Into The Woods

Today I went to see the school play, Into the Woods, at the Pacific Grove performing arts center, which happens to be our school auditorium. Into the Woods is one of those fairy tale stories with parts from different classic fairy tales, with elements from the stories of Rapunzel, Jack and the Beanstalk, Cinderella, and others. Yann played the part of Jack, and in one part he sang a song called Giants in the Sky. Sean McKeon, our scout Senior Patrol Leader, played the baker, who had to find certain items to be able to have children.

Here's the summary from the program description:

Into the Woods is the story of: Cinderella, who wishes to attend the King's Festival; Jack, a lonely and impoverished young man who wishes that his beloved cow, Milky-White, would give milk; the Baker and his Wife, who wish they could have a child and Little Red Riding Hood who buys some bread from the Baker to take to her grandmother in the woods. An ugly old Witch visits the Baker and his Wife, revealing that the Baker's father had stolen from the Witch's garden to feed his pregnant wife, taking some of her magic beans. The Witch cursed the family, making them barren, and imprisoned their daughter Rapunzel, the Baker's sister. The Witch explains that the spell may be reversed if the Baker and his Wife can find the four ingredients she needs for a certain potion: "the cow as white as milk, the cape as red as blood, the hair as yellow as corn, and the slipper pure as gold", all within the next three days.

The play was very enjoyable, except for the technical difficulties where the body mics kept giving out and going all fuzzy.