Spoken Prolouge
[BAKER'S WIFE]
Uh, hello your highness. You must be here to help slay the giant
[CINDERELLA'S PRINCE]
Yeah. The giant. I am here to slay the giant. And what are you doing alone in the woods?
[BAKER'S WIFE]
Oh, well um, I came with my husband
[CINDERELLA'S PRINCE]
He lets you roam alone in the woods?
[BAKER'S WIFE]
No, no, it was actually my choice
[CINDERELLA'S PRINCE]
How brave
[BAKER'S WIFE]
Brave?
[CINDERELLA'S PRINCE]
Yes
Any Moment
[CINDERELLA'S PRINCE]
Anything can happen in the woods
May I kiss you?
Any moment, we could be crushed
Don't feel rushed
Cinderella's prince kisses the baker's wife's nеck. She pulls away
[BAKER'S WIFE]
This is ridiculous
What am I doing here?
I'm in thе wrong story!
Cinderella's prince and the baker's wife kiss
(spoken)
Wait, one moment, please! We can't do this! You have a princess
[CINDERELLA'S PRINCE, spoken]
Yeah, yeah, yeah I do
[BAKER'S WIFE, spoken]
And I-I have a [?]
How foolish
[CINDERELLA'S PRINCE, spoken]
How foolish
(sung)
Foolishness can happen in the woods
Once again, please
Let your hesitations be hushed
Any moment, big or small
Is a moment after all
Seize the moment; skies may fall
Any moment
Cinderella's prince and the baker's wife kiss
[CINDERELLA'S PRINCE]
Right and wrong don't matter in the woods
Only feelings
Let us meet the moment unblushed
Life is often so unpleasant
You must know that, as a peasant
Best to take a moment present
As a present, for the moment
Cinderella's prince and the baker's wife kiss. The prince's phone begins to ring
[BAKER'S WIFE, spoken]
Uh
[CINDERELLA'S PRINCE, spoken]
(speaking into the phone) Hey, are you doing okay? Did you read our story?
The audience exclaims
(to the audience) Shh! (to the phoen) Did you change the poopy diaper? Give me just one second
(to the baker's wife) Hey
I must leave you
[BAKER'S WIFE, spoken]
Uh, leave? Why?
[CINDERELLA'S PRINCE, spoken]
You know the giant
[BAKER'S WIFE, spoken]
The giant right
[CINDERELLA'S PRINCE, spoken]
Yeah, yeah
[BAKER'S WIFE, spoken]
Of course, I almost forgot
Will we find each other in the woods again?
[CINDERELLA'S PRINCE]
This was just a moment in the woods
Our moment
Shimmering and lovely and sad
Leave the moment, just be glad
For the moment that we had
Every moment is of moment
When you're in the woods
(spoken)
I shall never forget you and how brave you are and how alive you've made me feel... but I really have to take this call. So I gotta go
[BAKER'S WIFE, spoken]
Okay
Moments in the Woods
[BAKER'S WIFE, spoken]
What was that?
(sung)
Was that me? Was that him?
Did a prince really kiss me
And kiss me... and kiss me...?
And did I kiss him back?
Was it wrong? Am I mad?
Is that all? Does he miss me?
Was he suddenly getting bored with me?
Wake up! Stop dreaming
Stop prancing about the woods
It's not beseeming
What is it about the woods?
Back to life, back to sense, back to child, back to husband
No one lives in the woods!
There are vows, there are ties
There are needs, there are standards
There are shouldn'ts and shoulds
Why not both instead?
There's the answer, if you're clever
Have a child for warmth, and a baker for bread
And a prince... for whatever...
Never! It's these woods!
Face the facts, find the boy, join the group, stop the giant
Just get out of these woods
Was that him? Yes it was
Was that me? No it wasn't
Just a trick of the woods!
Just a moment
One peculiar passing moment
Must it all be either less or more
Either plain or grand?
Is it always "or"?
Is it never "and"?
That's what woods are for:
For those moments in the woods...
Oh, if life were made of moments
Even now and then a bad one
But if life were only moments
Then you'd never know you had one
First a witch, then a child, then a prince, then a moment—
Who can live in the woods?
And to get what you wish, only just for a moment—
These are dangerous woods
Let the moment go
Don't forget it for a moment, though
Just remembering you've had an "and", when you're back to "or"
Makes the "or" mean more than it did before
Now I understand—
And it's time to leave the woods
