Original Broadway Cast of Into the Woods & Tom Aldredge
Kim Crosby & Merle Louise
Robert Westenberg & Danielle Ferland
Joanna Gleason, Ben Wright & Chip Zien
Danielle Ferland
Original Broadway Cast of Into the Woods & Ben Wright & Kim Crosby & Joanna Gleason
Robert Westenberg & Chuck Wagner
Joanna Gleason & Chip Zien
Bernadette Peters
Kim Crosby
Original Broadway Cast of Into the Woods & Tom Aldredge
Original Broadway Cast of Into the Woods & Tom Aldredge
Robert Westenberg & Chuck Wagner
Bernadette Peters
Joanna Gleason & Robert Westenberg
Bernadette Peters, Chip Zien, Kim Crosby, Danielle Ferland & Ben Wright
Chip Zien & Tom Aldredge
Chip Zien, Kim Crosby, Ben Wright & Danielle Ferland
Original Broadway Cast of Into the Woods & Bernadette Peters
The Princes meet again in the woods and reveal that, despite being married, they are back to old habits of searching and yearning for maidens who they cannot win. Like in Act I, they try to outdo one another in how much manly pain they claim to be experiencing.
This time, the Princes are unwittingl...
[CINDERELLA'S PRINCE]
High in a tower—
Like yours was, but higher—
A beauty asleep
All 'round the tower
A thicket of briar
A hundred feet deep
Agony!
No frustration more keen
When the one thing you want
Is a thing that you've not even seen
[RAPUNZEL'S PRINCE]
I found a casket
Entirely of glass—
No, it's unbreakable
Inside—don't ask it—
A maiden, alas
Just as unwakeable
[BOTH PRINCES]
What unmistakable
Agony!
Is the way always barred?
[RAPUNZEL'S PRINCE]
She has skin white as snow—
[CINDERELLA'S PRINCE]
Did you learn her name?
[RAPUNZEL'S PRINCE]
No
There's a dwarf standing guard
[BOTH PRINCES]
Agony
Such that princes must weep!
Always in thrall most
To anything almost
Or something asleep
[CINDERELLA'S PRINCE]
If it were not for the thicket—
[RAPUNZEL'S PRINCE]
A thicket's no trick
Is it thick?
[CINDERELLA'S PRINCE]
It's the thickest
[RAPUNZEL'S PRINCE]
The quickest
Is pick it
Apart with a stick—
[CINDERELLA'S PRINCE]
Yes, but even one prick—
It's my thing about blood
[RAPUNZEL'S PRINCE]
Well, it's sick!
[CINDERELLA'S PRINCE]
It's no sicker
Than your thing with dwarves!
[RAPUNZEL'S PRINCE]
Dwarfs
[CINDERELLA'S PRINCE]
Dwarfs...
[RAPUNZEL'S PRINCE]
Dwarfs are very upsetting
[BOTH PRINCES]
Not forgetting
The tasks unachievable
Mountains unscalable—
If it's conceivable
But unavailable
Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah—
Agony!
[CINDERELLA'S PRINCE]
Misery!
[RAPUNZEL'S PRINCE]
Woe!
[BOTH]
Not to know what you miss
[CINDERELLA'S PRINCE]
While they lie there for years—
[RAPUNZEL'S PRINCE]
And you cry on their biers—
[BOTH PRINCES]
What unbearable bliss!
Agony
That can cut like a knife!
Ah well, back to my wife...
Agony (Reprise) was written by Stephen Sondheim.
Agony (Reprise) was produced by Jay David Saks.
Robert Westenberg & Chuck Wagner released Agony (Reprise) on Fri Jan 08 1988.