Into the Woods - The Bridge, London- Page 2

[McH3]

Posted: 9/17/25 at 6:22am

Play Esq. said: "With all due respect, this cast was exciting. As was the Encores! original cast. The Bridge cast is…fine. I’m hopeful all the same."

I'll be honest, that just looks like what you'd get if you asked ChatGPT to make the Bridge cast American. Those are the same people they just tip more. 

[algy]

Posted: 9/17/25 at 8:40am

altonido said: "Kate Fleetwood handled several big numbers well when she played another witch,Cruella de Vil, in the "101 Dalmations" musical at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre in 2022."

I saw her a couple of weeks ago as Jadis/The White Witch in The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe when the tour stopped in at Sadlers wells and she was good in the role, although strangely I can't remember how much singing she had to do! It is a show with songs though so there was definitely some singing involved. 

[lilpunkin]

Posted: 9/17/25 at 11:17am

algy said: "altonido said: "Kate Fleetwood handled several big numbers well when she played another witch,Cruella de Vil, in the "101 Dalmations" musical at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre in 2022."

I saw her a couple of weeks ago as Jadis/The White Witch in The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe when the tour stopped in at Sadlers wells and she was good in the role, although strangely I can't remember how much singing she had to do! It is a show with songs though so there was definitely some singing involved."

 

That was Katy Stephens, not Kate Fleetwood. Kate Fleetwood just finished starring in the West End “My Master Builder” (new play loosely inspired by the Ibsen), which she absolutely stole from the rest of the cast.

[The Bandstand]

Posted: 9/17/25 at 1:28pm

I didn’t realize Kate Fleetwood is married to Rupert Goold

[MagicalMusical]

Posted: 9/18/25 at 12:38am

Jamie Parker is also a very cute man, so, I'd love to see him for that alone. Unfortunately I have no way I can see this show, so I'll have to rely on pics, clips, and you good people who see it's descriptions. I hope they do a proshot, too.

I don't know enough about the actors in the cast, so I think what I'm most looking forward to, especially if I can't see a proshot, is the design elements, which, based on Tom Scutt's previous work, should be amazing.

I still wish I had gotten to see a proshot of Terry Gilliam's version.

[algy]

Posted: 9/18/25 at 3:40am

lilpunkin said:
That was Katy Stephens, not Kate Fleetwood. Kate Fleetwood just finished starring in the West End “My Master Builder” (new play loosely inspired by the Ibsen), which she absolutely stole from the rest of the cast."

I absolutely stand corrected - didn't check my programme before I typed and I just remembered "Unexpected Kate/y" and clearly had it confused in my head with all the master builer posters I had seen on the tube! Totally my bad.

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 9/18/25 at 5:10pm

I find the "meh" reaction to the casting kind of amusing, because *from what I've seen, anyway* there's quite a bit of excitement about it among UK theatre fans--which of course is what matters.  But I think the main interest is about the director, and how it will be staged at The Bridge.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 9/18/25 at 5:23pm

The names just don’t mean much to people here. Ask pretty much anyone here if they’re excited for Chumisa Dornford-May and they’ll just stare at you. Whereas people familiar with her (myself included) are very excited.

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 9/18/25 at 5:34pm

Jordan Catalano said: "The names just don’t mean much to people here. Ask pretty much anyone here if they’re excited forChumisa Dornford-May and they’ll just stare at you. Whereas people familiar with her (myself included) are very excited."

Right, that was my point ;)  Just that some of the posts here seem to ignore the fact that this cast isn't meant to excite an American fanbase or something...

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 9/18/25 at 5:35pm

Oh exactly, I was just agreeing with you :)