The run closed September 3, 1989
- Opened
- November 5, 1987
- Closed
- September 3, 1989
- Performances
- 765
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Al Hirschfeld Theatre
Of the 465 productions we hold that opened in the 1980s and record a performance count, this is the 26th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of Into the Woods 3 more that season
| 1997 | Broadway Theatre Revival | 2 perf. |
| 2002 | Broadhurst Theatre Revival · James Lapine | 279 perf. |
| 2022 | St. James Theatre Revival · Lear deBessonet | 425 perf. |
Who was in it37 named
Maureen Davis
Jean Kelly
Chuck Wagner
Pamela Winslow
Ellen Foley
Mary Gordon Murray
Dean Butler
Don Goodspeed
Patricia Ben Peterson
Luanne Ponce
Terry Burrell
Dick Cavett
Susan Gordon Clark
Adam Grupper
Marin Mazzie
Cindy Robinson
Heather Shulman
Cynthia Sikes
Greg Zerkle
19 of these 37 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 18 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Creative team
- Director
- James Lapine
- Choreographer
- Lar Lubovitch
- Producer
- Heidi Landesman, Rocco Landesman, Rick Steiner, M. Anthony Fisher, Frederic Mayerson, Jujamcyn Theatres
- Orchestrations
- Jonathan Tunick
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
Tony Awards 3 from 10 nominations
| Best Musical | Nominated |
Recordings 3 held for the work
None of these is attributed to this staging. They are filed against Into the Woods, and nothing in the record says which production any of them documents. Closing that join is the point of this catalogue and it is not closed yet.
Around this production
- Into the Woods, 84, 342, 503 Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 651
- RIGHT: The bewitching and irreplaceable Joanna Gleason made the Baker's Wife in Sondheim's fractured fairy tale, Into the Woods, alternately deeply touching and highly contemporary. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 77
- Into the Woods had a run of 764 performances. Enchanted Evenings the Broadway Musical From Show Boat Block Geoffrey Oxford New, p. 393
- After a popular Forum revival in 1996, the short twenty-first century has already witnessed a Sondheim Broadway revival nearly every year: Follies (2001), Into the Woods (2002), Assassins (2004), Sweeney Todd (2005), Company (2006), and Sunday in the Park with George (2008). Enchanted Evenings the Broadway Musical From Show Boat Block Geoffrey Oxford New, p. 394
- Sondheim has frequently been indicted for writing about cold, neurotic, and frequently unlikable people and for confronting unpalatable subjects ranging from marital infidelity (e.g., Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, Sunday in the Park, Into the Woods), the loss of youthful dreams (Follies, Merrily We Roll Along… Enchanted Evenings the Broadway Musical From Show Boat Block Geoffrey Oxford New, p. 429
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
- Which of the 3 recordings of Into the Woods document this run, if any.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.