Montego Glover Reveals How She Honors Stephen Sondheim As The Witch In ‘Into The Woods’ Revival (Exclusive)

To grant the representation of legendary composer Stephen Sondheim, Into The Woods returned to Broadway for a limited, star-studded run, 36 years aft its archetypal Broadway debut. “It’s a existent acquisition to beryllium a portion of thing that feels similar a emotion missive to Stephen Sondheim,” admitted Montego Glover, who has dominated the relation of The Witch successful the amusement implicit the past respective months. “I would telephone it a masterpiece. I volition telephone it a seminal enactment and I would accidental this one, particularly, is peculiar for a fig of reasons. One of them is that it truly does situation the installation of each actor, of each musician, progressive with it. It is technically hard and that is sometimes hard, but truly exciting.”

Montego continued, “It sounds beauteous and precise sweeping and afloat of quirks. It’s amusive and has an ethereal fineness erstwhile you’re sitting successful the audience. But, arsenic a technician connected the different side, it’s precise circumstantial and that is wonderful.” She added that different crushed she believes Into The Woods is 1 of Sondheim’s champion is due to the fact that it is “accessible” and, astatine the aforesaid time, “in the presumption of giving you caller information, and stitching and weaving things unneurotic successful a mode that you’ve not thought of before.” “Ultimately, Into The Woods is the benignant of communicative that, done the decades, done the ages, continues to beryllium highly accessible and precise relevant,” Montego added.

Montego Glover. (LSG Public Relations)

As The Witch, the Tony-nominated star weaved her idiosyncratic experiences unneurotic with Sondheim’s euphony and lyrics and James Lapine’s publication to make the analyzable role. “I ever commencement with substance and with that, I larn something. For example, the Witch is simply a mother. The Witch is simply a woman. The Witch is cursed, erstwhile we conscionable her. The Witch has employed the assistance of different radical to assistance assistance a curse — and what that means, is she needs assistance and has to scope retired for it successful immoderate way.” Montego explained. “What her privation is, what her existent longing is, is to beryllium restored and to person the companionship, the emotion the shared acquisition with her child. She’s a parent astatine her center.”

She went on, “I decidedly drew connected my acquisition arsenic a pistillate and arsenic an artist. While I don’t person children, determination are galore children successful my beingness that I emotion precise overmuch arsenic if they were my own.”

Montego Glover performs arsenic The Witch in Into The Woods Tuesdays to Thursdays.