BETTY BUCKLEY as the Witch INTO THE WOODS (Audio)

[@janhoke7796]

Truly treasure! Betty Buckley!♥️Xxxooo

[@haneefparker3165]

This is so much more clearer than the audio I have, thanks! I'm gutted that Betty never took up the role, I can only imagine how powerful her ''Last Midnight'' would've been :)

[@christopherbush9027]

What a wonderful find! Her rendition of Children Will Listen from the Sondheim concert at Carnegie Hall is perfection and my absolute favorite. Thank you Spiderwoman for posting!!!

[@biav]

this is so awkward and raw I love it

[@greatalbumslog]

Wow this is an amazing find. Thanks for sharing!

[@bogusdetonator1824]

One of the best channels on KZbin I've seen, along with Goldstone Eggroll and 1971FolliesFan. You guys post some rare and hard to find live show recordings, and I love it. I wonder how you manage to find some of these recordings. And I would love to look through your collection one day.

[@benrimalower]

I’ve been dying to hear this!!!

[@rugby8-Philadelphia]

Amazing! ....as always 😎😎😎

[@danielbaskins6601]

Red beans green beans and all the in between beans. Lol

[@auroraspiderwoman5886]

I know---the lyrics Sondheim discarded are usually better than those retained by other lyricists.

[@wickedfan811]

Again, AGAIN Betty played Sondheim's character better, than singer from original cast (no offence to Bernadette Peters, i love her with my hall heart, and she was amazing as the witch)! Thanks for sharing, Aurora!

[@h193013]

This woman was in another Sondheim show?

[@wickedfan811]

@@h193013 yeah, she was in Gypsy (Sondheim wrote the lyrics for this show).

[@jscho8674]

She is magnificent.

[@vitorrc3068]

WOW!!

[@benrimalower]

So Betty did this workshop, then they went to San Diego with Ellen Foley, then Betty did another workshop? And was one of the workshops at Playwrights Horizons? Do you know who the casts were for all these? How do the demos with Maureen Moore and John Cameron Mitchell fit in? SO MANY QUESTIONS!

[@biav]

could you perhaps give us something with madeline kahn in the future? ♥️

[@tallquaker]

Was this from a workshop?? Different rap lyrics! Thank you for sharing!!

[@benberry2129]

PLEASE post the entire workshop! Do you have it?

[@cartrezetucker6672]

This is gay Christmas.

[@auroraspiderwoman5886]

Could not ask for a greater compliment--thanks!

[@SnowCoveredKK]

I 1000% percent agree! WHERE THE HELL DID YOU FIND THIS?!?!?!?

[@auroraspiderwoman5886]

@@SnowCoveredKK I was aware that I had an old 90-minute audio cassette of a "Woods" workshop with Betty. But my recollection was that she didn't sing on it, so I never bothered to dig it out. A recent thread on Broadway World inspired me to seek it out to see if there was anything worth posting from it. And while Betty does indeed have almost nothing to sing here, I found a couple of segments of sufficient interest to be worth putting up. Glad you enjoyed.

[@robertjackson5645]

@@auroraspiderwoman5886 Always grand to find a recipe half finished. Joy.

[@UmmOopsy]

Why haven't she done it live

[@geraghtykv]

Anyone know what types of beans she says after “black beans” I cannot understand that lyric. I love the witches rap and I am glad there is a slightly different version

[@descalante64]

"Beans! Beans! And now it was beans! Red beans, green beans And all the in between beans! Wax beans! Dry beans! Soon she eyeing my beans!"

[@geraghtykv]

@@descalante64 You are a blessing. Thank you. Very clever and fun lyrics here.

[@HugeMusicalFreak]

Happy Birthday to meeee!

[@just_joe9819]

What happened to the spring awakening video’s

[@auroraspiderwoman5886]

Aren't they all still there?

[@ProfessorStuDDS]

Is that Sondheim narrating?

[@beck3543]

ooo

[@lilyhogwart]

No.

[@morsecode61]

As a person familiar with this production, some of the cast and crew found Miss Buckley incredibly difficult to work with, as she was incredibly insecure about this role and her abilities to play this on stage. She needed constant attention and time. A friend said, sincerely, "She was batshit crazy," at the time. Although her talent shines through on this recording, ultimately she was replaced.

[@bigred8432]

You could say that off every production she’s ever done

[@remyfacade]

Is this pre-broadway?

[@auroraspiderwoman5886]

No, this is from June 1986. "Into the Woods" arrived on Broadway in the fall of '87.

[@h193013]

So here it sounds like the baker was born after Rapunzel and the witch cursed the baker’s family because his father stole from her garden a second time and that he took the magic beans. Also it sounds like stealing the beans didn’t turn her into an old hag but she was just naturally that way and the potion she gave her newfound youth and beauty. That seems less convoluted than what we got.

[@bigred8432]

That’s in no way less convoluted. And the witch losing her beauty is an important plot point

[@AKoooooooo]

Cow swallows

[@h193013]

I don’t want to sound mean but I like this woman better than Ellen Foley