Black Ink March 4,1991
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The Musical Of The Year
1988 Tony Award Winner for Best Score and Best Book
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From Staff Reports
The Broadway musical Into
the Woods will be presented at 8
p.mMarch 18, in Memorial Hall
on the UNC campus. The national
touring production is part of the
Carolina Union’s 1990-91 Per
forming Arts Series. Tickets are
$20 for the general public, $ 11 for
UNC students, and are available
from the Carolina Union Box
Office.
Into The Woods musically
explores what happens to the
Brothers Grimm’s best known
folktale characters, and some new
ones, after the “happily ever af
ter.” Four well-known fairy tales
—Cinderella, Jack and the Bean
stalk, the Baker and His Wife and
Little Red Ridding Hood — are
combined into one story to pick
up where the nairator left off.
Into the Woods began as a
workshop at Playwrights Horizons
in the summer of 1986 and pre
miered as a fully staged produc
tion in December of that year at
the Old Globe Theatre in San Di-
“Kinder and Hausmarchen”
(Young People’s and Household
Tales). Assembled over a period
of five years, the 86 folk tales were
published in 1812 and have sold
close to a billion copies in no few^
than 20,000 editions in 50 lan
guages
People, Arts
ego. An additional two-week
workshop took place at 890 Stu
dios in August 1987 prior to re
hearsals for the Broadway pro
duction.
The musical opened on No
vember 5, 1987, the 175th anni
versary of the publication of Jacob
and Wilhelm Grimm’s classic
The original cast of Into The
Woods starred Bernadette Peters,
Joanna Gleason, Chip 2^in, Tom
AldredgeandRobertWestenburg.
Phylicia Rashad has returned to
Broadway to assume the role of
the Witch. Choreographer Lar
Lubovitch, whose dance company
celebrates its 20th anniversary this
year, did the musical staging for
Into the Woods. Honors for the
musical include the 1988 New
Yoric Drama Critics Award and
the Drama Desk Award for Best
Musical, three Tony Awards and
a 1989 Grammy Award for Best
Cast Album.
"Into the Woods is total en
chantment,” said Howard Kissel
of the New York Daily News. “A
spellbinding score, witty enough
to makeold stories fresh for adults,
lovely enough to enchant young
sters. The cast is perfection. If you
can resist its luscious star, Ber
nadette Peters, you are beyond the
help of potions and spells.”
Adding reality to the original
tales, “a trip Into the Woods re
veals that nice people lie, good
people die and marriage is a good
way to end a relationship,” said
the Salt Lake Tribune.
Even with its daric moments,
the musical is Oiled with affmna-
tion of life and what it means to
grow up. As Cinderella tells the
grieving Red Riding Hood,
“Sometimes people leave you,
halfway through the wood. Oth
ers may deceive you. You decide
what’s good. You decide alone.
But no one is alone.”
Filmmakers Wanted
Enthusiastic, creative
students are urged to
enter the 1991 Film
Festival! Write, direct,
and produce your own
masterpiece film. All
entries must be in by
Wednesday, March 27.
Come by the Union
desk for more
information.
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Applications arc now available lor chair positions of all of the
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