[lit-ideas] Re: (No References, etc.)

Anybody else's inner child enjoy reading this?  Fairy
tale characters talking...


--- John Wager <john.wager1@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>  From INTO THE WOODS, First Cinderella's early
> lament as she helps her 
> step-sister Florinda into her dress for the ball:
> [CINDERELLA]
>   Mother said be good,
>   Father said be nice,
>   That was always their advice.
>   So be nice, Cinderella,
>   Good, Cinderella,
>   Nice good good nice-
> 
> [FLORINDA]
>   Tighter!
> 
> [CINDERELLA]
>   What's the good of being good
>   If everyone is blind
>   And you're always left behind?
>   Never mind, Cinderella,
>   Kind Cinderella-
>   Nice good nice kind good nice-
> 
> Later, from the witch, as she tries to get the
> others to give her Jack 
> so she can turn him over to the giant's wife.
> (Jack has killed the giant, her husband). All the
> others are trying to 
> blame one another for the giant wife's rampage:
> 
> [WITCH]
> 
>   Told a little lie, stole a little gold, broke a
> little vow,
>   Did you?
>   Had to get your Prince, had to get your cow,
>   Have to get your wish, doesn't matter how..
>   Anyway, it doesn't matter now.
>   It's the last midnight,
>   It's the boom--
>   Splat!
>   Nothing but a vast midnight
>   Everybody smashed flat!
>   Nothing we can do...
>   Not exactly true:
>   We can always give her the boy...
>   No?
>   No, of course, what really matters is the blame.
>   Somebody to blame.
>   Fine, if that's the thing you enjoy, placing the
> blame,
>   If that's the aim, give me the blame.
>   Just give me the boy.
>   No?
>   You're so nice.
>   You're not good, you're not bad,
>   You're just nice.
>   I'm not good, I'm not nice,
>   I'm just right.
>   I'm the witch.
> 



      
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