Here’s the surprising twist that will make you spill your latte: Red kills the wolf by herself in the stage version. Not the woodsman. Not a hunter. Her.
She strangles him with her own cape. That’s right, the “little” girl uses fashion accessories as weapons of mass destruction. Talk about a glow-up.
Sondheim actually based her on a real Victorian-era case of a child who survived a wolf attack. The history is dark. The musical just adds a jazz riff and a freaking grandmother who also survived the stomach.
