Prologue: Into the Woods

Witch
....Ripping up the rampion
(My champion! My favorite!)
I should have laid a spell on him -
My mistake -
Could turned him into stone...
Or a chair...
Or a snnaakkee!
   (Snakes hiss and twirl about in the Witch's hair)

All
...
the trees are just wood.
No need to be afraid there -

Cinderella, Baker
There's something in the glade there...

All
Ooh...Ooh....Ooh....
     
(The Witch crosses the stage. Cinderella's Father, Stepmother, and Stepsisters are seen making their way into the woods.)
                  First Midnight

Lucinda
...Or pink...

Stepmother
    (to Stepsisters)
Or open your mouth...

Stepsisters
Mother!

      
        Prologue: So Happy
Cinderella
I wish to sponsor a Festival.

Stepmother, Florinda,
Lucinda
A Festival?!

Stepmother
    
(to Cinderella, shouting)
Happy now!
Happy hence!
Happy ever after -

Lucinda, Florinda
   (under, swaing together)
Ooh! Ahh!
Ooh - Ahh!
Other Musical             Changes....
                                                                             Cinderella
                                                                             
In a stew,
(Little Red Ridinghood and Jack enter)                In the goo,
Little Red Ridinghood                                      And you've learned something too,
And I've learned something too,
                                                                              Something you never knew,                             
Jack
                                                                                                                                                        
And I've learned something too,
That I never, never, never knew                           That I never, never, never knew                         That I never, never, never knew
before!                                                                   before!                                                                before!

                                                                                                                                                         In the land of the Giant!
In the belly of a Wolf!
                                                                             On the steps of the palace!
On  the
S
teps of the Palace