{"id":354395,"date":"2026-07-28T00:57:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T00:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/354395\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T00:57:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T00:57:16","slug":"jodi-benson-on-into-the-woods-in-orlando-playing-the-witch-local-cast-what-to-expect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/354395\/","title":{"rendered":"Jodi Benson on \u201cInto the Woods\u201d in Orlando: Playing the Witch, local cast &#038; what to expect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ENTERTAINMENT<\/p>\n<p>Published:\u00a0July 27, 2026 at 4:39 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 coHFxg kVVZcY\">Disney legend Jodi Benson is in Orlando starring as the Witch in Stephen Sondheim\u2019s Into the Woods at Dr. Phillips Center\u2019s Steinmetz Hall this weekend. In this interview, she talks about what makes the show so powerful, why the Witch is \u201cway out of my comfort zone,\u201d and the incredible local Orlando talent bringing the production to life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ENTERTAINMENT Published:\u00a0July 27, 2026 at 4:39 PM Disney legend Jodi Benson is in Orlando starring as the Witch&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354192,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[144764,144765,139,141,140],"class_list":["post-354395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-jodi-benson-on-into-the-woods-in-orlando-playing-the-witch","tag-local-cast-what-to-expect","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}