Casting History
The principal casts of notable productions of Into the Woods
| Role | Original Broadway production 1987 |
First US National Tour 1988 | London production 1990 |
Broadway revival 2002 |
London revival 2007 |
Regent's Park Open Air Theatre production 2010 |
2012 Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park production |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Narrator | Tom Aldredge | Rex Robbins | Nicholas Parsons | John McMartin | Gary Waldhorn | Eddie Manning, Ethan Beer, Joshua Swinney | Jack Broderick |
| Cinderella | Kim Crosby | Kathleen Rowe McAllen | Jacqui Dankworth | Laura Benanti | Gillian Kirkpatrick | Helen Dallimore | Jessie Mueller |
| Jack | Ben Wright | Robert Duncan McNeill | Richard Dempsey | Adam Wylie | Peter Caulfield | Ben Stott | Gideon Glick |
| Baker | Chip Zien | Ray Gill | Ian Bartholomew | Stephen DeRosa | Clive Rowe | Mark Hadfield | Denis O'Hare |
| Baker's Wife | Joanna Gleason | Mary Gordon Murray | Imelda Staunton | Kerry O'Malley | Anna Francolini | Jenna Russell | Amy Adams |
| Cinderella's Stepmother | Joy Franz | Jo Ann Cunningham | Ann Howard | Pamela Myers | Elizabeth Brice | Gaye Brown | Ellen Harvey |
| Florinda | Kay McClelland | Susan Gordon-Clark | Elizabeth Brice | Tracy Nicole Chapman | Louise Bowden | Amy Ellen Richardson | Bethany Moore |
| Lucinda | Lauren Mitchell | Danette Cuming | Liza Sadovy | Amanda Naughton | Lara Pulver | Amy Griffiths | Jennifer Rias |
| Jack's Mother | Barbara Bryne | Charlotte Rae | Patsy Rowlands | Marylouise Burke | Anne Reid | Marilyn Cutts | Kristine Zbornik |
| Little Red Ridinghood | Danielle Ferland | Tracy Katz | Tessa Burbridge | Molly Ephraim | Suzie Toase | Beverly Rudd | Sarah Stiles |
| Witch | Bernadette Peters | Cleo Laine | Julia McKenzie | Vanessa L. Williams | Beverly Klein | Hannah Waddingham | Donna Murphy |
| Cinderella's Father | Edmund Lyndeck | Don Crosby | John Rogan | Dennis Kelly | Martin Nelson | Chip Zien | |
| Cinderella's Mother | Merle Louise | Nora Mae Lyng | Eunice Gayson | Laura Benanti | Gemma Wardle | Gemma Wardle | Laura Shoop |
| Mysterious Man | Tom Aldredge | Rex Robbins | John Rogan | John McMartin | Martin Nelson | Billy Boyle | Chip Zien |
| Wolf | Robert Westenberg | Chuck Wagner | Clive Carter | Gregg Edelman & Christopher Sieber |
Nicholas Garrett | Michael Xavier | Ivan Hernandez |
| Rapunzel | Pamela Winslow | Marguerite Lowell | Mary Lincoln | Melissa Dye | Christina Haldane | Alice Fearn | Tess Soltau |
| Rapunzel's Prince | Chuck Wagner | Douglas Sills | Mark Tinkler | Christopher Sieber | Nic Greenshields | Simon Thomas | Cooper Grodin |
| Grandmother | Merle Louise | Nora Mae Lyng | Eunice Gayson | Pamela Myers | Linda Hibberd | Valda Aviks | Tina Johnson |
| Cinderella's Prince | Robert Westenberg | Chuck Wagner | Clive Carter | Gregg Edelman | Nicholas Garrett | Michael Xavier | Ivan Hernandez |
| Steward | Philip Hoffman | Marcus Olson | Peter Ledbury | Trent Armand Kendall | Byron Watson | Mark Goldthorp | Josh Lamon |
| Giant | Merle Louise | Nora Mae Lyng | Eunice Gayson | Judi Dench (Pre-recorded voice) | Linda Hibberd | Judi Dench (pre-recorded voice) | Glenn Close (Pre-recorded voice) |
| Snow White | Jean Kelly (Cindy Robinson - in 1991 PBS Television Version) | Megan Kelly | Sophie Caton | Victoria Cook | |||
| Sleeping Beauty | Maureen Davis | Kate Arneil | Tess Soltau | ||||
| Milky White | Chad Kimball | Victoria Cook/Eric R. Williams/Johnny Newcomb/Laura Shoop | |||||
| Woodsman | Marc Antolin | Johnny Newcomb | |||||
| Harp | Sophie Caton | Victoria Cook |
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