Into the Woods (1987 Original Broadway Cast) | 
 enlarge | Artists: Stephen Sondheim, Bernadette Peters, Joanna Gleason
Label: RCA
Category: Music
List Price: $13.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  113 reviews
Sales Rank: 2329
Format: Cast Recording, Extra Tracks, Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 68636
UPC: 828766863628
EAN: 0828766863628
ASIN: B0009A40MA
Release Date: March 20, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: All products brand new and factory sealed.
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| Tracks:
| • | Into the Woods (Prologue) - Tom Aldredge, Paul Gemignani | | • | Cinderella at the Grave - Kim Crosby, Paul Gemignani, Merle Louise | | • | Hello, Little Girl - Danielle Ferland, Paul Gemignani, Robert Westenberg | | • | I Guess This Is Goodbye/Maybe They're Magic/I Guess This Is Goodbye - Paul Gemignani, Joanna Gleason, Ben Wright, Chip Zien | | • | I Know Things Now - Danielle Ferland, Paul Gemignani | | • | Very Nice Prince/First Midnight/Giants in the Sky - Kim Crosby, Paul Gemignani, Joanna Gleason, Ben Wright | | • | Agony - Paul Gemignani, Chuck Wagner, Robert Westenberg | | • | It Takes Two - Paul Gemignani, Joanna Gleason, Chip Zien | | • | Stay with Me - Paul Gemignani, Bernadette Peters, Pamela Winslow | | • | On the Steps of the Palace - Kim Crosby, Paul Gemignani | | • | Ever After - Tom Aldredge, Paul Gemignani | | • | So Happy (Act II Prologue) - Tom Aldredge, Paul Gemignani | | • | Agony (Reprise) - Paul Gemignani, Chuck Wagner, Robert Westenberg | | • | Lament - Paul Gemignani, Bernadette Peters | | • | Any Moment/Moments in the Woods - Paul Gemignani, Joanna Gleason, Robert Westenberg | | • | Your Fault/Last Midnight - Kim Crosby, Danielle Ferland, Paul Gemignani, Bernadette Peters, Ben Wright, Chip Zien | | • | No More - Tom Aldredge, Paul Gemignani, Chip Zien | | • | No One Is Alone - Kim Crosby, Danielle Ferland, Paul Gemignani, Ben Wright, Chip Zien | | • | Finale: People Will Listen - Bernadette Peters | | • | Giants in the Sky [*] - John Cameron Mitchell, John Cameron Mitchell | | • | Back to the Palace [*] - Kim Crosby, Kim Crosby | | • | Boom Crunch [*] - Maureen Moore, Maureen Moore |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com essential recording
As conceived by Stephen Sondheim and cocreator James Lapine (following their Pulitzer Prize-winning Sunday in the Park with George), Into the Woods tells the intricate tale of multiple fairy-tale characters crossing paths in the woods, not merely resolving the characters' dilemmas but also exploring what happens after happily ever after. Sondheim's chamber-scale music, recipient of the 1987 Tony for Best Score, is one of his most beautiful and accessible, and is at its most poignant in "No More," "No One Is Alone," and "Children Will Listen." The original Broadway cast is outstanding top to bottom, most notably Bernadette Peters as a rapping witch and Joanna Gleason, who won a Tony for Best Actress. The CD booklet includes production photos and--so important for a Sondheim show--full lyrics. Fortunately, this cast was also captured on video and DVD. --David Horiuchi
Album Description
A Classic Stephen Sondheim Musical Available Now at a New Low Price! Featuresbonus tracks, digitally remastered and new liner notes.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 108 more reviews...
 Not my cup of tea August 3, 2008
This is the kind of musical best experienced on stage, and I haven't yet. I'm sure that when I do, I'll be able to enjoy the music better.
 Into the Woods May 12, 2008
If you love Sondheim, this is the best...amazing story, amazing music and wonderful cast. Fairy Tales aren't always happily ever after affairs...but then, neither is life in the real world. You just have to keep following the dream and venturing into the woods
Into the Woods April 15, 2008
This is one of my absolute favourite Musicals! Into the Woods combines wit and masterful dialogue to delight people of all ages. I love that the first Act is a Fairy Tale and that the second Act is more sinister and dark. Listen for yourself!
 It's great if you've seen the musical April 3, 2008
We listen to this soundtrack a lot and certainly enjoy it, but we've also seen the musical. I'm not sure I'd like it as much if I hadn't seen the piece.
This is the recording to buy. Insightful, Human and Loads of Fun February 22, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The great thing about Stephen Sondheim is this: the more you listen to and explore his scores, the more impressed you are by his genius.
Nowhere is that genius more apparent than in this musical. Sondheim and James Lapine stir together a stage full of fairy tale characters, give them each a burning, insatiable wish, and formulate happy endings for most.
Then the fun begins. At the start of Act 2, the audience learns what messes are left when one must have one's wish at any cost. Happily ever after melts into battles and infidelities and untimely deaths and heartbreaks.
Sondheim and Lapine explore the human condition with wisdom and insight. Listen to "Your Fault," where characters shoot and are shot at with finger pointing accusations and deflections. How like real life.
This recording is the one to buy, where the performances of Bernadette Peters and the marvelous Chip Zien lift the words and situations straight to our hearts.
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