{"id":14704,"date":"2011-12-26T09:12:15","date_gmt":"2011-12-26T17:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=14704"},"modified":"2011-12-26T09:38:17","modified_gmt":"2011-12-26T17:38:17","slug":"open-thread-jim-hensons-into-the-woods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=14704","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread: Jim Henson’s Into The Woods"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been reading Sondheim’s second collection of his lyrics, Look I Made A Hat<\/a><\/em>, which was a Hanukkah gift from my wonderful mother. Here’s a bit of trivia I didn’t know: in 1995, Jim Henson was making a movie of Sonhdheim’s “Into The Woods,” with human actors but with Henson creators playing Jack’s cow and Cinderella’s birds. A screenplay was written, Sondheim wrote two new songs for the movie, they did readings of the screenplay featuring stars who probably would have been wrong for the actual movie, but some who would have been great, like Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Baker’s Wife), Neil Patrick Harris (Jack), and Rob Lowe (Cinderella’s Prince Charming). Then Columbia Pictures changed management, and the project was killed. The thought of what might have been could easily keep this blogger up at night, staring at the ceiling and periodically yelling “Why, Columbia Pictures, why?”<\/p>\n

Anyway, consider this an open thread. Self-linking, selfless linking, and shellfish linking are all welcome.<\/p>\n