INTO THE WOODS

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March 4 - 29
CLOSED MARCH 29
Ritz Theater

Music & Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim • Book by James Lapine • Directed by Peter Rothstein • Music Direction by Jason Hansen • Featuring Greta Oglesby and David Darrow

Into the Woods is an epic musical comedy that incorporates the classic Brothers Grimm fairytales of Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Jack and the Beanstalk, and Rapunzel—all tied together by an original story involving a baker, his wife and the witch who has cursed them childless.  In this contemporary twist on the classics, Director Peter Rothstein sets Sondheim's fairytale mashup in a Bavarian beer garden with nine actors who take on more than two-dozen characters in this highly theatrical tour-de-force.

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PRODUCTION PHOTOS

Photo credit Heidi Bohnenkamp

An evening filled with inventiveness.
— Star Tribune
An attractive and affectionate production.
— The Pioneer Press
Brilliant staging of a brilliantly written musical.
— Cherry and Spoon

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CREATIVE TEAM

THE CAST

Director: Peter Rothstein
Music Director: Jason Hansen
Set Designer/Associate Director: Kate Sutton-Johnson
Lighting Designer: Barry Browning
Costume Designer: Samantha Haddow
Sound Designer: Geoff Blandon
Properties Designer: Benjamin Olsen
Stage Manager: Lisa M. Smith
Production Manager: Dylan Wright
Wardrobe: Tiffany Clem
Tony Story: Master Electrician
Light Board Operator: David Pisa
Stage Management Intern: Josh Helgeson
Production Interns: April Harding & Brianna Hicken
Electricians: Jesse Cogswell, Jeremiah Ellarby, Ray Steveson

Carpenters: Connor McEvoy, Shawn Nicholson, Karen Sherman, Amanda Wambach, Lauren Welle

Narrator/Mysterious Man: Dan Hopman
Cinderella: Britta Ollmann
Jack/Steward: Brandon Brooks
The Baker/Rapunzel’s Prince: David Darrow
The Baker’s Wife/Cinderella’s Mother: Kate Beahen
Jack’s Mother/Granny: Elisa Pluhar
Little Red/Lucinda: Shinah Brashears
The Witch: Greta Oglesby
The Wolf/Cinderella’s Prince/The Stepmother: Peter Middlecamp
Rapunzel/Florinda: Kendall Anne Thompson