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re: Deadline reviews Into the Woods film

Posted by:	AlanScott 12:49 pm EST 11/24/14
In reply to:	re: Deadline reviews Into the Woods film - Alcindoro 12:40 pm EST 11/24/14

He has, on occasion, had productions shut down that took liberties, without asking permission, of which he disapproved. But they were mostly pretty minor productions, nonprofessional or regional. This is why I wrote (near the end of my post) "current or recent major production." A production of Side by Side by Sondheim with Cris Groenendaal and a couple of other established performers was shut down for adding a whole bunch of songs not in the licensed version without permission. But even then I'm not sure he spoke about it. He just had it shut down. The author makes it sound like Sondheim fairly often goes around saying, "Hated that production," so the fact that he's speaking positively about this one demonstrates how much he loves it. He also raved about the film version of Sweeney. If anything, I think (though I'm sure about this) that he has spoken of how he prefers not to publicly criticize productions of his work because he doesn't want to hurt the actors.

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