Into The Woods - original cast recording (+ 3 bonus tracks) (1988)

Op 6 april 2017 is een nieuwe Nederlandse productie van deze musical ('hilarisch sprookje-voor-volwassenen van musicalcomponist Stephen Sondheim, de man achter klassiekers als Sweeney Todd en Follies) te aanschouwen in het Wilminktheater in Enschede. "With Into the Woods, Sondheim and librettist/director James Lapine retold a group of children's stories in an intricate, moving way that worked on many levels. In the show, which opened on Broadway on November 5, 1987, and ran 764 performances before closing on September 3, 1989 (making it Sondheim's most popular work in 25 years), Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Rapunzel, and other familiar fairy tale characters, joined by a few newly invented ones, engage in interrelated adventures. Sondheim and Lapine's interpretation is informed by child psychologist Bruno Bettelheim's book The Uses of Enchantment, and they not only retain some of the gorier aspects of the original tales, but also add adult complexities." (William Ruhlmann, Allmusic; 4 uit 5 sterren)