Cast Chosen for HCS Musical: Into The Woods

RFH 2010, Featured Articles, Arts

Fri, Jan 08, 2010

Rehearsals are under way for the HCS Masquers' production of Into The Woods, the Stephen Sondheim musical inspired by Bruno Bettelheim's book, The Uses of Enchantment. Performances are scheduled for Friday and Saturday nights, March 26 and 27.

The musical follows several fairy tale characters including Little Red Ridinghood, Jack and the Beanstalk, Rapunzel and Cinderella. They are linked by another story about a baker and his wife and desire to start a family.

Into the Woods debuted on Broadway in 1987 and won several Tony awards. There was a revival of it in 2002.

Donna Moren directs. The cast includes:

The Baker – Josh Valencia

The Baker's Wife – Phoebe Rotter

     Understudy – Alisa Babcock

Cinderella – Dana Bowers

     Understudy – Sarah Markowski

Cinderella's Mother – Emily Powrie

Cinderella’s Stepmother – Alisa Babcock

Florinda, Cinderella's stepsister – Kayla Landis

Lucinda, Cinderella's stepsister – Charley Todd

Understudies for Stepsisters and Stepmother – Hannah Parfitt, Corilynn
Coye, Liz Pils

Cinderella’s Father – Mike Jones

Steward – Andrew Powrie

Jack – Blaine Holcomb

Jack's Mother – Keslie Nolen

Understudy – Kayla Landis

Little Red Riding Hood – Samantha Martin

Understudy – Gwynnie Davies

Granny – Gwynnie Davies

Narrator/Mysterious Man – David Schutt

The Witch – Alana Graber

Understudy - Charley Todd

Rapunzel – Sarah Markowski

Understudy – Emily Powrie

Rapunzel's Prince – Phil Douchinsky

Cinderella's Prince/Wolf – Kinnon Nolan-Finkle

Snow White – Hannah Parfitt

Sleeping Beauty – Corilynn Coye

Understudy for male roles – Brock Penny

Each member of the chorus has been assigned a character from Grimm’s
Fairy Tales.

Christian Andrzejek – Hansel

Helen Judge – Gretel

Tom Bodnar - Huntsman

Ashley Crowell – Rose Red

Trista Evans – Little Red Cap

Hannah Farrell – The Hare’s Bride

Hannah Freeman – Briar Rose

Dillon Head – Rumplestiltskin

Elizabeth Hodge – Black Princess

Eliza Nolen – Black Princess

Hannah Sorosky – Black Princess

Nicolle Holcomb – The Queen Bee

Maddy Lemal – Brown – Peasant’s Wise Daughter

Annie Noens – Bremen Town Musician

Elizabeth Williams – Bremen Town Musician

MC Noens – Goose Girl

Tara Rebuck – The Shepardess

Jenna Schell – The White Bride

Danielle Capirci – Spinner

Skye Rose – A Dancing Princess

Kaylin Broadwell – Dancing Princess
musical based on the Grim Brothers' fairy tales.

The Baker – Josh Valencia

The Baker's Wife – Phoebe Rotter

     Understudy – Alisa Babcock

Cinderella – Dana Bowers

     Understudy – Sarah Markowski

Cinderella's Mother – Emily Powrie

Cinderella’s Stepmother – Alisa Babcock

Florinda, Cinderella's stepsister – Kayla Landis

Lucinda, Cinderella's stepsister – Charley Todd

   Understudies for Stepsisters and Stepmother – Hannah Parfitt, Corilynn
Coye and Liz Pils

Cinderella’s Father – Mike Jones

Steward – Andrew Powrie

Jack – Blaine Holcomb

Jack's Mother – Keslie Nolen

  Understudy – Kayla Landis

Little Red Riding Hood – Samantha Martin

  Understudy – Gwynnie Davies

Granny – Gwynnie Davies

Narrator/Mysterious Man – David Schutt

The Witch – Alana Graber

  Understudy - Charley Todd

Rapunzel – Sarah Markowski

  Understudy – Emily Powrie

Rapunzel's Prince – Phil Douchinsky

Cinderella's Prince/Wolf – Kinnon Nolan-Finkle

Snow White – Hannah Parfitt

Sleeping Beauty – Corilynn Coye

  Understudy for male roles – Brock Penny

The chorus has been assigned a character from Grimm’s Fairy Tales.

Christian Andrzejek – Hansel

Helen Judge – Gretel

Tom Bodnar - Huntsman

Ashley Crowell – Rose Red

Trista Evans – Little Red Cap

Hannah Farrell – The Hare’s Bride

Hannah Freeman – Briar Rose

Dillon Head – Rumplestiltskin

Elizabeth Hodge – Black Princess

Eliza Nolen – Black Princess

Hannah Sorosky – Black Princess

Liz Pils – Sleeping Beauty’s Fairy

Nicolle Holcomb – The Queen Bee

Maddy Lemal – Brown – Peasant’s Wise Daughter

Annie Noens – Bremen Town Musician

Elizabeth Williams – Bremen Town Musician

MC Noens – Goose Girl

Tara Rebuck – The Shepardess

Jenna Schell – The White Bride

Danielle Capirci – Spinner

Skye Rose – A Dancing Princess

Kaylin Broadwell – Dancing Princess