Tyler Fox and Abram Yarbro perform Sondheim's "Agony" from Into the Woods as Cinderella's Prince and Rapunzel's Prince, with accompanists Dr. Bishop and Katie Wright. The duet captures the song's themes of romantic rivalry and frustration through their vocal interplay and character work.
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My name is Tyler Fox.
I'm Abram Yarbro.
We will be performing Agony from Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods.
I am Rapunzel's prince.
And I will be playing Cinderella's Prince.
And our accompanists are Dr. Bishop and Katie Wright.
I in a tower like yours was the hider of Ute asleep. All around the tower Dig to Bury Her 100 Feet Deep. Agony, no frustration more keen. When the one thing you want is a thing that you've not even seen.
I found a casket Entirely of glass.
No, it's a brick of bone.
Look inside, don't ask it. Open it at last.
Just as unwakeable, white, unmistakable agony. Is the way always barred?
She has skin white as snow.
Did you learn her bed know?
There's a dwarf standing guard.
I need such a princess, must we?
Always enthralled most to anything, almost, or something asleep.
If it were not for the thickets, but thickets no trick is it? If it's the thickest, the quickest is pick it apart with a stick.
Yes, but even one breakage by feel out, one will ensue. It's no sicker than your thing with dwarves.
Dwarves, dwarves, dwarves are very upsetting.
Not forgetting the task, unachievable mountains, unscalable.
If it's conceivable, but unavailable. Oh, earthly misery, were not you to know what you miss!
While they lie therefore here, as you cry on their ears what unbearable bliss!
