A Classic Stephen Sondheim Musical Available Now at a New Low Price!
Featuresbonus tracks, digitally remastered and new liner notes.
Spotlight customer reviews:
Customer Rating: Summary: Not my cup of tea Comment: This is the kind of musical best experienced on stage, and I haven't yet. I'm sure that when I do, I'll be able to enjoy the music better. Customer Rating: Summary: Into the Woods Comment: If you love Sondheim, this is the best...amazing story, amazing music and wonderful cast. Fairy Tales aren't always happily ever after affairs...but then, neither is life in the real world. You just have to keep following the dream and venturing into the woods Customer Rating: Summary: Into the Woods Comment: This is one of my absolute favourite Musicals! Into the Woods combines wit and masterful dialogue to delight people of all ages. I love that the first Act is a Fairy Tale and that the second Act is more sinister and dark. Listen for yourself! Customer Rating: Summary: It's great if you've seen the musical Comment: We listen to this soundtrack a lot and certainly enjoy it, but we've also seen the musical. I'm not sure I'd like it as much if I hadn't seen the piece. Customer Rating: Summary: This is the recording to buy. Insightful, Human and Loads of Fun Comment: The great thing about Stephen Sondheim is this: the more you listen to and explore his scores, the more impressed you are by his genius.
Nowhere is that genius more apparent than in this musical. Sondheim and James Lapine stir together a stage full of fairy tale characters, give them each a burning, insatiable wish, and formulate happy endings for most.
Then the fun begins. At the start of Act 2, the audience learns what messes are left when one must have one's wish at any cost. Happily ever after melts into battles and infidelities and untimely deaths and heartbreaks.
Sondheim and Lapine explore the human condition with wisdom and insight. Listen to "Your Fault," where characters shoot and are shot at with finger pointing accusations and deflections. How like real life.
This recording is the one to buy, where the performances of Bernadette Peters and the marvelous Chip Zien lift the words and situations straight to our hearts.
