The irony of the Witch’s character is that she’s the most realistic person in the entire show.

@guillermojesse791

2 жыл бұрын

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@daxscott6096

2 жыл бұрын

@Guillermo Jesse Instablaster ;)

@siegfriedenea

2 жыл бұрын

She’s the only who realizes that “Children will listen” … she really scared

@carr0760

Жыл бұрын

Which is exactly why the lyric change in this song is so terrible. " You're so nice. You're not good. You're not bad. You're just nice. I'm not good. I'm not nice. I'm just right." It's the perfect description of all of those characters. She IS right.

@EricMontreal22

Жыл бұрын

More realistic than the Baker and his wife?

I feel silly that this only just occurred to me, but I'm not surprised the Witch was holding on tight to the baby - with Rapunzel and the twins gone, he's the only thing she has left of her family, he *is* of Rapunzel's blood after all.

@AlyssaVierneza

3 жыл бұрын

OHHHHHH

@charlesquittner8556

3 жыл бұрын

@@AlyssaVierneza literally same audible response.

@ZoraTheberge

3 жыл бұрын

Twins?

@Addy0302

2 жыл бұрын

@@ZoraTheberge Rapunzel's children

The pure unbridled RAGE that this version expresses is just so Incredible. in every version of the witch whether it's condescending, tired, or angry, they all manage to blow me away!

I absolutely love darker productions of Into the Woods especially in act 2 because this is when the depth of the situation settles in for the characters.

I'm kind of torn on the verse sung to the baby instead. It makes sense for the Witch's character to consider taking the baby and running. But I always loved the "You're so nice. You're not good, you're not bad, you're just nice" lines. If only because it really made it hit home how our protagonists are just designated heroes and it felt like the thesis statement of the show to me.

@quecksilvereyes8750

Жыл бұрын

i agree with you on that so hard i was so sad when they just skipped that

@EricMontreal22

Жыл бұрын

Recent productions all seem to go back to the original. The baby verse goes back to the 2002 revival which also had a different last verse trying to make it more clear about returning to her mother, etc (you can hear it if you type Vanessa Williams Last Midnight) which... I get why they did but again doesn't fully work.

@joed180

7 ай бұрын

Making the whole thing about child rearing is silly. That’s just one theme of the show. Also, it’s awkward af her having to hold the baby and not be able to use her arms during this. And then she gently hands it off for no reason…

Hannah’s rendition of the witch is absolutely brilliant. Could watch her for hours on end.

The power behind Hannah's voice and the change in lyric had me 100% convinced that she was going to chuck the baby.

The way she goes from lullaby lilt to full on belt is amazing. Best witch.

@cat-mh2wp

3 жыл бұрын

She's AMAZING but I don't think you can beat Bernadette Peters

@darkangelw8472

3 жыл бұрын

Hannah Waddingham is amazng

@Amanda-ex6em

2 жыл бұрын

sorry, as much as I adore Hannah the best witch title belongs to Bernadette Peters

@Tasdevil0

2 жыл бұрын

@@Amanda-ex6em it's 1st: meryl, 2nd: hanna, 3rd: bernadette imo, + its called an opinion for a reason xd

I wasn’t initially a fan but the witch nailed it, I still prefer the original lyrics but respect the changes, I see what they were going for. And I really liked how nasty the main group got, shows the “you’re not good” of it all

definitely one of my favourite renditions of Your Fault - love how they really get up in each other's face

I dig this Velma Kelly Witch.

@sw9618

2 жыл бұрын

perfectly said

@jamilabrownie

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah same I’m just like the bob is an interesting choice

I love the OBC. I grew up on it. It’s what made me love musical theater. And… I think I like this version of the song (staging, acting, lyrics change) better than the original. The added tension of the baby in her arms? The echo of what she tried to do with Rapunzel, and then her giving up completely on humanity - how it’s so personal to her and also about the others. I miss the good/nice/right thing but we get that elsewhere in the show too. This version is so powerful. Wow.

i love how she shows all the emotions, it’s like an explosion. Wow.

What I love is how The Witch, when confronted by The Baker, almost has this face like she's nervous to even tell him his wife is dead. She once had power, she was the reason they couldn't have a child, and now she almost seems like she can't even face him.

EMMY AWARD WINNER HANNAH WADDINGHAM, EVERYONE 👑

I love that litte red's only lines are " it's his fault, your fault "

@cat-mh2wp

3 жыл бұрын

And wait a minute

@misterminutes4504

3 жыл бұрын

@@cat-mh2wp It is. She's so clueless!! 😂 Lol. Quite funny tho since it reflect tue existence of some real life people who hate but don't know who to hate. Does that makes sense lol

@cat-mh2wp

3 жыл бұрын

@@misterminutes4504 yeah it does lol😂😂😂

@misterminutes4504

3 жыл бұрын

@@cat-mh2wp Yassss 😂😂

I’d love to see her play Joanne in Company.

I love this version, but in my opinion, no one will ever beat Chip Zien as the baker. Just the emotion he brings to the role, rather than, "my wife is dead. oh no. it's your fault." The witch on the other hand, oh my goodness. Even though Bernadette Peters is, by all means, a legend, I think Hannah Waddingham seriously tied if not outdid her.

@richardmayora1289

2 жыл бұрын

I still do not understand how Chip Zien was not nominated for a Tony. Or Danielle Ferland. The whole cast was outstanding.

@rosaleekarisma7039

2 жыл бұрын

@@richardmayora1289 Absolutely!

Just like Peters’ witch, Waddingham’s witch is furious-and I feel it. She’s excellent! This is what it means to have righteous rage; she angry because she is right about them and right to be angry.

I like the changes. They don't beat out the original for me, but this witch has her own spin and is a bit terrifying. And I like the idea that she would consider running off with the baby. I'm not sure that I love her singing directly to the baby as long as she did, but the gentle patting to the "is she going to punt the child??" is very good.

I like how you can hear the bells chiming midnight at the end of Your Fault...the _last_ midnight...

This is my favourite witch!! She’s incredible

@yugani7440

3 жыл бұрын

@@cat-mh2wp It's his opinion tho.

@cat-mh2wp

3 жыл бұрын

@@yugani7440 true

Those new lyrics are interesting, as much as the previous are my favourite lyrics in the whole show, these new ones show the witch finally giving up her wish of wanting a child. She broke old habits because she’s learned her lesson.

Whooo!!! who knew Septa Unella could do more than ring a bell and say "shame".

@nathannoetzold3821

3 жыл бұрын

OMG I knew I had seen her before :O

@jennifercaitlinroberts

3 жыл бұрын

Oh man you have to see her in Ted Lasso too, if you haven’t already. She’s AMAZING

This is fantastic!!!!!!!!

she's just wonderful

Slightly different then the versions I saw. In those she said “You’re so nice. You’re not good you’re not bad you’re just nice. I’m not nice I’m not good I’m just right.” to the other 2 adults and the other 2 children instead of singing to the baby that he’s so pure.

@enharmonics

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, those are the original lyrics but this production seems to have changed them to lean into the parental theme of the show instead of the morality theme. I do like her singing to the baby but it just doesn’t beat the biting sting encapsulated in “you’re not good, you’re not bad, you’re just nice“ which I think ties up the story and characters so well

Oh okay this witch is amazing and I usually prefer Bernadette!! Like she has LEVELS and hits it. The line change though - the purpose of that? I love original line it just really throws you about you life. Is this her maybe thinking she’ll change her mind one last time?

@GabbyDario

2 жыл бұрын

Hannah Waddingham! She just won an Emmy for Best Actress!

Hmm the change is so interesting... its a darker look that points out that everything pure will be corrupted by the world around them, which is still a very accurate interpretation of the show. I like the whole dynamic with the baby it really heightens the tension of the scene, like she’s questioning to do what she did with Rapunzel again but with the Baker’s baby, it really ties together the witches narrative a lot better. Especially when she decides not to take the baby because everyone will grow up to be flawed anyways. But holding the baby from the start of Last Midnight doesn’t work well because all of her lines are towards other characters, but the baby detracts and distract from those lines. She should only pick the baby up after “JUST GIVE ME THE BOY!” “No!”

@doiknowyou.

9 ай бұрын

I think they used these same lyrics in the 2002 revival with Vanessa Williams. I don't know why they changed it though.

Such a fantastic witch!! Her look is rly cool too

Amazing set

Brilliant staging. Playing off the witches grief at the death of Rapunzel.

She’s great but I hate the lyric changes. “You’re so nice, you’re not good you’re not bad you’re just nice” really sums up the show for me.

@cat-mh2wp

3 жыл бұрын

I agree so much

@kimmmmm871

3 жыл бұрын

but the show is more about how you raise a child than ambiguity of morality itself...? I do love the old lyrics but new one is more accurate message I think.

@brucewish7137

3 жыл бұрын

@@kimmmmm871 i think the show is more about ambiguity of morality and cicles of suffering

@juanignaciolopeztellechea9401

3 жыл бұрын

And thar actually coms from little red rinding hood's "nice is diferent than good"

@kimmmmm871

3 жыл бұрын

@@brucewish7137 i think I saw an interview sondheim mentioning the main theme of the show is parenting. Baker isn't moral or a good father figure. He tried to trick kids to get what he want. Children also have some issues. Jack kills a giant dude and steal his stuff cuz his mom always nagged him for being poor, cinderella was told to behave and become so passive she can't decide her own marrage. These are the plot of the stories we tell the kids at night, and kids don't think it's wrong since they are the main characters. But the show gives them consequences after the 'happy ending'. Characters go nuts, and in the end Baker actually grow as a father telling kids they are not alone, and so are other people, killing 'bad guys' for your benefit isn't ok. And ofc the finale song. Children might not behave they listen. What you tell the kids can affect them, what you think is right or harmless can be wrong. Think of the impact in your kid's future before you feed an idea to a kid. It's been a while since I saw the musical and the movie so I might miss out some details, but this is how I percieved the show. I know there's no right answere, just want to tell you why I thought the theme was parenting :) hope you have a good day

Omg omg omg!!! I love this so much I had to leave another comment.🌸🌸🌸🌸💐💐💐

Thank you Abigail for posting this video

Seeing a lot of discourse here, going to add to it not that I think it will make a huge difference? I was really torn on the big lyric change first time watching through the show, the full production of which had a number of changes that impacts the subject addressed by different songs. If people don’t want to be spoiled for the whole production here’s the warning. The implication that the narrator is the baker’s child, this story is the version the baker told to his child in the ending, this lyric change really helps hammer home that point. The line when he matures he’ll be just like them, on a rewatch that literally happens: you see in act one and beginning ish of two how the narrator child, or baker’s child, can be just like the protagonists he idealizes, flaws and all. Also adds some layers to how the witch sacrificed him to the giant first time around but regrets that decision when her own child is killed and opts to runaway and protect the child second time around. Bernadette’s witch was bitter because the world keeps fucking itself over because of some “morales,” Hannah’s witch is bitter because the world keeps fucking her over. Bernadette’s witch was more a “force” or stand in for the world/nature’s utilitarian need to keep itself together at whatever cost, Hannah’s witch is much more of a unhinged and grieving mother, in order to match the show’s themes. I still love the OG line so much, but given the shift in focus, I respect this pretty darn bold creative choice, and Hannah SLAYS, it pays off.

Oh this is the woman from Ted Lasso!

They changed my favorite line: "You're just nice/you're not good, you're not bad, you're just nice/I'm not good, I'm not nice, I'm just right/ I'm the witch"

Lil Red is ready to punch someone’s teeth out. 💥👊

funny, when i FIRST saw this, I considered Hannah the weakest link, now I think she's the strongest. go figure

The way she's holding the baby's neck😱

Should it be that perfect?

Better than the Disney film and the original cast.

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How did they take out the most important line of Last Midnight??

So I need some information about the ending. I’ve seen two different version. One has the witch screaming Boom Crunch and the other is like this one with her saying “Mother here I come!”. I’ve seen a school production with the Mother line used instead of Boom Crunch.

5:39

3:40

The wotch looks like tanya from mamma mia

Andrew long last midnight

Gosh I used to love this musical in high school. It’s really bad with older adults. I think it’s good with kids

Guys, how did the baker's wife die?

@agentmacnamara45

4 жыл бұрын

I’m fairly sure she was hit by the falling beanstalk or a falling tree during the quake it caused

@yippedoodah

4 жыл бұрын

She gets stepped on by the giantess. You can find the original Broadway production on KZread..

@ggiantsintheskyy5670

4 жыл бұрын

I met Into the woods through the 2014 film, and in the film she falls off a cliff, I started to look for the original broadway production and I thought that in the play she died the same way, then I found out she was dying differently. Then I was told that she is trampled, just like Rapunzel, but Jack says that, since he found her under a tree ... If she was trampled why, in heaven's name she was found under a tree??? (Sorry for my bad english, i'm brazilian)

@yippedoodah

4 жыл бұрын

@@ggiantsintheskyy5670 She was found under a tree because the giantess was walking through stepping on everything. It's like us walking on grass not knowing if there's an ant underneath all that

@ggiantsintheskyy5670

4 жыл бұрын

​@@yippedoodah so the giantess trampled the tree and the baker´s wife?

Wow I see Sutton Foster in her

What kind of red riding hood is that( not shes a bad actor but shes seems a little old for a small child)

@divashine2004

3 жыл бұрын

The reason they give little red an older actor is because of the song hello little girl. The song is a representation of sexual assault and the original costume for the wolf including nudity. So to make it appropriate the let and older women play little red instead of a young girl

@fountainchain126

3 жыл бұрын

Jack and Red Riding Hood are often traditionally cast with older actors as opposed to children. In the 2014 movie version, they cast real children.

@divashine2004

3 жыл бұрын

@@carsonbarnesharp yes it had nudity in the original costume but the actor was not fully naked

@divashine2004

3 жыл бұрын

@@carsonbarnesharp oh it is it's a fake prostatic but it's still classified as nudity

@johnnyferalcat896

2 жыл бұрын

@@fountainchain126 Jack is actually supposed to be like a teenager or a man, there's even a joke about it in the musical

Andrew long last mindinght

I don’t the hairstyle She looks the russian Woman from Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

She looks like Liza Minelli

wait i hate that they changed the song 😐

SHAME! SHAME! SHAME! 🔔🔔🔔

Can we handle the baby like it’s real? Is that too much to ask?

Oh god those new lyrics are terrible.

She's really overdoing it. 😳😳

meh.

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