Fairy tale characters meet dire fates in this Stephen Sondheim musical; how "Grimm"!
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Sondheim, Stephen - Dictionary definition of Sondheim, Stephen ...  Definition of Sondheim, Stephen  Our online dictionary has Sondheim, Stephen ... Gypsy, 1973, for A Little Night Music, 1987, for Follies, and 1989, for Into the Woods; ..... The meeting was concise: Sondheim played; Bernstein "freaked out," as he ..... On their quest they cross paths with well-known fairy tale characters like...
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Stage Raw: The Gospel According to Thomas Jefferson, Charles ...  Dec 2, 2010 ... perfect foils for a cast of crazy characters, including comic Benny ..... friends and their dates/spouses gather at a cabin (Mike Jespersen's ... INTO THE WOODS Stephen Sondheim's magical musical intertwines the plots of several Brothers Grimm fairy tales and explores the consequences of the various...
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Beef and Boards Dinner Theatre  Into the Woods is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine. The musical intertwines the plots of several Brothers Grimm and Charles Perrault fairy tales, exploring the consequences of the characters' wishes and quests. The main characters ... 13 and above). Calendar. Meet The Cast.
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Into the Woods - Wikipedia  Into the Woods is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine. The musical intertwines the plots of several Brothers Grimm and Charles Perrault fairy tales, exploring the consequences of the characters' wishes and quests. .... Cinderella's Prince and Rapunzel's Prince, who are brothers, meet and...
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Theater Review | Town Topics | Page 4  In Ms. Zimmerman's adaptation, and in most more recent versions of the tale, the White ... Madame White and Greenie meet a young man, Xu Xian (Jon Norman .... The dialogue is spot-on credible, and the characters are richly sympathetic, ..... spin on Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's dark fairy tale musical Into the...
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Offenbach: 'The Tales of Hoffman' : NPR  Aug 14, 2009 ... Three fanciful tales unfold in a single, compelling opera  a ... In the first of Hoffman's three tales, he falls for Olympia, a mechanical doll that .... by his muse, who wants to cure the poet of his unhappy love for Stella, a beautiful singer. ... But he's worried about one guest in particular, a gadget-maker named...
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Opera 2 Flashcards | Quizlet  In an opera based on a fairy tale, this title girl gives the prince one of a pair of ..... "Esmeralda", an 1840s opera, is based on a work by this "Miserable" author.
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Opera 2 Flashcards | Quizlet  Hansel and Gretel. This Humperdinck opera developed from verses written by his sister which were based on a Grimm fairy tale.
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View Resource in Full Window - OPERA America  Ludwig Bechstein's German Fairy Tale Book (Deutsches. Mrchenbuch) outstrips the Grimm collection in popularity. .... asks after the children, Gertrud tells him that she has sent them into the woods; they ... The witch tries to trick Gretel into the oven by asking her to lean in and check on ... Indeed, Humperdinck claimed.
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum - Wikipedia  A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart. ... The title derives from a line often used by vaudeville comedians to begin a story: "A funny thing happened on the way to the theater".
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Marlies' Artbeat: 'The Tales of Hoffmann'--Opera in Triplicate in Alive ...  Feb 4, 2015 ... Marlies' Artbeat: "The Tales of Hoffmann"--Opera in Triplicate in Alive-At-The-Met-In-HD ... who is urged on to kill herself, via singing, by the wicked Dr. Miracle. ... Guilietta, who tricks him into a duel, killing her current lover Schlemil. ... was Antonia, Hoffmann's tragic love who literally sings herself to death.
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Theater: Sondheim's 'Assassins': Insane Realities of History  Jan 27, 1991 ... It is about nine of them -- nine assassins or would-be assassins, nine bizarre, ... are Charles Guiteau, who killed James Garfield; Leon Czolgosz, who ... Mr. Sondheim's breakthrough musical, "Company," dealt with the tangle...
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Stephen Sondheim - Time Out  Apr 25, 2010 ... 1/5. EVEN STEPHEN Mackey, Williams, Kritzer and Cook, from left, offer pleasant ... Some of the show, conceived and directed by James Lapine for ... and most underrated Sondheim songs, nails the physical striptease but...
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Stephen Sondheim - Wikipedia  Stephen Joshua Sondheim (born March 22, 1930) is an American composer and lyricist known .... Sondheim met Hal Prince, who would direct many of his shows, at the .... Sondheim met Bernstein the following day, played for him and Bernstein ... In 1957, West Side Story opened; directed by Jerome Robbins, it ran for 732...
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Nick Trengove  San Francisco Theater Pub  Nick: Hansel and Gretel, for sure. ... production seems to be a case of The Less Said the Better so they are hardly canon. .... But the thing is, and I know that I may totally be wrong, but I have the feeling that ... and we then soon learn his father is possibly dead from a baking accident, but then probably ran away from life.
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WhAt to expect from les contes d'hoffmann - Metropolitan Opera  d'Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann) is based. ... This guide offers a peek into the anything can happen world of .... Hoffmann arrives and Antonia joins him in singing until she nearly faints ... charlatan Dr. Miracle, who had treated Crespel's wife the day she died. ...... every author's stories really about him or herself?
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Do you think they should revive Camelot soon? (BroadwayWorld.com ...  It is one of my favorites as well as the Music Man and Guys and Dolls. ... Broadway Legend ... Today, one rarely sees the Enchanted Forest sequence with Morgan Le Fey. .... it was to emphasize Arthur's decision to stay in the forest rather than trap him there. ... Didn't get a chance to see her in this show (CAMELOT) though.
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Side by Side by Sondheim - Wikipedia  Side by Side by Sondheim is a musical revue featuring the songs of the Broadway and film composer Stephen Sondheim. Its title is derived from the song "Side by Side by Side" from Company. ... The medley from Company follows, and Act 1 closes with Follies, with the Narrator pointing out the different musical styles...
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Caught in a Bad Romance: Classical Music for Doomed Lovers ...  Feb 13, 2013 ... 2) A girl coughing in an opera means she's doomed. This does ... music, especially in the overture and the final song Liebestod (Love-death).
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Pioneer Drama Service -- Christmas Musicals For Schools ...  Our selection of Christmas musicals, many adapted from classic literature, are ... you a cost-effective way to preview several different shows before purchasing. ... A Fairy Tale Christmas Carol  The Musical ... Based on the story by Margery Williams ... a family and all of the happiness for which he has been secretly longing.
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A Proms Fairy Tale: Humperdinck's 'Hansel and Gretel' : NPR  Sep 24, 2010 ... Two or three of the opera's most famous tunes can be found in one number. ... a few songs from the Grimm brothers' Hansel and Gretel to music, he probably had ... that has surely played a big role in making it an all-time favorite. ... As the sun rises, and the mist clears, we see a house made of gingerbread.