There are always wolves
I shouldn’t have played the wolf.
That’s not modesty (false or otherwise) on my part, but the truth. I played Rapunzel’s Prince in Into the Woods and traditionally, the role of the Wolf is doubled by the actor playing Cinderella’s Prince (older brother to the prince I played). Certain other characters are traditionally doubled in the show, but as it happened, this was the only doubling in our production. There are many reasons why the original doubling is preserved. The biggest of them is probably that Cinderella’s Prince doesn’t make an appearance until after the Wolf has been done away with, whereas Rapunzel’s Prince has a scene between the Wolf’s two appearances on stage, making the costume change issue more complicated. This would also leave the prince’s steward free to double the role, and indeed this was originally mooted for us.
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