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Act II Prologue: So Happy

by Original Broadway Cast of Into the Woods Ensemble

NA: Once upon a time--
--later--

Cinderella: I wish..

NA: --in that same far-off kingdom--

Cinderella: More than anything..

NA: --lived a young Princess--

Cinderella: More than life..

NA: --the lad Jack--

Cinderella: More than footmen..

Jack: I wish..

NA: --and the baker and his family--

Baby: Waaah!

Jack: No, I miss..

Cinderella, Baker: I wish..

Baby: Waaah!

Jack: More than anything..

Cinderella, Baker, Jack: More than the moon..

Wife [to baby]: There, there..

Cinderella: I wish to sponsor a Festival

Baby: Waaah!

Baker: More than life..

Jack: I miss..

Cinderella: the time has come for a Festival..

Baby: Waaah!

Wife: Shh..

Baker [Over]: More than riches..

Cinderella: And a Ball...

Jack: I miss my kingdom up in the sky

Cinderella, baker: More than anything..

Wife: I wish we had more room..

Jack: Play, harp..

Baker: Another room..

NA: But despite some minor inconveniences, they were all content..

Cinderella: I never thought I'd wed a Prince..

CP: I never thought I'd find perfection..

Both: I never thought I could be so happy!

Cinderella: Not an unhappy moment since..

Jack, Jack's Mother: I didn't think we'd be this rich..

CP: Not a conceivable objection..

Baker, Wife: I never thought we'd have a baby..

Cinderella, CP, Jack, Jack's Mother: I never thought I could be so happy!

Baker, Wife [Over]: I'm so happy!

Stepmother: Happy now
Happy hence
Happy ever after--

Stepmother, Stepsisters: We're so happy you're so happy!
Just as long as you stay happy
We'll stay happy!

Cinderella, CP: Not one row..

Jack's Mother: Pots of pence..

Jack: With my cow..

Baker, Wife: Little gurgles..

CP: Darling, I must go now..

Jack's Mother: We should really sell it

Baker: Where's the cheesecloth?

All Others: Wishes may bring problems
Such that you regret them

All: Better that, though
Than to never get them..

Cinderella: I'm going to be a perfect wife!

Jack [Over]: I'm going to be a perfect son!

Wife, Jack's Mother: I'm going to be a perfect mother!

Baker: I'm going to be a perfect father!
I'm so happy!

Cinderella, Jack, Jack's Mother, Wife: I'm going to see that he (she)
Is so happy!

All: I never thought I'd love my life!
I would have settled for another!

Cinderella: Then to become a wife..

Jack, Jack's Mother: Then to be set for life..

Baker, Wife: Then to beget a child..

All: That fortune smiled..
I'm so happy
[dialogue, then:]

Baker, Wife, Jack, Jack's Mother: We had to go through thick and thin

Stepmother, Lucinda, Florinda: We had to lose a lot to win

Cinderella: I ventured out and saw within

All: I never thought I'd be so much I hadn't been!
I'm so hap--
[crash, dialogue, then:]

Baker: Who could do such a thing?

Witch: Anything that leaves a footprint that large is no 'who.'

Baker: Do you think it was a bear?

Witch: A bear? Bears are sweet
Besides, you ever see a bear with forty-foot feet?

Wife: Dragon?

Witch: No scorch marks--usually they're linked

Baker: Manticore?

Witch: Imaginary

Wife, Baker: Griffin?

Witch: Extinct

Baker: Giant?

Witch: Possible. Very, very possible..
[dialogue, then:]

Baker: Into the woods
It's always when
You think at last you're through, and then
Into the woods you go again
To take another journey

Wife: Into the woods
The weather's clear
We've been before, we've naught to fear..
Into the woods, away from here--

Jack: Into the woods, to find a giant--!

LRRH: Into the woods to Grandmother's house..

Baker: Into the woods
The path is straight
No reason, then, to hesitate--

Wife: Into the woods
It's not so late
It's just another journey..

Cinderella: Into the woods
But not too long:
The skies are strange
The winds are strong
Into the woods to see what's wrong..

Jack: Into the woods to slay the giant!

Wife: Into the woods to shield the child..

LRRH: To flee the winds..

Baker: To find a future..

Wife: To shield..

Jack: To slay..

LRRH: To flee..

Baker: To find..

Cinderella: To fix..

Wife: To hide..

LRRH: To move..

Jack: To battle..

Cinderella: To see what the trouble is...