'Into The Woods' announces full West End cast

Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s spellbinding musical intertwines Brothers Grimm fairy tales and follows a childless Baker and his Wife, as they take a trip into the woods to lift a family curse.

The full West End cast of Into The Woods has been revealed. The show begins performances at the Noël Coward Theatre on 22 September, running through 9 January.

This is the first time Into The Woods has been in the West End since 1991. The cast includes Simbi Akande (Cinderella), John Dagleish (Baker), Fiona Finsbury (Rapunzel), Lucas Koch (Rapunzel’s Prince), Laura Pitt-Pulford (Baker’s Wife), Jack Quarton (Steward), Keith Ramsay (Jack), Matthew Seadon-Young (Cinderella’s Prince/Wolf), and Michael S. Siegel (Narrator) join the previously announced Valda Aviks (Grandmother/Giant), Geoffrey Aymer (Cinderella’s Father), Kate Fleetwood (The Witch), Jennifer Hepburn (Cinderella’s Stepmother and Alternate Witch), Hana Ichijo (Lucinda), Julie Jupp (Jack’s Mother), Gabrielle Lewis-Dodson (Florinda) and Gracie McGonigal (Little Red Ridinghood), with Hollie Aires, Sabrina Aloueche, Jacob Fowler, Adam Robert Lewis, Sophie Linder-Lee, Toby Turpin, and Elsie Watson as Standbys.

The production, which opened late last year at the Bridge Theatre, received 11 Olivier Award nominations, and went on to win Best Musical Revival and Best Lighting Design.

Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s spellbinding musical intertwines Brothers Grimm fairy tales and follows a childless Baker and his Wife, as they take a trip into the woods to lift a family curse.

Producer Jamie Wilson said, “We have been blown away by the public reaction to the West End transfer of Into The Woods. With the cast who have joined this transfer and those who have been with the production since 2025, we have a phenomenal group of performers. Having won multiple Olivier Awards, over the last months we have enjoyed collaborating on how we adapt the Bridge Theatre production into its new life at one of the West Ends most beautiful playhouses, the Noël Coward Theatre.”

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

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Photo credit: Into The Woods artwork. (Courtesy of production)