- Audio CD (28 May 2007)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Format: Extra tracks, Original recording remastered
- Label: Sony Music
- ASIN: B0009A40MA
- Other Editions: Audio CD | Audio Cassette | MP3 Download
- Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 66,014 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Track Listings
| 1. "I Guess This Is Goodbye (From ""Into The Woods"")" | |||
| 2. "Maybe They're Magic (From ""Into The Woods"")" | |||
| 3. "A Very Nice Prince (From ""Into The Woods"")" | |||
| 4. "First Midnight (From ""Into The Woods"")" | |||
| 5. "Giants in the Sky (From ""Into The Woods"")" | |||
| 6. "Any Moment (From ""Into The Woods"")" | |||
| 7. "Moments in the Woods (From ""Into The Woods"")" | |||
| 8. "Your Fault (From ""Into The Woods"")" | |||
| 9. "Last Midnight (From ""Into The Woods"")" | |||
| 10. "Into the Woods (Prologue) (From ""Into The Woods"")" | |||
| 11. "Cinderella at the Grave (From ""Into The Woods"")" | |||
| 12. "Hello, Little Girl (From ""Into The Woods"")" | |||
| 13. "I Guess This Is Goodbye / Maybe They're Magic (From ""Into The Woods"")" | |||
| 14. "I Know Things Now (From ""Into The Woods"")" | |||
| 15. "A Very Nice Prince / First Midnight / Giants in the Sky (From ""Into The Woods"")" | |||
| 16. "Agony (From ""Into The Woods"")" | |||
| 17. "It Takes Two (From ""Into The Woods"")" | |||
| 18. "Stay With Me (From ""Into The Woods"")" | |||
| 19. "On the Steps of the Palace (From ""Into The Woods"")" | |||
| 20. "Ever After (From ""Into The Woods"")" | |||
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Product Description
Amazon.co.uk Review
As conceived by Stephen Sondheim and cocreator James Lapine (following their Pulitzer Prize-winning Sunday in the Park with George), Into the Woods tells the intricate tale of multiple fairy-tale characters crossing paths in the woods, not merely resolving the characters' dilemmas but also exploring what happens after happily ever after. Sondheim's chamber-scale music, recipient of the 1987 Tony for Best Score, is one of his most beautiful and accessible, and is at its most poignant in "No More", "No One Is Alone" and "Children Will Listen". The original Broadway cast is outstanding top to bottom, most notably Bernadette Peters as a rapping witch and Joanna Gleason, who won a Tony for Best Actress. The CD booklet includes production photos and--so important for a Sondheim show--full lyrics. Fortunately, this cast was also captured on video and DVD. --David Horiuchi
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As conceived by Stephen Sondheim and cocreator James Lapine (following their Pulitzer Prize-winning Sunday in the Park with George), Into the Woods tells the intricate tale of multiple fairy-tale characters crossing paths in the woods, not merely resolving the characters' dilemmas but also exploring what happens after happily ever after. Sondheim's chamber-scale music, recipient of the 1987 Tony for Best Score, is one of his most beautiful and accessible, and is at its most poignant in "No More," "No One Is Alone," and "Children Will Listen." The original Broadway cast is outstanding top to bottom, most notably Bernadette Peters as a rapping witch and Joanna Gleason, who won a Tony for Best Actress. The CD booklet includes production photos and--so important for a Sondheim show--full lyrics. Fortunately, this cast was also captured on video and DVD. --David Horiuchi
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Sondheim 1987 classic is one of his most intricate and yet accessable musicals, if only because we are familiar with most of the characters from our childhood fairy tales.
What seems like a fairly straightforward story in Act 1, the weaving of a number of classic fairy tales through a story of a childless baker and his wife, becomes in Act 2 a much darker and ultimately poignant play with some salutory lesson on how sometimes wishing for things doesn't always bring happiness.
While the soundtrack does not give the full story it does contain some of Sondheim must lyrical songs and some of his cleverest lyrics (listen to both version of Agony a few times!).
Personal favourites among the songs are 'No More' and 'No One Is Alone' (probably because I got to sing both of them in an amateur production as The Baker), but most of the music is wonderful and easy to listen to.
A number of reviewers have been annoyed by the American accents on the soundtrack. Personally I don't have any such problems with this and I don't think it takes from what is a superb soundtrack.
16 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Just a quick comment to the reviewers who object to the American accents on this recording. Sondheim is American, and 'Broadway' is American. This is a Broadway cast recording of a Sondheim musical. How strage to object to something about this recording which is inherant to it's source! Can you imagine ojecting to the British accents in an RSC production of Hamlet? How bizarre! This is a brilliant recording of a brilliant show. If you prefer Andrew Lloyd-Weber, then you deserve him.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I took my daughter to see Into the Woods in Regents Park -- we were bowled over by the wit and the depth of Sondheim's lyrics and music. We rushed to buy this sound track. I chose it because it was a Broadway cast. The plot seems at first to be based on well-loved fairy tales brought to life and magically interwoven. But the second half comes along to overturn that magic: a giantess is let loose in the woods and destroys everything in her path, including several of the characters we have come to love from the first part. Sondheim shows us delight, then he snatches it away, and exposes us to death and despair. There is redemption at the end, but it is a chastened, diminished, sadly realistic hope.
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