The poor man is now on the scene with a chicken that lays golden eggs – he stole it from the same giant’s house. Meanwhile, both princes – Cinderella's and Rapunzel's, discussing the renouncement from these beautiful girls, lamenting on the cruel fate.īaker and his wife mine required elements (although 3 of 4) and want to finish the quest, because the evil witch has imposed a curse on them, ending within 3 days. The poor man is taken on it, in giant house and stealing their gold to buy the cow, but discovers that the cow ran away and embarks on her quest. But future victim of theft escapes and releases the cow, depriving the baker's wife of two ingredients. Ridinghood gives him a hat, Cinderella escapes from the ball (without her brougham, often mentioned in other tales) and hiding in the house of baker’s wife, who wants to steal away from her golden shoe to give the witch a third ingredient. The wolf eats the poor Ridinghood, but baker from mercenary motives (he needs a red cap, because a witch demanded it among the ingredients), kills the wolf, freeing her and her grandmother. Rapunzel, meanwhile, found in her hideout in the woods by prince, accidentally spying for insidious witch and he decides to climb up to her. Then the baker steals red headdress of Ridinghood, but she is beating in the ongoing hysteria and he returns it. Then a childless couple buys his cow for magic beans indeed (although none of the participants of the exchange transaction does believe in this their property), feeling remorse, but in the hope to see their daughter alive, they’ll do anything. After circumstances of several people intertwined together, all of them depart in the woods: Ridinghood carries pies, poor man is going to sell his cow, and a childless couple looking for the missing items.Īlong the way, to them happens one by one such events: Cinderella gets a nice outfit from the ghost of her mother, Ridinghood encounters, of course, on charming grandiloquent wolf, and the poor man on the road comes across some geezer who offers a cow in exchange for the beans. The condition for removing the curse is to find 4 items, which she didn’t get herself for her magic. The cause of infertility of a baker is the curse of an evil witch, because somehow his father had stolen vegetables from the garden of witch, for which she bewitched his family, taking away from them a little just-born daughter Rapunzel (juridical example of how the punishment is excessively disproportionate to misdemeanor). The mother of poor inciting him to sell the cow and Red Ridinghood comes to the local baker to bring the pastries to a sick grandmother. When my Irish dad sang the lyrics, my Newfoundlander mom said about the tune "that’s Muscles in the Corner".Into the Woods Synopsis - Broadway musicalĪs in any fairy tale, this story also begins with the words "Once Upon a Time", and then the audience gets acquainted with the initial characters: Cinderella, a childless couple – a baker and his wife, who wants to change their status to “with child”, and the local poor, among whose possessions only a cow. The sheet music on this page differs from the melody they used, I’ll try to post it if I can figure out ABC notation. The words make me a little sad because of the 9-10 words in Irish that I can understand, I know it’s about a little boy going off to school with no shoes. Nevertheless it’s a great little album just for the cultural value of the songs. I ran into this tune via a CD of trad tunes with contemporary arrangements by Na Casaidigh, "Songs of our Childhood" I was not big on all of the arrangements, the logic I guess was to not sound like really hardcore trad music, to bring these songs to a wider audience. The ‘auld’ way of it was one tune for one figure, but nowadays playing a pair is more the norm, tunes in sets…Īll three of Johnny Connolly Seniors recordings are highly recommended by me ~ and by the local community of dancers here abouts too… # If for nothing else, learn to play for The Connemara Set live from someone who was born to that task, Johnny Connolly, using this man’s music, ways and tempos as your inspiration and guide…Įven here things change. Johnny’s way with it, and tempo, is perfect ~ And, the final 4th figure shouldn’t be manic, as it often is. Johnny Connolly’s tempos are grand, not the murdering usually done in the name of set dancing. One can use another track from the album or ignore the battering and use that track for figure one anyway. Unfortunately some daft person decided to add sean nós stepping to the music intended for figure 1, basically ruining the set, however well stepped it may be, and, it is nice, but not here. Tracks 7 - 10, three reel sets and the polka: "The Connemara Set"
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