Cows, Capes, Slippers and Hair

IT'S TECH WEEK!!!!!!!!
So as some of you may know, I'm in the school musical. And this year, the show is Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods. (If you don't know the plot, I'll get into that in the next paragraph.) This week is tech week, sometimes known as hell week, where we have dress and tech rehearsals all week, and no one involved in the show gets to go home till 10 every night. To put it in simpler terms, it's the week before opening night, and it's super-stressful. Now that you all know how daunting my week is going to be, we can actually talk about the show now.

THE CHARACTERS:

The Narrator                                                 
The Baker                                                       
The Baker's Wife                                                         
The Witch                                                       
Cinderella                                                        
The Stepmother                                             
Florinda and Lucinda, the stepsisters              
Jack
Jack's Mother
Milky White, the cow
Little Red Riding Hood
The Wolf
Granny
Rapunzel
Rapunzel's Prince
Cinderella's Prince
Cinderella's Mother
The Giant

THE PLOT:

Into the Woods  is pretty much a bunch of fairy tales all strung together by the saga of a Baker and his Wife trying to have a child. And no, this does not involve any inappropriate behaviors on stage. The Witch, who lives next door to the Baker, comes to tell him and his Wife that she placed a spell on their house, making the Baker and his Wife unable to have children. The way to break the curse, the Witch tells them, is to go to the wood and find the cow as white as milk, the cape as red as blood, the hair as yellow as corn and the slipper as pure as gold, and to bring them to her in 3 days. It also turns out that the Baker had a sister that the Witch took away when she cursed the Baker's family, and that his sister was Rapunzel.
After days of searching for odd objects, some nice songs, and a dead cow that is brought back to life, the Baker and his Wife get their baby, Cinderella goes to the ball, Jack becomes rich and wins his cow back, and Little Red Riding Hood gets a new cape.
But that's only the end of the first act...
In the second act,everything goes wrong, and at the end of the show, the audience is taught that you must be careful what you wish for, because wishes do come true, but they all have a price that must be payed.
Now that I've whet your appetite, here's the song "It Takes Two", sung by the Baker and his Wife, from the original Broadway production: