#James Lapine

[eddiediazismyhusband]

going on my falsettos/buddie shit for a second, but the song “What Would I Do” is soooooo buddie after one of them is in an accident and they don’t know if they’re gonna make it, like—

like im imagining eddie singing this to buck after the lightning strike when he was sobbing in that hospital room while Buck was in a coma

for any of my fellow musical theater stans that happen to also be in the 911 fandom i HIGHLY recommend the falsettos 2016 revival cast recording… it will rip your heart out, stomp on it, put it back in, rip it out again, and tear it to pieces (it also has tracie thoms playing a badass lesbian doctor so what other convincing do you need??)

#911 abc #buddie #eddie diaz #911 spoilers #evan buckley #911 #buddie 911 #buck and eddie #911 season 7 #evan buck buckely #falsettos 2016 #falsettos revival #falsettos #what would i do falsettos #bill finn and james lapine #bill finn #james lapine #musical theatre #broadway

[tobbogan-13]

#i’m homosexual #short insomniac #spiked lesbian #and nervous wreck (sigh) #musical theatre #theatre #falsettos #andrew rannells #falsettoland #whizzer falsettos #the marvin trilogy #marvin trilogy #falsettos 2016 #falsettos 1992 #welcome to falsettoland #william finn #james lapine

[in-love-with-movies]

Impromptu (1991)

#Impromptu #filmedit #perioddramaedit #Judy Davis #Hugh Grant #Bernadette Peters #Julian Sands #Emma Thompson #James Lapine #my gifs #movie gifs

[pemberlaey]

Moodboard: Falsettos

It's about growing up, getting older, living on a lover's shoulder. Learning love is not a crime. It's about time.

#this musical is probably the greatest piece of art that we have #falsettos #musicals #james lapine #william finn #marvin falsettos #whizzer brown #trina falsettos #mendel weisenbachfeld #jason falsettos #whizzv #trindel #moodboard #moodboards #christian borle #andrew rannells #SJB #stephanie j block #brandon uranowitz #anthony rosenthal #betsy wolfe #tracie thoms #broadway #falsettos 2016 #the marvin trilogy #in trousers #march of the falsettos #falsettoland

[sondheims-hat]

1984: Mandy Patinkin, Sondheim, Bernadette Peters (and Georges Seurat).

#sondheim #james lapine #sunday in the park with george #mandy patinkin #bernadette peters

[doyouknowthismusical]

#musical theater #do you know this musical #poll #falsettos #james lapine #william finn #language: english

[breegadey]

I know I might be in too deep with Ryoko Kui's Dungeon Meshi when one of the first things that popped into my head after listening to the Into The Woods 2022 cast album was:

"Hey, what are they gonna do with the carcass of the Giant they killed? The crops were destroyed and there is no magic left - what are their options now?"

"Would it be considered the "c-word" if they ate its remains? How close to human biology is a Giant, anyway?"

"How many servings can you get from an adult specimen? Could it serve an entire village?"

Ah, Woods Meshi...Woods Meshi...!

#thinking unhinged thoughts as sondheim intended #dungeon meshi #dungeon meshi spoilers #delicious in dungeon #delicious in dungeon spoilers #ryoko kui #into the woods #stephen sondheim #james lapine #musical #broadway #posted

[dorothy16]

via noel macneal’s instagram story.

#darren criss #alan menken #james lapine #evan rachel wood #noel macneal #little shop of horrors #little shop backstage #noel macneal ig #me edits

[d-criss-news]

Via Noel MacNeal's Instagram Story (March 31st, 2024)

#darren criss #alan menken #james lapine #evan rachel wood #little shop of horrors #little shop of horrors bway #instagram #march 2024

[glimeres]

Joanna Gleason and the Original Broadway Cast of Into The Woods in the recording studio, 1987 Phoography by Nick Sangiamo

#ngl just wanted to post these pictures of joanna looking gorgeous #joanna gleason #chip zien #danielle ferland #into the woods #stephen sondheim #james lapine #nick sangiamo #musical #broadway

[callmedotseurat]

The original Broadway cast of "Sunday in the Park with George," Mandy Patinkin, Charles Kimbrough, top left, and Bernadette Peters, bottom right, join director James Lapine and composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim, top right, at the Lyceum Theater in New York, Saturday, May 14, 1994. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

#bernadette peters #broadway #stephen sondheim #broadway baby #broadway legend #mandy patinkin #james lapine #sunday in the park with george

[tobbogan-13]

Cute Pet names to call your partner ❤️

-Hommosexual

-Women with Children

-Short Insomiac

-Teeny tiny Band

-Father with children

-one Bar Mitsvah

-Nancy Reagan

-Spiky lesbian

-Women internist

-Shiksa caterer

-Pretty boy

-ex-ex lovers

-hypochondriac

-Yiddish American

-spiky family

-radiologist

-intellectual

-nervous wreck

-*sigh

#I'm positive someone's done this before #falsettoland #falsettos #the marvin trilogy #welcome to falsettoland #william finn #james lapine

[nycto-rotting]

does anyone know the backstory to the original poster for falsettos? did keith haring make this or was it heavily inspired by his work?

i was also thinking of including elements similar to haring’s artworks in falsettos fanarts. would that be a good idea?

#falsettos #falsettos 1992 #marvin trilogy #william finn #james lapine #march of the falsettos #falsettoland #im so invested in the marvin trilogy its crazy

[asentienthaze]

Into The Woods: Why the movie was shit

I'm not the first person to talk about this, nor will I be the last. It's pretty widely accepted among theatre fans that Disney bungled up this fantastic show. But it's important nevertheless to talk about how it went wrong, 'cause adaptations are delicate things, and the core of a good adaptation is an understanding of the themes and messages that constitute the story, and not just the story itself. Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine together wove a fairly meticulous fabric that is this musical, and it's fascinating to see how Disney's adaptation reduced it to rags.

For a summary of this show's plot, I recommend watching the first few minutes of Sideways' video on the themes in this show, mainly because it's a fairly complex plot and he explains it well. This is especially important, since the plot of the movie is……definitely not the same.(The whole video is definitely worth a watch too, and it brings up points that I might talk about here too.) Done that? Good, let's keep going.

"The narrator comes on stage, and he starts, 'Once upon a time.' Now once he says that, the audience starts to relax inside. Now what I wanted to do was to wake them up immediately, so before [the narrator] gets to the fifth word, I wanted a loud sound from the orchestra, or the piano"

That was Stephen Sondheim talking about the very beginning of the show. The choices he made in the songs were almost all deliberate, they were for a reason.

Now what does the movie do? They say the entire first line of the song before playing the musical sting. They knew that they had to have that there, since it was part of the prologue song, but they didn't understand at all why the song was structured the way it was.

Let this be an omen as to how the movie will adapt this musical.

Another important part of the first song is the constant quarter note motion the piano makes throughout. It's what keeps the energy of the first song going, and is the song's connective tissue. Guess what the movie didn't do? As a result, it makes the prologue feel like five different disconnected small songs.

The main problem that the adaptation suffered, was the removal of seemingly small things, but which ultimately led to the plot of the movie collapsing in on itself.

The first major one is the removal of the narrator and the baker's father. Yes, the movie technically had a narrating voice, and the father got….like one scene, both played much more prominent roles in the original musical. The baker's father, initially a mysterious old man, pulled many of the threads that made the various characters really interact, and he's an outside force helping move the story along. As for the narrator…well it's important to note that the narrator is a character. A major feature of the show is that it's a story with characters, and the show knows that. The narrator dictated how the story would go, and when the witch sacrifices him to the giant, the characters are left to fend for themselves, and that is how most of the destruction in the second act really happens.

The second one is Rapunzel's death. In the musical Rapunzel is crushed by the giant, and it leads to Witch's Lament:

"This is the world I meant. / Couldn't you listen? / Couldn't you stay content, safe behind walls / As I could not?"

An important thing to note is while yes her relationship with Rapunzel is definitely toxic, there's a complexity that arises out of her over sheltering Rapunzel to protect her, and then as a result she comes to despise that "shelter", and is then ultimately killed. The fact that she is grieving the loss of her daughter plays largely into her character in the second act, something that is entirely lacking in the movie. SO MANY OF HER LINES get undermined by this one detail, that Rapunzel never died, and that she was wrong the whole time.

Lastly, songs that were cut. There are four main ones that are important to talk about.

First, Maybe They're Magic. It's sung right after the Baker and his wife sell the beans to get the cow. It's the first time the question of whether or not they'll really have to lie and possibly steal to obtain the items, and what the ethics of it really are, arises. It also exemplifies the character of the Baker's Wife, and her more clever side, which we further see when she obtains her items mostly through either deceit or persuasion. This glimpse into her character helps set her up for 'Moments in the Woods', a song much later which also expresses her inner thoughts.

Two: Ever After/Prologue: So Happy. This is how the show ends its first act and begins the second. In the movie the events in the second act occur immediately after the wedding, while in the musical there is a time gap between the acts. The music is referenced in the instrumental track, but it's never actually sung. Although the songs are definitely very much suited for a theatrical performance, cutting both the songs means that the resulting events that occur within them have to be shuffled and rearranged. The way that the characters make their way into the woods changes, and the prince and Rapunzel run off together much later, which doesn't allow for their later scenes to ever happen in the movie. It's where the cracks in the movie start to show, and ultimately the way the decisions made for earlier parts snowballs into the later parts of the movie.

Three: Agony Reprise. Agony as a song is famous from both the movie and the show. However the reprise happens in the second act, when it turns out the two princes are not focused on the giant, but in fact on another maiden somewhere else, much like how they were in the first act. Except now they're married. Removing this song is basically like telling a joke without the punchline. Yes, Agony by itself is funny, but it's the perfect setup for its reprise. As the plot stood in the movie, it's clear why it couldn't be put in, but,,,like that's the problem. That's the whole problem

Finally: No More. This song is the one I'm most mad that they cut out. It's the final interaction the Baker has with his father, just after he runs away leaving his baby son with Cinderella. The movie,,,,badly paraphrases it, and then cuts to the Baker,,,,,crying? There's no actual emotional development, no actual introspection, and it removes one of the best written scenes in the show.

"Where are we to go?

Where are we ever to go?

Running away—we'll do it

Why sit around, resigned?

Trouble is, son

The farther you run

The more you feel undefined.

For what you left undone,

And more, what you left behind"

I implore you, watch this scene, if nothing else. It's a work of art, and the fact that it's completely cut out is a crime.

Pretty much every character in the movie became a duller and flatter version of their original, but the most egregious examples are Jack and his mother. Jack is older in the show, significantly so. He's basically in his late teens, and is sweet and naive, but not particularly bright. In the movie, however, he's,,,,a child. Like just straight up a child, and now his personality is no longer "too ungrounded for his age" but instead it's exactly how a child his age might act. Conversely, Jack's mother is overbearing, but ultimately 'stern but sweet', and is much more gentle with Jack than in the movie. In the movie though, she's mean and almost callous towards Jack, in a way that doesn't make her an enjoyable character.

I won't blame the actors for most of this. Yes, a point can be made that some of the acting itself may have been bad, but most of the fault in what I've talked about goes to the directors and script writers.

In every adaptation, choices need to be made. Since this was no longer a theatrical performance, liberties had to be taken to fit it into a film format. But each choice has a consequence, and their choices to change parts of the story snowballed into the climax of the movie, making it almost entirely different from the musical.

We talk about Into The Woods as a Sondheim show, but it is just as much a show by Lapine as it is by Sondheim. Lapine's ability to craft a story with strong and clear themes, no matter how complex or abstract the plot is, is one of the show's greatest assets. The movie was a disservice to original stage musical, but most of all it was a disservice to Lapine, taking his carefully crafted story and muddling and twisting it, until the end product had killed the central spirit of the original.

#into the woods #into the woods movie #into the woods musical #broadway #musical #musical theatre #musical theater fandom #musical theatre trash #rant post #broadway theatre #analysis #fuck disney #in general but also for this specific gripe #stephen sondheim #james lapine #sondheim shows #im not gonna tag any of the actors obviously #except maybe #james cordon #no one on that tag is a fan of him #right? #bernadette peters #fairytale #im still salty #about this movie #also its so fucking dark you cant see shit

[sondheims-hat]

1987

#sondheim #james lapine #into the woods

[doyouknowthismusical]

#musical theater #do you know this musical #poll #sunday in the park with george #stephen sondheim #james lapine #language: english