Into the Woods: The Reality of Fairy Tale Wishes

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Happily ever after? The musical Into the woods the main characters is taken from multiples fairy tales as Jack and the beanstalk, Cinderella, Little red riding hood and Rapunzel and a story of a baker and his wife. Each character of the story wished for something, Cinderella wants to attend the prince 's festival, Jack need to buy food for him and his mother, Little red riding hood has to deliver food for her sick grandmother, and the baker and his wife lust to have a child regardless the cursed place upon him. Be careful about what you wish for, because there is never a happily every after.

The baker was cursed because his father stole from the neighbor witch 's garden and took her magic bean because his wife wanted some greens from that
As she set off into the woods, she followed the path her mother told her too. She meets a wolf, who distracted her from the path. She naively told him to the place to her grandmothers. As she picked the flowers for her grandmother, the baker caught up with her and tried to take her red cloak. She screamed and gave back the cloak. Once she got the cloak back, she went on to her grandmother. She arrives at her grandmother door and she noticed that the door was left open. She went in and saw the wolf protruding as her grandmother. Once she realized that it wasn 't her grandmother, the wolf ate her. And the baker saved her and her grandmother from the wolf by slicing his stomach while he was sleeping. Little red riding hood gave the baker her red cloak for saving her and her
She went off into the woods to visit her mother 's grave to seek answers to why she cannot seem at the prince 's festival. At the willow tree, her mother turned her old raggy dress into a beautiful golden dress and her old raggy shoes into a gold slipper. Now Cinderella is able to attend the festival. The prince falls in love with her each day she attended the festival she would be unsure and run off. She meets the baker 's wife in the woods each night after running from the prince. On the last day, she stepped on tart that was left while running away and she left one side of her gold slipper to see what he would do. She achieves her dream by marrying the

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