Cast of Into the Woods (Dan Davidson) |
Into the Woods
STAGEright Theatre
(at Richard Hugo House)
Through April 25, 2015
STAGEright scheduled their production of Into the Woods at an opportune time for
a small theater that has difficult limitations on reaching potential audience
members. Having a new movie just out might make it easier to get people
interested in an original staging. And this staging, helmed by Matt Giles, is a stripped down,
essentialized (is that a word?) production: magic is imaginary anyway, isn’t
it?
So everything about suspending your disbelief is just
stretched a bit farther than usual, but we know how to do that, don’t we? This
production is worth your stretching yourself. There are several outstanding
young performers in it, quite a few making their Seattle area debut! Mallory King is not new to Seattle,
having performed at the 5th Avenue and Village Theatres, but she is
entrancing as Cinderella, with a terrific soprano.