INTO THE WOODS JUNIOR AUDITION MATERIALS

AUDITION SONGS:
IMPORTANT: The music and lyrics are by Stephen Sondheim. His melodies can be intricate and tricky. We will need to know that you can sing them the way they are written, so pay careful attention to the notes as written and
don't sing alternate notes, please.

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AGONY

GIANTS IN THE SKY

I KNOW THINGS NOW

When he said, "Come in," with that sickening grin, how could I know what was in store?
Once his teeth were bare then I really got scared. Well, excited AND scared, but he drew me close and he swallowed me down, down a dark slimy path where lie secrets that I never want to know
And I know things now, many valuable things that I hadn't known before 
Do not put your faith in a cape and a hood... They will not protect you the way that they should.
And take extra care with strangers, even flowers have their dangers and though scary is exciting, Nice is different than good. Now I know -don't be scared-Granny is right, just be prepared.
Isn't it nice to know a lot?  And a little bit not.

INTO THE WOODS OPENING

The way is clear, the light is good. I have no fear nor no one should.
The woods are just trees, the trees are just wood.
No need to be afraid there- there's something in the glade there!
Into the woods to get the thing that makes it worth the journeying
Into the woods to see the king, to sell the cow, to make the potion
To see, to sell, to get, to bring, to make, to lift, to go to the festival
Into the woods, into the woods, into the woods then out of the woods
and home before dark!

IT TAKES TWO

 We've changed. We're strangers. I'm meeting you in the woods
Who minds what dangers? I know we'll get past the woods!
And once we're past, let's hope the changes last.
Beyond woods, beyond witches and slippers and hoods
Just the two of us. Beyond lies, safe at home with our beautiful prize
Just a few of us It takes trust it takes just a bit more and we're done
We want four, we had none, we've got three. We need one.
  It takes two!

ON THE STEPS OF THE PALACE

Better run along home and avoid the collision
Even though they don't care you'll be better off there
Where there's nothing to choose so there's nothing to lose
So you pry up your shoes and then out of the blue and without any guide...
You know what your decision is- which is not to decide. You'll just leave him a clue
For example a shoe - and then see what he'll do 
Now it's he and not you who is stuck with the shoe, in the stew, in the goo...
and you've learned something too, something you never knew- on the steps of the palace!

STAY WITH ME

Princes wait there in the world it's true
Princes, yes, but wolves and humans too
Stay at home, I am home. Who out there could love you more than I?
What out there that I cannot supply? Stay with me.
Stay with me, the world is dark and wild.
Stay a child while you can be a child. With me.