How Disney wrecked “Into The Woods”

But before we scattered thusly, we sat down with our friend (and film critic and musical theater aficionado) Bob Mondello to talk about Disney's new adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's Into The Woods, starring Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt, Anna Kendrick

We had somewhat four wide releases, Walt Disney's DIS +0.65% Into the Woods (2,478 theaters), Angelina Jolie's directorial effort Unbroken (3,131 theaters), Mark Wahlberg's The Gambler (2,478 theaters), and Tim Burton's Amy Adams/Christoph Waltz 

The material forces Marshall to actually integrate the music into the action, with characters who really do sing to each other in a story that doesn't make clunky excuses for them to do so.

Into the Woods, which has been beloved of audiences and high school dramatic clubs alike since its 1986 premiere, works in part because it both retells the traditional fairy tales and adds a twist ending, applying a touch of 

But before we scattered thusly, we sat down with our friend (and film critic and musical theater aficionado) Bob Mondello to talk about Disney's new adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's Into The Woods, starring Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt, Anna Kendrick