[NARRATOR]
Once upon a time
[CINDERELLA]
I wish...
[NARRATOR]
in a far-off kingdom
[CINDERELLA]
More than anything...
[NARRATOR]
lived a fair maiden,
[CINDERELLA]
More than life...
[NARRATOR]
a sad young lad
[CINDERELLA]
More than jewels...

[JACK]
I wish...
[NARRATOR]
and a childless baker
[JACK]
More than life...

[CINDERELLA & BAKER]
I wish...
[NARRATOR]
with his wife.
[JACK]
More than anything...

[CINDERELLA, BAKER & JACK]
More than the moon...

[BAKER'S WIFE]
I wish...

[CINDERELLA]
The King is giving a Festival.
[BAKER & WIFE]
More than life...
[JACK]
I wish...
[CINDERELLA]
I wish to go to the Festival.
[BAKER & WIFE]
More than riches...
[CINDERELLA]
and the ball...
[JACK]
I wish my cow would
give us some milk.
[CINDERELLA & BAKER'S WIFE]
More than anything...
[BAKER]
I wish we had a child.
[JACK]
Please, pal-
[BAKER'S WIFE]
I want a child...
[JACK]
Squeeze, pal...
[CINDERELLA]
I wish to go to the Festival.
[JACK]
I wish you'd give us some
milk or even cheese...
I wish...

[BAKER & WIFE]
I wish we might have a child.
I wish...
[CINDERELLA]
I wish...

[STEPMOTHER]
You wish to go to the Festival?
[NARRATOR]
The poor girl's mother had died,
[STEPMOTHER]
You, Cinderella, the Festival?
You wish to go to the Festival?

[FLORINDA]
What, you, Cinderella, the Festival?
The Festival?!

[LUCINDA]
What, you wish to go to the Festival?

[ALL THREE]
The Festival?
The King's Festival?
[NARRATOR]
And her father had taken for his new wife

[STEPMOTHER]
The Festival...
[NARRATOR]
a woman with two daughters of her own.

[FLORINDA]
Look at you nails!

[LUCINDA]
Look at your dress!

[STEPMOTHER]
People would laugh at you-

[CINDERELLA]
Nevertheless,
I still want to go to the Festival
And dance before the Prince.

[STEPMOTHER & STEPSISTERS]
She still wants to go to the Festival
And dance before the Prince?!

[NARRATOR]
All three were beautiful of face, but vile and black of heart.
Jack, on the other hand, had no father, and his mother-

[JACK'S MOTHER]
I wish...

[NARRATOR]
Well, she was not quite beautiful-

[JACK'S MOTHER]
I wish my son were not a fool.
I wish my house was not a mess.
I wish the cow was full of milk.
I wish the walls were full of gold-
I wish a lot of things...

[BAKER'S WIFE] [bad word] in, little girl.

[LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD]
I wish...
It's not for me,
It's for my Granny in the woods.
loaf of bread, please-
To bring my poor old hungry
Granny in the woods...
Just a loaf of bread, please...

[NARRATOR]
Cinderella's Stepmother had a surprise for her.

[STEPMOTHER]
I have emptied a pot of lentils into the ashes for you.
If you have picked them out again in two hours' time,
you shall go to the ball with us.

[LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD]
And perhaps a sticky bun?...
Or four?...

[CINDERELLA]
Birds in the sky,
Birds in the eaves,
In the leaves,
In the fields,
In the castles and ponds...

[LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD]
And a few of those pies... please...
 [bad word]  little birds,
Down from the eaves
And the leaves,
Over fields,
Out of castles and ponds...

[JACK]
Now, squeeze, pal...

[CINDERELLA]
Ahhh...
Quick, little birds,
Flick through the ashes.
Pick and peck, but swiftly,
Sift through the ashes,
Into the pot...

[JACK'S MOTHER]
Listen well, son. Milky-White must be taken to market.

[JACK]
But, mother, no- he's the best cow-

[JACK'S MOTHER]
look at her.
There are bugs on her dugs.
There are flies in her eyes.
There's a lu