Tony nominee told the NY Post exclusively after her performance in the NYC’s Center’s Encores! production of “Into the Woods.”In it, the “Brave” singer and “Waitress” composer/star, 42, plays The Baker’s Wife opposite Neil Patrick Harris, 48, who plays her husband.The beloved show — revived several times since its 1987 Bernadette Peters incarnation and adapted into a 2014 movie starring Meryl Streep — deals with a mishmash of fairytales including Cinderella, Jack and the Beanstalk, Rapunzel and Little Red Riding Hood.
It’s a subject that has long fascinated Bareilles.“Many, many years ago I wrote a song about how f–ked up I think fairy tales are called “Fairytale,” she said. “It’s about what happens the day after — ‘and they lived happily ever after’ – because we watch them ride off into the sunset and now what?
That is when the real s–t goes down.”The star of Peacock’s hilarious “Girls 5 Eva,” which has been renewed for a second season, thinks fairy tales mirror the underbelly humanity.“They’re very dark.
I think humanity is dark,” she explained. “We are monsters and angels and everything in between. I love that the show is not really a happily ever after ending.
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