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re: INTO THE WOODS magic-what am I missing-potion?

Posted by: bearcat 01:32 pm EST 11/19/14
In reply to: re: INTO THE WOODS magic-what am I missing-potion? - garyd 11:00 pm EST 11/18/14

isn't the Witch being reasonable by giving them 3 midnights to collect all those things


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Nothing to do with being reasonable

Posted by: AlanScott 04:07 pm EST 11/19/14
In reply to: re: INTO THE WOODS magic-what am I missing-potion? - bearcat 01:32 pm EST 11/19/14

It's very definitely a deadline. If the Witch does not drink the potion by the last bell of the third midnight, she will have lost her chance to have the spell cast by her mother reversed.


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re: Nothing to do with being reasonable

Posted by: jero 05:42 pm EST 11/19/14
In reply to: Nothing to do with being reasonable - AlanScott 04:07 pm EST 11/19/14

I'm not real up on these things. are we even sure the mother cursed her or was this an ongoing curse... sort of like guard the beans or else... that she got from her mother?


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re: Nothing to do with being reasonable

Posted by: garyd 09:13 pm EST 11/19/14
In reply to: re: Nothing to do with being reasonable - jero 05:42 pm EST 11/19/14

Obviously, the witch's mother and the giant were "doing it".


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re: Nothing to do with being reasonable

Posted by: MikeR 06:10 pm EST 11/19/14
In reply to: re: Nothing to do with being reasonable - jero 05:42 pm EST 11/19/14

Her mother cursed her for losing the beans.

"Alright mother, when?
Lost the beans again
Punish me the way you did then
Give me claws, and a hunch
Just away from this bunch
And the gloom
And the doom
And the boom
Crunch!"


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re: INTO THE WOODS magic-what am I missing-potion?

Posted by: garyd 01:58 pm EST 11/19/14
In reply to: re: INTO THE WOODS magic-what am I missing-potion? - bearcat 01:32 pm EST 11/19/14

As reasonable as a witch gets I guess.
I think it less to do with the witch and more to do with dramatic structure. Ya gotta have a time frame for tension…very "Poetics".


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re: INTO THE WOODS magic-what am I missing-potion?

Posted by: Chromolume 07:15 pm EST 11/19/14
In reply to: re: INTO THE WOODS magic-what am I missing-potion? - garyd 01:58 pm EST 11/19/14

Well, of course, part of the fun of this ITW fairy-tale world is the incongruities and "unreasonable" elements. "I need your shoe to have a child," or (in the original production) a cow with wheels and a handle, or a manly prince who is freaked out by the idea of dwarves, etc.


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Dwarves Dwarfs Dwarves

Posted by: garyd 09:19 pm EST 11/19/14
In reply to: re: INTO THE WOODS magic-what am I missing-potion? - Chromolume 07:15 pm EST 11/19/14

all are very upsetting.


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