Into the Woods: In Concert plays the Patchogue Theatre for the Performing Arts March 8 at 8 PM and March 9 at 2 PM and 8 PM. The Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine musical will be presented with limited staging, sets, and costumes; actors may perform with scripts in hand.
John McDaniel directs and conducts the three performances, which feature Tony winner Alice Ripley as the Witch, Tony nominee Melissa Errico as the Baker’s Wife, Tony nominee Constantine Maroulis as Cinderella’s Prince and the Wolf, Ali Ewoldt as Cinderella, Jim Stanek as The Baker, Alan Muraoka as the Narrator and Mysterious Man, Ayla Schwartz as Little Red Riding Hood, Tyler Jones as Jack, and Darren Ritchie as Rapunzel’s Prince.
Non-Equity cast members include Alexandra Imbrosci and Megan Gallagher as the Stepsisters, Julia Bain as Cinderella’s Stepmother, Jonathan Fluck as Cinderella’s Father, Amy Jane Finnerty as Jack’s Mother, James Schultz as the Steward, and Madison Wyatt as Rapunzel.
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The cast will be backed by a 15-piece orchestra. Casting is by Stephen DeAngelis.
McDaniel was the music director and/or arranger for Broadway’s Bonnie and Clyde, Catch Me If You Can, Brooklyn, Taboo, Annie Get Your Gun, Patti LuPone in Concert, Grease, and Company. He has frequently collaborated with Rosie O’Donnell, including as a producer and composer as well as her bandleader for her Emmy-winning talk show.
For tickets, priced $39-$69, visit PatchogueTheatre.org.
Into The Woods (1987) Production Photos
Ripley, Errico, McDaniel, Maroulis, have been special guest performers on Playbill’s Broadway on the High Seas cruises. Cabins are now on sale for Playbill’s Broadway in the Great Northwest. Playbill Travel’s first domestic cruise will bring passengers on a journey through the Pacific Northwest from April 26–May 4, 2020. Playbill Travel is currently accepting waitlist travelers for its sold out cruises: Broadway on the Rhône River 2 April 7–14, 2019, featuring Melissa Errico, Norm Lewis, Rebecca Luker, Marc Kudisch, and Seth Rudetsky, Broadway in Bordeaux With Michael Feinstein (September 1–9, 2019), and Broadway on the High Seas: The Greek Isles (June 24–July 1, 2019). Call Playbill Travel for tickets at 866-455-6789 or visit PlaybillTravel.com.
(Updated March 8, 2019)
