Once a time In a kingdom There lay a 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... WIFE] I wish... The King is a Festival. & WIFE] More life... I wish... I to go to the Festival. [BAKER & than riches... and the ball... I my cow would give us milk. & BAKER'S WIFE] More anything... I we had a child. Please, [BAKER'S I a child... Squeeze, pal... I to go to the Festival. I you'd give us some milk or cheese... I wish... [BAKER & I wish we have a child. I wish... You to go to the Festival? The poor parents had died, You, Cinderella, the You wish to go to the What, you, Cinderella, the The Festival?! What, you wish to go to the [ALL The The King's And now she lived her stepmother The Festival...HA! who had two of her own. Look at nails! Look at dress! People laugh at you- Nevertheless, I still to go to the Festival And before the Prince. [STEPMOTHER & Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha... All three were beautiful of face, but and black of heart. The young lad had no father and his [JACK'S I wish... Well, she was at her wit's [JACK'S I wish my son 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... in heaven's name are you doing with the cow the house?
I thought if he got and warm, he might produce milk.
MOTHER] a she... How many times do I to tell you, only shes can give And then there was a hungry girl who always a red cape. [LITTLE RED RIDING I wish... not for me, It's for my in the woods. A loaf of bread, To my poor old hungry in the woods... Just a of bread, please... Cinderella, if you can pick up lentils, and finish your in time, then you may go to the ball us. along ladies...
Yes, Mother. luck. Come, birds, Down from the 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 best cow in the [JACK'S She has been dry for now, with no 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 to be a hump- [JACK'S no time to sit and dither, While her wither with her- And no one a cow for a friend! Sometimes I wonder what's goin' on in head of yours. [LITTLE RED HOOD] the woods, It's to go, I to leave, I to go. the woods- time, and so I must my journey. the woods And the trees To I am ma'am, Into the To Grandmother's Into the To house- WIFE] Now you're of your 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 of hate to ask it, But do you a basket?
[BAKER'S Yes, we do. I don't suppose you're on buying any of these- [BAKER'S 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 waiting on the journey? Into the To bring some To who Is in bed. can tell What ahead. For all I know, already 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 wearing that? Here, I found a tear, Cinderella. you hide it with a hat? 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 being If is blind Always you behind? mind, Cinderella, Kind good nice kind good nice- OW- Not tight! Clod! Who might be? [BAKER'S sold our last loaf of bread!
It's the witch next-door. [BAKER'S We no bread...
I want your bread...
Then what is it you
It's not I wish, It's you wish. Nothing cooking in that now is there? And will never be, you do exactly as I say. In three days time a blue-moon appear, Only can the curse be, undone...
[BAKER'S What
The one I placed on house.
What are you about?
In the past, when you were no than a babe, Your father his young wife and you to cottage. They a lovely couple, But not neighbors. You see... mother was with child, And she an unusual appetite. She my beautiful garden, And she told your that What she wanted more anything, In the world, was... Greens, greens, nothing but Parsley, peppers, and celery, Asparagus and 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, my arugula and Ripping up the My champion! My favorite!- I should have laid a 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 the baby That your will bear. And call 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 your 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.
WIFE] 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," shrieked and screeched, But I did, And I hid her Where she'll be reached. And your cried, And mother died. for extra measure- I it was a pleasure- I said, "Sorry, I'm not mollified." And I laid a little spell on You, too, your family tree Would be a barren one... How you do that?
And your mother died, Your deserted you. Your father was no father so why you be?
So no more fuss And no more scenes And my thrives- You see my nectarines! But I'm you the same I kings and queens: ever never ever Mess with my greens! the beans. Yeah, but why do we to go to the next village?
[JACK'S Because, in this village, knows the cow hasn't given a drop of in weeks.
cheating!
[JACK'S starving, Jack! Don't you understand Now, you're not to less than five pounds for her. Are you to me?
Yes.
[JACK'S How much are you to
No than five pounds.
[JACK'S 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! Straight to the and delay- We have to The marketplace. Into the woods to journey's Into the woods to sell a You to have The curse I'll a certain first. Go to the woods and bring me the cow as white as milk, Two: the as red as blood, Three: the as yellow as corn, Four: the as pure as gold. Bring me the chime Of midnight, In day's time. then the blue moon reappears. Which comes but once 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! Lentils are one but Darling, those, You'd make us the of the Festival And the Prince! The Festival lasts nights. Surely, you let me be there for one of them. The King is trying to his son a wife! Not a maid! We be gone! GO!
I
[BAKER'S These must be the beans! We'll them with us. We?
[BAKER'S Yes!
We? not coming, It's not out there.
[BAKER'S 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. [BAKER'S No, no, the is on our house. We lift the spell together, The is on our house! Now tell me what am I to with? 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 wish 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, It's 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 & WIFE] Into the woods to lift the Into the to visit Mother- [JACK'S Into the to sell 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 are just trees, The are just wood. No need to be afraid There's something in the there... the woods, delay, But not To the way. the woods, Who knows may Be on the journey? Into the To get the That makes it The journeying. into the [STEPMOTHER & To see the & MOTHER] To sell the [BAKER & To the potion- 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!