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Love, loss, theft, sorcery, seduction, betrayal, death. It’s no walk in the park.
Into the Woods, Sondheim and Lapine’s classic blending of Little Red Ridinghood, Jack & the Beanstalk, Cinderella and Rapunzel, has been a stage favourite for over 20 years.
It brings some of the best-known fairytales together with an original tale about a baker and his wife who spend the first act attempting to reverse a curse so that they may have a child.
All the tales reach their happy conclusions at the end of act one, but then the characters must deal with the results of their desperate search to get what they want – the most dangerous of which is the angry wife of the slain Giant.
Ultimately we are left with a finale about being careful of the legacy we leave, the tales we teach, and an awareness that no matter what battles we fight or whose side we’re on, all actions have consequences.
CAST (in order of appearance)
Narrator – Charles Gruen
Milky White – Louise Dower
Cinderella – Tamika Ball
Jack – Josh Gardiner
Baker – Andrew Oldroyd
Baker’s Wife – Fiona Watts
Stepmother – Dianne Paragreen
Florinda – Lee-Anne Mitchell
Lucinda – Kerrie Giles
Jack’s Mother – Hilary Stuchbery
Little Red Ridinghood – Katelyn Ardley
Witch – Nicole Cooper
Cinderella’s Father – Ashley Stuchbery
Cinderella’s Mother – Barbara Colbran
Wolf / Cinderella’s Prince – Tim Gesell
Rapunzel – Bindi Dunstan
Rapunzel’s Prince – Antony Norden
Granny / Giant’s Wife – Barbara Colbran
Steward – James McIntyre
Sleeping Beauty – Rhiarna Ball
Snow White – Kim Sharpley
PRODUCTION TEAM
Director – John Laurie
Assistant Director – Paddy Broberg
Musical Director – Pamela Coad
Production Manager – Dianne Paragreen
Choreographer – Cassie Fennell
Set Design – Gavin Van Eede & Sindy Virtue
Set Construction Manager – Bruce Crowl
Costume Design – Anda Banikos
Lighting Design – Andrew Oldroyd
Sound Design – Brian Paragreen
Stage Manager – Phil Nightingall
ORCHESTRA
Musical Director – Pamela Coad
Piano – Barbara Fleming
Synthesizer – Paddy Broberg
Synthesizer Strings – Cheryl Connor
Trumpet – Colin Chandler
Flute / Piccolo – Joanne Drury
Flute – Kate Woodward
Clarinet – Alasdair Campbell
Cello – Michael Killian
Double Bass – Ron Murley, Tegan Murley
Percussion – Donald Campbell
Rehearsal Pianist – Barbara Fleming
CONSTRUCTION TEAM
Set – Ari Bos, Don Colbran, Peter Crawford, Bruce Crowl, Burt Fabel, Larry Giddy, Max Hastings, David Hunter, John Laurie, Phil Nightingall, Bill Park, Ross McKenzie, Dick Straw
Helpers – Vince Bucello, Ben Cooper, Raymond Dunstan, Christopher Freeman, Janet Lind, John Mackay, Robert Paragreen, Neil Roussac, Brendan Ryan
Set Painting – Geoff Davey, Fleur Wheeler,
Rhonda Bland, Edwin Coad, Barbara Colbran, Kate Crowl, Lee-Anne Mitchell, Nick Stefani, Barbara Partridge
Costumes – Serena Ball, Joan Harfield, Marilyn Ardley, Catherine McGlead, Dianne Paragreen, Hilary Stuchbery & Cast
Milky White Costume – Amanda & Chris Mahomed
Properties – Arie Bos, Barbara & Don Colbran, Amanda & Chris Mahomed, Ashleigh & Corindy Morris, Andrew Oldroyd, Trish O’Neill, Barbara Partridge
Prosthetics – Tania Pell
Sound Effects – Rob Ellis
TECHNICAL
Lighting Operation – Jan Bull, Raymond Dunstan, Chris Freeman
Sound Operation – Brian Paragreen, Jennifer Paragreen
BACKSTAGE
Stage Manager – Phil Nightingall
Assistant Stage Managers – Sue Dower, Brendan Ryan
Crew – Serena Ball, Steve Ball, Rhonda Bland, Ray Dower
Wood Sprites – Elektra Banikos, Zoi Banikos, Josie Harfield-Park, Shea McDonald-Eckersall
Properties – Amanda Mahomed
Assistant – Barbara Partridge
Hair & Make-Up – Tania Pell, Rhiarna Ball, Jeanette Bath, Denise Bravington, Roslyn Hanks, Durelle Lind, Sarah Lind, Chelsea Shellcott
ADMINISTRATION
Front of House Manager – Catherine McGlead
Ticket bookings – Deborah Harris – Main Street Revelations
Photography – Robert Paragreen
Publicity & Marketing – Linda Giddy, Jennifer Paragreen
Programme – Jennifer Paragreen
When
Friday 2 October 8:00pm 2009
Saturday 3 October 8:00pm
Sunday 4 October 2:00pm
Thursday 8 October 8:00pm
Friday 9 October 8:00pm
Saturday 10 October 8:00pm
Sunday 11 October 2:00pm
Thursday 15 October 8:00pm
Friday 16 October 8:00pm
Saturday 17 October 8:00pm
Where
Foster War Memorial Arts Centre
Main Street, Foster
Melway 530 H5
AWARDS
Music Theatre Guild of Victoria – Judge’s Award
Intelligent and sensitive animation of Milky White, the cow – Louise Dower
Music Theatre Guild of Victoria – Nomination
Technical Achievement – FAMDA
Music Theatre Guild of Victoria – Commendation
Director – John Laurie
Gippsland Associated Theatre Awards
Most Outstanding Lead Performer ~ Female – Fiona Watts, the Baker’s Wife
Most Outstanding Lighting – Andrew Oldroyd
Most Outstanding Junior Male – Josh Gardiner, Jack
Most Outstanding Junior Female – Louise Dower, Milky White
Beautiful girls, handsome princes, a fairy god-mother, love, gold, the palace, the wedding, the wolf, the woods, happily ever after – they are all the stock ingredients of children’s storybooks.
You get all this and more in Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s grown-up fairy tale, Into the Woods.
Here the mix also includes curses, lechery, theft, seduction, pain, magic, infidelity, loss, betrayal, mayhem and death. It’s quite a journey and, when combined with Stephen Sondheim’s witty songs and FAMDA’s fabulous cast, there is a magical theatrical experience ahead.
The saga combines elements of Grimm Brothers’ fairy tales such as Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Rapunzel and Jack and the Beanstalk plus an original story about a baker and his wife who have to reverse a curse in order to have a child.
By the end of Act I all the characters have achieved what they wanted, having been involved in some skullduggery to do so.
In Act II the dreams start to unravel and we learn not only that “nice is different than good” but also to be careful what you wish for and that all actions have their consequences.
Into the Woods opened on Broadway in 1987 where it ran for 764 performances. In a year dominated by The Phantom of the Opera, the original production won the 1988 New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award and the Drama Desk Award for Best Musical, and the original cast recording won a Grammy Award. Tony Awards went to Joanna Gleason for Best Actress in a Musical, James Lapine for Best Book of a Musical and Stephen Sondheim for Best Original Score.
South Gippsland has its own version of this highly successful Broadway musical when “Into the Woods” was staged at the Foster War Memorial Arts Centre between 2 and 17 October 2009.
Theatre:
Foster War Memorial Arts Centre
Main St., Foster
Melway Reference: 530 H5
Performance dates:
8:00 Friday October 2 (gala première)
8:00 Saturday October 3
2:00 Sunday October 4
8:00 Thursday October 8
8:00 Friday October 9
8:00 Saturday October 10
2:00 Sunday October 11
8:00 Thursday October 15
8:00 Friday October 16
8:00 Saturday October 17
Ticket prices:
Adult: $30
Concession / Groups 10+: $25.00
Student / Child: $20.00
Gala opening night – 3 Oct: All tickets $38.00
Bookings:
Main Street Revelations, 31 Main St., Foster
0400 867 872
. . . in the little seaside town of Foster there was a theatre company called FAMDA that wanted to stage a musical called Into the Woods.
FAMDA invited anyone who wanted to come on this a thrilling venture into the woods to find out all about it and come along for the ride.
‘Into the Woods’ is a Tony Award-winning musical in which several fairy tale characters learn the hard way that the ‘happily ever after’ they sought isn’t necessarily so happy after all.
The story features fractured fairy tales with an ambivalent Cinderella, a blood-thirsty Little Red Ridinghood, a Prince Charming with a roving eye and a Witch who raps . . .
They’re all among the strange characters in James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim’s delightful musical, Into the Woods.
When a Baker and his Wife learn they’ve been cursed with childlessness by the Witch next door, they embark on a quest for the special objects required to break the spell, swindling, lying to and stealing from Cinderella, Little Red, Rapunzel and Jack (the one who climbed the beanstalk).
Everyone’s wish is granted at the end of Act One, but the consequences of their actions return to haunt them later, with disastrous results.
What begins as a lively irreverent fantasy in the style of “The Princess Bride” becomes a moving lesson about community responsibility and the stories we tell our children.
Find out all about it and how you can join in the fun at one of the information sessions being held at the Foster War Memorial Arts Centre 2:00 Sunday 3 May & 7:30 Monday 4 May.
Auditions By Appointment
Foster War Memorial Arts Centre
Saturday 9 & Sunday 10 May
For more information and audition bookings contact the Production Manager, Dianne Paragreen on 5682 2421 or fill out the contact form on this website.
