Meryl Streep On INTO THE WOODS: 'This Is Sondheim And It's A Story Worth Telling'

By: Nov. 30, 2014
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Meryl Streep sheds some new light on INTO THE WOODS!

BroadwayWorld is thrilled to announce that we'll be unveiling an exclusive clip from Rob Marshall's highly-anticipated INTO THE WOODS on Wednesday, December 3 at 12pm EST! Following yesterday's teaser image (the scene of which many of you guessed correctly,) we've confirmed the clip will showcase Anna Kendrick's performance of 'On the Steps of the Palace!'

In anticipation of the clip debuting next week, we've got a countdown clock ticking away so you won't miss the big reveal!

The feature film edition of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's beloved fairy tale-themed musical INTO THE WOODS is coming to movie theaters nationwide on Christmas Day and headliner Meryl Streep discusses her role of The Witch as well as her affection for Sondheim's celebrated score as part of a new interview that is now available to view.

Reflecting on the multi-Tony Award-winning original Broadway production of the musical, Streep shares, "I saw the original production with Bernadette Peters and Joanna Gleason. I thought it was amazing. I remember subsequently that people would complain that the tunes were not memorable. I couldn't get the tunes out of my head - 'No One Is Alone', 'Children Will Listen' and all those. They were indelible from the night I heard them in 1987."

Streep elaborates, "The show was wonderful and it was unlike any other musical. Stephen has an indelible fingerprint and it's unique. There's no one like him. He's our greatest living composer and certainly of the great American art form, the musical."

Furthermore, Streep says of the film, "This is Sondheim and it's a story worth telling. It's a three-dimensional idea of a witch and with a human heart and sources in real life. So I definitely wanted to do it, mostly because of the music and to play with this wonderful cast. I knew Rob would do it beautifully. I'm so proud of him and the film. I can't wait to see it again. I can't say that about all my movies."

Additionally, Streep shared a letter recently received from Sondheim explaining his absence at a press junket for the film, imparting, "James Lapine, my good friend and collaborator for 30 years, with whom I wrote the show, is present to help convey the pride we feel in the movie that the Disney Studio has made of it. As has been demonstrated time and again, stage shows are notoriously difficult to bring to the screen satisfactorily because stage and screen are such totally different mediums."

Check out the original article on the matter here.

Photo Credit: Disney


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