Fairy ales & Fables – Act

Into the Woods (Prologue) Into the Woods

Candy Scene Hansel & Gretel

A Whole New World

Tornami a vagghegiar (Italian)

Emily Davis

Walt Disney’s Aladdin

Stephen Sondheim

Englebert Humperdinck

Alan Menken & Tim Rice

Alcina G. F. Händel

Return to gaze upon me adoringly – this faithful soul wants to love you only, my dear one. I have already given you my heart, my love will be faithful, I will never be cruel to you, my dear betrothed.

Veillons, mes soeurs (French) Zémire et Azor

André Grétry

Sisters, let’s watch again as the night flies before dawn. The prosperous day, when our father returns, is almost here. ‘He promised me the most beautiful lace, the most beautiful ribbons!’ ‘He promised me a rose: the flower that I cherish.’ ‘A rose?! Such an insignificant thing!’ ‘From his hand, it is priceless!’

Shy Once Upon a Mattress

Maggie Ramsey

The Ugly Duckling The Motion Picture

Mary Rodgers & Marshall Barer

Hans Christian Andersen

Tout Repose (French) La belle au bois dormant

Bharati Soman

Frank Loesser

Charles Silver

Everything rests. The night descends, and the stars caress the sleeping earth with light. I, with my sad, frozen heart, in this abandoned garden, have only the night for a friend. Everything speaks to my soul in the evening, when I come here alone to sit under the tall, sleeping trees. The flowers console me, and I listen to them, dreaming. The souls of things awaken their voices to lull my boredom.

Fable Reading: The Goose and the Golden Egg

I Want it Now

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

Vilia The Merry Widow

Adrienne Neal

Makayla Freeman

Leslie Bricusse & Anthony Newley

Franz Lehar

Fairy ales & Fables – Act (continued)

Wish Medley Walt Disney’s Pinocchio, Snow White & Cinderella Leigh Harline & Ned (When You Wish Upon a Star • I’m Wishing • Washington; Frank Churchill & Larry Morey; A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes) Mack David, Al Hoffman, and Jerry Livingston

Speaker: Make-A-Wish® Mid-Atlantic Kaylan King

Fairy ales & Fables – Act

Opening Chorus & Ensemble The Rat-Charmer of Hamelin

Adolf Neuendorff featuring Sarina Hemmati, flute; Eliana, Penny, Cora, Timothy & Sterling Davis

Song to the Moon (Czech) Rusalka

Kathleen Allen

Antonín Dvořák

Moon, high and deep in the sky, your light travels far. You travel the world. Moon, stand still and tell me where is my dear. Tell him that I am embracing him. Illuminate him and tell him who is waiting for him. If he is really dreaming of me, may the memory awaken him! Moon, don’t disappear!

Fable Reading: The Ant & the Grasshopper

Carlin Adjula

La cigale et la fourmi (The Ant & the Grasshopper) (French) Jacques Offenbach

When Winter comes, the Grasshopper begs the ant for a loan of grain to last her until Spring. On insect oath, the Grasshopper promises to repay the loan, interest & principal, by the next Fall. The Ant refuses, as she is not a lender. The Ant asks how the Grasshopper spent the summer. ‘Night and day, to every comer, I sang, so please you ma’am.’ ‘You sang? I’m overjoyed. Now off you go and dance!’

Practically Perfect Mary Poppins

Jenna Stein

Who’s Afraid of the Big, Bad Wolf? The Three Little Pigs

George Stiles & Anthony Drewe

Frank Churchill & Ann Ronell

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Into the Woods: Cinderella/Jack & the Beanstalk/Little Red Ridinghood/The Baker & the Baker’s Wife – Into the Woods interweaves the storylines of several well-known fairy tales. Each story’s characters make their way into the woods to accomplish a different task: Cinderella - to pay respects to her late mother and make a wish to attend the King’s festival, Jack to sell his beloved cow at market, Little Red Ridinghood to take some sweets to Granny, and the Baker & his Wife to collect items from each of these stories in order to break the witch’s curse and fulfill their wish of having a child.

Hansel & Gretel – When Hansel and Gretel’s family is running out of food to eat, their parents plan to lose them in the woods. The children wander together until they find a cottage made entirely out of gingerbread and candies! But who lives there, a princess, or a witch?

Aladdin – Aladdin is a poor boy who is recruited by a sorcerer to fetch a special lamp from the Cave of Wonders. When he rubs the lamp a Genie appears and offers him three wishes, which he uses to woo and marry the sultan’s daughter.

Alcina (solo) – Alcina is a powerful enchantress who lures men to her island and then turns them to animals or rocks once she is tired of them. But when she brings Ruggerio to her island, his fiancée, Bradamante, hatches a plan to rescue him with the aid of a magic ring that will open his eyes to the reality of the island. In this aria, Alcina’s sister, Morgana, pledges her love to “Ricciardo,” who really turns out to be Bradamante in disguise!

Zémire et Azor – In this version of Beauty & the Beast, little Beauty’s father leaves on a trip and promises gifts to each of his daughters. Her older sisters ask for lace and ribbons, but Beauty simply asks for a rose. However, her father has taken the rose from the garden of an enchanted castle, and Beauty must save him by returning to live in the castle with Azor, the cursed Beast who lives there. She finds many wondrous entertainments in the castle, and grows close with the beast, eventually falling in love just in time to save his life and break his curse.

Once Upon a Mattress (solo) – How do you know that someone is TRULY a princess? In this story, when the princess shows up, she doesn’t look particularly elegant, and in this adaptation of The Princess & the Pea, she doesn’t behave the way you might expect a princess to act either. So the queen tests her by piling up many, many mattresses and secretly placing a single pea under the bottom mattress. If the girl can feel the tiny pea, she will prove that she is a genuine princess.

The Ugly Duckling - When a mother duck finds an extra-large egg in her nest, which hatches into an extra-large brown duckling, the whole farm-yard teases him and chases him away as an “ugly duckling.” He travels far and has many adventures trying to find his place in the world until a year later, when he finds a pond of swans who invite him to join them. He is ashamed to join such lovely birds until he sees his reflection and realizes that he is a very fine swan indeed!

La belle au bois dormant (solo) – In this rendition of Sleeping Beauty, instead of the usual curse of pricking her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel, Princess Aurora’s hundred-year sleep is induced by the kiss of an “errant knight.” A good fairy alters the curse so that she and the whole castle will wake once she is kissed by the noble prince who sees her in a dream. This aria takes place just before Aurora’s enchanted sleep occurs.

The Goose & the Golden Egg – This is a cautionary tale about a farmer whose goose laid one gold egg daily. The farmer began selling the eggs at market, but he grew impatient and thought he could gain riches faster by opening the goose and removing all of the eggs at once. Upon killing the goose, he found nothing, and lost everything. “I Want it Now” is sung by the greedy, spoiled and bratty Veruca Salt in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

Vilia (solo) – The story of the Vilia, a wood nymph, and her struggles to find love is presented at a party in Franz Lehar’s operetta, The Merry Widow. In Czech folklore, “víly” are woodland spirits, typically portrayed as beautiful women with long flowing hair, who primarily live in the woods and entrance men who wander into their land, through their looks and beautiful voices.

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