“Last Midnight”

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“Last Midnight” is the Witch’s climactic, darkly comic solo number from the musical Into the Woods, in which she unleashes her frustration and fatalism at the story’s other characters.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf song
act Act II
adaptationAppearance Into the Woods (1991 American television production)
Into the Woods (2014 film)
linked to: Into the Woods
associatedWorkCreator James Lapine
composer Stephen Sondheim
countryOfOrigin United States
dramaticOutcome The Witch chooses to remove herself from the group
firstPerformanceWork original Broadway production of Into the Woods
genre dark comedy
musical theatre
hasSubject disillusionment with fairy-tale endings
moral ambiguity
language English
lyricFeature catalogue of other characters’ faults
self-referential commentary on fairy-tale morals
lyricist Stephen Sondheim
musicalFeature dramatic dynamic shifts
rapid patter sections
narrativeFunction 11 o’clock number
climactic solo number
notableFilmPerformer Meryl Streep
originalPerformer Bernadette Peters
originalProductionCharacter The Witch
partOfWork Into the Woods
performanceTradition often used as an audition piece for female musical theatre performers
performerCharacter The Witch
plotContext The Witch confronts the other characters about the Giant and their choices
positionInShow late Act II
productionType Broadway musical song
settingWithinStory the woods at night
theme blame
consequences of wishes
fatalism
responsibility
tone angry
cathartic
darkly comic
vocalType mezzo-soprano feature
workBasedOn fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm
yearIntroduced 1987

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The Witch (Into the Woods) hasSong “Last Midnight”
subject linked to: The Witch