- The prince: You are the most lovely creature this forest has ever seen.
- Narrator: Sadly, shortly after Snow White was born, her mother, the good and noble queen, died of a mysterious illness, and the king soon remarried. This new queen was truly beautiful, but her beauty went no deeper than her skin. She was a wicked and cruel woman, who was only happy when she was looking into one of her many mirrors. And when the good king died while fighting a war in a faraway land, the new queen did not shed a single tear. For now she could tax the people heavily, and use the money to buy herself all sorts of lotions and potions that would maintain her great beauty. And the people of the kingdom became sad and frightened. The queen had many, many mirrors, but by far her favorite was a magic mirror, which always spoke the total and absolute truth. For many years, several times each day, the vain queen would look into her magic mirror, and ask the same question.
- [repeated lines]
- The Evil Queen: Magic mirror, tell me do. Tell your mistress; tell her true. Answer me, obey my call: who's the loveliest of all?
- Narrator: And each time, the magic mirror would answer exactly the same way.
- The magic mirror: The answer, queen, is crystal clear. You are most lovely far and near.
- Narrator: And then, one fateful day, the queen received an answer of a different sort. Yes, a very different sort indeed.
- The Evil Queen: [angered] Ugh! Send me my royal huntsman!
- The magic mirror: Her skin is pure as a brand-new snow. Her eyes set people's hearts aglow. Lips red as blood, hair black as night, the loveliest is: the fair Snow White.
- The Evil Queen: What? How can this be? *I* am the most beautiful woman in the land. I always have been and I always shall be. Treacherous mirror! How dare you say Snow White is lovelier than I!
- The magic mirror: Your loveliness is great, 'tis true, but there is one more fair than you. For Snow White's beauty does begin where yours does stop: 'tis from within.
- The Evil Queen: [to the huntsman] So you understand what you must do?
- The huntsman: But you're majesty,
- The Evil Queen: [in a firm voice] I asked you a simple question! Do you understand?
- The huntsman: [slumping] Yes you're majesty, I understand
- The Evil Queen: Good, cause if for some reason you should fail me then tonight I shall be dining upon head of huntsman do I make myself clear?
- The huntsman: Yes your majesty.
- The Evil Queen: Good then it looks like we understand each other, Now Go!
- [throws her mirror on the ground breaking it and she laughs maniacally]
- Snow White: Oh, I wish there were a way I could make her happy.
- The huntsman: [aside] You would not be so anxious to make the queen happy if you knew why she sent us here.
- The huntsman: You must flee. Run, far as you can; go!
- Snow White: But what about you? If you disobey the queen...
- The huntsman: Run, I say!
- Snow White: [hugging him] I shall never forget you, huntsman.
- The huntsman: Nor I you, princess. Now quickly, you must go. And never return.
- The prince's friend: Sire, she has disappeared from sight.
- The prince's friend: 'Tis true, sire. Perhaps she was a witch, or a gnome.
- The prince: No, my friends. No one with a face like hers could be a witch or a gnome.
- Narrator: Snow White had never seen a place like this. But somehow she knew it was a safe place.
- Snow White: I'm Snow White.
- Fawn: Uh, true, you are a bit pale, dearie. But what's your name?
- Snow White: Snow White *is* my name.
- Fawn: Snow White? Kind of an unusual name, isn't it?
- Snow White: Mm, I don't know. I never really thought about it before.
- Robin: Why are you running from the queen? Well - not that you need an excuse, mind you.
- Snow White: She is my stepmother.
- Fawn: Look, I know that parents can be difficult sometimes. But that is no reason to run away.
- Toadstool: Fawn is right. You must go home. Your stepmother will be worried about you.
- Snow White: But you do not understand. She wishes me dead.
- Narrator: This is a story about love and how love and beauty are more powerful than wickedness and jealousy. Many years ago in a far away land there was a tiny kingdom. Now this kingdom was ruled by a kind and good king who had a gentle and loving wife as his Queen. Their tiny kingdom glowed in the magic of their love, and they had a daughter who was the most beautiful the world had ever seen and they called her Snow White. Sadly shortly after Snow White was born her mother the good queen died of a mysterious illness and the king soon remarried.