woods
Posted: 7/3/04 at 11:54pmThat would be Vanessa Williams as the Witch. And no, it is nowhere near as good as the original cast.
GretchaSketh
Broadway Star Joined: 6/9/04
#4re: Into the Woods
Posted: 7/3/04 at 11:57pmOk, good I'm not crazy. I just really like the original cast. I had never heard this recording and when it came on I was kinda shocked cause I was expecting the one I knew and I didn't really like what I heard. But yes, I do like cinderella.
#5re: Into the Woods
Posted: 7/4/04 at 12:00amboth casts have their good and bad points. Admit it, O'malley wipes the floor with the orininal
J.
Broadway Star Joined: 7/1/04
#7re: Into the Woods
Posted: 7/4/04 at 12:17amI hate Into The Woods because it is by Stephen Sondheim and I don't like Stephen Sondheim. I prefer normal music. I like Vanessa Williams though. How was she in this show. Does she still look good?
#8re: Into the Woods
Posted: 7/4/04 at 12:25am
j,
you have got to be one of the most intelligent people on these boards. at least you come across that way in all of your posts.
J.
Broadway Star Joined: 7/1/04
GretchaSketh
Broadway Star Joined: 6/9/04
#10re: Into the Woods
Posted: 7/4/04 at 12:29amI don't know Kerry O'Malley. What part did she play?
GretchaSketh
Broadway Star Joined: 6/9/04
#11re: Into the Woods
Posted: 7/4/04 at 12:32amDoes anyone know of Pamela Winslow?? She was the original Rapunzel and then went on to be Cinderella. Does anyone know anything of her? I saw her on stage many times in Santa Barbara. I'm curious as to what she is doing now.
GretchaSketh
Broadway Star Joined: 6/9/04
#13re: Into the Woods
Posted: 7/4/04 at 12:40amOk, I don't know her at all. What I heard of her I liked. But I do like the original Baker's wife. What was her name?
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GretchaSketh
Broadway Star Joined: 6/9/04
#15re: Into the Woods
Posted: 7/4/04 at 12:45amYES!!!!! Thank you! I knew I knew her name. I LOVE her. She is so good.
#16re: Into the Woods
Posted: 7/4/04 at 12:54am
"I don't like Stephen Sondheim. I prefer normal music."
I'm kinda having trouble comprehending the meaning of this statement.....
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
J.
Broadway Star Joined: 7/1/04
#17re: Into the Woods
Posted: 7/4/04 at 1:48amthat post was not meant to be mean. normal music i think of as simple melodic music that follows the traditional format blah blah blah like what we hear on the radio whereas Sondheim and classical composers do everything differently and mix things around so its "weird" but in a good way. I have friend who is a music composition major and we has a long analysis about the difference between Lloyd Webber and Sondheim. He prefers Sondheim and I, being a voice major, prefer Lloyd Webber. It makes a lot of sense but sorry if this post doesnt.
#18re: Into the Woods
Posted: 7/4/04 at 1:52amJ, you as a whole do not make sense.
J.
Broadway Star Joined: 7/1/04
#20re: Into the Woods
Posted: 7/4/04 at 1:55amYour eloquent sense of speech shines through yet again, J "The Bard of BroadwayWorld.com"
J.
Broadway Star Joined: 7/1/04
#21re: Into the Woods
Posted: 7/4/04 at 2:25ami think you have issues with me that aren't about my post regarding Lloyd Webber and Sondhiem.
Musetta1957
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/03
#22re: Into the Woods
Posted: 7/4/04 at 2:43amWas that a 60-watt lightbulb I just saw go off, or is that too high a number?
#23re: Into the Woods
Posted: 7/4/04 at 2:47amNo Musetta that was just me shining a flashlight into one of his ears.
skingdom
Broadway Star Joined: 6/29/03
#24re: Into the Woods
Posted: 7/4/04 at 3:34am
Laura Benanti was incredible in that role...she was perfect...subtle and smart....and beautiful vocally and physically....took the role to new depths..
K. O'Malley was great...her part was reduced in the writing I believe....everyone seems to love Joanna Gleason...but to be honest I have never ever seen what people see in her. I dont think her performance was all that special. at least in the video.
Williams was fine...Peters wasw fine...both different.
The sets and lighting were breathtaking in the revival...in agreement that J's mother was no good. I loved this revival...
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