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re: All those songs cut from INTO THE WOODS film

Posted by: MikeR 01:24 am EDT 08/15/14
In reply to: re: All those songs cut from INTO THE WOODS film - TGWW 11:01 pm EDT 08/14/14

There are currently over 300 upcoming productions of Into The Woods listed on MTI's website (I didn't count the Junior version). Somebody clearly loves the show, and it can't all be laid at the feet of "Sondheimites."

Unrelated, but how does a free show that plays its scheduled run flop?


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re: All those songs cut from INTO THE WOODS film

Posted by: Teacher64 05:47 am EDT 08/15/14
In reply to: re: All those songs cut from INTO THE WOODS film - MikeR 01:24 am EDT 08/15/14

While I never saw the Central Park ITW, it did not get very good reviews resulting in its Broadway transfer being cancelled.


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re: All those songs cut from INTO THE WOODS film

Posted by: AlanScott 06:48 pm EDT 08/16/14
In reply to: re: All those songs cut from INTO THE WOODS film - Teacher64 05:47 am EDT 08/15/14

Apart from no Broadway transfer having ever been announced, the reason why it got distinctly mixed reviews (with many of them on the negative side) was because the production was not very good. For the most part, the negative reviews were negative about the directorial choices, not about the piece.


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there was no cancelled transfer...

Posted by: Chazwaza 12:09 pm EDT 08/15/14
In reply to: re: All those songs cut from INTO THE WOODS film - Teacher64 05:47 am EDT 08/15/14

There were of course talks and speculations... perhaps unofficially they did it with the hope of a transfer. But there was never a Broadway transfer officially announced or "cancelled". And that certainly doesn't make the show a flop.

(Also, even if there were, it could have been for many reasons including cast availability and theater availability and lack of investors able to get the cash for the production to transfer... not to mention that this was an open air outdoor production which relied quite a lot on that conceptually... transferring it to an indoor Broadway theater would have defeated much of the point of this production)


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re: All those songs cut from INTO THE WOODS film

Posted by: MikeR 11:24 am EDT 08/15/14
In reply to: re: All those songs cut from INTO THE WOODS film - Teacher64 05:47 am EDT 08/15/14

Was there a Broadway transfer scheduled to get cancelled? I don't recall. Sure, there was talk of a transfer, but there's talk of a transfer for everything.


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Nope. I would not have made the trek into the Park on a

Posted by: Esther 11:50 am EDT 08/15/14
In reply to: re: All those songs cut from INTO THE WOODS film - MikeR 11:24 am EDT 08/15/14

very badly injured knee had there been a scheduled transfer announced. It took me 35 minutes to walk from the Central Park West entrance to the Delacorte and I'd do it again in a heartbeat.


I would not have done that if a transfer had been announced and waited to see it when I could have gotten dropped off right in front of whatever theater it was in.


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re: All those songs cut from INTO THE WOODS film

Posted by: Chromolume 01:39 am EDT 08/15/14
In reply to: re: All those songs cut from INTO THE WOODS film - MikeR 01:24 am EDT 08/15/14

Besides, I'm not sure that everyone who likes Sondheim's work can be considered a "Sondheimite." Is it all or nothing? Most of us enjoy any number of composers/writers etc without going to extremes. Sure, there are people that love Sondheim's work above all else - but many more of us like all sorts of things including Sondheim's work.


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