Review: Stephen Sondheim’s ‘Into the Woods’ Is Sheer, Moving Magic on Broadway

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Review: Stephen Sondheim’s ‘Into the Woods’ Is Sheer, Moving Magic on Broadway
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“Into the Woods” is one of the nominess for Best Revival of a Musical at the Tony Awards on Sunday. TonyAwards Do you want to know more about it? Check out our review:

—or, well take your pick, they will all buzz around your mind as you sit, entranced by this magnificent show.

—also a furious caution to those stoking the fires of prejudice and social and cultural restriction. The other repeated incantation, “No one is alone,” is just as powerfully rendered. his wife, desperate to have a baby and set an impossible set of tasks by the Witch in order to have their wish granted.

The production laughs at itself and its absurdities when it needs to, and also takes itself absolutely seriously. Phillipa Soo replaces Denée Benton as a canny Cinderella, faced with a prince-related decision to make. One has to feel for Cinderella; she has the least amount of fun on stage, and must play the straightest—and all credit to Soo making as much of tumbling over and talking birds to make us laugh.

Aymee Garcia plays Jack’s long-suffering mother, despairing of his innocence and then just movingly despairing. David Patrick Kelly is our narrator and a mysterious man, eventually drawn against his will from his safe perch of apparent omniscience; and David Turner is a stone-faced steward who stands for all those who myopically dispense and abuse the power they are given.

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