NEW YORK (AP) ' "Is the witch really dead now?" my 6-year-old seatmate, Claudia, leaned over anxiously to ask.

Hansel and Gretel had just shoved the old crone into the oven, but she could still be seen knocking on the glass door as if she expected the children to let her out.

Soon enough, however, she really was dead. And Humperdinck's "Hansel and.....