Into the Woods Original Broadway Cast Recording CD

Trust Stephen Sondheim never to do anything twice. Having dealt in quick succession with a pointillist work (Sunday In The Park), a grand guignol drama (Sweeney Todd), and a Japanese-style show (Pacific Overtures), in connivance with James Lapine, he decided to approach the world of children's fairy tales, but with a twist all his own. The resulting musical was Into The Woods which opened on November 5, 1987 at the Martin Beck Theatre where it remained until it closed two years later after playing 764 performances. A work of whimsy and intellectual legerdemain, the show dealt with some familiar characters – the Baker and his wife, Cinderella and her Prince, Little Red Ridinghood, Rapunzel and her Prince, Sleeping Beauty and Snow White, who all found themselves threatened when the wife of the Giant came down that fabled beanstalk to seek revenge for the death of her husband. The cast, led by Bernadette Peters as the Witch, did impressively well by Stephen Sondheim and brought to life some of the gorgeous tunes he had written for this occasion.

1. Prologue: Into the Woods
2. Cinderella at the Grave
3. Hello, Little Girl
4. I Guess This Is Goodbye / Maybe They're Magic
5. I Know Things Now
6. A Very Nice Prince / First Midnight / Giants In The Sky
7. Agony
8. It Takes Two
9. Stay With Me
10. On the Steps of the Palace
11. Ever After
12. Act II Prologue: So Happy
13. Agony
14. Lament
15. Any Moment / Moments In The Woods
16. Your Fault / Last Midnight
17. No More
18. No One Is Alone
19. Finale: Children Will Listen