Сцена 3.

Herald: The King and the Queen of our kingdom invite all young ladies and their parents to the ball. Our young prince wants to choose his bride. We are waiting for you in our palace.

Stepmother (хватает послание и перечитывает): We have to wear our best clothes!

(Звучит музыка. Мачеха и её дочери открывают шкафы и хватают с вешалок платья. Пэт и Лиз вырывают друг у друга то одно, то другое платье. Им всё не нравится. Они бросают одежду на пол.)

Stepmother, Pat and Liz: Cinderella!

Cinderella: Yes, I’m here.

Stepmother: We are going to the ball. But we have not got party dresses. We need beautiful hats, bands and ribbons, gloves and shoes.

Cinderella: You have a lot of different beautiful dresses in the trunk. Let’s look and choose something. What kind of dresses, bangles, and gloves would you like to wear?

Stepmother: Stupid girl! I have told you we want new dresses, new hats, new shoes!

Pat and Liz: And me too!

Pat: I want a pink dress with large bows, gold shoes, a large hat decorated with fruit!

Liz: And I want a yellow dress, a green hat with strange birds and red shoes.

Stepmother: Go and sew! You must do it today.

Cinderella (шьёт и поёт): The dress is what I’m making

The dress is what I’m sewing

The yellow is for happiness

But Why I’m in a sorrow.

The pink dress is what I’m making

The pink dress is what I’m sewing

The pink color is for gladness

But why I am so joyless.

Cat: Purr. Working again, try your best! My hostess must be satisfied with the new dress. Pat me, take me on your hands.

Cinderella: Don’t scratch me, Lucifer. You will tear the dresses. Drink some milk.

Cat: Milk, again, milk. Oh, no, one sausage, just one sausage.

Cinderella: Hush!

Cat: Then I’ll catch your mice. Jack, Gas, mice. Where are you, my little mice. Come up to me to play.

Jack and Gas: Pi-pi-pi.

(Входит мачеха с дочерьми.)

Stepmother: Are the dresses ready?

Cinderella: They are ready

Stepmother: Horrible. (поворачивается к дочерям) Beautiful!

Liz: Tasteless. (поворачивается к матери) Charming!

Pat: Ugly (поворачивается к матери) Fascinating!

Cinderella: I’d like to go to the ball, Mummy.

Pat and Liz: You?

Stepmother: Hush! Of course my dear, you can go to the ball. But you must do some work: clean the house, wash the clothes, water the roses, feed the chicken and the cattle, go to the market and buy some food, cook dinner and… (ссыпает вместе горох и чечевицу) sort lentil and peas.

Cinderella (плачет): I cannot do it all.

Stepmother: Hurry up, girl. May be you’ll finish the work and go to the ball.

(Мачеха и дочери смеются и уходят. Золушка начинает убирать посуду.)

Сцена 4.

(Золушка танцует танец. Садится, перебирает зёрна и плачет. Появляется фея.)

Fairy: How are you, pretty girl? Why are you crying? I know you want to go to the ball.

Mice: That’s a very strange woman. Let’s run away.

Cinderella: Yes, but I can’t. I have too much work to do and my dress…

Fairy: Don’t be afraid. I’ll help you. Bring me the largest yellow pumpkin.

One, two, three

It should be

A… gold carriage.

Cinderella: Thank you dear fairy. But where shall we get the horses?

Fairy: I need a couple of mice.

Gas: Oh, I don’t want to be a pumpkin.

Jack: Don’t touch me!

Fairy: One, two, three

You should be… horses!

(Мыши превращаются в лошадей.)

Сinderella (хлопает в ладоши): Wonderful!

Fairy: Now everything is ready. Oh, I have just forgotten about your dress (касается платья)

One, two, three

It should be… a beautiful dress.

Cinderella: Oh, how beautiful!

Fairy: Now you can hurry to the ball but don’t forget, at 12 o’clock you must be at home, because your new dress will disappear.

Cinderella: Thank you, dear fairy.