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I concur with James Watts review of Into the Woods in today's paper. It's a good show and a great production. The singing is good, and the whole things has more depth than you would imagine in a musical about fairy tales. Go see it.
Here's the review.
But I wonder why Jim didn't say anything about the production's closest thing to a show-stopping moment – the appearance of Granny during the climatic moment in the telling of the Little Red Riding Hood tale.
Without blood or gore, the director figured out how to have the Big Bad Wolf eviscerated on stage so as to allow the swallowed Red and her grandma to be rescued.
Granny we learn in a hilarious instant is played by a man (Peyton Crim). He emerges from the wolf's bowels with about two day's growth of beard, a lit cigarette and a glass of bourbon.
He's wearing an enormous muumuu and the costumers have provided his with an enormous, sagging bosom.
It's right out of everyone's nightmare vision of their Aunt Eve on the couch covered in crumbs and watching The Price is Right.
The laughter practically shut the show down.
He didn't have a song, but they managed to work him into every chorus, and every time he walked on the stage it was almost as funny as the first time.
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