“Paramount’s brand is to deliver the full bouquet: original orchestrations, a highly skilled, Broadway-sized company, gorgeous costumes, and in all those important aspects, this ‘Into the Woods’ delivers,” writes Tribune critic ChrisJonesTrib.
Sarah Bockel as the Baker's Wife and Stephen Schellhardt as the Baker, and cast, in"Into the Woods" at Paramount Theatre in Aurora.
And there are many moments when co-directors Jim Corti and Trent Stork’s staging does that very thing well, beginning with Larry Yando’s narrator, whom the much-loved Chicago star plays as actively seeking redemption while also knowing he is not going to find any such thing. When he slinks away, his mistakes having caught up him, it was with a Lear-like step.“Into the Woods” offers resonances wherever you may be on life’s journey.
At the other pole, Lucy Panush’s fabulous “Little Red Ridinghood” offers hope for the human future: resilient, smart, able to turn on a dime, tolerant. In the end, the girl saves The Baker, played with all the cares of the world by Stephen Schellhardt, the ill-equipped Jack and even Cinderella, whom Hannah Louise Fernandes clearly decided was woefully ill-suited to the royal life.
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