1. Act II Prologue: So Happy [ Contents ]
2.  
3. NA: Once upon a time--
4. --later--
5. Cinderella: I wish..
6. NA: --in that same far-off kingdom--
7. Cinderella: More than anything..
8. NA: --lived a young Princess--
9. Cinderella: More than life..
10. NA: --the lad Jack--
11. Cinderella: More than footmen..
12. Jack: I wish..
13. NA: --and the baker and his family--
14. Baby: Waaah!
15. Jack: No, I miss..
16. Cinderella, Baker: I wish..
17. Baby: Waaah!
18. Jack: More than anything..
19. Cinderella, Baker, Jack: More than the moon..
20. Wife [to baby]: There, there..
21. Cinderella: I wish to sponsor a Festival.
22. Baby: Waaah!
23. Baker: More than life..
24. Jack: I miss..
25. Cinderella: the time has come for a Festival..
26. Baby: Waaah!
27. Wife: Shh..
28. Baker [Over]: More than riches..
29. Cinderella: And a Ball...
30. Jack: I miss my kingdom up in the sky.
31. Cinderella, Baker: More than anything..
32. Wife: I wish we had more room..
33. Jack: Play, harp..
34. Baker: Another room..
35. NA: But despite some minor inconveniences, they were all content..
36. Cinderella: I never thought I'd wed a Prince..
37. CP: I never thought I'd find perfection..
38. Both: I never thought I could be so happy!
39. Cinderella: Not an unhappy moment since..
40. Jack, Jack's Mother: I didn't think we'd be this rich..
41. CP: Not a conceivable objection..
42. Baker, Wife: I never thought we'd have a baby..
43. Cinderella, CP, Jack, Jack's Mother:
44. I never thought I could be so happy!
45. Baker, Wife [Over]: I'm so happy!
46. Stepmother: Happy now,
47. Happy hence,
48. Happy ever after--
49. Stepmother, Stepsisters: We're so happy you're so happy!
50. Just as long as you stay happy,
51. We'll stay happy!
52. Cinderella, CP: Not one row..
53. Jack's Mother: Pots of pence..
54. Jack: With my cow..
55. Baker, Wife: Little gurgles..
56. CP: Darling, I must go now..
57. Jack's Mother: We should really sell it.
58. Baker: Where's the cheesecloth?
59. All Others: Wishes may bring problems,
60. Such that you regret them.
61. All: Better that, though,
62. Than to never get them..
63. Cinderella: I'm going to be a perfect wife!
64. Jack [Over]: I'm going to be a perfect son!
65. Wife, Jack's Mother: I'm going to be a perfect mother!
66. Baker: I'm going to be a perfect father!
67. I'm so happy!
68. Cinderella, Jack, Jack's Mother, Wife:
69. I'm going to see that he (she)
70. Is so happy!
71. All: I never thought I'd love my life!
72. I would have settled for another!
73. Cinderella: Then to become a wife..
74. Jack, Jack's Mother: Then to be set for life..
75. Baker, Wife: Then to beget a child..
76. All: That fortune smiled..
77. I'm so happy.
78. [dialogue, then:]
79. Baker, Wife, Jack, Jack's Mother:
80. We had to go through thick and thin.
81. Stepmother, Lucinda, Florinda: We had to lose a lot to win.
82. Cinderella: I ventured out and saw within.
83. All: I never thought I'd be so much I hadn't been!
84. I'm so hap--
85. [crash, dialogue, then:]
86. Baker: Who could do such a thing?
87. Witch: Anything that leaves a footprint that large is no 'who.'
88. Baker: Do you think it was a bear?
89. Witch: A bear? Bears are sweet.
90. Besides, you ever see a bear with forty-foot feet?
91. Wife: Dragon?
92. Witch: No scorch marks--usually they're linked.
93. Baker: Manticore?
94. Witch: Imaginary.
95. Wife, Baker: Griffin?
96. Witch: Extinct.
97. Baker: Giant?
98. Witch: Possible. Very, very possible..
99. [dialogue, then:]
100. Baker: Into the woods,
101. It's always when
102. You think at last you're through, and then
103. Into the woods you go again
104. To take another journey.
105. Wife: Into the woods,
106. The weather's clear,
107. We've been before, we've naught to fear..
108. Into the woods, away from here--
109. Jack: Into the woods, to find a giant--!
110. LRRH: Into the woods to Grandmother's house..
111. Baker: Into the woods,
112. The path is straight,
113. No reason, then, to hesitate--
114. Wife: Into the woods,
115. It's not so late,
116. It's just another journey..
117. Cinderella: Into the woods,
118. But not too long:
119. The skies are strange,
120. The winds are strong.
121. Into the woods to see what's wrong..
122. Jack: Into the woods to slay the giant!
123. Wife: Into the woods to shield the child..
124. LRRH: To flee the winds..
125. Baker: To find a future..
126. Wife: To shield..
127. Jack: To slay..
128. LRRH: To flee..
129. Baker: To find..
130. Cinderella: To fix..
131. Wife: To hide..
132. LRRH: To move..
133. Jack: To battle..
134. Cinderella: To see what the trouble is...