Into the Woods: Complete Finale (1991)

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  • Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
  • Full finale from Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods, featuring the original Broadway cast, recorded for American Playhouse in 1991. Songs are: You Are Not Alone, Children Will Listen and Into the Woods (reprise). Cast: Bernadette Peters (Witch), Chip Zien (Baker), Joanna Gleason (Baker's Wife), Tom Aldredge (Narrator/Old Man), Kim Crosby (Cinderella), Danielle Ferland (Little Red Riding Hood), Ben Wright (Jack).
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  • @darrylhorne7838
    @darrylhorne7838 4 года назад +291

    Every time I have to use a slotted spoon I hear Jack's mom say "A slotted spoon can catch the potato."

    • @bubi1716
      @bubi1716 4 года назад +17

      SAME! I did that to my roommate the other night while cooking dinner and he was like, "WTF" lol

    • @jacksonurenmusic
      @jacksonurenmusic 3 года назад +2

      Me too hahaha

    • @ddempslay3520
      @ddempslay3520 3 года назад +5

      I say it all the time and no one gets it 😵

    • @Mxyzptlksac
      @Mxyzptlksac 2 года назад +1

      After seeing this my mom looked at my dad and said, “a slotted spoon doesn’t hold much soup” when I said something stupid.

    • @ktmussel
      @ktmussel 7 месяцев назад

      That's OK, too.

  • @uckbee
    @uckbee 2 года назад +131

    One thing I love about Steve's musicals is that they are all utterly perfectly cast, and *Into the Woods* is no exception. Fine-tuned perfection.

    • @Mxyzptlksac
      @Mxyzptlksac 2 года назад +12

      Many of the roles were written for these actors. Witch, Red, Cinderellas Prince and Jack’s mother ( among the ones I know)- the actors were in Sunday in the Park with George

    • @derekllewellyn6663
      @derekllewellyn6663 Год назад +1

      ​@@Mxyzptlksacdo you know what I just love it so much it's looks like new DVD releases review history books documentary about biography book club fun more information documentary about biography book of

    • @alilagrant3677
      @alilagrant3677 2 месяца назад +1

      Yeah..... Perfect casting!💕💕💕

  • @Msoperagirl2011
    @Msoperagirl2011 12 лет назад +228

    Gotta love Bernadette peters. That role was simply meant for her!

    • @Mxyzptlksac
      @Mxyzptlksac 2 года назад +10

      It was. Sondheim wrote it with her in mind after working with her in Sunday in the Park with George.

    • @isaackinne1971
      @isaackinne1971 6 месяцев назад +2

      Yes. But, we mustn't neglect the other who would carry her role. Like, Vanessa Williams, Hannah Wattingham, Donna Murphy, and Meryl Streep.

  • @QuikVidGuy
    @QuikVidGuy 2 года назад +71

    A lot of actors have to try to cry. Red looks like she's trying to not cry.

  • @nycubanpete
    @nycubanpete 12 лет назад +148

    Joanna Gleason was flawless as the Baker's wife!

    • @isaackinne1971
      @isaackinne1971 Месяц назад

      I LOVE Gleason's performance, but I'm more of an Emily Blunt person. She was my 1st Baker's Wife, and I just LOVED her singing a bit more.

  • @ryanstauffer119
    @ryanstauffer119 2 года назад +68

    My parents and I went to see this play at one particular theater. This theater added an interesting detail to the play. It starts off with hearing voices telling a boy how he is not so good which causes him to run away. He crashes the night in an abandoned house. While there, he founds a stack of old fairytales. He grabs out his notebook and decides to combine all the fairytale into one, thus making him the narrator of Into The Woods. Just like in this play, he is sacrificed to the giant's wife. At the end of the play, the boy's father arrives at the abandoned house and finds the boy asleep. He wakes him up and the boy shows his father his notebook. The father begins reading it aloud, just like how the baker begins telling the story at 9:14. The thing is the father is played by the same actor who played the baker. So the baker's story of Into The Woods was a way of the boy can be closer to his father. As the boy and the father leave the abandoned house to go him, the boy turns to the audience and says "I wish!" just like Cinderella at 12:21.

    • @davidlrattigan
      @davidlrattigan 2 года назад +15

      I've seen it done similarly. The Regent's Park Open Air Theatre production (catch it on film if you can - it's excellent!) had a framing story with a runaway boy and his father, and it, too, ended with the father finding his son, who says the line, 'I wish!' at the end.

  • @rebeccahaefeli
    @rebeccahaefeli 3 года назад +89

    I did Into the Woods and oh my gosh listening to this I can just hear all my former cast mates and their voices and with that all the memories I had; all the times I laughed where I could breathe among new friends I had the most fun with, my friend and I singing Agony backstage, the baker I secretly admired and wrote a poem for, the days my friend and I would walk around the track and talk about rehearsal, how alive I felt on stage because of how connected I felt to the show and its cast, this show is so special, I was beyond grateful to perform it, now that it is over I feel empty.

    • @LovelyNayru
      @LovelyNayru 3 года назад +4

      All of your effort and passion lives on in your memories, & the hearts of those who were lucky enough to watch the show! 🕊

    • @rebeccahaefeli
      @rebeccahaefeli 3 года назад +1

      @@LovelyNayru thank you😭 bless you

    • @charliedegiulio9951
      @charliedegiulio9951 Месяц назад

      What role did you play?

  • @mangomaking
    @mangomaking 2 года назад +121

    little staging/choreography choices i read too much into for my heart to handle:
    11:19 the baker's wife and the witch linking arms - _"into the woods but mind the past!"_
    11:28 the witch reaching backward for jack's hand and him accepting it
    11:53 cinderella and the baker's wife passing through the middle - _"into the woods to find there's hope of getting through the journey"_
    12:01 the baker carefully slowing his steps as he handles the baby, and the witch appearing to wave him off with glee/encouragement
    12:04 cinderella, jack, the baker and his son dancing in a circle... housemates...
    12:16 the baker pulling his father back to the ensemble.

    • @gabbihoyt5425
      @gabbihoyt5425 2 года назад +16

      I agree. To add
      7:00 when little red says she'll be Jack's mother now, her grandmother is behind them looking approvingly
      7:43 Cinderella tells the baker there are times she actually enjoys cleaning and they're standing in front of her step mother who squares up like yes you do

    • @roninjoey
      @roninjoey 2 года назад +2

      I’ve seen this a million and one times and you still pointed out things I’ve never noticed.

    • @roninjoey
      @roninjoey 2 года назад +4

      Another favorite moment of mine is how Kim Crosby seemingly forgets her line before “I’ll gladly help you with your house”-she’s so in the moment, it’s lovely acting.

    • @Mxyzptlksac
      @Mxyzptlksac 2 года назад +2

      @@roninjoey it was intended. This recording was a combination of three special shows put together and the best parts used.

    • @canyou7670
      @canyou7670 2 года назад +1

      Amazing observation

  • @luismozotorres7428
    @luismozotorres7428 3 года назад +78

    Absolutely beautiful! RIP Steven Sondheim, composers like you deserve all the praise!

  • @scottw6704
    @scottw6704 Месяц назад +1

    Watching Danielle Ferland (Little Red) I swear that emotion she is expressing at the beginning is 100% genuine and coming from the heart rather than an acting choice. I feel the same way when we get to this part of the show - all the lessons learned coming together and it's this incredible culmination of overwhelming feelings "OK we have to go on somehow, how do I find the courage"? Kim and Joanna's voices remain the mainstay in my mind when this song is played, anywhere.

  • @strawberrysweets_
    @strawberrysweets_ Год назад +19

    I’m so excited to be in this as Rapunzel…well, excited and scared.

  • @bway_car08
    @bway_car08 5 лет назад +115

    "I wish"
    "I know"

  • @iAmMadeOfSoup
    @iAmMadeOfSoup 4 года назад +107

    Bernadette should have had more songs. She’s my favorite part in this song. So beautiful

    • @jacksonurenmusic
      @jacksonurenmusic 3 года назад +17

      I love how she stayed in character during the finale also. Like maybe she was just tired but she acted very defeated and kinda like she gave up, which is how her character feels at the end. She also had a little bit of sassy rudeness to her. Loved the witch that she created.

  • @bubblegum8959
    @bubblegum8959 Год назад +4

    This was truly an amazing cast, i heard of Joanna, but i didnt know she was so talented, then you have Bernadette Peters rocking the show down

  • @uckbee
    @uckbee 3 года назад +21

    When the Baker (Chip Zien) declaims at 7:18: "Oh, no no no no no - no, goodness no - my house is a shambles!" I can't help but think Steve was digging at Frank Rich just a bit!

  • @duncanorourke8752
    @duncanorourke8752 5 лет назад +33

    Why does this song make me ball up 😭😢

  • @brianhaygood183
    @brianhaygood183 Год назад +4

    9:20 Bernadette Peters. Wow.

  • @cargoat
    @cargoat 12 лет назад +53

    I'm going to be in it. It's opening on Thursday. SO EXCITED!!!

    • @le_funny_moncey
      @le_funny_moncey 4 года назад +12

      its been 8 years, did the show go well? lol

    • @kathrynbencriscutto507
      @kathrynbencriscutto507 3 года назад +5

      I wish I could sweep the sidewalk outside the Theatre

    • @thecowboybob
      @thecowboybob 3 года назад +2

      please come back i want to know too

  • @MissUniluppy
    @MissUniluppy 2 года назад +27

    7:47-10:52 love how it mirrors the opening did you notice that the baker is saying the exact line the narrator did at the start of the show? Pretty moving that he went from letting someone else tell his story to telling it himself. (even if he didn't really have a choice due to certain events...)

    • @TheEdiya
      @TheEdiya Год назад +2

      Not just the same lines, but the same beats. I love that.

  • @themostimportantshipmentev8222
    @themostimportantshipmentev8222 7 месяцев назад +1

    The profound beauty of this story is overhelming

  • @cargoat
    @cargoat 12 лет назад +31

    GOD, I LOVE THIS SHOW

  • @auburn_rachel
    @auburn_rachel 3 года назад +25

    2:05 don't ask me questions, i'm frightened of questions

    • @kyleeren
      @kyleeren 2 года назад +1

      this had better come to a stop

  • @Pww642
    @Pww642 10 месяцев назад +1

    The way her voice wavers on "No one is alone" at 8:46 breaks me into pieces.

  • @ohiosharon8945
    @ohiosharon8945 Год назад +3

    What a great play. I love it so much. ❤

  • @andysbg77
    @andysbg77 3 года назад +11

    R.I.P. Steven Sondheim!

  • @kmanarabrown3259
    @kmanarabrown3259 3 года назад +13

    I liked it!! It won me over after a few clips

  • @MsBayley
    @MsBayley 12 лет назад +48

    whats funny is the hair color in the production i was in was vice versa Red Riding Hood had dark brown/black hair and cinderella had blonde :P

    • @isabelerhart9523
      @isabelerhart9523 5 лет назад +1

      MrBill0327 in our production its gonna be like this

  • @daniella_otsuki
    @daniella_otsuki 2 года назад +3

    I love the mysterious man doing the piece sign at end. I just can't believe I noticed that.

  • @jasonhelquist7743
    @jasonhelquist7743 2 года назад +11

    I feel like this sometimes in my life but if I can take a tiny bit of this scene and put it into my story I think I got a really good ending

  • @abbyedsall6619
    @abbyedsall6619 2 года назад +10

    I’m always surprised that Kim Crawford wasn’t a bigger name. She seemed like the Julia-Louis Dreyfus of musical theater

  • @themiriverse
    @themiriverse 3 года назад +3

    Thank you for explaining the appropriate response, and my apologies for not using the correct terms. May your memory be a blessing, Mr. Sondheim!

  • @ianhimmelstein5915
    @ianhimmelstein5915 2 года назад +15

    Unpopular opinion: Joanna Gleason was the most talented in this production

    • @takeaguess08
      @takeaguess08 Год назад +8

      The Tony voters agreed with you, lol

  • @h193013
    @h193013 12 лет назад +110

    I don't get Rapunzel's moral at the end
    LOL

    • @jialinchen2362
      @jialinchen2362 5 лет назад +39

      h193013 she represented an iconic madwoman in literature I guess

    • @boundary2580
      @boundary2580 4 года назад +74

      The point of the story is the breakdown of morals in general. The first act is all about them learning things, while the second act takes everything they’ve learned and throws it out the window.

    • @h193013
      @h193013 4 года назад +2

      Boundary Why?

    • @boundary2580
      @boundary2580 4 года назад +61

      h193013 because the story is highlighting the progression and change that wishes granted can have on people’s lives. Every action in the musical has a consequence later in the story, whether they were ill intentioned or not. The ultimate lesson Sondheim wants to teach us is, “hey, things are bad right now, and can get worse, but all we can do is move on and prepare for the future.”
      The idea of “children” in particular is used a lot. Children are the future, and the only things we leave behind when we die, according to Sondheim, are “children and art” (go watch Sunday In the Park With George, it’s fantastic). All the characters experiences and lessons, instead of being useful to them, will instead be passed down to “the child”, where they will hopeful serve to prevent tragedy in his life.

    • @h193013
      @h193013 4 года назад +4

      Boundary I do like Sunday it’s a good show

  • @stegmanrichard
    @stegmanrichard 3 года назад +7

    Perfection.

  • @marcuscheng2507
    @marcuscheng2507 3 года назад +5

    I love this song!!

  • @andrewdick6106
    @andrewdick6106 12 лет назад +17

    I saw Kim Crosby as the Bakers wife very good!

    • @iamirish4361
      @iamirish4361 3 года назад

      Joanna Gleason was the Baker's Wife. Kim Crosby was Cinderella.

    • @andrewdick6106
      @andrewdick6106 3 года назад +1

      @@iamirish4361 I saw her in 2011 or 2012 in a regional production.

  • @ginonovanta
    @ginonovanta 2 года назад +7

    I've actually always had an hard crush on this jack

    • @ginonovanta
      @ginonovanta 2 года назад +2

      @Osher Ratzabi i think i read that he quit performing after

  • @gudang4074
    @gudang4074 5 месяцев назад

    This finally, I think I almost cry very time

  • @riverlea2559
    @riverlea2559 Год назад +1

    10:50 her switch up makes my heart skip a beat every single time🥵

  • @gracealbert2542
    @gracealbert2542 9 месяцев назад

    I love how the giant sounds

  • @kathrynbencriscutto507
    @kathrynbencriscutto507 3 года назад +4

    That's love . Love Burnadette 💖

  • @melbaker9495
    @melbaker9495 3 года назад +3

    :wishes come true... not free!"

  • @confusedlavender4694
    @confusedlavender4694 5 лет назад +62

    "Jack, your mother is dead"
    Bruh you couldve said that better...not straight forward

    • @iAmMadeOfSoup
      @iAmMadeOfSoup 4 года назад +20

      Eh I don’t think so. Jack was almost an adult. Don’t have to sugarcoat things

    • @dennyd2928
      @dennyd2928 3 года назад +3

      Maybe he could have said jack your a big boy now and sometimes your love ones will leave you sonner or later its natural and we need to exept it

    • @jasonhurd4379
      @jasonhurd4379 3 года назад +6

      Would you rather take off a band-aid a little at a time or all at once? Straightforward is best. It hurts less.

    • @sartorious56
      @sartorious56 3 года назад +1

      @ConfusedLavender "Jack, your mother is dead"
      "She should have died hereafter."
      Oops wrong play...

    • @janeyrevanescence12
      @janeyrevanescence12 6 месяцев назад +3

      How else could you say it? There was no way to sugarcoat it. He does say it as gently as possible but you can tell it hurts him to say it.

  • @imaichihikaru3010
    @imaichihikaru3010 8 лет назад +23

    you shouldn't have cut the part where the casts are bowing to audience

  • @ShatnerLover
    @ShatnerLover 2 года назад +2

    Writing many of these parts for specific actors made for an amazing original production, but it also means no one else quite holds up. Sure, I’ve seen some great productions of this show- amazing even- but never quite as perfect

    • @riverlea2559
      @riverlea2559 Год назад

      I like that because after every production I see I have to come back and watch this one. If I watch the 2014 movie I put this one on right after. Not even Meryl Streep is better than Bernadette in this role

  • @joshuajohnson2216
    @joshuajohnson2216 2 года назад +3

    12:20 [CINDERELLA]
    I wish

  • @patrickblake123
    @patrickblake123 Год назад

    I just realized ealized that the Witch doesn't have her cape in the finale.

  • @doloresgilcubero1052
    @doloresgilcubero1052 Месяц назад

    este será la origi origen inspiración ella sale eu versuESAD malaga

  • @trishsmelser6886
    @trishsmelser6886 5 месяцев назад

    weyie Watson

  • @jaybonn5973
    @jaybonn5973 2 года назад +1

    Joanna Weeks is great

  • @pepparig9938
    @pepparig9938 Год назад

    0:44 yall fr gone let that slide?

  • @justanobodyonyoutube3580
    @justanobodyonyoutube3580 2 года назад +1

    Did the stepfamily die at the end someone said they starved to death

    • @ianhimmelstein5915
      @ianhimmelstein5915 2 года назад +5

      At the end they say the whole point is everyone who died is making one final appearance before laying to rest so a lot of people have made guesses on how to step family died and I’m pretty sure you’re correct they starved

    • @justanobodyonyoutube3580
      @justanobodyonyoutube3580 2 года назад +1

      @@ianhimmelstein5915 I feel like it’s weird how they starved to death after like a day it usually takes 1 or 2 weeks to actually die of starvation but it really depends

    • @ianhimmelstein5915
      @ianhimmelstein5915 2 года назад +3

      @@justanobodyonyoutube3580 It is weird but they did say it first so maybe with a couple days they went without eating before going to hide

  • @tesserwesser
    @tesserwesser 6 месяцев назад

    9:24

  • @m_artroom
    @m_artroom 2 года назад

    5:44
    9:30
    10:50

  • @PipoStanII
    @PipoStanII 12 лет назад +3

    @h193013 I'm guessing it's keep what you're doing and don't change ways when you're not ready, haha.

  • @raynobleorchestra
    @raynobleorchestra 4 года назад +1

    that is rhe Spel

  • @h193013
    @h193013 12 лет назад +18

    then she should have said that instead of singing "aaahaaaha"

  • @archerboy58
    @archerboy58 12 лет назад

    DVD or netflix

  • @evanescent95
    @evanescent95 12 лет назад

    Where can the entire show be watched?

    • @michaelnally2841
      @michaelnally2841 5 лет назад +2

      Alex this production is available on dvd. I honestly am not sure what the name of the company produced this.

    • @iAmMadeOfSoup
      @iAmMadeOfSoup 4 года назад +2

      Michael Nally wasn’t it PBS?

    • @kage3069
      @kage3069 4 года назад +9

      It's on RUclips too

    • @dhielmico9245
      @dhielmico9245 3 года назад

      I got a copy

    • @marygagne9787
      @marygagne9787 3 года назад

      I still have my VHS! It says “Image Entertainment”

  • @nilapevetti5469
    @nilapevetti5469 2 года назад +2

    The ten Commandments: Will you go to heaven after you die?
    "For whoever shall keep the whole law and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all" (James 2:10).
    You have to face the Holy God on judgment day. He sees lust as adultery (Matt 5:28) and hatred as murder ( 1 John 3:15). Will you be guilty? Jesus took your punishment on the cross, and rose again, defeating death, to save you from Hell. Repent (Luke 13:5) and trust in him today.
    " For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life"((John 3:16))