For some singers, the experience of being the acclaimed star of a Stephen Sondheim production would finally define them. That is not the case for Sara Bareilles, who plays the Baker’s Wife in the revival of Sondheim’s “Into the Woods.”
Sara Bareilles has a talent for finding the human center of things. She is currently starring in the revival of Stephen Sondheim’s “.” In the musical, she plays the Baker’s Wife, a part that Joanna Gleason—who played the wife when the show débuted on Broadway, in 1987—first made famous, and that Imelda Staunton and Amy Adams later performed. It’s a role that’s passed like a crown from one talented actress to the next.
As a result, Bareilles has stealthily made her mark in more varied ways, burrowing into more vital places in the culture than Apple Music’s Pop Hits Radio. Before her performance in “Into the Woods” came her work as the songwriter for the musical “,” which ran for more than fifteen hundred performances. It’s the story of a woman who’s abused by her husband and finds solace in baking.
Bareilles is an avid oversharer on social media. From Instagram, I learned that she takes half a tablet of medication daily for depression and anxiety, and often feels insecure. From Twitter, I know that she cried during “Up.” She finds the American Buddhist nun Pema Chödrön inspirational and uses the Ten Percent Happier app.
Either way, the song’s meta trick—a woman writes a catchy tune about being unwilling to write a catchy tune about love—gave the song permission to succeed both as protest anthem and marketable totem. The gambit seems obvious now, and possibly a little cynical, but Bareilles says that it came from a deep ambivalence. She adds that her manager and label, after hearing the album, called “Little Voice,” were both surprised by how successful it was.
You couldn’t be a musical actor in New York without bumping into Sondheim sooner or later. One audition, shortly after she arrived, was for a version of “Into the Woods” to be performed as part of the Shakespeare in the Park series. She tried out for the role of Cinderella but did not get a call back.
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