Norfolk Youth Music Theatre

Norfolk Youth Music Theatre presents Into the Woods by Stephen Sondheim.

Into The Woods is a tale about fairy-tale characters and their particular desires, Cinderella wants to go to the festival, the Sisters want to marry a prince, the Prince wants to find his love, Jack wants to be rich, the Baker’s wife wants a son, the Wolf wants Little Red Riding Hood, and the Witch, she wants her youth. The baker and his wife, in their desire to have a family, agree to first break the witch's curse in return for a child.

To do so they must procure certain items from the other characters, Red Riding Hood’s cloak, Rapunzel’s hair, Jack’s cow, and Cinderella’s slipper, and for a while, as Act One ends and all the characters realise their own wishes, they all live ‘happily-ever-after’.

But a person’s actions have consequences and in order to get what they wanted all the characters have had to, lie a little, cheat a little, steal a little. In Act Two these actions come home to roost with a vengeance.