Music is the richest of the arts/most abstractLyrics too packed – audience can’t take everything in too richLyrics too sparse – dull Full of surprises, images enoughSongs express story, character, move story forwardMoves character and/or plot from point a to point bSong must be necessary, if song can be taken out and doesn’t leave a plot hole, it isn’t neededTheatre = living clayAudience is final collaborator in every show, until you had an audience you haven’t written a show

http://www.buzzfeed.com/louispeitzman/into-the-woods-has-always-been-for-adults-not-children#.cnM69Ok3y Into the Woods

Combine fun, happy fairytales with the dark ones no one knows about anymore

Inspired by Bruno Bettelheim’s book Freudian subcontext

o Little Red Riding Hood – story of lost innocenceo I Know Things Now undertoneso Complexity of right and wrong/good and evil (relative concepts)

Jack climbed the beanstalk for adventure Giantess sees it as robbery and murder Questions motivations of heroes

Mostly by own selfishness Surviving characters kill Giantess who wants justice