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shrimpchipsssThis was the musical for February, another Sondheim one! Watched the 1991 movie with Bernadette Peters whose name I didn't know before but I definitely know now.
Into the Woods takes a bunch of well known fairy tales and weaves them together into one with the characters all tumbling into each others story lines. It's hilarious and really well written and also THE LONGEST MUSICAL EVER.
A lot of musicals are 2.5 hours long but you feel every minute of it with this one. One theory I have is that it's because it is not an opera, there's dialogue in between each song so you can't just ride the continuous never-ending thread of melody. I tend to listen to musicals first before watching a pro shot (or a bootleg slime tutorial) or movie but this musical was a bit incomprehensible to only listen to because you miss out on important plot stuff that only happens in dialogue. I think I personally prefer operas to song-dialogue-song-dialogue so there is that also.
But in addition to that, Into the Woods goes REALLY HARD on repeating musical motifs. This might be one case in which the repetition is done so frequently that you feel like you're stuck in a time loop. Maybe this is intentional and a statement about the cyclical nature of fairy tale stories? But it's maddening.
Chris who played piano for a school production of the show agreed that though it's technically the same length as tons of other shows it is the longest fucking show of all time "it aged me five years in a weekend. it's basically the odyssey." so.
Other notes... loved Mister Wolf. Love that he had an eight pack and that his cock and balls were gloriously, flappingly out. 80s sensibility...... we need her back
Enjoyed the subversion of found family when Little Red Riding Hood is like "I'll be your mother now" and Jack says "I don't want a mom, I want a friend."
I think Little Red was one of my favorite characters for how funny her impetuousness was
I don't think I'll be re-listening to this any time soon but the proshot was an incredible work of performance.
Into the Woods takes a bunch of well known fairy tales and weaves them together into one with the characters all tumbling into each others story lines. It's hilarious and really well written and also THE LONGEST MUSICAL EVER.
A lot of musicals are 2.5 hours long but you feel every minute of it with this one. One theory I have is that it's because it is not an opera, there's dialogue in between each song so you can't just ride the continuous never-ending thread of melody. I tend to listen to musicals first before watching a pro shot (or a bootleg slime tutorial) or movie but this musical was a bit incomprehensible to only listen to because you miss out on important plot stuff that only happens in dialogue. I think I personally prefer operas to song-dialogue-song-dialogue so there is that also.
But in addition to that, Into the Woods goes REALLY HARD on repeating musical motifs. This might be one case in which the repetition is done so frequently that you feel like you're stuck in a time loop. Maybe this is intentional and a statement about the cyclical nature of fairy tale stories? But it's maddening.
Chris who played piano for a school production of the show agreed that though it's technically the same length as tons of other shows it is the longest fucking show of all time "it aged me five years in a weekend. it's basically the odyssey." so.
Other notes... loved Mister Wolf. Love that he had an eight pack and that his cock and balls were gloriously, flappingly out. 80s sensibility...... we need her back
Enjoyed the subversion of found family when Little Red Riding Hood is like "I'll be your mother now" and Jack says "I don't want a mom, I want a friend."
I think Little Red was one of my favorite characters for how funny her impetuousness was
I don't think I'll be re-listening to this any time soon but the proshot was an incredible work of performance.
