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| Posted by: superior_exterior 09:50 am EDT 06/19/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Did anyone ever come close to Joanna Gleason as the Baker's Wife? - lordofspeech 01:29 am EDT 06/19/18 | |
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| SPOILERS, for both Into the Woods and its earlier drafts Into Broadway previews, the Baker’s Wife did not die in the same scene of Act II as she does now following Moments in the Woods. She rejoins the group. Cinderella, who talks to birds, knows where she’s been and isn’t happy about it. An argument ensues between the Baker, his wife, and Cinderella about what is and isn’t being said when the giant approaches with more destruction to the woods. The Baker’s Wife snaps into defensive mode and throws herself over her baby to shield the child from a falling tree, which saves the baby and kills her. Further spoiler, at this point in development, the Narrator is also not killed in the scene we’ve come to know. He survives the show and reveals himself to be the Baker’s son in a final monologue and having been told the story of how it all happened. |
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| re: answer to your spoiler question | |
| Posted by: lordofspeech 12:37 pm EDT 06/19/18 | |
| In reply to: re: answer to your spoiler question - superior_exterior 09:50 am EDT 06/19/18 | |
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| Oh my Goodness! Thank you!!! I like those events so much better. Even tho I intellectually/aesthetically admire the intentionally arbitrary nature of death (her death) in the current version...still...I LOVE THE OTHER IDEA. That she dies saving the baby. Maybe too melodramatic even for this whimsical show’s second, heavy act. Maybe it felt heavy-handed....but I love it and love knowing it. Plus the son-as-narrator. Of course right, as Yenta might say. THANK YOU!!! |
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| re: answer to your spoiler question | |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 01:41 pm EDT 06/19/18 | |
| In reply to: re: answer to your spoiler question - lordofspeech 12:37 pm EDT 06/19/18 | |
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| It's a valid way to end her story too... but I think it significantly changes the points made in Act 2 currently, which I prefer. "Sometimes people leave us" is not easily replaced by "sometimes people die protecting their child's life", and it's a very different message and theme and event and kind of loss. | |
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