| Terry Gilliam’s INTO THE WOODS (spoilers) | |
| Last Edit: HadriansMall 01:54 pm EDT 08/27/22 | |
| Posted by: HadriansMall 01:52 pm EDT 08/27/22 | |
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| On the train back to London so please excuse typos. This production has only a passing ressemblance to the show created by Sondheim & Lapine. The bones are there but the vital organs have been excised. The Good: The capital C concept works and the visuals are stunning - though sadly sometimes overwhelm. Little Red, Jack, and The Baker’s Wife are all turning in fine performances. (some of) The Bad: Eliminating the Narrator /Mysterious Man and replacing them with this new cadaverous Music Hall MC / Undertaker / Death Himself. This is really a problem in Act 2. With the Baker’s Father no longer in the show (some really stupid business with a found letter and some lyric changes) this scene is fairly pointless. Gilliam tries to add tension with some more stupid business with a noose and a hanging tree but it doesn’t work. The Princes are played as effete idiots. Not one shred of connection can be perceived between the Prince and Cinderella. Really tacky staging of the indiscretion between the Baker’s Wife and the Prince (now witnessed first hand by Cinderella) No destroyed grave of Cinderella ‘s mother. Making No One is Alone all about killing the giant. That song seemed to be in Gilliam’s way so he just staged what he wanted around it. Mixed bag of acting. I really did not care for the cast (probably the direction) but I felt Cinderella and the Witch were very miscast. The worst thing to ever happen to INTO THE WOODS was someone deciding Milky White needed to be a puppet/actor. Happy to answer and questions but this is already long. |
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