It's okay, it happens. Watch any interesting movies/tv shows lately?
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Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2015 11:29 pm
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I saw Into the Woods a week or so ago. It was really good.
Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2015 11:30 pm
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I saw Into the Woods a week or so ago. It was really good.
I'm glad to hear that! I'm excited to see it.
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Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2015 11:51 pm
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I'm surprised by how much they fit in and how well they did it.
Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2015 11:56 pm
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I'm surprised by how much they fit in and how well they did it.
Well, I wouldn't think they'd need to cut anything? Since Broadway Musicals are about as long as a movie?
Usually I think they add songs to movie versions to make up for intermission time.
Or drug-induced ballet sequences in the case of Oklahoma...
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Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2015 12:05 am
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Into the Woods is a longer than normal musical, if I remember correctly. They have a "Junior" version that ends... Maybe a little halfway through? It's a spot that makes sense for an ending, I just can't remember how far in it is.
Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2015 12:28 am
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I always thought the early ending was so that they could trick the kids into believing it had a typical "happily ever after".
On the subject of trying to make Sondheim musicals child-friendly, I once went with a classmate to an amateur production of Sweeney Todd. They planned to include the, ah... controversial Johanna (Mea Culpa), but they took one look at my classmate's twelve year-old brother and immediately abandoned that idea. Because murder and cannibalism are fine, but dirty old men are a no-no!
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Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2015 12:43 am
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Probably another reason, though it still isn't very child friendly. The step sisters still get parts of their feet chopped off and other such things.
Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2015 1:12 am
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It's been a really long time since I last saw Into the Woods, but I vaguely remember Act 1 ending on a not-too-grim point. Herm.
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Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2015 1:35 am
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It ended all storybook, but a guy got flung into and blinded by thorns, the cow died, the step sisters got bits of their feet cut off... It's kinda violent.
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