She desperately wants a child, and once she has one, understandably, she wants a bigger house in which to raise him. She’s skeptical, hurt, and a bit bitter, like a character in a Paula Fox novel. In a musical that is mostly a dizzying roundelay of Grimms’ fairy tales – Jack climbs his beanstalk, and Little Red Riding Hood squares off against the Wolf – the Baker’s Wife stands out. It’s a role that’s passed like a crown from one talented actress to the next. In the musical, she plays the Baker’s Wife, a part that Joanna Gleason – who played the wife when the show débuted on Broadway, in 1987 – first made famous, and that Imelda Staunton and Amy Adams later performed. She is currently starring in the revival of Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods.

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