Once upon a time, 32 years ago on November 5, 1987, 's elaborate interweaving of fairy tales, , opened at the Martin Beck Theatre on Broadway. The famous score includes 鈥淣o One Is Alone,鈥� 鈥淐hildren Will Listen,鈥� and the show's title song.
With a book and direction by , the cast included Bernadette Peters, (who won a Tony Award for her role), Chip Zien, Kim Crosby, Danielle Ferland, Robert Westenberg, and more.
Since Into the Woods opened on Broadway in 1987 (with a Tony-winning run of 765 performances), the performances of the original cast have been preserved on film; the musical has received three New York revivals, including one on Broadway; and the show has been turned into an Academy Award-nominated feature film. Now a mainstay of regional theatres, summer stock companies, community theatres, and high schools, look back at 33 years of Into the Woods in the gallery below!
Stephen Sondheim, Bernadette Peters and James Lapine in rehearsal for the original Broadway production
Chip Zien, Joanna Gleason, and Bernadette Peters
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Tom Aldredge
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Cast
Robert Westenberg in the original Broadway production
Danielle Ferdland, Ben Wright, Kim Crosby, Chip Zien, and Bernadette Peters in the original Broadway production of Into the Woods.
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Robert Westenberg and Kim Crosby
Kim Crosby
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Danielle Ferland and Robert Westenberg
Ben Wright and Barbara Bryne
Chip Zien and Joanna Gleason
Joanna Gleason, Bernadette Peters and Chip Zien in the original Broadway production
Tom Aldredge
Chuck Wagner and Robert Westenberg
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Bernadette Peters in the original Broadway production of Into the Woods
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Joy Franz, Edmund Lyndeck, Lauren Mitchell, and Kay McClelland
Robert Westenberg and Kim Crosby
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Ben Wright and Danielle Ferland
Kay McClelland
Pamela Winslow
Robert Westenberg
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Joanna Gleason
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Chip Zien
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Danielle Ferland in the original Broadway production
Bernadette Peters, Tom Aldredge, Robert Westenberg, Joanna Gleason and Chip Zien in the original Broadway production
Barbara Bryne
The original Broadway production
Robert Westenberg and Joanna Gleason
Nancy Dussault in the original Broadway production
Phylicia Rashad in the original Broadway production
Cynthia Sikes, Nancy Dussault and Chip Zien in the original Broadway production
Betsy Joslyn, Chip Zien and Mary Gordon Murray in the original Broadway production
Chip Zien, Betsy Joslyn and Mary Gordon Murray in the original Broadway production
Cynthia Sikes and Chip Zien in the original Broadway production
Joy Franz, Kim Crosby, Lauren Mitchell, Kay McClelland, and Philip Hoffman
Cynthia Sikes and Robert Westenberg in the original Broadway production
Brian d'Arcy James, Daniel Frank Kelley, Tracy Katz Paladini and Patricia Ben Peterson in a 2000 production at the Ordway in Minnesota
Laura Benanti in the 2002 Broadway revival
Kerry O'Malley, Stephen DeRosa and Vanessa Williams in the 2002 Broadway revival
The cast of the 2002 Broadway revival
Gregg Edelman and Christopher Sieber in the 2002 Broadway revival
Gregg Edelman and Christopher Sieber in the 2002 Broadway revival
Vanessa Williams in the 2002 Broadway revival
Melissa Dye and Vanessa Williams in the 2002 Broadway revival
John McMartin in the 2002 Broadway revival
Derrick Cobey and Erin Childs in a 2008 production at the Great Lakes Theater Festival
The cast of the Great Lakes Theater Festival production, 2008
Yvette Cason
Jeffry Denman and Vicki Lewis
Kim Huber
Jeffry Denman, Vicki Lewis and Yvette Cason
Gordon Goodman and Jason Forbach
Euan Morton and Zachary Hoar
Michele Ragusa and Lauren Braton
Dana Steingold and Claybourne Elder
Brynn O鈥橫alley, Zachary Prince and Michele Ragusa
Katie Karel, Lauren Worsham and Katie Kalahurka
Euan Morton
Claybourne Elder and Brynn O鈥橫alley
The cast of Into the Woods
Beth Leavel
Sara Jean Ford
Jen Cody and Kevin Earley
Brynn O鈥橫alley
Hunter Foster, Brynn O鈥橫alley and Beth Leavel
Stanley Bahorek
Hunter Foster and Brynn O鈥橫alley
The cast of Into the Woods
Douglas Jabara, Rachel York and Shannon Lee Jones
Rachel York
Greg Stone
The cast of Into the Woods
Hannah Waddingham
Helen Dallimore and Jenna Russell
Jenna Russell and Mark Hadfield
Hannah Waddingham
Michael Xavier and Beverly Rudd
Jeffry Denman in the 2012 Baltimore Center Stage-Westport Country Playhouse co-production
Jenny Latimer and Danielle Ferland in the 2012 Baltimore Center Stage-Westport Country Playhouse co-production
Lauren Kennedy and Britney Coleman in the 2012 Baltimore Center Stage-Westport Country Playhouse co-production
Alma Cuervo, Eleni Deopoulos and Nikka Graff Lanzarone in the 2012 Baltimore Center Stage-Westport Country Playhouse co-production
Justin Scott Brown and Dana Steingold in the 2012 Baltimore Center Stage-Westport Country Playhouse co-production
Lauren Kennedy in the 2012 Baltimore Center Stage-Westport Country Playhouse co-production
Nik Walker, Jenny Latimer, Jeffry Denman, Danielle Ferland and Erik Liberman in the 2012 Baltimore Center Stage-Westport Country Playhouse co-production
Sarah Stiles and Ivan Hernandez in the Shakespeare in the Park production
Amy Adams and Denis O'Hare in the Shakespeare in the Park production
Ivan Hernandez and Jessie Mueller in the Shakespeare in the Park production
Denis O'Hare, Noah Radcliffe and Donna Murphy in the Shakespeare in the Park production
The cast of Into the Woods at Shakespeare in the Park
Meryl Streep and MacKenzie Mauzy
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Meryl Streep in "Into the Woods"
Emily Blunt and James Corden
