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"When is a white cow not a white cow?"
The Mysterious Old Man comes and goes in the show. He seeks to help his estranged son, the Baker, who believes that he died in a baking accident. It turns out that the senior Baker ran from his mistakes long ago, and is still running …
It turns out he can't run fast enough or far enough to escape those mistakes, which seem to haunt him more and more.
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"Hello, little girl! What's your rush? You're missing all the flowers."
Little Red Ridinghood, with the Baker's wife's admonishments fresh on her uncluttered mind, is startled and a bit fearful of the aggressive wolf, yet is still tempted to stray from the path she knows when he points out things she hasn't noticed before.
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"Our little world is world enough for me. Our little world is all it needs to be. Combing my hair, braiding my hair, only my mother and me and my hair."
The Witch is sweetly serenaded by her
beloved Rapunzel, who it turns out is the Baker's sister! She was part of the Witch's retribution when the senior Baker and his wife, Rapunzel's birth mother, stole from the Witch's garden.
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"Oh, what a beautiful gown you're wearing!"
The Baker's Wife begins to covet another, seemingly brighter and more interesting world beyond that she knows.
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"There are giants in the sky! There are big, tall, terrible giants in the sky."
Jack has seen another world, one full of riches and the tempting unknown, yet he knows that where his mother is, is home.
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"The cow as white as milk, the cape as red as blood, the hair as yellow as corn, the slipper as pure as gold." The spell broken by combining these ingredients will allow the Baker and his wife to have their child. They discover Jack has "a cow as white as milk," and seek to make a bargain with the boy, lying to him about their future intentions in the process, and setting themselves up for more problems.
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"Agony! Such that princes must weep!"
The Princes meet in the woods and bemoan the women they want, currently unattainable: Cinderella, who runs away at midnight, and Rapunzel, who is locked in a tower. They commiserate in a way only brothers--Princely brothers, at that, can, then continue on their individual journeys through the woods.
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Baker's Wife: "Rapunzel! Rapunzel! Let down your hair to me!"
Rapunzel: "Is that you, my prince?"
Baker's Wife, in a low voice: "Yes!" Guileless Rapunzel drops her long tresses, and the Baker's wife steals a strand of "hair as yellow as corn" from the girl.
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CONTINUE!
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