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Script
Audition Central: Into the Woods JR.
Script: Baker's Wife
SIDE 1
(CINDERELLA enters, as if pursued. CINDERELLA falls at the feet of BAKER'S WIFE, losing one slipper.)
CINDERELLA
(recognizing BAKER'S WIFE)
Hello. It's these slippers.
BAKER'S WIFE
I'd say those slippers were as pure as gold.
CINDERELLA
Yes. They are all you could wish for in beauty.
(CINDERELLA takes the slipper back.)
BAKER'S WIFE
What I wouldn't give for just one.
CINDERELLA
One is not likely to do you much good. I must run.
(BAKER'S WIFE grabs a shoe.)
BAKER'S WIFE
And I must have your shoe.
CINDERELLA
Stop that!
(The two engage in a tug-of-war over the shoe, and the dialogue overlaps.)
BAKER'S WIFE
I need it to have a baby!
CINDERELLA
(through clenched teeth)
And I need it to get out of here!
(CINDERELLA wins the battle over the shoe and desperately runs offstage; BAKER'S WIFE is embarrassed by her own behavior. BAKER'S WIFE straightens herself up as CINDERELLA'S PRINCE with STEWARD bound onstage, only to curtsey deeply again.)
CINDERELLA'S PRINCE
Where did she go?
BAKER'S WIFE
Who?
STEWARD
Don't play the fool, woman.
BAKER'S WIFE
Oh! You mean the beautiful young maiden in the ball gown? She went in that direction. I was trying to hold her here for you...
CINDERELLA'S PRINCE
I can capture my own damsel, thank you.
(CINDERELLA'S PRINCE and STEWARD dash offstage.)
SIDE 2
BAKER
Yes. I've the cow. We've two of the four.
(MILKY-WHITE continues to breathe heavily.)
BAKER'S WIFE
Three.
BAKER
Two!
BAKER'S WIFE
(pulls the hair from her pocket)
Three! Compare this to your corn.
(BAKER does so and smiles.)
BAKER
Where did you find it?
BAKER'S WIFE
(false modesty)
I pulled it from a maiden in a tower.
BAKER
(looking at hair)
Three!
BAKER'S WIFE
And I almost had the fourth, but she got away.
BAKER
We've one entire day left. Surely we can locate the slipper by then.
BAKER'S WIFE
We? You mean you'll allow me to stay?
BAKER
(embarrassed)
Well... perhaps it will take the two of us to get this child.
SIDE 3
BAKER
Yes. I've the cow. We've two of the four.
(MILKY-WHITE continues to breathe heavily.)
BAKER'S WIFE
Three.
BAKER
Two!
BAKER'S WIFE
(pulls the hair from her pocket)
Three! Compare this to your corn.
(BAKER does so and smiles.)
BAKER
Where did you find it?
BAKER'S WIFE
(false modesty)
I pulled it from a maiden in a tower.
BAKER
(looking at hair)
Three!
BAKER'S WIFE
And I almost had the fourth, but she got away.
BAKER
We've one entire day left. Surely we can locate the slipper by then.
BAKER'S WIFE
We? You mean you'll allow me to stay?
BAKER
(embarrassed)
Well... perhaps it will take the two of us to get this child.
SIDE 4
(BAKER'S WIFE drops to the ground and searches for the bean.)
CINDERELLA
I've already given up one shoe this evening. My feet cannot bear to give up another.
(CINDERELLA begins to leave.)
BAKER'S WIFE
(rising)
I need that shoe to have a child!
CINDERELLA
That makes no sense!
(We hear rumblings from the distance.)
BAKER'S WIFE
Does it make sense that you're running from a prince?
STEWARD
(offstage)
Stop!
BAKER'S WIFE
Here. Take my shoes. You'll run faster.
(BAKER'S WIFE gives CINDERELLA her shoes and takes the golden slipper. CINDERELLA puts on the shoes and exits quickly. STEWARD bounds onstage and looks about.)
STEWARD
Who was that woman?
BAKER'S WIFE
I do not know, sir.
STEWARD
Lying will cost you your life!
(BAKER enters with another cow.)
BAKER
I've the cow.
BAKER'S WIFE
(sees the cow; excited, to BAKER)
The slipper!
(holds up slipper)
We've all four!
(BAKER'S WIFE)
(BAKER'S WIFE runs to BAKER; STEWARD takes the slipper as she passes.)
STEWARD
I will give this to the Prince and we will search the kingdom tomorrow for the maiden who will fit this shoe.
BAKER'S WIFE
(grabs the slipper)
It's mine.
(BAKER'S WIFE and STEWARD begin to struggle. MYSTERIOUS MAN comes from around a tree.)
BAKER'S WIFE
(struggling)
I don't care if this costs me my life-
MYSTERIOUS MAN
(simultaneously)
Give her the slipper and all will-
(CINDERELLA'S PRINCE races onstage.)
CINDERELLA'S PRINCE
I've the maiden's slipper.
(CINDERELLA'S PRINCE produces another slipper.)
STEWARD
And sir, I have succeeded in obtaining the other slipper!
MYSTERIOUS MAN
(to STEWARD)
Give them the slipper, and all will come to a happy end.
STEWARD
Shut up!
SIDE 5
BAKER'S WIFE
(moving towards cow)
Oh, she is.
(petting cow)
She is!
(White powder flies about as BAKER'S WIFE pats the cow. BAKER pulls her away as WITCH approaches.)
WITCH
This cow has been covered with flour!
BAKER
Well, we did have a cow as white as milk. Honestly we did.
WITCH
Then where is she?
BAKER'S WIFE
She's dead.
BAKER
We thought you'd prefer a live cow.
WITCH
Of course I'd prefer a live cow! So bring me the dead cow and I'll bring her back to life!
BAKER
You could do that?
WITCH
Now!
SIDE 6
BAKER'S WIFE
Two princes, each more handsome than the other.
(BAKER'S WIFE begins to follow CINDERELLA'S PRINCE and RAPUNZEL'S PRINCE; she stops.)
No! Get the hair!
(BAKER'S WIFE heads in the other direction frantically.)
(JACK'S MOTHER enters.)
JACK'S MOTHER
Excuse me, young woman. Have you encountered a boy answering to the name of Jack?
BAKER'S WIFE
Not the one partial to a white cow?
JACK'S MOTHER
He's the one.
BAKER'S WIFE
Have you seen the cow?
JACK'S MOTHER
No, and I don't care to ever again.
BAKER'S WIFE
I've not seen your son today.
JACK'S MOTHER
(annoyed)
I hope he didn't go up that beanstalk again.
(JACK'S MOTHER begins to exit.)
Jack...! Jack...!
SIDE 7
BAKER
Hello there, young man.
JACK
(looks at BAKER, scared)
Hello, sir.
BAKER
What might you be doing with a cow in the middle of the forest?
JACK
(nervous)
I was heading toward market - but I seem to have lost my way.
BAKER'S WIFE
(coaching BAKER)
What are you planning to do there-?
BAKER
And what are you planning to do there?
JACK
Sell my cow, sir. No less than five pounds.
BAKER
Five pounds!
BAKER'S WIFE
And if you can't fetch that sum? Then what are you to do?
JACK
I suppose my mother and I will have no food to eat.
(BAKER has emptied his pocket; he has a few coins and the beans in hand.)
BAKER'S WIFE
(loudly)
Beans - we mustn't give up our beans! Well... if you feel we must.
BAKER
Huh?
BAKER'S WIFE
(to JACK)
Beans will bring you food, son.
JACK
Beans in exchange for my cow?
BAKER'S WIFE
Oh, these are no ordinary beans, son. These beans carry magic.
JACK
Magic? What kind of magic?
BAKER'S WIFE
(to BAKER)
Tell him.
BAKER
Magic that defies description.