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re: All those songs cut from INTO THE WOODS film

Posted by: Greg_M 09:54 am EDT 08/15/14
In reply to: All those songs cut from INTO THE WOODS film - Teacher64 08:41 pm EDT 08/14/14

When "Into the Woods" first opened the score wasn't always reviewed so favorable. I can't imagine a Disney audience of kiddies singing the songs from "ITW" or even following the lyrics. The story was better received and should work on film.

At worse, even if many of the songs are cut - We still have the ORIGINAL CAST preserved on video to watch whenever we want.

Too bad we don't have the original cast videos of "A Chorus Line" or "Annie" those films completely butchered their source material


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re: All those songs cut from INTO THE WOODS film

Posted by: lordofspeech 04:07 am EDT 08/16/14
In reply to: re: All those songs cut from INTO THE WOODS film - Greg_M 09:54 am EDT 08/15/14

While I agree with you that the A CHORUS LINE film is a mess, the documentary EVERY LITTLE STEP managed to chronicle and capture all that WAS the show, even though limited to rare archival footage and the "talking with" anecdotes of Lee, McKechnie, etcetera. That film "brings it," as the children say.


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re: All those songs cut from INTO THE WOODS film

Posted by: Chazwaza 06:13 am EDT 08/16/14
In reply to: re: All those songs cut from INTO THE WOODS film - lordofspeech 04:07 am EDT 08/16/14

And that documentary is wonderful... but still it's not a document of the whole actual show, like the way Into the Woods is (and Passion, Sunday, Sweeney, Cats, JCS, Joseph, etc). I almost wish they'd called it "A Chorus Line, the Documentary" so people who might be searching for ACL would find it just from the title. Every Little Step is a great title for it, but as the only existing semblance of the original show on DVD, it might be harder to find with that title.


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