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Into the Woods, 2002

Shows · Into the Woods · Broadhurst Theatre, 2002

We hold no picture of this staging. This one is filed against Into the Woods and could document any of its runs. None
Revival BroadwayBroadhurst Theatre 279 performances

The run closed December 29, 2002

Opened
April 30, 2002
Closed
December 29, 2002
Performances
279
Previews
Theatre
Broadhurst Theatre

Of the 395 productions we hold that opened in the 2000s and record a performance count, this is the 78th 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

1987 Martin Beck Theatre Original · James Lapine 765 perf.
1997 Broadway Theatre Revival 2 perf.
2022 St. James Theatre Revival · Lear deBessonet 425 perf.

Who was in it22 named

Molly Ephraim
Adam Wylie
Melissa Dye
Trent Armand Kendall
Amanda Naughton
Danielle Huben
Nora Mae Lyng

15 of these 22 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 7 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
John Carrafa, John

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.

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 is a 1986 musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine. The musical intertwines the plots of several Brothers Grimm fairy tales, exploring the consequences of the characters' wishes and quests. The main characters are taken from "Little Red Riding Hood" (spelled "Ridinghood" in the published vocal score), "Jack and the Beanstalk", "Rapunzel", "Cinderella", and several others. The musical is tied together by a story involving a childless baker and his wife and their quest to begin a family (the original beginning of the Grimm Brothers' "Rapunzel"), their interaction with a witch who has placed a curse on them and encounters with other storybook cha…

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.

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