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Who was Disney's target demographic with Into the Woods?
#75Who was Disney's target demographic with Into the Woods?
Posted: 12/28/14 at 4:08pmWait, did A8 respond to you before? Because I could have sworn you were BLOCKED.
#76Who was Disney's target demographic with Into the Woods?
Posted: 12/28/14 at 4:15pmI think 90% of the board is blocked by A8.
....but the world goes 'round
#77Who was Disney's target demographic with Into the Woods?
Posted: 12/28/14 at 9:01pm
One of my best friends is obsessed with all things Disney. She loves the original animated films and still regularly watches them (she faces many lighthearted jokes at her expense for this, but why let age deprive you of what you enjoy?). She is well aware of the original fairy tales (The Little Mermaid is turned to sea foam, ect.) but she still loves the happy endings and MGM Technicolor Finales. That being said, Into The Woods is her favorite musical. She is not particularly worldly in her view of musical theatre and is not a devotee of Sondheim (not to say she does not like him, but she isn't familiar with most of his works). That aside, she has watched the original production of ITW countless times and loves it for all it is. She loves the new details and situations of the first act, and recognizes the significance of the second. She knows it's not a happily ever after ending, and she enjoys that. She says that the second act makes the fairy tale characters more human, and that she can relate the them more. In fact, she was worried that Disney would cut out the Baker's Wife's death, and believed that the film would lose all its meaning - after all, the point of the show is the second act.
"You decide what's right, you decide what's good."
And to a Disney-loving, ordinary girl who loves joy and happy endings, Into The Woods is both right and good.
"Sticks and stones, sister. Here, have a Valium." - Patti LuPone, a Memoir
#78Who was Disney's target demographic with Into the Woods?
Posted: 12/28/14 at 9:43pm
"And a trailer IS supposed to be all you need as research for a movie. That's why trailers exist."
Actually, they're just commercials for the movie, to convince people to buy tickets for it. And historically they're not all that honest or accurate... But we do have a thousand ways to actually research movies these days.
#79Who was Disney's target demographic with Into the Woods?
Posted: 12/28/14 at 10:55pmThe movie made > $31m this weekend, and is over $46m since opening. Looks like they found their audience.
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#80Who was Disney's target demographic with Into the Woods?
Posted: 12/29/14 at 1:05amCan't remember where I read this but someone suggested the demographic was about 50% adults so far? Seems to be reaching a good range of people.
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
#81Who was Disney's target demographic with Into the Woods?
Posted: 12/29/14 at 11:50amAt the showing I saw when the Baker's Wife comes back in the end to sing with him, a little girl behind me went, "She's ALIVE!". I felt bad about that one.
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#82Who was Disney's target demographic with Into the Woods?
Posted: 12/29/14 at 9:01pm
In an interview on something called ComingSoon.net, Rob Marshall addresses the concern (trolling) of the myriad Helen Lovejoys of the world screaming, "Won't somebody PLEASE think of the children?"
It makes it modern. It makes it good for kids today in a way. I think that kids are very savvy these days and I think it's also good for them to see that, and see something more real, see that Cinderella, maybe the prince isn't exactly for her. See how kids get through something that's difficult and hard in life. It brings it to a more real place, and I think it's cautionary, which is what the Grimm Fairy Tales were originally. They really were cautionary tales. It wasn't like everything's perfect, it's like, "If you do this, the consequences of your actions produce this."
How very dare he?
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#83Who was Disney's target demographic with Into the Woods?
Posted: 12/29/14 at 9:50pm
I was in suburban Mass for Christmas week and we made a family outing of INTO THE WOODS, including the grandchildren. 11 and 14-year-olds liked it very much, particularly my granddaughter (age 11 and very smart and imaginative). The 8-year-old grandson was a little fidgety, but not badly behaved for that age.
All the adults (early 40s to 72) enjoyed it immensely!
Only my husband and I are true Sondheim devotees. I haven't read A8's remarks, but that's a pretty wide demo, if you ask me.
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