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Open Air Theatre’s Award-Winning Into the Woods to Be Digitally Released March 31

Jenna Russell
(© Joseph Marzullo/WENN)
Jenna Russell
(© Joseph Marzullo/WENN)

Digital Theatre will release Timothy Sheader and Liam Steel’s staging of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Into the Woods for online streaming and digital download on March 31.

The production, which was originally seen at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre last summer, received the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Musical Revival on March 13.

The company includes Eddie Manning (The Narrator), Helen Dallimore (Cinderella), Ben Stott (Jack), Mark Hadfield (Baker), Jenna Russell (Baker’s Wife), Gaye Brown (Cinderella’s Stepmother), Amy Ellen Richardson (Florinda), Amy Griffiths (Lucinda), Marilyn Cutts (Jack’s Mother), Beverly Rudd (Little Red Ridinghood), Hannah Waddingham (Witch), Gemma Wardle (Cinderella’s Mother), Billy Boyle (Mysterious Man), Michael Xavier (Wolf and Cinderella’s Prince), Valda Aviks (Grandmother), Alice Fearn (Rapunzel), Simon Thomas (Rapunzel’s Prince), Mark Goldthorp (Steward), Sophie Caton (Snow White/Harp), Marc Antolin (Woodsman), with Judi Dench as the voice of the Giant.

As previously reported, Digital Theatre also plans to release a taped version of Arthur Miller’s All My Sons, starring David Suchet and Zoe Wanamaker this spring.


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