Once a time In a far-off There lay a small At the of the woods I wish... And in village More anything... lived a maiden, More life... than jewels... A young lad... I wish... More life... And a baker... [BAKER & I wish... his wife. More anything... than the moon... [BAKER'S I wish... The is giving a Festival. & WIFE] More life... I wish... I to go to the Festival. & WIFE] More riches... and the ball... I wish my cow us some milk. [CINDERELLA & WIFE] than anything... I we had a child. Please, WIFE] I a child... Squeeze, pal... I to go to the Festival. I wish you'd us some or even cheese... I wish... [BAKER & I we might have a child. I wish... You to go to the Festival? The girl's parents had died, You, Cinderella, the You to go to the Festival? What, you, Cinderella, the The Festival?! What, you to go to the Festival? [ALL The The Festival? And now she lived with her The Festival...HA! who had two of her own. Look at nails! Look at dress! People would laugh at Nevertheless, I still want to go to the And dance the Prince. & STEPSISTERS] Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha... All three were beautiful of face, but and black of heart. The young lad had no and his mother- [JACK'S I wish... Well, she was at her wit's [JACK'S I my son were not a fool. I my house was not a mess. I the cow was full of milk. I wish the walls were of gold- I a lot of things... in heaven's name are you doing with the cow inside the
I if he got nice and warm, he produce some milk.
MOTHER] a she... How many times do I to tell you, only shes can give And then there was a hungry girl who wore a red cape. [LITTLE RED HOOD] I wish... not for me, It's for my in the woods. A of bread, please- To my poor old hungry in the woods... Just a of bread, please... Cinderella, if you can up these lentils, and finish chores in time, you may go to the ball with us. Come ladies...
Yes, Mother. luck. Come, birds, Down the eaves And the leaves, fields, Out of and ponds... Now, squeeze, pal... Ahhhhhhhhhh... Quick, birds, Flick the ashes. and peck, but swiftly, Sift the ashes, the pot... [JACK'S Now to me well, son. Milky-White be taken to market. But, mother, no- the best cow in the world- [JACK'S She has dry for weeks now, with no or money, we've got no but to sell her. at her.
But, my best friend
MOTHER] at her... There are on her dugs. There are in her eyes. There's a on her rump Big enough to be a [JACK'S We've no to sit and dither, While her wither's wither with And no one a cow for a friend! Sometimes I what's goin' on in that head of yours. [LITTLE RED HOOD] the woods, It's to go, I to leave, I to go. the woods- time, and so I begin my journey. the woods And the trees To I am ma'am, Into the To Grandmother's Into the To Grandmother's [BAKER'S Now you're of your way? [LITTLE RED RIDING The way is clear, The is good, I no fear, Nor no one should. The are just trees, The trees are wood. I sort of to ask it, But do you have a
[BAKER'S Yes, we do. I don't suppose you're planning on buying any of [BAKER'S Oh, shhhhh... Now, don't and be late, alright?
You might save of those sweets for Granny? Oh my- [BAKER'S Just, it... a thief! [LITTLE RED HOOD] the woods And the dell, The is straight, I it well. the woods, And who can What's on the journey? the woods To bring bread To who Is in bed. can tell What ahead. For all I know, already dead. But the woods, the woods, Into the To Grandmother's And home dark. Cinderella! Get up here!
Fly, birds, to the sky... waiting! Back to the And the And the And up and do my hair, Cinderella! Are you really that? Here, I found a tear, Cinderella. Can't you it with a hat? You beautiful. I know. She me. No she didn't. Mother be good, Father be nice, That was always advice. So be nice, Cinderella, Good, Cinderella, Nice good nice- Tighter!
What's the good of being If everyone is Always leaving you mind, Cinderella, Kind good nice kind good nice- OW- Not tight! Clod! Who that be? WIFE] We've our last loaf of bread!
It's the from next-door. [BAKER'S We no bread...
I don't your bread...
Then is it you wish?
It's not I wish, It's you wish. Nothing in that belly now is there? And there never be, Unless you do as I say. In three days time a will appear, Only then can the be, undone...
WIFE] What
The one I on this house.
What are you talking
In the past, when you no more than a babe, Your father his young wife and you to cottage. They a lovely couple, But not neighbors. You see... Your was with child, And she an unusual appetite. She admired my garden, And she told your father What she wanted than anything, In the world, was... Greens, greens, but greens: Parsley, peppers, and celery, and watercress and and lettuce-! He said, "All right," But it wasn't, quite, 'Cause I caught him in the In my one night! He was me, me, Rooting my rutabaga, Raiding my and up the rampion My champion! My favorite!- I should have laid a on him there, I could have turned him stone Or a dog... Or a chair... But I let him the rampion- I'd to spare. In return, however, I said, "Fair is You can let me have the That your will bear. And we'll it square." I had a No. But, you had a sister. Where is
She's now! And never find her, Small to pay for what Else father stole from me. It me my youth, my beauty. My warned me, She punish me With the of ugliness, If I ever any of them.
[BAKER'S Lost
The beans...
[BAKER &
The beans... I'd let him go, I know, stolen my beans. I was him crawl, Back the wall-! bang! Crash! A flash! Well, another story, Never Anyway, at The big day came, And I my claim. "Oh, take away the baby," They and screeched, But I did, And I hid her Where never be reached. And your cried, And your died. for extra measure- I admit it was a I said, "Sorry, I'm not mollified." And I laid a little on them- You, too, That family tree always be a barren one... How could you do
And when your died, Your deserted you. Your father was no so why should you be?
So no more fuss And there's no scenes And my thrives- You see my nectarines! But I'm you the same I kings and queens: Don't ever ever around with my greens! the beans. Yeah, but why do we to go to the next village?
[JACK'S Because, everyone in village, knows the cow hasn't a drop of milk in weeks.
cheating!
[JACK'S starving, Jack! Don't you that? Now, you're not to accept less five pounds for her. Are you to me?
Yes.
[JACK'S How are you to ask?
No more five pounds.
MOTHER] Less five! five!
[JACK'S the woods, The is now, We to live, I don't how. Into the woods to the cow, You begin the journey! to the woods and don't We have to The marketplace. the woods to journey's end- Into the woods to sell a You to have The reversed? I'll need a first. Go to the and bring me back the cow as white as milk, Two: the as red as blood, the hair as yellow as corn, Four: the slipper as as gold. me these Before the Of midnight, In day's time. Tis' the blue moon reappears. Which but once each hundred years. Just them and I guarantee, A child as As can be. Go to the wood! Ladies, Our waits. Now may I go to the The Darling, nails! Darling, clothes! are one thing but Darling, those, You'd us the fools of the Festival And the Prince! The Festival lasts nights. Surely, you could let me be for one of them. The is trying to find his son a wife! Not a maid! We be gone! GO!
I
[BAKER'S These be the witch's beans! We'll them with us. We?
[BAKER'S Yes!
We? not coming, It's not out there.
WIFE] I can you!
No! I can do on my own. The is on my house. Only I can the spell, The is on my house. WIFE] No, no, the is on our house. We must the spell together, The is on our house! Now tell me what am I to return WIFE] Ugh, You don't The cow as as milk, The as red as blood, The as yellow as corn, The as pure as gold- The cow as as milk, The as red as blood, The as yellow as corn, The as pure as gold... I still to go to the Festival, But how am I ever to get to the The cow as as milk, The as red as blood, The hair as yellow as I know! I'll visit grave, The at the willow tree, And her I just want to Go to the Festival... The as pure as gold... The cow, the cape, The slipper as as gold- [BAKER'S The hair-! & BAKER] the woods, It's to go, It may be all In vain, know. Into the But so, I have to the journey. [CINDERELLA, BAKER & the woods, The is straight, You it well, But who can & WIFE] Into the to lift the spell- Into the to visit Mother- MOM] Into the woods to the cow!
To get the money!
To go to the Festival!
[LITTLE RED HOOD] Into the woods to house! The way is clear, The is good, I no fear, Nor no one should. The woods are trees, The are just wood. No need to be there- There's in the glade there... the woods, delay, But not To the way. the woods, Who knows may Be lurking on the Into the To get the That makes it The journeying. the woods- [STEPMOTHER & To see the [JACK & To the cow- & WIFE] To make the To To To To To To To go to the Festival-! the woods! the woods! the woods, out of the woods, And home it's dark!