Once upon a In a kingdom There lay a small At the edge of the I wish... And in this More anything... lived a maiden, More life... More 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 King is 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, [BAKER'S I a child... Squeeze, pal... I to go to the Festival. I wish you'd give us milk or cheese... I wish... & WIFE] I wish we might a child. I wish... You to go to the Festival? The girl's 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 THREE] 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 laugh at you- Nevertheless, I still want to go to the And dance the Prince. [STEPMOTHER & Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha... All three were beautiful of face, but vile and of heart. The young lad had no father and his MOTHER] I wish... Well, she was at her end- MOTHER] I my son were not a fool. I wish my was not a mess. I the cow was full of milk. I wish the walls were of gold- I a lot of things... What in name are you doing with the cow the house?
I thought if he got and warm, he might produce milk.
[JACK'S a she... How many do I have to tell you, only can give milk? 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 loaf of bread, To bring my old hungry in the woods... Just a of bread, please... Cinderella, if you can up these lentils, and your 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- 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
[JACK'S at her... There are on her dugs. are flies 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! I wonder 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 must my journey. the woods And through the To I am ma'am, Into the To Grandmother's Into the To Grandmother's [BAKER'S Now you're certain of your [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 of hate to ask it, But do you a basket?
WIFE] Yes, we do. I don't you're planning on buying any of these- WIFE] Oh, shhhhh... Now, stray and be late, alright?
You might save some of 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. can tell What ahead. For all I know, She's dead. But the woods, the woods, Into the To house 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 with a 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, good good nice- Tighter!
What's the good of good If is blind Always leaving you mind, Cinderella, Kind Nice 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. 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 will 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 about?
In the past, when you no more than a babe, Your father brought his wife and you to cottage. They were a couple, But not neighbors. You see... Your was with child, And she developed an 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, 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, Raiding my and Ripping up the My champion! My favorite!- I have laid a spell on him there, I have 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 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 father stole from me. It me my youth, my beauty. My warned me, She punish me the curse 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, over the wall-! bang! Crash! A flash! Well, another story, mind- 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 your died. When for measure- I admit it was a I said, "Sorry, I'm not mollified." And I a little spell on them- You, too, That your family Would be a barren one... How you do that?
And when mother died, Your father you. father was no father 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 telling you the I tell kings and Don't never ever around with my greens! the beans. Yeah, but why do we have to go to the next
[JACK'S Because, in this 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 than five pounds.
[JACK'S Less five! five!
[JACK'S the woods, The is now, We to live, I don't how. Into the to sell the cow, You begin the journey! to the woods and don't We have to The marketplace. Into the woods to end- Into the to sell a friend- You to have The reversed? need a certain first. Go to the and bring me back the cow as white as milk, Two: the as red as blood, Three: the as yellow as corn, Four: the slipper as as gold. Bring me Before the Of midnight, In day's time. Tis' then the blue reappears. Which comes but once each 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! are one thing but Darling, those, You'd make us the 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
WIFE] 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. [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 return [BAKER'S Ugh, You don't 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 hair as as corn, The slipper as as gold... I wish 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 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- WIFE] The hair-! [CINDERELLA & the woods, It's to go, It may be all In vain, know. the woods- 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 the spell- Into the woods to visit [JACK'S Into the to sell 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 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 knows may Be lurking on the Into the To get the makes it worth The journeying. into the [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 before dark!