Once a time In a kingdom lay a small village At the of the woods I wish... And in village More anything... lived a maiden, More life... More jewels... A young lad... I wish... More life... And a baker... & WIFE] I wish... his wife. More anything... [WIFE]More the moon... [BAKER'S I wish... The King is a Festival. & WIFE] More life... I wish... I to go to the Festival. & WIFE] More riches... and the ball... I my cow would us some milk. [CINDERELLA & WIFE] More anything... I we had a child. Please, WIFE] I a child... Squeeze, pal... I to go to the Festival. I wish you'd give us or even cheese... I wish... [BAKER & I wish we have a child. I wish... You wish to go to the 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 at you- Nevertheless, I still want to go to the And before the Prince. & STEPSISTERS] Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha... All three were of face, but vile and black of heart. The young lad had no father and his [JACK'S I wish... Well, she was at her wit's MOTHER] 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 full of gold- I a lot of things... What in heaven's name are you with the cow inside the
I if he got nice and warm, he produce some milk.
MOTHER] a she... How times do I have to tell you, only shes can milk? And then there was a 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 old hungry in the woods... Just a of bread, please... Cinderella, if you can up these lentils, and finish your in time, you may go to the ball with us. Come ladies...
Yes, Mother. luck. Come, birds, Down from the And the leaves, fields, Out of and ponds... Now, squeeze, pal... Ahhhhhhhhhh... Quick, birds, through 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 best cow in the MOTHER] She has dry for weeks now, no food or money, we've got no choice but to her. at her.
But, my best friend
MOTHER] at her... There are on her dugs. There are in her eyes. a lump on her rump Big to be a hump- [JACK'S We've no to sit and dither, While her wither's with her- And no one a cow for a friend! Sometimes I wonder goin' on in that head of yours. [LITTLE RED RIDING 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 house- the woods To house- [BAKER'S Now you're of your way? [LITTLE RED HOOD] The way is clear, The is good, I no fear, Nor no one should. The are just trees, The are just wood. I sort of to ask it, But do you a basket?
[BAKER'S Yes, we do. I don't suppose you're planning on any of these- WIFE] Oh, shhhhh... Now, don't and be late, alright?
You save some 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? Into the To some bread To who Is in bed. can tell What ahead. For all I know, She's dead. But the woods, the woods, Into the To house 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 hide it with a You beautiful. I know. She me. No she didn't. Mother be good, Father be nice, was always their advice. So be nice, Cinderella, Good, Cinderella, Nice good nice- Tighter!
What's the good of good If everyone is leaving you behind? mind, Cinderella, Kind good nice kind good nice- OW- Not tight! Clod! Who that be? [BAKER'S We've sold our last of bread!
It's the from next-door. WIFE] 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 that belly now is And there never be, Unless you do as I say. In days time a blue-moon will appear, Only can the curse be, undone...
[BAKER'S curse?
The one I on this house.
What are you talking
In the past, when you no more than a babe, Your brought his young wife and you to cottage. They a lovely couple, But not neighbors. You see... Your mother was child, And she an unusual appetite. She my beautiful garden, And she your father that What she more than anything, In the world, was... Greens, greens, nothing but Parsley, peppers, and celery, and watercress and and lettuce-! He said, "All right," But it wasn't, quite, 'Cause I him in the autumn In my one night! He was me, me, Rooting my rutabaga, Raiding my and up the rampion My champion! My favorite!- I should laid a spell on him there, I could have turned him into 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 wife 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 to pay for what Else your father from me. It me my youth, my beauty. My warned me, She would me the curse 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, over the wall-! bang! Crash! A flash! Well, that's story, Never Anyway, at The big day came, And I my claim. "Oh, don't away the baby," They and screeched, But I did, And I hid her Where never be reached. And father cried, And your died. When for extra I admit it was a I said, "Sorry, I'm not mollified." And I laid a spell on them- You, too, That family tree Would be a barren one... How could you do
And when mother died, Your deserted you. Your father was no so why should you be?
So there's no fuss And no more scenes And my garden You see my nectarines! But I'm telling you the 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?
MOTHER] Because, everyone in village, knows the cow given a drop of milk in weeks.
cheating!
[JACK'S starving, Jack! Don't you that? Now, you're not to accept less than five for her. Are you to me?
Yes.
[JACK'S How are you to ask?
No more than pounds.
[JACK'S than five! five!
[JACK'S the woods, The is now, We to live, I care how. Into the to sell the cow, You must the journey! Straight to the and delay- We to face The marketplace. Into the woods to journey's Into the woods to a friend- You to have The reversed? need a certain first. Go to the woods and me back One: the cow as as milk, the cape as red as blood, Three: the hair as as corn, Four: the slipper as as gold. me these Before the Of midnight, In three time. Tis' then the moon reappears. Which but once each hundred years. Just bring and I guarantee, A as perfect 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 make us the of the Festival And the Prince! The Festival three nights. Surely, you could let me be for one of them. The King is 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. I can lift 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 remember? The cow as as milk, The as red as blood, The hair as 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 visit grave, The grave at the tree, And tell her I just to Go to the Festival... The slipper as as gold... The cow, the cape, The as pure as gold- [BAKER'S The hair-! [CINDERELLA & the woods, time to go, It may be all In vain, know. Into the But so, I to take the journey. [CINDERELLA, BAKER & the woods, The is straight, You it well, But who can [BAKER & Into the woods to 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 RIDING the woods to grandmother's house! The way is clear, The is good, I no fear, Nor no one should. The woods are trees, The are just wood. No to be afraid there- There's in the glade there... the woods, delay, But not To the way. the woods, Who what may Be on the journey? the woods To get the That it worth The journeying. the woods- [STEPMOTHER & To see the & MOTHER] To sell the & 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 before it's dark!