Adapting a stage musical to the screen is never easy. On stage, musicals work because of their theatricality—the feeling of pretend, play, magic, and performance. Whereas in the relatively naturalistic world of film, those elements are very hard to pull off. Which makes the surprisingly successful film adaptation of Stephen Sondheim’s and James Lapine’s stage musical INTO THE WOODS even more worthy of study.

In this podcast, Jacob Krueger discusses how adapting INTO THE WOODS for Disney might just have been one of the most challenging projects ever.

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