Once a time In a kingdom There lay a village At the edge of the I wish... And in village More anything... lived a maiden, More life... than jewels... A carefree lad... I wish... More life... And a baker... [BAKER & I wish... his wife. More anything... [WIFE]More the moon... [BAKER'S I wish... The is giving a Festival. [BAKER & More life... I wish... I to go to the Festival. [BAKER & than riches... and the ball... I wish my cow us some milk. [CINDERELLA & WIFE] More anything... I we had a child. Please, [BAKER'S 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 poor girl's had died, You, Cinderella, the You to go to the Festival? What, you, Cinderella, the The Festival?! What, you wish to go to the THREE] The The King's And now she with her stepmother The Festival...HA! who had two of her own. Look at nails! Look at dress! People would laugh at Nevertheless, I want to go to the Festival 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 lad had no father and his mother- MOTHER] I wish... Well, she was at her end- [JACK'S I my son were not a fool. I wish my was not a mess. I wish the cow was of milk. I wish the walls were of gold- I a lot of things... What in heaven's are you doing the cow inside the house?
I thought if he got and warm, he might some milk.
MOTHER] a she... How times do I have to tell you, only can give milk? And there was a hungry little girl who wore a red cape. [LITTLE RED HOOD] I wish... not for me, It's for my in the woods. A loaf of bread, To bring my poor old in the woods... Just a of bread, please... Cinderella, if you can up these lentils, and your chores in time, then you may go to the ball us. along 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- he's the cow in the world- MOTHER] She has dry for weeks now, no food or money, we've got no choice but to her. at her.
But, Milky-White's my friend
MOTHER] at her... There are on her dugs. There are in her eyes. There's a lump on her 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 wonder what's on in that head of yours. [LITTLE RED RIDING the woods, It's to go, I to leave, I to go. Into the time, and so I must my journey. Into the And through the To I am ma'am, Into the To Grandmother's the woods To Grandmother's [BAKER'S Now you're certain of way? [LITTLE RED HOOD] The way is clear, The is good, I no fear, Nor no one should. The woods are trees, The trees are wood. I sort of to ask it, But do you a basket?
[BAKER'S Yes, we do. I don't suppose planning on buying any of these- WIFE] Oh, shhhhh... Now, stray and be late, alright?
You save some of those sweets for Granny? Oh my- [BAKER'S Just, it... a thief! [LITTLE RED RIDING 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. Never can What ahead. For all I know, already dead. But the woods, the woods, Into the To Grandmother's And before 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 wearing that? Here, I found a tear, Cinderella. Can't you hide it 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 good If everyone is Always leaving you mind, Cinderella, Kind Nice nice kind good nice- OW- Not tight! Clod! Who might be? [BAKER'S sold our last loaf of bread!
It's the from next-door. [BAKER'S We no bread...
I don't want bread...
Then what is it you
It's not I wish, It's you wish. Nothing cooking in belly now is there? And there will be, you do exactly as I say. In three days a blue-moon will appear, then can the curse be, undone...
[BAKER'S curse?
The one I placed on house.
What are you talking
In the past, when you were no than a babe, Your father brought his young and you to cottage. were a lovely couple, But not neighbors. You see... Your mother was child, And she developed an 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, Asparagus and 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 have the I'd to spare. In return, however, I said, "Fair is You can let me the baby That wife will bear. And we'll it square." I had a No. But, you had a sister. Where is
She's now! And you'll never her, Small price to pay for your father stole from me. It me my youth, my beauty. My mother me, She would me With the of ugliness, If I lost any of them.
WIFE] Lost
The beans...
[BAKER &
The beans... I'd let him go, I know, he'd my beans. I was him crawl, over the wall-! bang! Crash! A flash! Well, that's story, Never Anyway, at The big day came, And I my claim. "Oh, take away the baby," shrieked and screeched, But I did, And I hid her Where never be reached. And father cried, And mother died. for extra measure- I it was a pleasure- I said, "Sorry, I'm not mollified." And I laid a little on them- You, too, That your tree Would always be a one... How could you do
And when mother died, Your father you. Your father was no so why should you be?
So there's no more And there's no scenes And my thrives- You see my nectarines! But I'm you the same I kings and queens: Don't never ever Mess with my greens! the beans. Yeah, but why do we have to go to the village?
MOTHER] Because, in this village, the cow hasn't given a drop of milk in weeks.
cheating!
[JACK'S starving, Jack! Don't you understand Now, you're not to accept less five pounds for her. Are you to me?
Yes.
[JACK'S How much are you to
No than five pounds.
MOTHER] Less five! five!
[JACK'S the woods, The is now, We to live, I don't how. the woods to sell the cow, You begin the journey! to the woods and delay- We to face The marketplace. Into the woods to end- Into the woods to sell a You wish to The curse I'll need a first. Go to the and bring me back One: the cow as as milk, Two: the as red as blood, Three: the as yellow as corn, Four: the slipper as as gold. Bring me the chime Of midnight, In three time. then the blue moon reappears. Which comes but once hundred years. Just bring 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! Lentils are one but Darling, those, You'd make us the fools of the And the Prince! The Festival three nights. Surely, you let me be there for one of them. The King is to find his son a wife! Not a maid! We be gone! GO!
I
WIFE] These be the witch's beans! take 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 lift the spell together, The is on our house! Now me what am I to return with? [BAKER'S Ugh, You remember? The cow as as milk, The as red as blood, The as yellow as corn, The slipper as as gold- The cow as as milk, The as red as blood, The as yellow as corn, The slipper as 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 as corn- I know! I'll Mother's 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-! [CINDERELLA & the woods, It's to go, It may be all In vain, know. Into the But so, I to take the journey. [CINDERELLA, & WIFE] the woods, The is straight, You it well, But who can [BAKER & Into the woods to lift the Into the woods to Mother- MOM] Into the woods to the cow!
To get the money!
To go to the Festival!
[LITTLE RED RIDING Into the to grandmother's house! The way is clear, The is good, I no fear, Nor no one should. The woods are trees, The trees are 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 the woods To get the makes it worth The journeying. into the & STEPSISTERS] To see the & MOTHER] To sell the [BAKER & 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 before dark!