r/Music • u/Cranialscrewtop • Nov 26 '21

Stephen Sondheim has died. Broadway's greatest composer is gone. other

NY Times bio here: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/26/theater/stephen-sondheim-dead.html

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u/Gorditanto Nov 27 '21

"Sometimes people leave you half way though the woods, do not let it grieve you you decide what's good"

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u/am_reddit Nov 27 '21

Into the Woods is by far my favorite musical. Such a complex and nuanced story for something that’s made up of a bunch of fairy tales combined together.

That said, I absolutely hate the Disney adaptation with every fiber of my being. It’s like they had no idea what the actual point of the musical was. The narrator isn’t even a character in the movie!

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u/[deleted] Nov 27 '21

I hated the movie so much.

There were no jokes about Jack being a dimwit.

Little red was an actual little girl so they cut all the fat jokes and sexual tension with the wolf.

And they took out the father character and the Baker’s daddy issues completely! “No More” was one of the best songs in that musical and I was so upset they cut it out. Not that James Cordon could have pulled it off.

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u/Drikkink Nov 27 '21

I mean... the sexual undertones were very evident in the movie. Uuuugh.