Sondheim In The Park: <em>Into The Woods</em> Hits Central Park This July

The original cast of Into The Woods will probably not be in the Shakespeare in the Park version.

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Published Jan 26, 2012

Modified Jan 26, 2012

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Wishes (and rumors) come true! As part of the 50th anniversary season of Shakespeare in the Park, the Public today announced that it is bringing Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's fairy tale classic Into The Woods to Central Park! Even better, they are bringing directors Timothy Sheader and Liam Steel, who directed the award-winning open-air performance of the musical in London in 2010, back to helm! (Oh, and the first show of the summer will be As You Like It directed by Daniel Sullivan with Lily Rabe as Rosalind.) Tickets, as usual, will be free.

But back to the Woods! This will be the second major New York revival of the show since it opened in 1987 (Lapine directed a 2002 revival with Vanessa Williams) and comes hot on the heels of the news that Rob Marshall is working on a film version. No cast has been announced yet, so there's lots of time for you to mull in the comments who you'd like to see play the Baker, his Wife, Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Jack and of course the Witch. Ugh, the wait until late July is going to be agony...

But between this news, the success of Once Upon a Time and Grimm on TV (and the recent news of two Beauty and the Beast in development for next season) and the two upcoming Snow White movies, fairy tales are really hot right now, eh?