Sara Bareilles is enjoying The Baker's Spouse in a New York Metropolis manufacturing of "Into The Woods."
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Sara Bareilles sees many layers within the Stephen Sondheim traditional “Into the Woods.”
“The fabric is so darkish and light-weight on the identical time so it’s a really difficult present,” the Grammy winner and two-time Tony nominee informed The Put up solely after her efficiency within the NYC Heart’s Encores! manufacturing of “Into the Woods.”
In it, the “Courageous” singer and “Waitress” composer/star, 42, performs the Baker’s Spouse reverse Neil Patrick Harris, 48, who performs her husband.
The beloved present — revived a number of instances since its 1987 Bernadette Peters incarnation and tailored right into a 2014 film starring Meryl Streep — offers with a mishmash of fairy tales together with Cinderella, Jack and the Beanstalk, Rapunzel and Little Pink Using Hood. It’s a topic that has lengthy fascinated Bareilles.
“Many, a few years in the past, I wrote a tune about how f – – ked up I feel fairy tales are referred to as ‘Fairytale,’ ” she stated. “It’s about what occurs the day after — ‘they usually lived fortunately ever after’ — as a result of we watch them experience off into the sundown and now what? That's when the actual s – – t goes down.”
The star of Peacock’s hilarious “Women 5 Eva,” which has been renewed for a second season, thinks fairy tales mirror the underbelly humanity.
“They’re very darkish. I feel humanity is darkish,” she stated. “We're monsters and angels and all the pieces in between. I really like that the present isn't actually a fortunately ever after ending. It’s obtained a number of ache and grief and loss and that’s extra true to type on what life’s actually like.”
Bareilles laughed when The Put up commented on her and Harris’ superb stage chemistry playfully suggesting that the actor might “change groups” for her.
“I don’t suppose that’s about to occur,” she stated, “however you do get thrown into the deep finish and also you’ve obtained to carry on. This complete course of was actually laborious and overwhelming so you need to study to belief one another fairly shortly and fortunately we did.
“He’s so playful and so thorough and thinks of each second and asks a number of questions which is so useful. I’m form of new to all of this.”
The present, which has a restricted two-week run via Could 15, additionally stars Tony winners Heather Headley and Gavin Creel.
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