You wouldn’t think that an eleven person ensemble could manage to upstage an extravagant Disney-produced film with Meryl Streep in it, but the impossible has been done. The Fiasco/Roundabout Theater production of Into the Woods was everything the movie wasn’t: silly, bare bones, and not a single famous name in the cast. And it was amazing. Don’t get me wrong – I actually liked the movie, as evidenced by my review of it a few months ago. For a movie […]

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The last couple of weeks have been insanely busy, with preparing for Fiddler and various other things, and I feel like I produced more than is going to be shown in these images. However, a lot of costuming decisions were also made to make my life a little easier (for example, the girls are going to share outfits; think hand-me-downs) and most of the boys’ stuff hasn’t even arrived yet. But here’s the latest. Getting to work! Turning my floor […]

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On Tuesday evening, I got the chance to see the Public Theater’s production of Into the Woods as part of the Shakespeare in the Park summer series.  Yes, Into the Woods is not Shakespeare, but for their 50th anniversary, it was deemed that they would perform As You Like It and then Into the Woods to mix it up a little bit.  I was, naturally, immediately excited.  I adore Into the Woods; it was my first musical.  So it was […]

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