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SRO Productions Presents Sondheim’s ‘Into the Woods’
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Cinderella, Jack and his cow, Rapunzel, Little Red Riding Hood, and a Baker and his Wife find “happily ever after”. Then Act II happens.
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The Endicott Performing Arts Center presents Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street. It’s a story of a man who returns from exile to exact revenge on the people who unjustly punished him. Matt Gaska, who plays Sweeney, and Andrea Gregori, who plays his daughter Johanna, talk about the production, the music, and some of the themes in this monumental musical that is, by turns, horrifying, thoughtful, and devilishly funny. https://wskg.org/audio/sweeneymix.mp3
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Cider Mill Playhouse presents Stephen Sondheim's "Into the Woods"
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Perry Davis Harper (Cinderella’s Prince and Wolf) and Andrew Simek (Rapunzel’s Prince) speak with WSKG’s Bill Snyder about Cider Mill Playhouse’s production of Into the Woods. The musical is a mash-up of several fairy tales: Rapunzel, Cinderealla, Jack and the Beanstalk, and Little Red Riding Hood (with references to Sleeping Beauty and Snow White), with the characters unified by another new fairy tale, The Baker and his Wife. Everything ends happily ever after at the end of Act I, but then comes Act II… https://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/national/local-national-1036682.mp3
Photograph Courtesy C@rljones via Flickr