Into The Woods
The musical intertwines the plots of several The Brothers Grim Fairy Tale and follows them to explore the consequences of the characters' wishes and quests. The main characters are taken from "Little Red Riding Hood", "Jack And The Beanstalk", "Rapunzel ", and "Cinderella", as well as several others. The musical is tied together by an original story involving a childless baker and his wife and their quest to begin a family, their interaction with a Witch who has placed a curse on them, and their interaction with other storybook characters during their journey.
The Musical is a Broadway production that premiered in 1987 with music written by Stephen Sondheim and is based on the book written by James Lapine.
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In the musical's junior version I play 'The Witch'. She is the villain from Rapunzel. When a poor man breaks into her vegetable garden to steel greens for his maternal wife who has an urgent need for greens , she catches him. She curses him for breaking into her garden. The curse is that his family is to be barren and she demands to have the baby his wife will give birth too. She takes the baby and imprisons her in a door less and stair less tower.The only way to get to her is to climb up her long golden hair. However in 'Into The Woods' the witch has a transformation into who she really is, a good witch, but once Rapunzel is set free she wont accept what the witch did to her. Therefore the with looses her powers of cursing.
Personally i think the witch's disposition is grumpy and mean. After all a stereotypical witch is. But i think certain events in her life have made her this way for example, as a young women she was cursed and turned into a witch, witch's can't have children (hence her wanting to take the baker's child away) , she wants to bring back her youth and beauty and the baker stole from her. Underneath the witch's cruel exterior i think there is a kind, damaged women who had everything taken from her and she just envoys that everyone has never been cursed. So to make her self fell better she inflicts pain on others so they know what its like to be her therefore she is not in pain and fear alone. After all in a witches case, isn't it far better to be feared then loved ? But she is a different kind of witch, unlike the classic witch in other fairy tales you sympathize with this witch. We can tell that she hasn't just taken Rapunzel out of spite but because she has always longed for a child herself.
The Disney film of Into The Woods is out this December.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2180411/
From this Poster It was evident that the Witch is a sinister character . She looks dark and negative.Her clothes are dark colours which could symbolise her dark , evil personality.Just by looking at the stereotypical image of a witch i already have a feel for how i will portray her.
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