Rare FM is proud to recommend UCLU Musical Theatre's first Bloomsbury show of 2009 - 2010. Tickets are selling fast so get yours bought via the Bloomsbury website as soon as possible.

"Into the Woods is a World Renowned Musical (to date has won several Tony Awards including Best Score) created by Stephen Sondheim and based on the book of the same title by James Lapine.

Inspired by Bruno Bettelheim's 1976 book, The Uses of Enchantment, the musical intertwines the plots of several Brothers Grimm fairy tales and follows them further to explore the consequences of the characters' wishes and quests. The main characters are taken from the stories of Little Red Ridinghood, Jack and the Beanstalk, Rapunzel, and Cinderella, tied together by a more original story involving a Baker and his wife and their quest to begin a family.

William A. Henry III wrote that the play's "basic insight... is at heart, most fairy tales are about the loving yet embattled relationship between parents and children. Almost everything that goes wrong—which is to say, almost everything that can—arises from a failure of parental or filial duty, despite the best intentions."

Production Team:
Producer: Alicia Bennett
Director: Dom O'Hanlon
Musical Director: Daniel Jones
Assistant MD : Lizzy Rosser
Choreographer: Phoebe Gardner