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ING MY HAIRDRYING MY HAIRUNRAVELING MY HAIRWINDING AND BINDINGAND MINDING MY HAIROur little world is perfect… or at least so she claims.If only she cut her nails.And didn’t have those tiny pointy eyes…Otherwise…OUR LITTLE WORLDIS PERFECTRapunzel and Witch: OUR LITTLE WORLDIS PERFECT...(RAPUNZEL grunts as the WITCH begins to climb her hair)Witch: DELICIOUS...Rapunzel: UNH...Witch: FULFILLING...Rapunzel: UNH...Witch: EXCLUSIVE...Rapunzel: UNH...Witch: EXEMPLARY...Rapunzel: UNH...(The WITCH keeps swinging and climbing up with difficulty as RAPUNZEL leans forward in pain. RAPUNZEL39。s long braids) Her hair continued to grow until it was as long as a golden rope and she would have been the envy of all the young girls if they could have seen her. But, locked in her tower deep in the woods, no one saw her. No one until…PRINCEPRINCE ENTERS… He walks angrilyPrince: PRINCE (Overlaps with Narrator)… Prince… Prince… you are a Prince… and Princes must marry… (He is imitating his Father… he sighs) I say the contrary…Women throw themselves at me…(Womanly shapes start to appear)Tall Women, Small Women… All women… Of every shape and size… Yet why do I despise???Women throw themselves at me… There is Annabel and Amy, Anastasia and AmeliaAnd Dorothy, Delores, Daphne, Dahlia and DeliaAnd Gertrude, Gemma, Gwendolyn and Gloria and GillianMaureen Maura Martha Mary Maude…All of these and many more…They are Royal, but unloyal … Beautiful in face, but inside a disgrace…Because they only want one thing…To be Mrs. King…(Pauses… sighs) I do not love them… I want the perfect love… the perfect love and together we shall share OUR PERFECT WORLD.Rapunzel: OUR PERFECT WORLD… (The Prince suddenly bees aware of Rapunzel39。OR THEY WONDER AND THEY WANDER….Chorus: (Whispering and Overlapping) Or they wonder and they wander…(The chorus circles around the stage with ribbon, which bees the tower. The lights go up on the tower revealing Rapunzel and the Witch at the top)Witch: OUR LITTLE WORLD … PERFECT! (Admiring her daughter…)Rapunzel: But Mother…(The Witch places her finger to Rapunzel39。t you know who I am?Baker: You are Witch Goethels. Witch: Yes I am, and now you shall feel my wrath. Baker: Mercy! Please, mercy. Witch: I should lay a spell you(Spell chord)Right here,Could turn you into a monkeyOr a snake or a …Baker: Wait… I was only trying to save my wife and unborn child. She refuses to eat anything but the rampion from your garden. Witch: Thief, if you wish to live through the night I must be paid, and it is not a trifle that I ask.Baker: Anything! Witch: (Smiles Spell Chord) I 39。t wish to do that again.Baker’s Wife: Rampion from the garden or nothing at all. Narrator: Watching her sleep he convinced himself to try again. Walking through the damp grass from his back door to the ancient wall he felt cold shivers move over his body. There was a feeling of impending doom but he continued. The love he felt for his wife and child were strong strong enough to face the unknown. Finding the toeholds in the wall he climbed it as quietly as he could. When he reached the top of the wall, he jumped over without hesitation. Landing softly he moved to the rampion and helped himself. Instead of being careful to only take a leaf here or there, he began to rip great clumps of the green leaves and stuff them into the bag. In the stillness of the night the sounds of the leaves tearing filled the garden. If he had not been so energetic in his collection, he might have heard the sounds of quiet footsteps behind him. When the bag was filled he turned and started back for the wall. As he turned a shadow loomed from darkness. It was an old lady bent with age and leaning on a staff. He started to open his mouth but she silenced him by saying, Witch: Raping me, Rooting through my rutabaga,Raiding my arugula and(My champion! My favorite! My Rampion!)What are you doing in my garden? Baker: A wind blew me in. Witch: Oh, a wind. And what happened to uproot my rampion?Baker: I39。 She has a most unusual garden.Narrator: A cold shiver found its way from the back of the man39。s Wife: I WANT A CHILDWitch: I WANT A CHILDBaker, WitchBaker’s Wife: A CHILD Narrator: When she finally became pregnant, they were the happiest people in the country. Baker’s Wife: A Child!Baker: A Child!BakerBaker’s Wife: Our Child!Witch: My Child!Scene 3Narrator: Each day was greeted with huge smiles and even the disfort caused by her condition seemed minor. Her stomach grew… along with her appetite… Each day the jealous witch would spy on the happy couple…(The Witch is on the tower SL and the couple is below DSC slightly to the right) Witch: A baby for a witches toy?Might be a girl… Might be a boy … I must have their child… but how? Baker’s Wife: (She is making a shopping list. The Baker is busy feeding her while she writes. He runs back and forth between a cake and his wife. We see her stomach grow and grow) Cookies… candies … fried chicken… pickles… peanut butter… Chocolate Ice cream… No…. Strawberry ice cream… (She pauses and thinks) Chocolate and strawberry ice cream…(The baker falls down from exhaustion) Just one more piece!Baker: (He is out of breath) But that’s number seven!Baker’s Wife: Oh … indeed? But it tastes like heaven! Make it a big piece… no that’s simply too small… remember… I am eating for two. (She rubs her stomach. He brings her a large piece of cake that she gobbles down. Her husband looks at her amazed)Witch: Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no. I can39。s Wife: MORE THAN LIFEBaker, Baker39。s Wife: I WISH MORE THAN ANYTHING… MORE THAN THE MOONBaker, Baker39。s Wife: (Overlapping) I WISH WE MIGHT HAVE A CHILD.Narrator: Next door to the witch lived a young baker and his