'Into the Woods' is a musical with music and lyrics by which composer?
"his desire for the freedom of his carnival-barker lifestyle, and Mother Abby advises her to ""follow her dream"", leading to a lengthy dream ballet and a happy ending. A Little Complex is based upon the musicals of Stephen Sondheim (""Into the Woods"", ""Company"", """", ""A Little Night Music"" and ""Sunday in the Park with George"", et al.). In a New York apartment complex full of neurotics, Jitter is a mad artist/landlord who plots to murder his tenants, including bird-obsessed, indecisive Jeune, deep-thinking composer Billy and pessimistic alcoholic Abby, for throwing his artwork out with the trash. After many overly-complex lyrics"
"the families of the 9/11 victims, which seemed to evoke the same message as the musical's most important song, ""No One Is Alone"". Marshall firmly believed that ""Into the Woods"" was “a fairy tale for the post-9/11 generation"". In January 2012, Marshall approached Walt Disney Pictures—for whom he had just directed """"—and pitched the idea to the studio, with Lapine writing the script and Sondheim ""expected"" to write new songs. Academy Award-winner Dion Beebe, who previously collaborated with Marshall on ""Chicago"", ""Memoirs of a Geisha"", and ""Nine"", served as cinematographer. Sondheim confirmed that a new song had been written for"
"the most notable change was the addition of the song ""No One Is Alone"" in the middle of the run. ""Into The Woods"" opened on Broadway at the Martin Beck Theatre on November 5, 1987, and closed on September 3, 1989 after 765 performances. It starred Bernadette Peters, Joanna Gleason, Chip Zien, Kim Crosby, Ben Wright, Danielle Ferland, Chuck Wagner, Merle Louise, Tom Aldredge, and Robert Westenberg. The musical was directed by James Lapine, with musical staging by Lar Lubovitch, settings by Tony Straiges, lighting by Richard Nelson, costumes by Ann Hould-Ward (based on original concepts by Patricia Zipprodt and"
"Howard Shore Howard Leslie Shore (born October 18, 1946) is a Canadian composer who is notable for his film scores. He has composed the scores for over 80 films, most notably the scores for ""The Lord of the Rings"" and ""The Hobbit"" film trilogies. He won three Academy Awards for his work on the first trilogy, with one being for the original song ""Into the West"", an award he shared with Eurythmics lead vocalist Annie Lennox and writer/producer Fran Walsh, who wrote the lyrics. He is also a consistent collaborator with director David Cronenberg, having scored all but one of"
"centered on a childless couple, who set out to end a curse placed on them by a vengeful witch. Ultimately, the characters are forced to rectify the consequences of their actions. After several unsuccessful attempts by other studios and producers to adapt the musical to film, Disney announced in 2012 that it was producing an adaptation, with Marshall directing and John DeLuca serving as producer. Principal photography commenced in September 2013, and took place entirely in the United Kingdom, including at Shepperton Studios in London. ""Into the Woods"" held its world premiere at the Ziegfeld Theatre in New York City"
"Lin-Manuel Miranda Lin-Manuel Miranda (; born January 16, 1980) is an American composer, lyricist, playwright, rapper, and actor best known for creating and starring in the Broadway musicals ""In the Heights"" and ""Hamilton"". He co-wrote the songs for Walt Disney Animation Studios' ""Moana"" soundtrack (2016) and co-starred in the film ""Mary Poppins Returns"". Miranda's awards include a Pulitzer Prize, three Grammy Awards, an Emmy Award, a MacArthur Fellowship, three Tony Awards and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Miranda was awarded the Kennedy Center Honor in 2018. Miranda wrote the music and lyrics for the musical ""In the"
"""Into the Woods"". Ben Wright (American actor) Ben Wright (born September 3, 1969) is an American actor, best known for originating the role of ""Jack"" in the Tony Award-winning musical ""Into the Woods"". Wright's professional acting career started with George C. Wolfe's Off-Broadway production of ""Paradise"" at Playwrights Horizons. He then went on to originate leading roles on Broadway in Stephen Sondheim's ""Into The Woods"" and the Tony nominated ""State Fair"", for which he received a Drama Desk Nomination. He also created the role of Nanki Poo in Hot Mikado at the Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C. He has worked"
"Into the West (song) ""Into the West"" is a song performed by Annie Lennox, and the end-credit song of the 2003 film """". It is written by Lennox, ""Return of the King"" producer and co-writer, Fran Walsh, and composed and co-written by the film's composer Howard Shore. The song plays in full during the closing credits of ""Return of the King"", although instrumental music from the song (which forms the theme of the Grey Havens) plays at other points during the film itself. The song was later covered by New Zealand singers Yulia Townsend and Will Martin and American singer"
"Chip Zien Jerome Herbert ""Chip"" Zien (born March 20, 1947) is an American actor. He is best known for playing the lead role of the Baker in the original Broadway production of ""Into the Woods"" by Stephen Sondheim. He has appeared in all of the ""Marvin Stories"" musicals by William Finn: ""In Trousers"", ""March of the Falsettos"", ""Falsettoland"" and ""Falsettos"". He played the role of Thénardier in the Broadway production of ""Les Misérables"" and Mark Rothenberg in the film ""United 93"". He is also known for providing the voice of Howard in the film ""Howard the Duck"". Zien was born"
"of Gorge Mastromas Judges’ Awards Outstanding Performance in a Musical | Georgina Wormald for The Baker’s Wife in Into The Woods Musical Direction | Ash Jacobs for Into The Woods Ensemble | The 56 Theatrical Imagination | The Nutcracker Choreography | Beth Hinton-Lever for Parade Judges' Commendations Acting | Euan Kitson for his performance in Lemons, Lemons, Lemons, Lemons, Lemons Acting | Miriam Schechter for her performance In The Nutcracker Playwriting | Sam Steiner for Lemons, Lemons, Lemons, Lemons, Lemons Musicianship | The Band of Into The Woods Directing and Producing | Ellie Gauge and Sophie McQuillan for Congestion Sound"
"things you say, Children Will Listen."" All join in on a last reprise of the title song, surmising that we all must venture into the woods while remembering the choices we've made and learning from each endeavor we come across (""Finale""). As the characters conclude the song singing, ""Into the woods, and out of the woods and happily ever after"", Cinderella closes the show with one last ""I wish..."" ""Into the Woods"" premiered at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, California, on December 4, 1986 and ran for 50 performances under the direction of James Lapine. Many of the"
"an instrumental version of the soundtrack on January 15, 2015. Stephen Sondheim had written a new song for the film, titled ""She'll Be Back,"" written specifically for The Witch. ""It was beautiful and spectacular, but it was very clear, as good as the song was, that [the movie] was stronger without."", director Rob Marshall proclaimed. ""Rainbows,"" a song originally written for a film adaption of ""Into the Woods"" in the 1990s, was reportedly to be included, although Marshall denied such a claim. Paul Gemignani and Jonathan Tunick, who conducted and orchestrated (respectively) the original Broadway stage show, returned to conduct"
"of scoring from the show including many of the suites from the two promotional score CDs as well as some new cues, and scoring by other composers and Carter Burwell's score to the film. Memorable tracks include: The main composer for the majority of the 5th and 6th seasons of ""Buffy"". His work tended to be subtle, and he thrived in ""unassuming mysterious underscore."" Some of his best work appears in ""Shadow"" and ""Into the Woods,"" more specifically, the tragic melodies which are used in musical montages shown along with Buffy's and Dawn's coping with their mother's illness, and Riley's"
"theatre in particular"". Their first collaboration was ""Sunday in the Park with George"" (1984), with Sondheim's music evoking Georges Seurat's pointillism. Sondheim and Lapine won the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the play, and it was revived on Broadway in 2008, and again in a limited run in 2017. They collaborated on ""Into the Woods"" (1987), a musical based on several Brothers Grimm fairy tales. Although Sondheim has been called the first composer to bring rap music to Broadway (with the Witch in the opening number of ""Into the Woods""), he attributes the first rap in theatre to Meredith"
"Don't Go in the Woods (2010 film) Don't Go in the Woods is a 2010 American horror musical written and directed by Vincent D'Onofrio. The film was first shown in 2010 at single locations in the United States. It was released on Video on demand (VOD) on 26 December 2011, and on general theatrical release in January 2012. The film was made in upper New York state by 5 Minutes Productions, and distributed by Tribeca Film. A band, consisting of leader Nick (Matt Sbeglia), Anton (Casey Smith), Johnny (Soomin Lee), Carlo (Jorgen Jorgensen) and the blind Robbie (Nick Thorp) decide"
"critically acclaimed film ""United 93"" as Mark Rothenberg. He played Dr. Marsh in the vampire comedy film ""Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Undead"". He provided the voice of the title character in Marvel Comics' ""Howard the Duck"". Chip Zien Jerome Herbert ""Chip"" Zien (born March 20, 1947) is an American actor. He is best known for playing the lead role of the Baker in the original Broadway production of ""Into the Woods"" by Stephen Sondheim. He has appeared in all of the ""Marvin Stories"" musicals by William Finn: ""In Trousers"", ""March of the Falsettos"", ""Falsettoland"" and ""Falsettos"". He played the role"
"names of other Sondheim songs or lyrics from his songs, for example ""Witch's Lament"", ""Children Will Listen"", ""Give Me the Blame"", ""Nice is Different than Good"" and ""Mother Said"". Into the Woods (Desperate Housewives) ""Into the Woods"" is the twenty-first episode of the third season of the ABC television series, ""Desperate Housewives"". It was also the show's 68th episode. The episode was written by Alexandra Cunningham and directed by David Grossman. It aired on May 6, 2007. Teri Hatcher submitted this episode for consideration on her behalf in the category of “Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series” at the"
"Kim Crosby (singer) Kim Crosby (born July 11, 1960) is an American singer and musical theatre actress. She was the original Cinderella in the Sondheim-Lapine musical ""Into the Woods"". Crosby was born in Fort Smith, Arkansas and grew up in Springfield, Missouri. She attended Southern Methodist University and the Manhattan School of Music, and she is a former America's Junior Miss. Crosby appeared in the Broadway production of ""Jerry's Girls"" in 1985-86. She then created the role of Cinderella in ""Into the Woods"" in 1987, playing the role in the tryout at The Old Globe Theatre in San Diego and"
"Paul Hepker Paul Hepker (b. Harare, Zimbabwe; 17 December 1967) - South African composer, musical director, pianist, best known for composing the score (with Mark Kilian) for the film Tsotsi, which won the Academy Award for Foreign Language Film at the 78th Academy Awards in 2005. Hepker and Kilian also wrote the score for Rendition, the Gavin Hood film starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Reese Witherspoon and Meryl Streep amongst others. Hepker and Kilian also co-composed the score for ""The Bird Can't Fly"" by Dutch director Threes Anna. Hepker wrote the music for the AIDs documentary ""Into the Light"" which featured the"
"they decided to work on a musical together, which became ""Sunday in the Park With George"", with Lapine writing the book and directing with Sondheim's music and lyrics. It was first produced Off-Broadway in 1983 and then transferred to Broadway in 1984. The pair's next musical was ""Into the Woods"", which premiered on Broadway in 1987. Lapine won both the Tony Award and the Drama Desk Award for Best Book of a Musical. They then collaborated on the musical ""Passion"", for which Lapine wrote the book and directed. The musical ran on Broadway in 1994 and in the West End"
"James Lapine James Elliot Lapine (born January 10, 1949) is an American stage director, playwright, screenwriter, and librettist. He has won the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical three times, for ""Into the Woods"", ""Falsettos"", and ""Passion"". He has frequently collaborated with Stephen Sondheim and William Finn. Lapine was born in Mansfield, Ohio, the son of Lillian (Feld) and David Sanford Lapine. He graduated from Franklin and Marshall College in 1971. Lapine did graduate study in both photography and graphic design at the California Institute of the Arts, where he received an MFA in 1973. He was a"
"at the ceremony; coincidentally, Lennox's performance was one of several introduced by Liv Tyler, who appeared as Arwen in the film. Into the West (song) ""Into the West"" is a song performed by Annie Lennox, and the end-credit song of the 2003 film """". It is written by Lennox, ""Return of the King"" producer and co-writer, Fran Walsh, and composed and co-written by the film's composer Howard Shore. The song plays in full during the closing credits of ""Return of the King"", although instrumental music from the song (which forms the theme of the Grey Havens) plays at other points"
"Ben Wright (American actor) Ben Wright (born September 3, 1969) is an American actor, best known for originating the role of ""Jack"" in the Tony Award-winning musical ""Into the Woods"". Wright's professional acting career started with George C. Wolfe's Off-Broadway production of ""Paradise"" at Playwrights Horizons. He then went on to originate leading roles on Broadway in Stephen Sondheim's ""Into The Woods"" and the Tony nominated ""State Fair"", for which he received a Drama Desk Nomination. He also created the role of Nanki Poo in Hot Mikado at the Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C. He has worked extensively with some"
"We'll to the Woods No More (John Ireland) We'll to the Woods No More is a song cycle for voice and piano composed in 1928 by John Ireland. It consists of settings of two poems by A. E. Housman (18591936) and a concluding piece for solo piano named after a third. A performance takes about 8 minutes. The poems are: John France has written, ""The mood of this cycle is typically a deep sense of the fragility of life, love and friendship that so influenced both men."" Rob Barnett has written of the piano piece ""Spring Will Not Wait"" that,"
"Cabin in the Sky (musical) Cabin in the Sky is a musical with music by Vernon Duke, book by Lynn Root, and lyrics by John Latouche. The musical opened on Broadway in 1940. The show is described as a ""parable of Southern Negro Life with echoes of Ferenc Molnár's ""Liliom"" (which would be turned into the musical ""Carousel"") and Marc Connelly's ""The Green Pastures""."" Lynn Root wrote the libretto and brought it to George Balanchine, ""who was anxious to do it as his first assignment as director of an entire Broadway production."" Balanchine took the script to Vernon Duke to"
"that when singing songs from ""Phantom"", ""Crosby stole the show with 'Think of Me'"". Crosby and Robert Westenberg married on June 19, 1991. They live in Springfield, Missouri with their three children. Kim Crosby (singer) Kim Crosby (born July 11, 1960) is an American singer and musical theatre actress. She was the original Cinderella in the Sondheim-Lapine musical ""Into the Woods"". Crosby was born in Fort Smith, Arkansas and grew up in Springfield, Missouri. She attended Southern Methodist University and the Manhattan School of Music, and she is a former America's Junior Miss. Crosby appeared in the Broadway production of"
"In the Heights In the Heights is a musical with music and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda and book by Quiara Alegría Hudes. The story is set over the course of three days, involving characters in the largely Hispanic-American neighborhood of Washington Heights in New York City. After a 2005 tryout in Waterford, Connecticut and a 2007 Off-Broadway run, the show opened on Broadway in March 2008. It was nominated for thirteen Tony Awards and won four, including the 2008 Best Musical, Best Original Score, and Best Choreography awards. A film adaptation of the musical is set for release in Summer"
"Into the Light (musical) Into the Light is a short-lived musical about a physicist who attempts to determine the truth behind the Shroud of Turin. His quest for the truth eventually takes a toll on his relationships with his wife and son. James Prescott, a physicist from Los Alamos, is attempting to prove (or disprove) the truth of the Shroud of Turin. James' obsession with this task strains his relationship with his wife (Kate) and his young son (Matthew). Matthew, to compensate for the lack of his father, instead begins to trust a friend only he can see. Act 1"
"Into the Blue (Kylie Minogue song) ""Into the Blue"" is a song by Australian recording artist Kylie Minogue. It was written by Kelly Sheehan, Jacob Kasher, and Mike Del Rio and produced by the latter for Minogue's twelfth studio album, ""Kiss Me Once"" (2014). The song was recorded in London, England on Minogue's 45th birthday in May 2013 and premiered as the album's first single on BBC Radio 2's Ken Bruce show on 27 January 2014. Musically, ""Into the Blue"" features instrumentation of synthesizers, keyboards and strings. The lyrical content talks about being independent, free and happy. Upon its release,"
"The Wind in the Willows (musical) The Wind in the Willows is a musical written by Julian Fellowes, with music and lyrics by George Stiles and Anthony Drewe, based on the novel of the same name, written by Kenneth Grahame. The musical received its world premiere at the Theatre Royal in Plymouth in October 2016, before transferring to The Lowry in Salford and the Mayflower Theatre in Southampton. The following year the production transferred to the West End's London Palladium, where it was filmed for cinema broadcast. In December 2011, it was revealed that a musical adaption of the 1908"
"Into the Music Into the Music is the 11th studio album by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison, and was released in August 1979. The record received widespread acclaim that year, and was named by critics as one of the year's best albums. ""Into the Music"" was recorded in early 1979 at the Record Plant in Sausalito, California, with Mick Glossop as engineer. During the recording of the album, one of the musicians, trumpet player Mark Isham, referred Morrison to Pee Wee Ellis who lived nearby. Morrison brought him in to do the horn charts for ""Troubadours"", but Ellis remained and"
"Charles Mott, was killed on 22 May 1918 in the World War I action in France. Three other poems by Parker: ""Oh, soft was the song"", ""Twilight"" and ""Was it some Golden Star?"" had earlier been set to music by Elgar, as part of his Op. 59 song-cycle in 1910. Inside the Bar ”Inside the Bar"" is a song written in 1917 by the English composer Edward Elgar, with words by Sir Gilbert Parker. It was published by Enoch & Sons in 1917. In its original version it is a part-song for four baritones with a piano part marked ""accompaniment"
"Joseph Dubin Joseph Simon Dubin (June 2, 1900 – January 16, 1961) was an American composer and orchestrator, scoring and orchestrating more than 200 motion pictures during his career. His brother, Al Dubin (1891 Zürich-February 11, 1945 New York City) was an American songwriter, lyricist, soldier and actor. Joseph Dubin is best known for composing the soundtrack for the 1930 MGM film ""The Big House"", as well as the Walt Disney films ""Cinderella"", ""Alice in Wonderland"", ""20,000 Leagues Under the Sea"", ""The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad"", ""So Dear to My Heart"", and ""The Fox and the Hound"". Dubin"