Rapunzel in The Magic Kingdom

Was surfing the web for things Wicked. At Kristin Chenoweth’s (original Glinda on Broadway’s Wicked) website, I read that she has started work on Disney’s new animated movie Rapunzel: Unbraided!!! Chenoweth’s voicing Rapunzel… and an actress I really like, Reese Witherspoon, is voicing another main character in the film. YouTube has a short preview to the film. It’s not coming out till 2009 though. Still, it’s cool to have news that Disney’s returning to fairy-tales. I hope the songs will be good.

In the meantime, when I think of songs for Rapunzel, I will be chuckling over her prince in Agony from Into The Woods.

[audio:Agony.mp3]

High in her tower,
She sits by the hour,
Maintaining her hair.
Blithe and becoming and frequently humming
A lighthearted air:
Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-

…

Agony! Far more painful than yours,
When you know she would go with you
If there only were doors.

…

You know nothing of madness
Till you’re climbing her hair
And you see her up there
As you’re nearing her,
All the while hearing her:
Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-

…

Agony
That can cut like a knife!
I must have her to wife.