【正文】 moves the ladder. To Audience) CHILDREN NEED PROTECTIONJUST THE WAY THEY NEED AFFECTION。T DROOL.AHAHAHAHAHAHAHWitch: Up in her tower she sits by the hourTENDING HER HAIR. LOOK AT HER COMPLEXION,STILL UNTOUCHED BY THE SUN.STROKING HER HAIRLOOKING AT HER HAIRSOMETHING WE CAN SHARE,Rapunzel amp。s hair…)Rapunzel: I was wondering… well… you know I love you … and this place this tower… but… I thought maybe… maybe… it might be nice to see the real world.Witch: Don’t be silly Rapunzel. There is nothing there for you in that world.Rapunzel: But… how will I know unless I see for myself…Witch: (Her mood Changes suddenly… She pulls Rapunzel’s Hair as she is braiding it) Not another word and I am never, NEVER to hear of you leaving this tower again. Is that clear? Rapunzel: (She bees afraid. These are the first harsh words her mother has ever spoken. She meekly replies to her mother) YesWitch: Very well then… Good night my dear. (Climbs down from the tower) Hm! Teenagers. . . They think they know everything. (The Chorus giggles)Prince: (To himself) Rapunzel, Rapunzel. What a strange name? Strange but beautiful and fit for a queen! Tomorrow, before that evil witch arrives, I will stand before her window and ask her to let down her hair to me.Narrator: And, so, at long last someone had discovered Rapunzel. The very next day the lovesick Prince awoke with a song in his heart. Scene 8Prince: (Entering singing) Our Perfect World… (The prince walks to the tower trying to imitate the witch39。TIL YOU39。s hair, and tugs it gently)Rapunzel: My love, you must go…(Rapunzel sees that it is the witch and not the Prince)Witch: Ah! You wicked child, what did I hear you say? I thought I had saved you from deception, and yet you have deceived me. You plan to leave me… Leave our perfect world?Rapunzel: No, no, please!Witch: WHAT WERE YOU NOT TO DO?(To Audience) CHILDREN MUST SEERapunzel: No! (Screams in protest)Witch: WHY COULD YOU NOT OBEY?(To Audience) CHILDREN SHOULD LISTEN.WHAT HAVE I BEEN TO YOU?WHAT WOULD YOU HAVE ME BE?HANDSOME LIKE A PRINCE?(Rapunzel whimpers)Ah but I am old and ugly… and not good enough.Rapunzel: No!Witch: You are ashamed of me!Rapunzel: You don’t understand.Witch: NO! YOU DON39。S hair)Witch: I will not share you, but I WILL show you a world you39。S PRINCE stumbles helplessly offstage)Prince: Ahhhhh… I will find my love! Even the blindness brought on by an old evil witch will not stop me.SCENE 11Narrator: The young prince was beside himself with pain. He ate nothing but roots and berries, and did naught but lament and weep over the loss of his dearest love. Thus he roamed about in misery for some years, blindly searching for his love… and at length came to the desert where Rapunzel had been banished. (We here Rapunzel singing. The Prince enters…) Prince: Agony… (He hears her voice)Rapunzel: Ah…Ah… Ah… Ah…Prince: My darling Rapunzel… it cannot be. I have been wandering for years looking for you.Rapunzel: (She rushes to him) My darling… you were right she was just an evil witch who loved none but herself. Oh what has she done to you…? Your eyes! Prince: Shhhh…. Rapunzel, close your eyes and listen to my voice. I have no need for sight。m going to gauge is eyes out. So much for true love. (Chorus snickers)(WITCH and Chorus drag RAPUNZEL off laughing)Did you really you believe that you would be able to charm the prince into taking you away from me?Scene 10Narrator: After having cast out Rapunzel to a remote desert, the witch returned to take the Prince by surprise. The enchantress fastened the braids of hair, which she had cut off, to the window, and when the king39。 music continues under) I gave you protection and yet you disobeyed me. (She pulls out a scissors)Rapunzel: No…Please… I didn’t want to hurt you…(RAPUNZEL keeps whimpering。RE NEARING HERALL THE WHILE HEARING HERAHAHAHAHAHAHAH— Narrator: Each day the prince waited for the witch to leave. After she was gone he would scale up the tower to meet with Rapunzel.Prince: High in her tower she sits by the hour. I stand beneath her and say Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair to me. And she lowers the longest, most beautiful head of hair yellow as corn , which I climb to her. (He climbs the tower)Narrator: The couple spent many hours in deep conversation. All of the things she felt he felt. It was as if a doorway to another world opened before her. Prince: (Rapunzel is brushing her hair) Don’t you ever tire of being in this tower…?Rapunzel: Don’t you ever tire of being a prince?Prince: Well, sure… but I don’t have much of a choice. Rapunzel: You see… neither do I … this is my world. Prince: But aren’t you lonely?Rapunzel: Lonely? Well, maybe sometimes. But this is all I know …and my mother says…Prince: I know what your mother says… but she is a selfish witch. The only person that that creature loves is herself.Rapunzel: No…She loves me. She is trying to protect me… Our Perfect world. Our Perfect WORLD (She starts to hum angrily)Prince: AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH—AGONYI am the one who loves you… (A sudden silence)Rapunzel… this is not your perfect world. Our perfect world lies beyond this tower. Marry me and leave this place.Rapunzel: Leave here? But my mother… She would be all alone.Prince: If you mother truly loves you she will understand…Rapunzel: Huh… you don’t know my mother… Prince: Then run away with me…Rapunzel: (Being excited) Do you mean it? Do you really want me to marry me? (He nods as Rapunzel walks around the tower。ve never met a man before. Prince: You haven39。NOTHINGTHAT CAN POSSIBLYHURT HER...OUR LITTLE WORLDIS PERFECTRapunzel: (Overlapping) OUR LITTLE WORLDIS ALL I HAVE TO SEE...IS IT EVERYTHINGA WORLD OUGHT TO BE?WASH