![]() The original Broadway production has since been followed by a notably contentious revival in 2002, as well as numerous productions across the country at everywhere from the regional to the high school drama level. In the year dominated by The Phantom of the Opera, it was able to snag three Tony Awards, for Best Score, Best Book, and Best Leading Actress (Joanna Gleason as the Baker's Wife). ![]() The show is one of Sondheim's most famous, alongside West Side Story, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street and Company. Then comes the second act, where everybody has to grow up and face the consequences of their actions. After a certain amount of deception, theft, and murder - you remember how these stories go - everybody gets what they were wishing for at the beginning, and there's a big song-and-dance number about how they will all live happily ever after. There's also a mysterious old man who appears from time to time, trying to help the quest along for reasons of his own. She sends them on a quest that takes them in and out of the other stories, collecting Cinderella's slipper, Jack's cow, Little Red Riding Hood's.riding hood, and some of Rapunzel's hair. In the first act, a baker and his wife who desperately want a child are told by the witch who cursed their family with infertility that she'll lift the spell if they do something for her first.
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