- Finale: Children Will Listen
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- Jack's Mother: The slotted spoon CAN catch the potato...
- Mysterious Man: Every knot was once straight rope..
- Princes: The harder to wake, the better to have..
- Snow White, Sleeping Beauty: (Yawn) Excuse me.
- Steward: The greater the good, the harder the blow..
- Stepmother: When going to hide, know how to get there.
- Cinderella's Father: And how to get back..
- Florinda, Lucinda: And eat first..
- Granny: The knife that is sharp today may be dull by tomorrow..
- Rapunzel: Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah..
- Baker: Maybe I just wasn't meant to have children--
- Wife: Don't say that! Of course you were meant to have children..
- Baker: But how will I go about being a father
- With no one to mother my child?
- Wife: Just calm the child.
- Baker: Yes, calm the child.
- Wife: Look, tell him the story of how it all happened.
- Be father and mother, you'll know what to do.
- Baker: Alone..
- Wife: Sometimes people leave you
- Halfway through the wood.
- Do not let it grieve you,
- No one leaves for good.
- You are not alone.
- No one is alone.
- Hold him to the light now,
- Let him see the glow.
- Things will be all right now.
- Tell him what you know..
- Baker: Shhh. Once upon a time...in a far-off kingdom...lived
a young
- maiden...a sad young lad..and a childless baker...with his wife.
- Witch [simultaneously with Baker]:
- Careful the things you say,
- Children will listen.
- Careful the things you do,
- Children will see.
- And learn.
- Children may not obey,
- But children will listen.
- Children will look to you
- For which way to turn,
- To learn what to be.
- Careful before you say,
- "Listen to me."
- Children will listen.
- Company: Careful the wish you make,
- Wishes are children.
- Careful the path they take,
- Wishes come true,
- Not free.
- Careful the spell you cast,
- Not just on children.
- Sometimes the spell may last
- Past what you can see
- And turn against you...
- Witch: Careful the tale you tell.
- That is the spell.
- Children will listen..
- Company [in three groups: round]: Though it's
fearful,
- Though it's deep, though it's dark
- And though you may lose the path,
- Though you may encounter wolves,
- You can't just act,
- You have to listen.
- you can't just act,
- You have to think.
- Though it's dark,
- There are always wolves,
- There are always spells,
- There are always beans,
- Or a giant dwells there.
- [unison]
- So into the woods you go again,
- You have to every now and then.
- Into the woods, no telling when,
- Be ready for the journey.
- Into the woods, but not too fast
- or what you wish, you lose at last.
- Into the woods, but mind the past.
- Into the woods, but mind the future.
- Into the woods, but not to stray,
- Or tempt the wolf, or steal from the giant--
- The way is dark,
- The light is dim,
- But now there's you, me, her, and him.
- The chances look small,
- The choices look grim,
- But everything you learn there
- Will help when you return there.
- Baker, Jack, Cinderella, LRRH: The light is getting dimmer..
- Baker: I think I see a glimmer--
- All: Into the woods--you have to grope,
- But that's the way you learn to cope.
- Into the woods to find there's hope
- Of getting through the journey.
- Into the woods, each time you go,
- There's more to learn of what you know.
- Into the woods, but not too slow--
- Into the woods, it's nearing midnight--
- Into the woods to mind the wolf,
- To heed the witch, to honor the giant,
- To mind, to heed, to find, to think, to teach, to join,
- To go to the Festival!
- Into the woods,
- Into the woods,
- Into the woods,
- Then out of the woods--
- And happy ever after!
- Cinderella: I wish...