NEW YORK, Oct. 8 (UPI) -- An off-Broadway staging of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Tony Award-winning Into the Woods is to begin preview performances Dec. 18, the Roundabout Theatre Company announced.
The musical is to open officially Jan. 22 at the Laura Pels Theatre in the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre. This is a limited engagement through March 22. The show has been reimagined by Rhode Island's Fiasco Theater and is directed by Noah Brody and Ben Steinfeld. This production premiered in May 2013 at New Jersey's McCarter Theatre in association with the Fiasco Theater, and was subsequently produced at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, Calif. The full cast and design team will be announced soon. "With only 10 actors, one piano and boundless imagination, this witty and wildly theatrical re-invention is Into the Woods like you've never seen it before," a news release said. "This stripped-down, unplugged, thrillingly clever new version includes all the dazzling classic songs like 'Children Will Listen' and 'Giants in the Sky.' Mind the wolf, heed the witch and honor the giant at this extraordinary musical about the power of wishes and what happens when they really do come true."
