Into the Woods rewrites Grimm’s Fairy Tales into magical musical [Video]

A new Calgary community theatre dedicated to providing opportunities for emerging artists is tackling one of the giants of musical theatre.

Untold Stories Theatre is presenting Into the Woods, Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s 1986 musical that is a mish-mash of Brothers Grimm fairy tales.

There’s Little Red Riding Hood, Rapunzel, Cinderella, Jack and the Beanstalk – but they’re all in a different tale than their own.

In Into the Woods, the quest is driven by a childless baker and his wife’s desire to start a family, their showdown with a witch (from Rapunzel’s story) who has cursed them, and the ways in which they work with those legendary characters to try to break the curse.

It’s like a fairy tale where reality keeps intruding on the pixie dust.

“We kind of have these normal people thrown into this fairy tale world,” said Untold Stories co-artistic director (along with Becky Salmond) Jason Bakaas.

The musical is a …