To the best of my knowledge, this is the only way to hear the complete show performed by the original Broadway cast. It is a live performance from 1989, complete with audience laughter and applause, which was broadcast on PBS’s American Playhouse in 1991, then ripped from the subsequent DVD.
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But it isn’t the same version of the dvd?
Original Release Date: 2011 (Sony)
Amazon.com: Into the Woods: Music (http://www.amazon.com/Into-Woods-Original-Broadway-Recording/dp/B004VWXUWS/ref=pd_sim_b_1?ie=UTF8&refRID=1GW7ZT65DC8T5C8FCBAG)
Timeline article for Disney movie version
Into The Woods: A Timeline Of How I Went From Pumped Up To Horrified – CINEMABLEND (http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Woods-Timeline-How-I-Went-From-Pumped-Up-Horrified-67839.html)
The cover is one I threw together. This is the DVD it was ripped from.
http://www.amazon.com/Into-Woods-Bernadette-Peters/dp/B00001PE59
As it says there, the running time is 153 minutes. Even after subtracting time for production credits and applause, there is far more content there than can fit on the single CD original cast recording.