Advantages: Sondheim music, wit and talent! Disadvantages: Complex storyline?
A huge musical theatre fan I HAD to review this DVD. Original Story written by James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim (also a great book), this is really about what happens AFTER 'Happily Ever After'... Filmed at Broadways Martin Beck Theatre.....
Simply the storyline consists of the family favourite fairy tales such as Jack & The Beanstalk, and Cinderalla, Rapunzel, Little Red Riding Hood, then blends in a story of a baker and his wife who long for a child.
The Witch who pops into each story is played by the simply wonderful Bernadette Peters, The Prince Charming by Robert Westernberg..
In the first act, the characters set out to achieve their goal of living "Happily Ever After" through familiar routes - Cinderella goes to the Ball and captures the heart of Prince Charming, Jack climbs the Beanstalk and finds a land of Giants ...
Advantages: The controls are great Disadvantages: Graphics are fairly average
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Advantages: Great songs, great performances, wonderful sets, great story Disadvantages: None
What do you get when you mix Cinderella, Rapunzel, Little Red Riding Hood, Jack and the Beanstalk and other fairy tales? You get a fantastic musical made for Broadway called “Into The Woods”. An interesting tale that weaves and entwines the stories with magic and music. With such acclaimed stage performances by stars such as Bernadette Peters and Robert Westenberg, you get a healthy serving of wonderful singing, light comedy and lessons in life served to you in a two act play.
The first act blends familiar fairy tales with a new story of a baker and his wife who wish more than anything to have a child. However, the baker’s family has a curse on it, laid by the witch who lives next door. Unless they help the witch by collecting the items she needs for a spell, they shall never have a child. Without these items ...
Shadowtwinchaos 27.12.2001 (04.04.2003)
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Into The Woods (DVD)
The Call includes: Michael Been (vocals, guitar, bass); Tom Ferrier (guitar, background vocals); Jim Goodwin (keyboards, background vocals). Producers: The Call, Don Smith, Michael Been. Recorded at A & M, One On One, Rumbo and Conway Studios, Los Angeles, California. One of The Call's most highly regarded recordings, INTO THE WOODS achieves the perfect synthesis of Michael Been's passionate, preacher-on-the-pulpit vocals and the group's churning, riff-happy drive. It's also probably the least overtly political album in the Call oeuvre. Been's lyrics concentrate more on personal politics and emotional turbulence than social issues, and the songs are correspondingly more powerful because of the thematic shift. The Christian tenets that lie beneath the surface of much Call music are invested here with a provocative mix of faith and rage, with highly visceral results. "In the River" successfully mixes baptism, death, war, childhood, and good old natural disaster over bluesy guitar and Been's snaky bass line. "I Don't Wanna" explores the extremes of emotional commitment, buoyed by anthemic backing, while mythology and poetic imagery make for a mysterious vignette in "The Woods." After all the Sturm und Drang, things close on a lighter note with "Walk Walk," an uptempo boogie that delivers an open-hearted romantic invitation.
Titles on disc 1
1.
I Don't Wanna
2.
In The River
3.
It Could Have Been Me
4.
Woods
5.
Day Or Night
6.
Memory
7.
Too Many Tears
8.
Expecting
9.
Walk Walk
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