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Into The Woods
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Chroniques et points de vue: Essential Video:Fractured fairy tales of a darker hue provide the remarkable context for lnto the Woods, which deconstructs the Brothers Grimm by way of Rod Serling. While the faces and names are familiar, Cinderella, Rapunzel, Little Red Riding Hood, and company inhabit a sylvan neighborhood in which witches and bakers are next-door neighbors, handsome princes from once-parallel fables are competitive (and equally vain) brothers, and all the stories intersect through unexpected new plot twists. Stephen Sondheim's Tony-winning score favors intricate ensemble numbers that present the characters' divergent, ...
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Sunday In the Park With George
»rank: 10647
Chroniques et points de vue: Essential Video:Stephen Sondheim's landmark 1984 musical Sunday in the Park with George is a fictional representation of maverick French lmpressionist painter Georges Seurat's efforts to create his masterpiece, Sunday Afternoon on the lsle of La Grande Jatte. Seurat, played by Mandy Patinkin, is obsessed with his work, to the frustration of his mistress, Dot (Bernadette Peters). Along the way, we meet many other characters--whoever happens to be in the park that Sunday--who eventually become part of the canvas. Act 2 fast-forwards 100 years. Patinkin now plays Seurat's ...
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