Jake Gyllenhaal Talks ‘Life’, Preparation and Singing Sondheim
“My favorite actors are like artists” – Jake Gyllenhaal
Emily Blunt on Auditioning for ‘Into The Woods’: “It’s like that feeling of showing your underwear”
Musical veterans like Anna Kendrick, James Cordon, and Simon Russell Beale were natural choices for Disney’s movie adaptation of Stephen Sondheim‘s Into The Woods. However, one of the main roles was filled by an actress with no musical experience, Emily Blunt. Speaking with The New York Times, Blunt spoke about
Broadway Actress Morgan James Trashes, Then Apologizes for Trashing, Shakespeare in the Park Production of ‘Into the Woods’
If you don’t have something nice to say, as our mothers used to say, don’t say anything at all! Of course, being that I am a movie and theatre critic I often have to write things that aren’t very nice, but obviously in situations where criticism isn’t warranted or asked
Danny Burstein on the Broadway Revival of ‘Follies’ and Getting Advice from Sondheim
Burstein never saw the original before he received the part, but of course there were a lot of opinions about how it should be.
‘The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess’ Versus Stephen Sondheim and New York Critics: Will The Show’s Curtain Ever Rise on Broadway?
What should the producers of a show do when it has already been savaged by Stephen Sondheim, New York Times theater critic Ben Brantley, and Bloomberg theater critic Jeremy Gerard before it has even made its planned debut on Broadway?