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Script
Audition Central: OLD Disney's Beauty and the Beast JR.
Script: Belle
SIDE 1
GASTON
Hello... Belle.
BELLE
Bonjour, Gaston.
(GASTON blocks BELLE’s way.)
Excuse me.
(GASTON snatches BELLE’s book.)
Gaston. May I have my book, please?
GASTON
(flipping through the book)
How can you read this? There's no pictures.
BELLE
Well some people use their imagination!
GASTON
Belle, it's about time you got your head out of these books and paid attention to more important things.
(GASTON strikes a handsome pose.)
LEFOU
Hint... hint.
BELLE
Like you? Gaston, please! I have to get inside to help my father.
LEFOU
That crazy old fool. He needs all the help he can get!
(GASTON and LEFOU laugh heartily.)
BELLE
Don't talk about my father that way!
GASTON
(GASTON thunks LEFOU on the head.)
Yeah! Don't talk about her father that way!
BELLE
My father's not crazy! He's a genius!
SIDE 2
BELLE
Hello? Is anyone here? Please, I'm looking for my father.
(MAURICE is revealed in a cell behind bars. A STATUE stands guard nearby.)
MAURICE
Belle? Is that you?
BELLE
Papa!
(BELLE rushes to MAURICE.)
MAURICE
(coughs from the chill)
How did you find me?
BELLE
Your hands are like ice! Who has done this to you?
(The BEAST appears in the shadows.)
MAURICE
Belle, you must leave this place.
BELLE
I won't leave you here!
(senses the BEAST)
Who's there?
(hears the BEAST panting)
I know someone's there. Who are you?
BEAST
The master of this castle.
BELLE
Then, you're the one who's responsible for this! Release my father at once!
BEAST
I do not take orders from anyone. Get out!
BELLE
No! Wait! Forgive me. Please, let him out. Can't you see he's not well?
BEAST
Then he should not have trespassed here.
BELLE
But he's an old man. He could die!
BEAST
There's nothing you can do!
BELLE
Wait, please... take me instead!
MAURICE
No! Belle, you don't know what you're doing.
BEAST
You would do that? You would take his place?
BELLE
If I did, would you let him go?
BEAST
Yes. But you must promise to stay here... forever.
MAURICE
No!
BELLE
Come into the light.
(The BEAST draws near. BELLE cringes.)
MAURICE
Belle, listen to me. I'm old... I've lived my life.
BELLE
You have my word.
BEAST
Done.