Into The Woods Movie Vs Book

James Lapine the writer of Into the Woods has amazing adaptation of many fairytales. From Lapine’s book along came Stephen Sondheim who transferred the book to a musical. In 1987 Theatre Communications Group published James Lapine’s book. James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim take ordinary everyday fairytale classics and bring then together into a modern take on fairytales. Into the Woods premièred as a musical at the Old Globe Theatre in 1986
The Tony Award-winning book and score are both delightful and touching. The 1987 version of Into the Woods teaches children and adults to be careful of what you wish for. A witch who raps? Little Red Riding Hood who is out for blood? And Cinderella who is hesitant on what she wants? The prologue gives
During the first act the witch next door told the Baker and his wife that as a young boy she put a curse on the house, so the first born child and his wife will not be able to bare children. The witch tells the wife and baker that to “reverse” the curse after pondering on the idea of having children he decides that if they want a child that he will go into the woods to end the curse. Through his journey the Baker has to find Jack and the Bean stocks cow as white as milk, Little Red Riding Hoods cape as red as blood, Rapunzel’s hair that is as yellow as corn and finally Cinderella’s slipper of gold. The wife and the Baker have to finish the series of task in the span of three midnights. The Baker encounters various obstacles during the 3 midnights. Milky White dies in which he decides to pretend another cow is as white as milk by covering it in flour. As the Baker and his wife find all the ingredients for the witch they learn it was only to help the witch reverse her curse of ugliness. But then you notice that everyone is living happily ever after. The bakers wife appears very pregnant, Cinderella gets her prince, the witch gets her beauty, Jack and his mom become rich, and Rapunzel finally gets out of the tall tower and marries the