into the woods (cinderlla's mother/rapunzel)

SOMETHING MUST BE WRONG. I WISH-

what child? specify. opportunity is not a lengthy visitor and good fortune, like bad, can befall when least expected.

if i could, i would! but i…

SING AH

don’t give me that, fool!! I don’t want to touch that! have you no sense?

SING AH

you’ve caused enough trouble! keep out of my path!

SING AH

rapunzel, rapunzel? let down your hair down to me.

is that you, my prince?

unfortunately for rapunzel-

NO (guttural scream)

WHAT DID I CLEARLY SAY? CHILDREN MUST LISTEN.

no no please!

WHAT WERE YOU NOT TO DO? CHILDREN MUST SEE-

no!

I EMBARRASS YOU

no!

YOU ARE ASHAMED OF ME

no!

YOU ARE ASHAMED. YOU DONT UNDERSTAND

I was lonely atop that tower.

was I not company enough?

i am no longer a child. i wish to see the world.

i gave you protection and yet you disobeyed me

but did you think i would stay in that tower forever?

i will not share you, but i will show you a world you’ve never seen!

NO! NO!

i was going to come fetch you as soon as you learned your lesson

who are you?

surely you remember.

mother?

rapunzel! what are you doing here? what’s the matter?

oh, nothing! you just locked me in a tower without company for all my life, then blinded my Prince and banished me to a desert where i had little to eat, and again no company, and then bore twins! because of the way you treated me, i’ll never, never be happy!

rapunzel…

stay away from me!