Into the Woods
Martin Beck Theatre
Previews Began: September 29, 1987
Opening Night: November 5, 1987
Closing Night: September 3, 1989
Music: Stephen Sondheim
Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim
Book: James Lapine
The Narrator introduces the cast of characters, each with a wish: the Baker and Baker’s wife long for a child but cannot conceive, Jack desperately wishes his cow Milky White would once again provide milk so he wouldn’t have to sell her, and Cinderella dreams of attending the king’s ball and someday being free of her cruel stepmother and step-sisters. When all their tales, and the tales of other fairy tale characters, lead to the woods and become intertwined, dreams come true and wishes are granted. Their happiness has consequences, though, and the characters are forced to band together to save their world from destruction.
MUSICAL NUMBERS
ACT ONE
Prologue: Into the Woods………………………Company
Hello, Little Girl………….Wolf, Little Red Riding Hood
I Guess This Is Goodbye……………………………….Jack
Maybe They’re Magic………………………..Baker’s Wife
I Know Things Now………………Little Red Riding Hood
A Very Nice Prince……………..Cinderella, Baker’s Wife
Giants in the Sky……………………………………….Jack
Agony…………….Cinderella’s Prince, Rapunzel’s Prince
It Takes Two…………………………..Baker, Baker’s Wife
Stay With Me…………………………………………Witch
On the Steps of the Palace…………………….Cinderella
Ever After……………………………..Narrator, Company
ACT TWO
Prologue: So Happy……………………………..Company
Agony (Reprise)………………………Cinderella’s Prince,
Rapunzel’s Prince
Lament………………………………………………..Witch
Any Moment………….Cinderella’s Prince, Baker’s Wife
Moments in the Woods……………………..Baker’s Wife
Your Fault………………..Jack, Baker, Witch, Cinderella,
Little Red Riding Hood
Last Midnight………………………………………..Witch
No More…………………………..Baker, Mysterious Man
No One Is Alone…………………Baker, Jack, Cinderella,
Little Red Riding Hood
Finale: Children Will Listen…………….Witch, Company
CAST
OPENING NIGHT
Tom Aldredge Narrator
Mysterious Man
Joanna Gleason Baker’s Wife
Bernadette Peters Witch
Robert Westenberg Wolf
Cinderella’s Prince
Chip Zien Baker
Barbara Bryne Jack’s Mother
Kim Crosby Cinderella
Danielle Ferland Little Red Riding Hood
Merle Louise Cinderella’s Mother
Grandmother
Giant
Ben Wright Jack
Maureen Davis Sleeping Beauty
Joy Franz Cinderella’s Stepmother
Philip Hoffman Steward
Jean Kelly Snow White
Edmund Lyndeck Cinderella’s Father
Kay McClelland Florinda
Lauren Mitchell Lucinda
Chuck Wagner Rapunzel’s Prince
Pamela Winslow Rapunzel
Standby: Edmund Lyndeck (Narrator, Mysterious Man)
Understudies: Jeff Blumenkrantz (Jack, Rapunzel’s Prince, Steward), Suzzanne Douglas (Cinderella, Witch, Sleeping Beauty), Carolyn Marlow (Cinderella’s Stepmother, Jack’s Mother, Cinderella’s Mother, Grandmother, Giant), Michael Piontek (Jack, Rapunzel’s Prince, Cinderella’s Prince, Wolf)
REPLACEMENTS
Ellen Foley Witch
8/1/1989 – 9/3/1989
Betsy Joslyn Witch
3/29/1988 – 4/13/1988
7/5/1988 – 12/11/1988
Kay McClelland Baker’s Wife
Mary Gordon Murray Baker’s Wife
7/19/1988 –
Phylicia Rashad Witch
4/14/1988 – 7/3/1988
Dean Butler Rapunzel’s Prince
Don Goodspeed Rapunzel’s Prince
Patricia Ben Peterson Cinderella
LuAnne Ponce Little Red Riding Hood
Jeff Blumenkrantz Jack
Terry Burrell Lucinda
Dick Cavett Narrator
Susan Gordon Clark Florinda
Nancy Dussault Witch
12/13/1988 – 7/30/1989
Joy Franz Witch
Adam Grupper Steward
Philip Hoffman Baker
Edmund Lyndeck Mysterious Man
Marin Mazzie Rapunzel
3/7/1989 – 9/3/1989
Lauren Mitchell Baker’s Wife
Cindy Robinson Snow White
Heather Shulman Snow White
Little Red Riding Hood
Cynthia Sikes Baker’s Wife
Witch
Greg Zerkle Steward
Standby: Betsy Joslyn (Witch)
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