Stephen Sondheim
Second Midnight
[WITCH, spoken]
Two midnights gone!

[CINDERELLA, spoken]
Wanting a ball is not wanting a Prince...

[CINDERELLA'S PRINCE, spoken]
Near may be better than far
But it still isn't there...

[RAPUNZEL'S PRINCE, spoken]
Near may be better than far
But it still isn't there...

[CINDERELLA, spoken]
The ball...

[CINDERELLA'S PRINCE, spoken]
So near...

[RAPUNZEL'S PRINCE, spoken]
So far...

[STEPMOTHER, spoken]
You can never love somebody else's child—
[FLORINDA & LUCINDA]
Two midnights gone!

[STEPMOTHER, spoken]
—the way you love—

[CINDERELLA'S PRINCE, spoken]
So near...

[STEPMOTHER, spoken]
—your own

[CINDERELLA, spoken]
The prince...

[RAPUNZEL'S PRINCE, spoken]
So far...

[GRANNY, spoken]
The greatest prize can often lie
At the end of the thorniest path...

(overlapping)

[CINDERELLA'S PRINCE & RAPUNZEL'S PRINCE, spoken]
Two midnights gone!
Two midnights gone!
[STEPMOTHER, FLORINDA & LUCINDA, spoken]
Two midnights
Two midnights gone!

[GRANNY, spoken]
Two midnights gonе!

[NARRATOR, spoken]
Two midnights gone. And the exhaustеd Baker and his wife buried the dead Milky-White