“I think people find themselves feeling that way, relating between the person you think you should be and the person you’re becoming. “The baker’s wife is in the middle, stuck between these two worlds,” she says. Director Lear deBessonet has handpicked a delightfully loony ensemble-worthies like Nancy Opel, Annie Golden, Julia Lester, Aymee Garcia, Joshua Henry, Patina Miller, Cole Thompson, David Turner and David Patrick Kelly. Running alongside these fairy tale figures, in and out of the woods, Bareilles has much to play as the baker’s wife-and many to play with. Then, in the second act, things get boring and really grim, and we can read into these storybook crises intimations of modern worries. By intermission, a happily-ever-after has been affected. Bareilles belongs to the other faction-the baker’s wife who is rendered barren by a witch’s curse and must counter this curse by collecting various items from the Grimm gang in order to become pregnant. 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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