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Into the woods is like a fractured fairytale. It has little red riding hood, Cinderella, jack and the bean stalk, and the baker. Little red riding hood stops at the baker’s house for some sweets for her grandma who is sick in bed. Then the witch from next door to the baker comes over and says that there was a spell on his family and the spell was that he couldn’t have any kids. The baker and his wife really wanted a kid. So the witch told them that they would have to get certain things to break the spell. The things are a golden shoe, hair that is as yellow as corn, a cow that is as white as snow, a red cape as red as blood, and some beans. So the baker and his wife went into the woods. Cinderella had a problem. She wanted to go to the prince’s festival but her step mom wouldn’t let her. Her step mom made a deal if Cinderella picked all the lentils out of the fire place in two hours she could go. Cinderella called the birds and they got the lentils out for her. She was running through the woods to the festival but she needed a dress so this women out of a tree gave her a pretty dress to wear and some golden shoes. Jack also had a problem his cow would not give him milk. So jacks mom told him to go to the market and sell the cow. She also said don’t sell it for under five pounds. So off went jack with his cow through the woods and to the market. The baker and his wife ran into everything they needed but always had a problem getting it. At the end the baker and his wife finally get all of the things they needed. So the witch said feed everything that you got to the cow. Later they had a kid.

My opinion about the play overall it was okay. It was confusing for me at the beginning because they didn’t really tell you the characters. One thing I would of changed for the characters was they should of made Cinderella’s hair blonde because when they showed her she had brown hair and in the book she always had blonde hair and I didn’t know who it was

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