New cast members join INTO THE WOODS at the Bridge Theatre

Who are the new cast members?

Melanie La Barrie (Hadestown) will play the Witch, John Owen-Jones (Les Misérables) will play the Narrator/Mysterious Man, Jack Quarton (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) will play the Steward, Rachel Tucker (Wicked) will play the Baker’s Wife and Jodie Jacobs (Fiddler on the Roof) joins as Standby. Hughie O’Donnell (King Lear), currently playing the Steward, will play the role of the Baker.

They join original cast members Valda Aviks as Grandmother/Giant, Geoffrey Aymer as Cinderella’s Father, Bella Brown as Rapunzel, Chumisa Dornford-May as Cinderella, Jo Foster (Olivier Award nominated for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in a Musical) as Jack, Jennifer Hepburn as Cinderella’s Stepmother, Hana Ichijo as Lucinda, Julie Jupp as Jack’s Mother, Gabrielle Lewis-Dodson as Florinda, Gracie McGonigal as Little Red Ridinghood, Oliver Savile (Olivier Award nominated for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in a Musical) as Cinderella’s Prince/Wolf, Rhys Whitfield as Rapunzel’s Prince and Standbys Taite-Elliot Drew, Jacob Fowler, Sophie Linder-Lee and Chloe Saracco.

About Into the Woods

In Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s classic musical, fairy tale characters from four of the Brothers Grimm's fairy tales, such as the Baker, the Baker’s Wife, the Witch, Jack, Little Red Ridinghood, Cinderella and Rapunzel take us beyond happy ever after to discover what really matters. After its Broadway debut in 1986, Into The Woods won Tony awards each for Sondheim (Best Original Score) and Lapine (Best Book). In London it has had productions by Richard Jones (Phoenix Theatre, 1990), John Crowley (Donmar, 1998) and Timothy Sheader (Regent's Park Open Air Theatre, 2010). This is its first major London production since 2016.

Into The Woods has recently been nominated for 11 Olivier Awards, including including Best Musical Revival, Best Director, Best Set Design, Best Costume Design, Best Lighting Design, Best Sound Design, Best Actress in a Musical, Best Actor in a Musical, Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Musical and Best Actor in a Supporting Role in a Musical.

The creative team

The creative team includes director Jordan Fein and set and costume designer Tom Scutt, are musical supervisor and musical director Mark Aspinall, sound designer Adam Fisher, lighting designer Aideen Malone, video designer Roland Horvath, movement director Jenny Ogilvie, wigs, hair & make-up designer Sam Cox, puppetry designers Cheryl ‘Chuck’ Brown, Max Humphries and Tom Scutt.

Into the Woods is playing at the Bridge Theatre until 30th May 2026.

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