#1
Posted: 1/21/08 at 12:18am
Just curious, I haven't heard the recording, all i saw was the youtube video of it at the Tony's and it was a bit...erm different but was it bad?
Why did the last revival of Into The Woods close?
#2
Posted: 1/21/08 at 12:21am
If the cast recording is an accurate reflection of the live show, then yeah, the revival must have been disastrous.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
#3
Posted: 1/21/08 at 12:23am
Two words.
Vanessa Williams.
Vanessa Williams.
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#4
Posted: 1/21/08 at 12:24am
ooh haha well Vanessa Williams was that bad? im gonna have to find that recording
#5
Posted: 1/21/08 at 12:25am
Although I'd prefer seeing the original version of "On the Steps of the Palace," it certainly is interesting to hear the revised ending on the recording. Altough I do think Crosby nails the humor delicately and has a fantastic, perhaps definitive take, Benanti does sound wonderful in her own right!
#6
Posted: 1/21/08 at 12:26am
I thought it was magical.
I am in the minority it seems.
I am in the minority it seems.
Jesus saves. I spend.
#7
Posted: 1/21/08 at 12:26am
A lot of people don't like Disney. The show to me had a Disney look to it.
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#8
Posted: 1/21/08 at 12:26am
hmmm welllll does anyone have the revival recording?
#9
Posted: 1/21/08 at 12:26am
It just wasn't good. I left thinking, "Stephen Sondheim liked THIS?" It just wasn't good at all.
#10
Posted: 1/21/08 at 12:27am
PLEASE. Vanessa was not the problem. She got good reviews, and was nominated for a Tony.
#11
Posted: 1/21/08 at 12:29am
No she wasn't. The terrible people in the cast were the two who played the Baker and the Baker's Wife. God, did I miss Chip Zien and Joanna Gleason!
#12
Posted: 1/21/08 at 12:30am
That doesn't mean anything to me.
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#13
Posted: 1/21/08 at 12:30am
You can't blame Williams for the entire production. Lapine did pretty much bad casting all the way around. He also didn't seem to have anything new to add to what he had originally done... and subsequently took a major leap backwards.
There was a sadness to the entire production... I don't know if we were still reeling from 9-11.. but the show wasn't fun, moving or very engaging.
Also.. it was a little too "pretty" for my taste. Who knows...
I'd love to hear what MargoChanning and/or MichaelBennett has to say..or had to say on the subject. They usually astonishingly insightful.
There was a sadness to the entire production... I don't know if we were still reeling from 9-11.. but the show wasn't fun, moving or very engaging.
Also.. it was a little too "pretty" for my taste. Who knows...
I'd love to hear what MargoChanning and/or MichaelBennett has to say..or had to say on the subject. They usually astonishingly insightful.
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#14
Posted: 1/21/08 at 12:31am
Over the Moon I'm going to PM you with something helpful to you.
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#15
Posted: 1/21/08 at 12:33am
I'll agree that it was too pretty. And I'll also agree with the 9/11 comment too.
#16
Posted: 1/21/08 at 12:35am
I think Williams was a good choice for the Witch. She is no Peters but she sounds fine on the recording. Unfortunately, Sondheim changed the lyrics to what IMO is the best song the Witch gets in the show, "Last Midnight," the new lyrics are soooo boring and unnecessary.
I LOATHE the new ending to "On the Steps of the Palace," can't stand listening to it AT ALL, mostly because I think Molly Ephrain and Adam Wylie made an awful Little Red/Jack pairing.
Benanti sounds great in the song, but Kim Crosby gets every nuance, comic detail, and torment implied by the song. She may not have the impressive vocal talents of Benanti, but she certainly acts the song a dozen times better(and I'm a fan of Laura Benanti).
And don't get me started on the Baker and the Baker's Wife. Ugh!
I LOATHE the new ending to "On the Steps of the Palace," can't stand listening to it AT ALL, mostly because I think Molly Ephrain and Adam Wylie made an awful Little Red/Jack pairing.
Benanti sounds great in the song, but Kim Crosby gets every nuance, comic detail, and torment implied by the song. She may not have the impressive vocal talents of Benanti, but she certainly acts the song a dozen times better(and I'm a fan of Laura Benanti).
And don't get me started on the Baker and the Baker's Wife. Ugh!
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
#17
Posted: 1/21/08 at 12:35am
It would have been better if she did it in white face.
#18
Posted: 1/21/08 at 12:36am
Oh God, those were the days!
#19
Posted: 1/21/08 at 12:37am
I hated the changed Sondheim made to the score too. They really cheapened it in my opinion. However, John McMartin was, as always, excellent.
#20
Posted: 1/21/08 at 12:38am
Joanna Gleason in that role was perfection.
#21
Posted: 1/21/08 at 12:39am
She really was. One of the best performances I've ever seen. Stole the show from Bernadette completely.
#22
Posted: 1/21/08 at 12:42am
To answer the original question and title of the thread: December 29, 2002.
http://ibdb.com/show.asp?ID=4753
http://ibdb.com/show.asp?ID=4753
Updated On: 1/21/08 at 12:42 AM
#23
Posted: 1/21/08 at 12:57am
How does a date answer the question WHY?
Who says four chairs and a keyboard can't make a musical?
#24
Posted: 1/21/08 at 1:50am
There where a few good things about the production and OCR that I thought, and Vanessa Williams I thought was one of them.
But there where so many horrid things with it as well. Especially the phoned in performances of the Baker and Baker's Wife. It actually makes me appriciate the effort Joanna Gleeson must of gone too!
But there where so many horrid things with it as well. Especially the phoned in performances of the Baker and Baker's Wife. It actually makes me appriciate the effort Joanna Gleeson must of gone too!
#25
Posted: 1/21/08 at 2:20am
Why did Vanessa Williams leave the production a week before closing?
And why did this production win Best Revival over the glorious OKLAHOMA! revival?
And why did this production win Best Revival over the glorious OKLAHOMA! revival?
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"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
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