The "Into The Woods" song no one talks about

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3 ай бұрын

We all know and love Giants In The Sky, On The Steps of the Palace, The Witch's Rap, Moments In The Woods, I Know Things Now, Your Fault / Last Midnight, etc. But here's one song from "Into the Woods" (Music & Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, Book by James Lapine) that nobody is talking about! So in this video, I give my full analysis of "Maybe They're Magic," sung by the Baker's Wife, which includes the Bean Motif, the Witch's Chord, the "I Wish" motif, the Baker's Wife's melody, and more.
Into the Woods recently had a Broadway Revival starring Sara Bareilles, Brian D'Arcy James, Gavin Creel, Joshua Henry, Patina Miller, Montego Glover, Joaquina Kalukango, and more.
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@rossp1467 3 ай бұрын

The depth of Sondheim's brilliance is far beyond what most of us realize. Thanks for teaching us how to see, Mateo

@if3359 3 ай бұрын

You made me think back to "No One Is Alone" because I thought, hmm, doesn't Cinderella start that song? What,does she start with? Oh, right -Mother cannot guide you-, just like the mother of the baker's baby, who cannot guide them anymore like she did in "Maybe They're Magic".

@kelvinkao7436 3 ай бұрын

Mind blown! The way Sondheim buried all these musical information in the score is pretty insane!

@Y2KouGRRR Ай бұрын

This song and motif set the stage for my1998 thesis, in which I argued that we're exploring Freud's balance of Id, Ego, and Superego. It. Clearly sets unfettered ego and Superego in place .

@julesk2629 2 ай бұрын

And that motif is in Stay With Me too I never realized

@KallitCarma 3 ай бұрын

the pun at the end is everything though

@zoejohnson6397 3 ай бұрын

This song is amazing I can't believe it's only like one minute long

@allisonbergh4429 3 ай бұрын

I knew this show backwards and forwards for YEARS before I got the joke of this song 😅 Love your analysis. I think it was Sideways who did a video about the bean motif, but he didn’t go into this song at all, and it’s always been one of my favourites. 🥰

@runawayz28 3 ай бұрын

I was so hoping this would be the song you would talk about when I saw the title of the video! This is my favourite song from Into The Woods, I love it so much

@Agent160FTW 3 ай бұрын

Watching this feels like a great celebration on the day Sondheim would have turned 94 ;) Your analysis-videoes are always brilliant and so interesting and this was very enlightening and makes me love Into the Woods (my favorite musical) even more.

@rogeriomelofranco 9 күн бұрын

Sondheim has no rivals. He's the epitome of his art form. My favorite moment in Into the Woods is in fact a pair of songs: it's how Your Fault's counterpoints lead into The Last Midnight and how both songs relate to each other. The lyrics are also terrific. I'm Brazilian, the songwriting tradition I feel more connected to has a different flavor. But anyone vaguely interested in songs should see Sondheim as an absolute master of the craft. He's right there with Schubert, Puccini, McCartney, Michel Legrand, Jobim, each one in his own lineage but equally impressive songwriters.

@annmharbison1190 3 ай бұрын

Thx for doing this. Would you believe that the HS production I saw the other night was the first time I had seen the show.

@Liisandro10 3 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for this amazing video! Into the Woods is my favorite musical ever. Would love an Into the Woods dissection song by song, your passion is contagious!

@MusicTheatreTheory 3 ай бұрын

omggg that idea is so crazy that I just might have to do it 😂😂😂

@pendersweetz 17 күн бұрын

What a lovely video! The show is the first show I fell in love with when I saw it as a trial on PBS I am not proficient in music reading or theory, but I’ve been singing the songs since I was old enough and maybe before lol It was so cool to see the intention behind the music. I went to college from vocal music even though I couldn’t read music. I just had a talent for singing and so the words “music theory“ filled me with terror because obviously that degree did not work out. Thank you for giving me a taste of music theory with this lovely video❤

@Shae29 3 ай бұрын

Loveeee this analysis and how thorough you were! Especially since I don’t play piano but have always wanted to, this is so insightful for me ❤

@AlyssaSteiner 2 ай бұрын

Into the Woods is probably my favorite musical and ive had the honor of playing Cinderella twice (first time as a senior in high school and a few months ago as an adult 16 years later) and I feel like i'm always finding something new in the show. I remember in college i had to write journals for psychology and one of them was discussing this song

@strawhatsmanager 2 ай бұрын

i had no clue what song it was gonna be and i’m so glad to see what song you picked even if it surprised me !! like yes absolutely this song is underrated i’m so excited to hear your take on it

@karencoates2487 20 күн бұрын

Great analysis.

@gomesbandrey 2 ай бұрын

15:46 Beautiful

@eugenebezpalko1631 3 ай бұрын

To be fair, I always liked this song but never focused on it, but when I heard the most recent recording with Sara Bareilles it clicked :)

@Benheartsart 3 ай бұрын

Your channel’s awesome! So glad to discover it through this vid!!

@MusicTheatreTheory 3 ай бұрын

Thank you so much! I hope you'll stick around for future videos :-)

@lookouthill11 3 ай бұрын

Another Into the Woods video! Yay! I just watched your video on Moments in the Woods and so loved it, awesome break down.

@gomesbandrey 2 ай бұрын

Analysis on "It Takes Two" and "Last Midnight" would be great, sir, please. And, for as much as I deslike to admit it, "Hello, Little Girl" is also a nice song

@DavidBenkof 3 ай бұрын

So many details hidden in one song! Well done, Mateo.

@stewiegriffin993 3 ай бұрын

I've always loved this number and in my opinion it's the ONLY number where the Original Cast Recording is inferior in ANY way. The way Sara Bareilles sings the vocal line on the new cast recording is absolute perfection, ESPECIALLY the lines "No one waits / When fortune intervenes / And maybe they're really magic / Who knows?". I don't know why Joanna Gleason chose to sing a B natural on "intervenes" every time but it really skews the vocal line tbh. Only when the new cast recording came out did this number really land for me so huge props to Sara Bareilles.