Into the Woods
Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Book by James Lapine
Originally directed on Broadway by James Lapine
Directed by Susi Damilano
Music director Dave Dobrusky
Choreography by Kimberly Richards
“An unqualified technical success and a complete joy to take in … irresistible and sure to fill seats throughout its lengthy run!”
– SF Bay Guardian
– Examiner.com
– San Jose Mercury News
What happens after Happily Ever After? In Sondheim and Lapine’s beloved musical retelling of the Grimm classics, a parade of familiar folktale figures find their way “Into the Woods” and try to get home before dark.
Nominated for 10 Tony Awards, this is Sondheim and Lapine’s timeless story, as you’ve never seen it before! See the edgy San Francisco Playhouse production before this classic gets the Hollywood movie treatment in the 2014 Johnny Depp and Meryl Streep film.
Baker (Keith Pinto*) finds out his father (Louis Parnell*) is still alive as boy (Ian De Vaynes) observes.
Baker’s Wife (El Beh) meets handsome Prince (Jeffrey Brian Adams) in the woods.
Baker’s Wife (El Beh) tries to take Cinderella’s (Monique Hafen*) golden slipper.
Baker (Keith Pinto*) and his wife (El Beh) renew their love in the woods.
Princes (Ryan McCrary and Jeffrey Brian Adams) share the tortured stories of love.
Jack (Tim Homsley*) climbs beanstalk to Giant’s kingdom.
- Cinderella’s Prince/Wolf
- Baker’s Wife
- Boy
- Lucinda
- Florinda
- Stepmother, Cinderella’s Mother, Understudy for Witch
- Witch
- Steward, Jack 8/25 – 9/6, Male Understudy
- Cinderella
- Jack
- Rapunzel’s Prince/Wolf
- Jack’s Mother
- Rapunzel
- Narrator, Mystery Man
- Baker
- Little Red Ridinghood
- Understudy for Rapunzel
- Assistant Director/Understudy Steward, Narrator, Mystery Man
- Understudy: Baker’s Wife, Jack’s Mom, Granny
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