I absolutely love the subtle characterization the actors show with their body language. You can tell that Cinderella’s prince is more formal and reserved by his quick, tight movements while Rapunzel’s prince is more laid back or “wild” from his more exaggerated movements. Fantastic acting from both of them!
Exactly! But Cinderella’s prince is the future king so yeah you can imagine he’s being prepared for it. While the brother is the second son and can take a more laid back approach.
This is such musical theater porn. The delivery, the technique, the way their voices blend, the way even their vibrato is perfectly in sync. It's just perfect.
This is one of the best examples of how much funnier a scene like this is when the performers play the most ludicrous lines as though they are absolutely serious. Neither of them clowns for even an instant, no matter how funny the line is.
@@francescapatti2934 they were not talking about that. when they ripped open their shirts they were still acting dead serious. it's about when actors "act" the funny lines instead of just saying them
To me there is no better duet in the history of musical theater. Both of these men, these actors and musicians, are absolutely phenomenal performers. The material is brilliant, the story is fantastic, it’s relatable In spite of the fact that they are princes in a fantasy realm. I enjoy this piece so much, and if I ever audition for a musical this is the piece that I will use. If I can perform at half as well as these guys I should be a shoe in. Great stuff.
Although I thought the movie was freaking wonderful and I enjoyed more than the production I saw on stage, had every scene had this style of acting on film, it would have sucked. Stage acting is different than film acting. The film did it great cuz the acting was able to be theatrical and stay within the limits of believable acting for film.
Brian, I agree. The movie was a disappointment for me, but this scene was SO outrageously different (and better) compared to every other scene that it seemed like an entirely different film altogether! If the entire movie had this sort of comedy laced into it, I probably would have felt differently about it.
One of the Princes: "Agony... far more painful than yours!" *the other gives him a 'Bitch please' look* XD Tell me I'm not the only person who noticed that they're trying to say that their pain is more hurtful than the others while giving the 'Bitch please, I'm more wounded than you are' look?!
I've looked at a couple versions of this song, and this is by far the best. Many seem to perform this number as the two competing, but this one does it more as the brothers sharing the same simple mindset. A perfectly done duet.
I went to a college performance of this and the voices were so bad I had to leave!!!!! The orchestra also did not tune up to the piano. ALL WRONG EVERYTHING!!!
Relax the back of your throat. Now relax it more. Make the rest of your mouth as big as possible -- no matter what syllable you're singing, you want a really broad resonant space for this. And then sing Agony. Keep relaxing your throat and it'll turn out well.
LYRICS: [CINDERELLA'S PRINCE] Did I abuse her Or show her disdain? Why does she run from me? If I should lose her, How shall I regain The heart she has won from me? Agony! Beyond power of speech, When the one thing you want Is the only thing out of your reach. [RAPUNZEL'S PRINCE] 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. [BOTH] Agony! Oh, the torture they teach! [RAPUNZEL'S PRINCE] What's as intriguing- [CINDERELLA'S PRINCE] Or half so fatiguing- [BOTH] As what's out of reach? [CINDERELLA'S PRINCE] Am I not sensitive, Clever, Well-mannered, Considerate, Passionate, Charming, As kind as I'm handsome And heir to a throne? [RAPUNZEL'S PRINCE] You are everything maidens could wish for! [CINDERELLA'S PRINCE] Then why no-? [RAPUNZEL'S PRINCE] Do I know? [CINDERELLA'S PRINCE] The girl must be mad! [RAPUNZEL'S PRINCE] 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- [BOTH] Agony! [CINDERELLA'S PRINCE] Misery! [RAPUNZEL'S PRINCE] Woe! [BOTH] Though it's different for each. [CINDERELLA'S PRINCE] Always ten steps behind- [RAPUNZEL'S PRINCE] Always ten feet below- [BOTH] And she's just out of reach. Agony That can cut like a knife! I must have her to wife.
I'm Cinderella's Prince and one of my best friends are Rapunzel's so it's so exciting to perform it. It's just so hard to hold in laughter, but it's such a fun song!
These two have beautiful voices!!!!When I took my mother to see this, the orchestra seats were $35 apiece. I took her with the grocery money. We felt like standing up on the seats and cheering at the end!!!!BRAVO to everybody in THEATER!!!
The both of them do this song the greatest amount of justice I have yet seen, both of their timings were very comical & they sounds clear as a bell together :) Fabulous
DogsWhoHuntLions Lol I'm curious how you came to that conclusion. Also, for someone trying to insult me, you're low enough to like your own comment since no one else would. XD
I just had a thought, why do you say they're complaining about the woman they want? They're complaining about not being able to be with them all while competing to be the one with the worse woes. I don't see how they're bashing the women in any way.
ZachJ367 I'm mostly referencing to Agony (Reprise). They're also sorta complaining about their situation, like how Cinderella runs away and how Rapunzel is basically isolated from the world.
I saw the original production 5 times on Broadway. All with Robert Westenberg, once with Dean Butler (Little House on the Prairie) as Rapunzel’s Prince. For me this all about the pristine cutoffs. Just perfect!
My favorite lines in this song: :) "Agony! Far more painful than yours, When you know she would go with you If there only were doors." Hahaha! "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" "Always ten steps behind, always ten feet below.." That always makes me crack up!
This was my favorite song when I 1st watched the stage production and I was so excited to see it on the big screen. I dragged my mom to go see it with me (she has no interest in musicals or any thing theatrical so she had no previous knowledge to the stage production) and she even had a few good laughs.
I just love how in the beginning they are competeing with each other about whose agony is more painful but at the end they both conclude that the girl is wife material! LMFAO
I grew up watching this and I love it so much. The remake was wonderful but there is something strange and kinda of dark about this one! Plus Bernadette Peters is outstanding
Magnificent! I love this version. I've had a mixed broadway ultimate 2 tape for years and never got though the 2nd line.... Now I understand what it's about it is very charming!
I performed the roles of the Wolf and Cinderella's Prince in 1999 and spent the whole time wishing I could reach Robert's level. What a blast to do though!
@@saraglass9410 The original Broadway production ran from November 1987 to September 1989. This was shot in May 1989 with the full original cast toward the end of its run. However, it did not air on television until March 1991. Later that year, it was released on VHS and Laserdisc. The DVD followed in 1997 to coincide with the 10th anniversary benefit concert, which was held that November with most of the original cast. Unfortunately, Robert Westenberg ("The Wolf"/"Cinderella's Prince") and Philip Hoffman ("The Steward") were unable to attend.
AGONYYY *rips shirt open*
We don't talk about that here. The locals go mad. We all go a little mad sometimes when we speak of that scene...
Mic Vra i dont even
it was a joke
oky
Emily Byrd as was my comment
Mic Vra oopsie sorryy
Emily Byrd
All is well.
Oh my god.... Robert's voice is just so burly powerful sounding!
What great great voices these two have....BRAVO!!!!
This is on Netflix, and I probably watch it three times a week. I love it!
The first thought I had when i saw Cinderella's Prince was OMG that guy looks like Eddie Redmayne
one of my faveorite songs from Into the Woods
Oh I love this song!Oh I love it so much!
Narrator / Mysterious Man - Tom Aldredge
3 people couldn't handle the verb usage
our class did this play. I was rapunsel's prince
The original Fuck Boys xD
RIGHT
Isa I M C R Y I N G
He delivered "The girl must be mad" perfectly. Hilarious
I absolutely love the subtle characterization the actors show with their body language. You can tell that Cinderella’s prince is more formal and reserved by his quick, tight movements while Rapunzel’s prince is more laid back or “wild” from his more exaggerated movements. Fantastic acting from both of them!
Exactly! But Cinderella’s prince is the future king so yeah you can imagine he’s being prepared for it. While the brother is the second son and can take a more laid back approach.
This is such musical theater porn. The delivery, the technique, the way their voices blend, the way even their vibrato is perfectly in sync. It's just perfect.
Honestly I’ve seen better preformances of this scene
Mykel where?
My musical theater had a week where this was our final review, the movie isn’t as good in my opinion
Porn
HEY DONT SAY P*RN THATS A BAD WORD >:(((((((
/joke
Their voices blend together so perfectly at times during the song it sounds like one person is singing! Bravo!
I always lose it at "You know nothing of madness... till you're climbing her HAIR."
They look like they could be Hans's brothers.
***** Perhaps they are. They are brothers themselves and married into a throne.
I'm sure Hans was modeled after the stereotypical "Prince Charming"
Mary Helsing Plot twist, they are.
This is one of the best examples of how much funnier a scene like this is when the performers play the most ludicrous lines as though they are absolutely serious. Neither of them clowns for even an instant, no matter how funny the line is.
The current Broadway "production" guys sing this song with absolute CAMP, and it ruins it.
I disagree I really liked them being clowns and ripping open their shirts dramatically in the movie tbh😂
Its just so much funnier.
@@francescapatti2934 they were not talking about that. when they ripped open their shirts they were still acting dead serious. it's about when actors "act" the funny lines instead of just saying them
@@solrubyx Oh Im sorry I misunderstood!
Thank you for clarifying.
You can literally say anything about the movie adaptation but they absolutely nailed this number
completely agree! I hope they upload the video to youtube
I agree so much!!
I totally agree. They nailed this the number!
100% agreed. That was the best part of the movie.
Agreed! Best part and sadly, the only part I laughed at. I wish the movie had more humor and camp.
This is the most I'm sync performance I've ever seen in anything. They were really tight.
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Who else sees Eddie redmayne and George clooney
isabella condon The resemblance is canny, though I was thinking more Gaston for Cinderella's prince.
Mee
Definitely George Clooney
Who’s who?
Into the Woods: Starring Eddie Redmayne and George Clooney as the princes.
I was thinking the exact same thing! 😂
Right now!
That was totally my first thought when I saw them.
I'm so glad I'm not the only one who thought that!!
YES YES EXACTLY THANK YOU
In real life Robert Westenberg married his Cinderella from this production.
🥺🥺🥺🥺
Yep. Kim Crosby.
There's an awful lack of shirt-ripping in the stage musical.
🤣🤣
I live for this comment
The shirt ripping is what gets me most and I live for it 🤣
I'm sure the costumer disagrees with that, though.
RIP Stephen Sondheim. Us mere mortals are so grateful to have lived in your presence
This made me cry
They look kinda like George Clooney and Eddie Redmayne.
Conor Wade YESSSS
Yo they actually should have played those roles 😂😂😂 Would’ve been 1000x funnier
To me there is no better duet in the history of musical theater. Both of these men, these actors and musicians, are absolutely phenomenal performers. The material is brilliant, the story is fantastic, it’s relatable In spite of the fact that they are princes in a fantasy realm. I enjoy this piece so much, and if I ever audition for a musical this is the piece that I will use. If I can perform at half as well as these guys I should be a shoe in. Great stuff.
This and the reprise are THE FUNNIEST songs in the entire musical.
The movie was terrible, except for this scene. They got it perfectly. Chris Pine was hilarious.
Zack Stark why are you capping?
I don't think the whole movie sucked but i was dying when this song came on in theaters
This and just the sheer talent of the cast were my only positives on this movie.
Although I thought the movie was freaking wonderful and I enjoyed more than the production I saw on stage, had every scene had this style of acting on film, it would have sucked. Stage acting is different than film acting.
The film did it great cuz the acting was able to be theatrical and stay within the limits of believable acting for film.
Brian, I agree. The movie was a disappointment for me, but this scene was SO outrageously different (and better) compared to every other scene that it seemed like an entirely different film altogether! If the entire movie had this sort of comedy laced into it, I probably would have felt differently about it.
One of the Princes: "Agony... far more painful than yours!"
*the other gives him a 'Bitch please' look* XD
Tell me I'm not the only person who noticed that they're trying to say that their pain is more hurtful than the others while giving the 'Bitch please, I'm more wounded than you are' look?!
It's such an amazing "dude was that necessary?" expression. It kills me every time lol.
Yes of course that's exactly the point of the song.
Chuck Wagner is Rapunzel's Prince, and Robert Westenberg is Cinderella's Prince.
***** Robert Westenberg is married with Kim Crosby. Not Chuck Wagner.
***** Yes, they did, and they have two wonderful children. Worked with Kim Crosby in Guys and Dolls and she is a GEM!
My best friends dad is Cinderellas prince in this💗
I thought they were talking about the same girl.
Bob Kingston thank you
I've looked at a couple versions of this song, and this is by far the best. Many seem to perform this number as the two competing, but this one does it more as the brothers sharing the same simple mindset. A perfectly done duet.
They are absolutely wonderful. such powerful voices, and yet they are hysterical in a seemingly unintentional way.
Anyone else think Rapunzel's prince looks like Gilderoy Lockheart from Harry Potter?
I think he looks like George Clooney
Who is the actor playing Rapunzel's prince? Those were some priceless facial expressions XD
The second one to sing
Chuck Wagner
"The girl must be mad!"
"You know nothing of madness 'till your climbing her hair..."
The matching vibrato is unbelievable. How’s that even possible?
I went to a college performance of this and the voices were so bad I had to leave!!!!! The orchestra also did not tune up to the piano. ALL WRONG EVERYTHING!!!
Relax the back of your throat. Now relax it more. Make the rest of your mouth as big as possible -- no matter what syllable you're singing, you want a really broad resonant space for this. And then sing Agony. Keep relaxing your throat and it'll turn out well.
I swear one of them sound like gaston from Beauty and the Beast
I told this kid in class that this guy sounds like the Crimson Chin and he laughed for the entire period.
He kinda does....
LYRICS:
[CINDERELLA'S PRINCE]
Did I abuse her
Or show her disdain?
Why does she run from me?
If I should lose her,
How shall I regain
The heart she has won from me?
Agony!
Beyond power of speech,
When the one thing you want
Is the only thing out of your reach.
[RAPUNZEL'S PRINCE]
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.
[BOTH]
Agony!
Oh, the torture they teach!
[RAPUNZEL'S PRINCE]
What's as intriguing-
[CINDERELLA'S PRINCE]
Or half so fatiguing-
[BOTH]
As what's out of reach?
[CINDERELLA'S PRINCE]
Am I not sensitive,
Clever,
Well-mannered,
Considerate,
Passionate,
Charming,
As kind as I'm handsome
And heir to a throne?
[RAPUNZEL'S PRINCE]
You are everything maidens could wish for!
[CINDERELLA'S PRINCE]
Then why no-?
[RAPUNZEL'S PRINCE]
Do I know?
[CINDERELLA'S PRINCE]
The girl must be mad!
[RAPUNZEL'S PRINCE]
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-
[BOTH]
Agony!
[CINDERELLA'S PRINCE]
Misery!
[RAPUNZEL'S PRINCE]
Woe!
[BOTH]
Though it's different for each.
[CINDERELLA'S PRINCE]
Always ten steps behind-
[RAPUNZEL'S PRINCE]
Always ten feet below-
[BOTH]
And she's just out of reach.
Agony
That can cut like a knife!
I must have her to wife.
THNAKS FOR THE LYRICS 🤪
Thanks!
"Have her to wife." Really bad lyric. Wife is NEVER a verb. Ever.
@@djmotise Google says otherwise but sure
THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm Cinderella's Prince and one of my best friends are Rapunzel's so it's so exciting to perform it. It's just so hard to hold in laughter, but it's such a fun song!
These two have beautiful voices!!!!When I took my mother to see this, the orchestra seats were $35 apiece. I took her with the grocery money. We felt like standing up on the seats and cheering at the end!!!!BRAVO to everybody in THEATER!!!
The both of them do this song the greatest amount of justice I have yet seen, both of their timings were very comical & they sounds clear as a bell together :)
Fabulous
Rapunzel's Prince looks JUST LIKE George Clooney! God!
OMG YES!!!!!
I wonder if Disney would keep this in. "I'm meant to be charming but I'm going to complain about my girlfriend [to be]!"
They definately are! The new trailer even shows a snippet of Act 2! I'm so excited
They already showed the part where he says "I am supposed to be charming, not sincere. "
DogsWhoHuntLions Lol I'm curious how you came to that conclusion. Also, for someone trying to insult me, you're low enough to like your own comment since no one else would. XD
I just had a thought, why do you say they're complaining about the woman they want? They're complaining about not being able to be with them all while competing to be the one with the worse woes. I don't see how they're bashing the women in any way.
ZachJ367 I'm mostly referencing to Agony (Reprise). They're also sorta complaining about their situation, like how Cinderella runs away and how Rapunzel is basically isolated from the world.
I can not wait to hear Chris Pine singing this in the movie.
me neither omfg
Adam Lambert Alliance
Oh and the official (not fanmade) trailer just came out today! So that's awesome.
it was terrible..cant sing..sucked for shit, didnt do the piece justice
nah it was the best part of the movie
Tara I gotta disagree, it was fucking incredible lmfao
they sound like that one Spongebob narrator.
I SWEAR I GASPED WHEN I HEARD THIS ON SCOTT PILGRIM I WAS SO OBSESSED WITH THIS PLAY FOR AGES
Same!!
This song is the epitome of why men want what they can't have
Strange women in the woods are a universal turn on
@@romankotas448 not for me tf
@@alxandro5504 okay fine, strange women in the desert everybody’s different
The auto generated captions are so funny! 😆
Yah I abused her we'll show her disdain
I saw the original production 5 times on Broadway. All with Robert Westenberg, once with Dean Butler (Little House on the Prairie) as Rapunzel’s Prince. For me this all about the pristine cutoffs. Just perfect!
My favorite lines in this song: :)
"Agony!
Far more painful than yours,
When you know she would go with you
If there only were doors." Hahaha!
"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"
"Always ten steps behind,
always ten feet below.." That always makes me crack up!
Their voices work so well together and I love this song so much... definitely one of Sondheim's more underestimated songs!
Do you mean underrated?
As a trained vocalist: They do mean underestimated
EDDIE REDMAYNE... IS THAT YOU? CAN YOU HEAR ME?
Lol!
Ha ha! I thought the same thing.
They look like Eddie Redmayne and George Clooney at first glance.
Westenberg and Wagner are so effing handsome I can't stand it.
Disney are making a filmed version. My life is complete.
sadly they are censoring the shit out of it....
BillStudiosSweden well it is Disney so they would have to.. regardless, I will go see it definitely.
***** I am just curious how musical it will be and if there will still be the narrator, as he is a crucial character!
Just saw the trailer. I retract my previous statement, this is gonna bomb big time.
Tahkaullus01 I dunno! I thought the trailer looked rather promising, actually.
I had to come back to this after watching Sideways' video on Into the Woods
I wish I could see these two sing live
PLEASE tell me they are still singing and are alive
This was my favorite song when I 1st watched the stage production and I was so excited to see it on the big screen. I dragged my mom to go see it with me (she has no interest in musicals or any thing theatrical so she had no previous knowledge to the stage production) and she even had a few good laughs.
These are my favorite singers for Agony. Everyone else pale in comparison. Although the movie vision is nice.
I just love how in the beginning they are competeing with each other about whose agony is more painful but at the end they both conclude that the girl is wife material! LMFAO
Prince 1: Agony... far more painful than yours!!!!!
Prince 2: Dramatic gasp
This was better than the movie.
favorite number from the stage production and favorite number in the movie too. genius from sondheim !
i play rapunzels prince in my production at school and this song is so fun to sing
My school recently did the play and they changed it so the line would be “am I not sexy?”
1:27 *woah*
I think it’s so funny that this song was referenced in the Scott Pilgrim show :D
I find it funny that for about 80% of the song the seconds ticking by on the song are in complete unison with the music in the video.
Words cannot express how awesome Sondheim is. To write the score and lyrics and for them to be so clever and moving is a rare gift.
I miss him so much
I almost believed Cinderella's Charming was Eddie Redmayne
"When you know she would go with you... IF THERE ONLY WERE DOORS!" xD favorite part.
I grew up watching this and I love it so much. The remake was wonderful but there is something strange and kinda of dark about this one! Plus Bernadette Peters is outstanding
I just dropped by to say that Rapunzel's prince looks abit like George Clooney
Layla Rosaline Linh Vu WOW!!! I just realized that.
Magnificent! I love this version. I've had a mixed broadway ultimate 2 tape for years and never got though the 2nd line.... Now I understand what it's about it is very charming!
as someone in theater class with a teacher that keeps showing us into the woods repeatedly...I will say this song is growing on me
00:58 is the best moment in the whole show, when Robert Westenberg flings around, affronted. hahaa
This is SO GOOD in the movie it almost makes up for the reprise being cut
I performed the roles of the Wolf and Cinderella's Prince in 1999 and spent the whole time wishing I could reach Robert's level. What a blast to do though!
Fantastic voices!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you Stephen Sondheim!!!
It's so cool that the Cinderella prince actually married to Kim Crosby (Cinderella) in real life.
Sorry this is my last comment... I’m sorry for making so many!!! I’m so sorry!!! Anyway their faces when they say “Agony!!!”😂👌🏼 LOL!!!
it was deadass my life’s my life’s honor to play Cinderella’s Prince in my theaters production
Robert Westenberg's voice is like honey, I can't
AGONY!!!!!! Me and my friend were singing this for what it felt like hours!!!!!!!
Cinderella's Prince's expressions are the ABSOLUTE BEST!
The original cast is so much better than the movie... I mean, the movie didn't have Bernadette Peters...
Can someone tell me what version this is? It’s so amazing ahhh
It’s the 1991 version. You can watch the whole thing on UA-cam.
@@saraglass9410 thank you so much!
@@saraglass9410 The original Broadway production ran from November 1987 to September 1989. This was shot in May 1989 with the full original cast toward the end of its run. However, it did not air on television until March 1991. Later that year, it was released on VHS and Laserdisc. The DVD followed in 1997 to coincide with the 10th anniversary benefit concert, which was held that November with most of the original cast. Unfortunately, Robert Westenberg ("The Wolf"/"Cinderella's Prince") and Philip Hoffman ("The Steward") were unable to attend.
I totally wanted Puck and Santana in Glee Season Two to sing this
Puck as Cinderella’s Prince
Santana as Rapunzel’s
Aaaa aaa aaa aaa AGONY!!!!!!!!!!! :D Just flawless :D
This song literally describes my crush life.
Edit: Just swap genders
_i am here because someone on wattpad said not to imagine roman and remus from sanders sides singing this-_
who saw the movie?:D
My dad and I*
My friend and I*
James Jonathon I know that agony. Me and you both.
XD
ZY17 *You and me both
Saw the original cast.... skipped the film!
Jace A. People who dont know what a musical is
2/8/23 I keep coming back to this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It's my favorite song from the entire story *-* !!!
The facial expressions are priceless!
R.I.P Stephen Sondheim
When you stub your toe...
This is the scene that made me buy the DVD of this production.
This is the best version of the song for me. 😊 Very talented and great costumes!