Into the Woods is a scrambled mashup of The Brothers Grimm’s Greatest Hits-Cinderella, Rapunzel, Little Red Riding Hood-plus a few other fairy tales.
That was where I found my footing as a performer, so theater has always been a sacred place for me.” I’m from a really small town-Eureka in northern California. We grew up having cast parties at our home and always going to the theater. My mom was a well-known actress in our community. “I grew up a theater kid and was in local theater productions.
How did it happen? “Theater is a huge love of my life,” she confesses, contrary to her recent history. A Grammy-winning singer-songwriter, she hails from a different tradition, writing autobiographical piano-pop ballads that have sold millions of albums with chart-toppers like “Brave” and “Love Song”-but, on stage, what you get is a fully-formed performer. Home turns out to be the operative word for Bareilles’ ability to catch the mood of the moment-be it comic, dramatic or musical-and make the most of it. Most of the local critical giants fell hard for it. Sara Bareilles in ‘Into the Woods’ Matt Murphy and Evan Zimmerman/MurphyMadeĬonsidering that Into the Woods is only her second Broadway show (and the first that she hasn’t written), Sara Bareilles seems remarkably assured-at home-frolicking her way through this fractured fairy tale from Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine, currently holding forth through Oct.
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