![]() ![]() The prince then races to find Snow White before the Queen does. He orders Luna to be brought before him and decides to throw her in the dungeon to rot there for the rest of her days. In the King's chambers, he becomes very worried, but the prince and the huntsman tell him of the Queen's jealousy and her plans for Snow White. She then decides to kill Snow White with a poisoned apple, of which she would have to take one bite and fall into the Sleeping Death. She drinks it, which transforms her into an ugly old hag. She goes deep into the dungeon and concocts a magic potion. Meanwhile, the Queen finds out Snow White is still alive, so she decides to take matters into her own hands. Learning about what happened to Snow White, he and the huntsman go to tell the King. They agree to let her stay if she keeps the house for them while they work in the mines. Snow White wakes up, sees them, and tells them about herself and of her stepmother. But when they see that it is a beautiful girl, they find she is no harm to them, except Grumpy (as he says). Upon seeing that someone is in their house, they think it is a monster, so they go up to their bedroom to kill it. They are seven dwarfs: Doc, Happy, Sneezy, Grumpy, Bashful, Sleepy, and Dopey. In the diamond mines, the owners of the cottage are preparing to return home. When she discovers what a mess it is, she decides to clean it in hopes of winning favor with the owners. After her flight through the forest, she encounters the forest animals who take her to a cottage deep in the forest. ![]() But he can't bring himself to kill Snow White and tells her of the Queen's jealousy, to run into the forest, and to never return to the castle. The huntsman, not wanting to suffer a fate worse than death, reluctantly agrees to do so. She decides to summon her huntsman, and instructs him to go to the village and tell Snow White he has come to take her home to her father, and to take her into a secluded glade in the forest, kill her, and bring back her heart as proof that the deed had been done. Back at the castle, the Queen finds out Snow White remains more beautiful than her. But she flees to her house where she watches him from afar. Just then, a traveling prince from the neighboring Kingdom of Heart hears her singing and falls in love with her instantly. She makes friends with the women of there and tells them of her wish to find true love. Time passes in the village, where hard labor has done everything but destroy Snow White's beauty. Luna agrees to do so and takes Snow White, who is oblivious to the scheme. She then summons Luna before her to take Snow White to the ramshackle village far beyond the Kingdom and see to it that she is dressed in rags and forced to do heavy work and backbreaking labor until her beauty is destroyed. In her chambers, she summons the slave in her magic mirror and asks, "Mirror Mirror on the wall, who is the fairest one of all?" It is reluctant to answer, but after much persuasion, it says that Snow White has far outshone the Queen's beauty. She then lies to him that they must arrange for the safety of the rest of her subjects back to her homeland in order instead of sharing the first dance with him. When Snow White makes her entrance, the Queen notices that the King loves her very much. She has brought with her lady-in-waiting, Luna, and her personal huntsman. The kingdom is celebrating the marriage of the King and his new Queen. After the Queen died, the King became lonely, and after many years, he took a new Queen from the far-off land of Shi-tan so that Snow White would have a mother in her life. The musical opens with narration that tells of a beautiful Queen sitting by the window watching the falling snow and thinking to herself, "Would that if I had a daughter with skin as white as snow, hair as black as the raven's crest, and lips as red as cherry wine." Soon she gave birth to a daughter who was the very essence of her wish and named her Snow White.
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