Lost Nation Theater Presents, Stephen Sondheim's "Into The Woods"
Channel: ORCA Media
Date: 2017-06-02

Lost Nation Theater Presents, Stephen Sondheim's "Into The Woods"

Showing Thurs-Sun June 1-18, 2017

Tickets: (802) 229-0492
www.lostnationtheater.org



Show Duration: Jun 01 - Jun 18
Show Pricing: $10 - $35

Show Overview
Tony-Award Winning Musical from a Giant of Musical Theater the world over: Stephen Sondheim. Epic fairytale adventure about wishes, family, and the choices we make. All your favorite stories collide - and are never quite the same again! Cinderella, Jack & the Beanstalk, Rapunzel, Little Red Riding Hood are just a few of the tales that get the Sondheim Treatment! Into the Woods is one of his most produced works.  A timeless and rare modern musical classic bringing together everyone’s favorite storybook characters for laughter, poignancy, & enchantment.

"Total enchantment. A spell-bounding score, witty enough to make old stories fresh for adults, lovely enough to enchant youngsters." - Daily News

 

Production Team
Directed by Tim Tavcar (in his 20th Season with LNT)

Musical Director: LIsa Jablow 
Choreographer: Taryn Noelle 
Scenic & Lighting Designer: Mark Evancho 
Costume Designer: Emily Reynolds
Sound Designer: Will Davis

prod stage manager: Laura Gist   asm: Brooke Mayberry 
crew: Victoria Jablonski   Technical Director: Janine Woods Thoma   Master Electrician: Thomas Gunn

starring: G Richard Ames, Aaron Aubrey, Allison Devery, Samantha Gunn Kira Johnson, Kathleen Keenan, Veronica Lopez, John Marshall Marissa Mattogno, Brooke Mayberry, Jacob Minter, Juna Nagle, William Pelton Jessica Della Pepa, Karli Robertson, Miranda Scott Cameron Steinmetz, Carolyn Wesley, Nick Wheeler, Maggie York

Scoop Info
Read the Times Argus Preview by Jim Lowe     Enjoy This Blog Post - with More Photos!

Tim Tavcar is LNT"s "go to guy" when it comes to Stephen Sondheim. Previously, he directed LNT's Side by Side by Sondheim (back in 1997) - his first directing assignment with LNT (and two of the actors from that production are also in Into The Woods- Kathleen Keenan and Bill Pelton!). 
He's also directed A Little Night Music and Sweeney Todd at LNT. 

Here's his take on the show:

“Be careful what you wish for – is the cautionary admonition to the audiences entering the words of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s musical masterpiece, “Into the Woods.”  More than the plot, what is exciting and eccentric about this particular piece of musical theater is its tone. 

Lapine’ book careens between farce and tragedy, reveling in the absurdities of the original Grimm and Perrault fairy-tales and then guiding the characters through calamity and heartache.  Sondheim’s score is a puzzle master’s trove of overlapping motifs, internal rhymes, and wordplay. 

In short the show is a challenge and a delight for the entire creative team: director, actors, designers, and crew, to take our audiences on this weird and wonderful journey through the woods, as good a metaphor as any for the necessity to come together and survive the problems presented by a big and brutal world"

 

Buzz Info
“With a score that includes some of Sondheim’s best tunes and most clever lyrics, musical theatre doesn’t get much better than this. So go.  It’s a journey well-worth taking.”
- DC Metro News

“Non-Stop Pure Pleasure! A ravishing explosion of color and melody and magic and laughter."  - Time Magazine

"Bewitching... dazzling... triumphant." – New York Post