Heidi Landesman - Act II Prologue: So Happy lyrics

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...