Script

Audition Central: OLD Disney's Beauty and the Beast JR.

Script: Maurice

MAURICE
Oh, I'll never get this bone-headed contraption to work!

BELLE
Yes, you will! And you'll win first prize at the fair tomorrow.

MAURICE
Well... we'd better get cracking then! Now let me see, where did I put that dog-legged clencher?

BELLE
(holds out a funny-looking tool)
Papa...

MAURICE
Oh... thank you, dear!
(takes the tool and starts tinkering)
So... did you have a good time in town today?

BELLE
I got a new book.

MAURICE
You do love those books.
(MAURICE ducks behind the invention.)

BELLE
Papa... do you think I'm... odd?

MAURICE
My daughter! Odd?
(re-appears with silly-looking goggles)
Now where would you get an idea like that?

BELLE
I don't know. It's just... I'm not sure I fit in here. There's no one I can really talk to.

MAURICE
What about Gaston? He's a handsome fellow.

BELLE
He's handsome all right... and rude and conceited and oh Papa, he's not for me!

MAURICE
Well, don't you worry, 'cause this invention's going to be the start of a new life for us.

(MAURICE pulls a lever. The invention chugs to life.)

BELLE
It works!

MAURICE
It does? It does!

BELLE
Papa, you did it! You really did it!
(puts a scarf around MAURICE's neck)
Here, I made you a scarf for good luck at the fair.

MAURICE
Now I know I'll win. And then, we'll get out of this town and travel to all those places you've read about in your books!

BELLE
Goodbye, Papa.

MAURICE
Bye bye, Belle.