... How many stories can you think of where the plot involves going into the woods? Snow White. Little Red Riding Hood. Hansel and Gretel. What others can you think of? Going into the woods was a foreshadowing of dark and ominous things to come. Remember Stephen Sondheim's Broadway musical "Into the Woods?" In it, childhood storybook characters go traipsing into the woods and at the end of Act I, a witches' spell is broken and everyone is happy. But at the end of Act II, the characters have learned some painful ...
