Prologue (OST Into the Woods / Чем дальше в лес... 2014)
[NARRATOR] Once upon a time [CINDERELLA] I wish... [NARRATOR] in a far-off kingdom [CINDERELLA] More than anything... [NARRATOR] lived a fair maiden, [CINDERELLA] More than life... [NARRATOR] a sad young lad [CINDERELLA] More than jewels...
[JACK] I wish... [NARRATOR] and a childless baker [JACK] More than life...
[CINDERELLA & BAKER] I wish... [NARRATOR] with his wife. [JACK] More than anything...
[CINDERELLA, BAKER & JACK] More than the moon...
[BAKER'S WIFE] I wish...
[CINDERELLA] The King is giving a Festival. [BAKER & WIFE] More than life... [JACK] I wish... [CINDERELLA] I wish to go to the Festival. [BAKER & WIFE] More than riches... [CINDERELLA] and the ball... [JACK] I wish my cow would give us some milk. [CINDERELLA & BAKER'S WIFE] More than anything... [BAKER] I wish we had a child. [JACK] Please, pal- [BAKER'S WIFE] I want a child... [JACK] Squeeze, pal... [CINDERELLA] I wish to go to the Festival. [JACK] I wish you'd give us some milk or even cheese... I wish...
[BAKER & WIFE] I wish we might have a child. I wish... [CINDERELLA] I wish...
[STEPMOTHER] You wish to go to the Festival? [NARRATOR] The poor girl's mother had died, [STEPMOTHER] You, Cinderella, the Festival? You wish to go to the Festival?
[FLORINDA] What, you, Cinderella, the Festival? The Festival?!
[LUCINDA] What, you wish to go to the Festival?
[ALL THREE] The Festival? The King's Festival? [NARRATOR] And her father had taken for his new wife
[STEPMOTHER] The Festival... [NARRATOR] a woman with two daughters of her own.
[FLORINDA] Look at you nails!
[LUCINDA] Look at your dress!
[STEPMOTHER] People would laugh at you-
[CINDERELLA] Nevertheless, I still want to go to the Festival And dance before the Prince.
[STEPMOTHER & STEPSISTERS] She still wants to go to the Festival And dance before the Prince?!
[NARRATOR] All three were beautiful of face, but vile and black of heart. Jack, on the other hand, had no father, and his mother-
[JACK'S MOTHER] I wish...
[NARRATOR] Well, she was not quite beautiful-
[JACK'S MOTHER] I wish my son were not a fool. I wish my house was not a mess. I wish the cow was full of milk. I wish the walls were full of gold- I wish a lot of things...
[BAKER'S WIFE] Why, come in, little girl.
[LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD] I wish... It's not for me, It's for my Granny in the woods. A loaf of bread, please- To bring my poor old hungry Granny in the woods... Just a loaf of bread, please...
[NARRATOR] Cinderella's Stepmother had a surprise for her.
[STEPMOTHER] I have emptied a pot of lentils into the ashes for you. If you have picked them out again in two hours' time, you shall go to the ball with us.
[LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD] And perhaps a sticky bun?... Or four?...
[CINDERELLA] Birds in the sky, Birds in the eaves, In the leaves, In the fields, In the castles and ponds...
[LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD] And a few of those pies... please...
[CINDERELLA] Come, little birds, Down from the eaves And the leaves, Over fields, Out of castles and ponds...
[JACK] Now, squeeze, pal...
[CINDERELLA] Ahhh... Quick, little birds, Flick through the ashes. Pick and peck, but swiftly, Sift through the ashes, Into the pot...
[JACK'S MOTHER] Listen well, son. Milky-White must be taken to market.
[JACK] But, mother, no- he's the best cow-
[JACK'S MOTHER] look at her. There are bugs on her dugs. There are flies in her eyes. There's a lu