Sondheim Stephen – 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...