3:37 THE PART WHERE SHE GOES “doesn’t matter how anyway it doesn’t matter now” scratches an itch so nicely

All I want in life is to sing like Bernadette Peters

Bernadette Peter’s is the definitive Witch.

Bernadette peters is perfection in this role

2:58

Sondheim was BRILLIANT!

Not enough comments about how Sondheim gets it. I'm not sure how to describe it but it's like a nervous itch in your brain, never resolving, never letting you off the hook. Peter and The Wolf has a similar feeling.

I don't think it's right to let an innocent young boy die even if it's to get peace.

I’m a simp

It's a fucking SIN they didn't cast her in the into the woods movie Meryl streep is good but NEVER could EVER match her gorgeous voice!!!! ❤

I am with the witch.

She gets so tired of everyone else’s crap she liquifys Herself

Meryl did it better, i love Bernadette Peters but Meryl sung this better.

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如果讓竇唯給西遊記配樂，一定震撼！

Bernadette Peters was born to play this role.

Is it just me or does anyone else feel like this fictional song from a fairytale musical is inching increasingly closer to being a factual account of life as we know it, especially over the past 4-6 years? Such a gem from the sage that was Sondheim.

4:29 Go off Queen 💅

Bernadette you rock and I love you ❤❤❤

i love Bernadette Peters so much. i can't even😭😭😭😭

The irony in this statement is that all of these people were full of vanity and self obsession yet the wltch was the bad one. 😂

I'm sorry, but IMO no Broadway actress has managed the rawness of Meryl Streep as the witch in the movie. Singing, no, bellowing out this absolute disgust for humans. Towards all the greed, the vanity and all the other small, petty grudges we all harbor.

I hate that fucking movie it just doesn’t do the play’s justice like u literally had perfection WHY did u made it so dark and humorless

this hits so hard emotionally but also it's so fucking hilarious that the witch is like oh my god. you people are so fucking stupid. bye. and then just leaves

De-center men and you're a witch Can't wait till evolution catches us all

SHES SO MOTHER!!!

3:40

最愛聽完殃金咒 聽這首

I remember going to see this play off Broadway in the late 80s/early 90s. Bernadette was in the cast, but that day, her understudy must have stepped in. Sick? Who knows. Would have been great to see her. But the other cast, including Dean Butler, just did such an amazing job. The understudy, as well.

Bernadette is perfection in this role

Sorry but this over Maryl’s any day

2:54

the cut off explosion at the end kills me- "And the gloom, and the doom, and the boooom.....!!! CRUN-"

This is and probably always will be my favorite song from this play. It's just so relatable! Like, why are people so stupid and petty and irrational? All of these people are just trying to find someone to blame for the problem and nobody is offering any solutions. The witch offers a solution! It may not be pretty or nice, It might not be the best solution, but at least she's trying. Everyone else is just complaining and pointing fingers and not being helpful at all. The witch is just tired and frustrated. Her final curse is leaving the people alone to solve their own problems because she's done with their pettiness. She doesn't even care if she gets cursed to be ugly because she lost the beans again. She just wants away from these irrational people. And who can blame her really?

1:18

Definitely can't compare theatre and movie. I appreciate the play, but enjoy the movie more due to the extra motion and focus on facial expressions also along with voice emotion.

i came upon her and she was under a tree

This song is probably one of my favorites from this musical There's just something about it that makes it one of my favorite songs from this musical also listening to it through the perspective of the witch gives the song a whole new meaning and overall it adds to her character and story arch

TIL the last word she howls is "crunch"

2:58

6:06 that scream man, so blood curdling

Bernadette, drop the sausage curls. You aren’t 14 anymore and that hair would have been too childish at 14•

just got out of watching the 2022 broadway version and had to rewatch bernadette peters’ version! both are so good!

queen

Her "shhhhhh", so still, so condescending. Ugh Bernadette Peters is such a queen 💕

*c r u n c h*

Somebody to blame.. politics

those that are ultimately to blame for the events are below. 1.] the witche's mother for placing a curse on the beans directed at her daughter. 2.] the baker's mother for constantly craving greens during her 2nd pregancy. 3.] the baker's father for stealing the greens from the witche's garden along with the magic beans. not to mention abandoning his son after the curse was placed for the magic beans theft. 4.]the witch for placing a curse on the baker's family/house to be barren & only willing to offer to remove the cursein exchange for a magical potion. 5.] jack's mother for insisting that jack tell a lie to overprice sell the cow to get money & desireing lots of money 6.] jack for telling a lie to overprice selling the cow while repeatadly climbing the beanstalk to steal gold & treasures eventually causing 1st giant's death when beanstalk was cut down. 7.] red riding hood for daring jack to climb the beanstalk for proof of treasure 8.] cinderella for tossing the last magic bean on the ground causing new beanstalk to grow letting 2nd giant to climb down beanstalk. 9.] 2nd giant for killing many people while possibly rearranging the forest & demanding that jack be brought to her for death.

I love the way this is constructed. The baker starts it, in an outburst of emotion he is just looking for somewhere to put his guilt, and attacks Jack. Jack hits back, and the baker is so desperate to place the blame but not recieve it that he spins around and targets the witch. Red and whatshername appear to just be trying to mathematically figure it out, no stake in it, while Jack and the Baker go back and forth. At which point everyone gets a bit confused and Red seems a bit too eager to find fault, then the only somewhat indifferent person (sorry forgot her name) gets targeted, so now even the most passive is on the defence, and it starts to get everyone agitated as theres nowhere relaxed to go, until they bite off more than they can chew, so caught up in their ping-ponging frustration that they target the witch, who doesnt react, not in the way they're needing to keep from dealing with it. She just stands her ground, and they're stuck. She points fingers, but not in a cause and effect way where they're free to keep moving the goal posts, she assertively points out the behaviours they cant deny, acknowledging theyre all guilty no matter who they look to. ""Doesn't matter now." I've been studying emotional maturity and this is a good demonstration of a grounded person calling out impulsive children.

I remember watching this in class and I started laughing cus of "LOOK AT WHAT I FOUND👹". When she was gonna try to sacrifice him to the giant