Once upon a In a kingdom There lay a village 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... & WIFE] I wish... his wife. More anything... than 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 give us milk. [CINDERELLA & BAKER'S than 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 we might have a child. I wish... You to go to the Festival? The poor 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? THREE] The The Festival? 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 still to go to the Festival And dance the Prince. [STEPMOTHER & Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha... All three were of face, but vile and black of heart. The lad had no father and his mother- MOTHER] I wish... Well, she was at her wit's MOTHER] I my son were not a fool. I my house was not a mess. I wish the cow was of milk. I wish the were full of gold- I a lot of things... What in name are you doing the cow inside the house?
I thought if he got and warm, he might produce milk.
[JACK'S a she... How many times do I have to you, only shes can give And then there was a hungry girl who always a red cape. RED RIDING HOOD] I wish... not for me, It's for my in the woods. A of bread, please- To bring my poor old 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 with 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. must 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 but to sell her. at her.
But, Milky-White's my best
[JACK'S 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 goin' on in head of yours. [LITTLE RED HOOD] the woods, It's to go, I to leave, I to go. Into the time, and so I must my journey. the woods And the trees To I am ma'am, Into the To house- Into the To house- [BAKER'S Now certain 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?
WIFE] Yes, we do. I don't suppose you're planning on any of these- WIFE] Oh, shhhhh... Now, don't stray and be late,
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 waiting on the the woods To bring bread To who Is in bed. Never can lies 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. you hide it with a hat? You beautiful. I know. She me. No she didn't. Mother be good, said be nice, That was 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 Nice good nice kind nice- OW- Not tight! Clod! Who might be? WIFE] We've sold our loaf of bread!
It's the witch next-door. [BAKER'S We no bread...
I don't want bread...
Then is it you wish?
It's not I wish, what you wish. Nothing in that belly now is there? And there will be, you do exactly as I say. In days time a blue-moon will appear, Only then can the be, undone...
WIFE] What
The one I placed on house.
What are you talking
In the past, when you were no more a babe, Your father brought his young and you to cottage. They were a couple, But not neighbors. You see... mother was with child, And she an unusual appetite. She my beautiful garden, And she told father that What she wanted 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 caught him in the 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 turned him into 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 the baby That wife 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 father stole me. It me my youth, my beauty. My warned me, She punish me the curse of ugliness, If I ever any of them.
[BAKER'S what?
The beans...
[BAKER &
The beans... I'd let him go, I know, he'd my beans. I was him crawl, Back the wall-! bang! Crash! A flash! Well, that's story, Never Anyway, at The big day came, And I my claim. "Oh, don't take 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 spell on You, too, your family tree Would always be a one... How you do that?
And when mother died, Your deserted you. father was no father so why should you be?
So there's no fuss And no more scenes And my thrives- You see my nectarines! But I'm you the same I tell kings and Don't ever ever Mess with my greens! the beans. Yeah, but why do we to go to the next village?
MOTHER] Because, in this village, knows the cow hasn't given a of milk in weeks.
cheating!
[JACK'S starving, Jack! Don't you that? Now, not to accept less than five pounds for her. Are you to me?
Yes.
[JACK'S How are you to ask?
No than 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. Into the woods to journey's Into the woods to a friend- You to have The reversed? I'll a certain first. Go to the woods and 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. me these Before the Of midnight, In three time. then the blue moon reappears. Which comes but once hundred years. bring them 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 us the fools of the Festival And the Prince! The Festival three 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 be the witch's beans! We'll take them 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. [BAKER'S No, no, the is on our house. We must lift the together, The is on our house! Now tell me am I to return with? WIFE] Ugh, You remember? The cow as as milk, The as red as blood, The hair as 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 to get to the Festival? The cow as as milk, The as red as blood, The hair as yellow as I know! I'll Mother's grave, The at the willow 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- WIFE] 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 [BAKER & Into the woods to lift the Into the to visit Mother- [JACK'S the woods to sell the cow!
To get the money!
To go to the Festival!
[LITTLE RED HOOD] 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 trees are wood. No need to be there- There's something in the there... the woods, delay, But not To the way. the woods, Who what may Be lurking on the the woods To get the That makes it The journeying. the woods- [STEPMOTHER & To see the [JACK & To the cow- [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!