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Why "Into the Woods" Matters by Michael Schulman

For the past year or so, a certain segment of the population"musical-theatre fans who were children in the eighties and thought they were too good for Andrew Lloyd Webber"has experienced a punishing range of emotions about the new movie "Into the Woods," based on the Stephen Sondheim-James Lapine musical of the same name. The emotions include anxiety, rage, anticipation, possessiveness, nostalgia, suspicion, denial, …

SOURCE: The New Yorker at 12:00AM on December 24, 2014

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