Into the Woods (1987 Original Broadway Cast)
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Free Music Review: It's great if you've seen the musical
Hit: 4 Stars
We listen to this soundtrack a lot and certainly enjoy it, but we've also seen the musical. I'm not sure I'd like it as much if I hadn't seen the piece. Free Music Review: This is the recording to buy. Insightful, Human and Loads of Fun
Hit: 5 Stars
The great thing about Stephen Sondheim is this: the more you listen to and explore his scores, the more impressed you are by his genius.
Nowhere is that genius more apparent than in this musical. Sondheim and James Lapine stir together a stage full of fairy tale characters, give them each a burning, insatiable wish, and formulate happy endings for most.
Then the fun begins. At the start of Act 2, the audience learns what messes are left when one must have one's wish at any cost. Happily ever after melts into battles and infidelities and untimely deaths and heartbreaks.
Sondheim and Lapine explore the human condition with wisdom and insight. Listen to "Your Fault," where characters shoot and are shot at with finger pointing accusations and deflections. How like real life.
This recording is the one to buy, where the performances of Bernadette Peters and the marvelous Chip Zien lift the words and situations straight to our hearts.
Free Music Review: Great CD!!!
Hit: 5 Stars
We watched this (movie) broadway show in my Theatre Appreciation class and I loved it. It melds all the childhood stories into one and then you get to see beyond "and they all lived happily ever after..." The music in this show (Sondheim) is wonderful. If you love musicals, you will love this!Free Music Review: Good But Not The Best Sondheim
Hit: 3 Stars
Though ITW is clever, with a witty book, brilliant lyrics and lovely score, it doesn't rate with better Sondheim like Company, A Little Night Music, Follies or Sweeney Todd. At times the score gets a little too repetitive and lugubrious. Just about every character has an exposition song, it gets to be a bit much after a while. Short on plot and heavy on character, what makes it work are the outstanding Sondheim lyrics, crystal clear and a joy to hear every word in this show, ITW proves that Sondheim has no peer as a lyricist. And a couple great Sondheim ballads, No More and No One Is Alone make it a fine score, though not near his best.Free Music Review: Great For Sondheim(aniacs).
Hit: 4 Stars
For big fans of Sondheim, this is yet another example of his genius. This one starts bouncy and fun and full of fancy and hope, like the subject matter for which his songs are perfectly suited. It seems with his more recent works, Sondheim is expressing his melodies more through vocals than through the orchestra, so that the music is sounding more subtle. He is enjoying calling more attention to his lyrics by having them carried melodically on the notes that are sung. I still think Sweeney Todd, A Little Night Music, and Company are his best, but Into The Woods (which is more in the Sunday In The Park With George vein) will not disappoint anyone who is addicted to Sondheim.