SCENE ONE: BELLE Sausage curl girl: Good day.

Belle: Hat seller: Little town, it’s a quiet village. How is your family? Every day, like the one before. Little town full of little people Milkmaid: Waking up to say: Bonjour

Villagers: Shepherd boy: Bonjour! Bonjour! Bonjour! Bonjour! Good day. Bonjour! Milkmaid: There goes the baker with his tray, like How is your wife? always, The same old bread and rolls to sell. Lady with cane: Every morning just the same I need six eggs! Since the morning that we came To this poor provincial town Aristocratic lady: That’s too expensive. Good morning, Belle! Belle: Belle: There must be more than this provincial The bookshop. I just finished the most life! wonderful story about a beanstalk and an ogre and…… SPEECH

Baker: Villagers: That’s nice. Marie! The baguettes! Look there she goes. Hurry up! That girl is so peculiar. I wonder if she’s feeling well. Ladies: With a dreamy, far-off look Look there she goes. The girl is strange, And her nose stuck in a book, no question. What a puzzle to the rest of us is Belle. Dazed and distracted, can’t you tell? Belle: Never part of any crowd, cause her head’s Oh, isn’t this amazing? up on some cloud. It’s my fav’rite part No denying she’s a funny girl, that Belle. Because you’ll see Here’s where she meets Prince Charming Hat seller: But she won’t discover Bonjour That it’s him til chapter three.

Aristocratic Lady: Pardon! Now it’s no wonder Good day! That her name means Beauty Mais ou! Her looks have got no parallel You call this bacon? What lovely grapes! Hat seller: Some cheese. But behind that fair façade Ten yards. I’m afraid she’s rather odd One pound.

Gaston: Egg man: ‘Scuse me Very diff’rent from the rest of us She’s nothing like the rest of us Villagers: I’ll get the knife! Villagers: Yes, diff’rent from the rest of us Gaston: Is Belle. Please let me through.

Villagers: SPEECH I’ll get the knife! Please let me through! This bread, those fish Gaston: It’s stale, they smell! Right from the moment when I met her, Madam’s mistaken saw her, I said she’s gorgeous and I fell. Belle: Here in town there’s only she There must be more than this provincial Who is beautiful as me, life. So I’m making plans to woo and marry Belle. Gaston: Just watch, I’m going to make Belle my Silly girls: wife! Look there he goes, Isn’t he dreamy? All: Monsieur Gaston! Look there she goes Oh he’s so cute! A girl who’s strange but special Be still my heart A most peculiar mademoiselle. I’m hardly breathing! It’s a pity and a sin, He’s such a tall, dark, strong She doesn’t quite fit in, And handsome brute. ‘cause she really is a funny girl A beauty but a funny girl Villagers: She really is a funny girl that Belle! Bonjour!

SCENE FOUR: BELLE (REPRISE)

Silly girls: Madame Gaston, Can’t you just see it? Madam Gaston! His little wife. No sir, not her I guarantee it! She wants much more Than this provincial life.

SPEECH

Belle: I want adventure In the great wide somewhere! I want it more than I can tell! And for once it might be grand To have someone understand I want so much more Than they’ve got planned.

SCENE FIVE: HOME Mrs Potts: Belle: I hope that we’ll be friends Yes I made the choice Though I don’t know you well For Papa I will stay If anyone can make the most But I don’t deserve to lose Of living here then Belle My freedom in this way It’s you. You monster If you think what you’ve done is right And who knows Well then, you’re a fool You may find home here too. Think again.

Is this home? Is this where I should learn to be happy? Never dreamed that a home Could be so dark and cold. I was told ev’ry day in my childhood Even when we grow old Home should be where the heart is. Never were words so true. My heart’s far far away Home is too.

What I’d give to return To the life that I knew lately And to think I complained Of that dull, provincial town. Is this home?

Am I here for a day or forever? Shut away from the world Until who knows when.

Oh, but then as my life has been altered once It can change again. Build higher walls around me. Change ev’ry lock and key.

Nothing lasts Nothing holds all of me. My heart’s far, far away, home and free. SCENE FIVE: HOME (TAG) SCENE SIX: GASTON Give five hurrahs! Give twelve hip hips!

Lefou: Silly girls: Gosh it disturbs me to see you Gaston Gaston is the best and the rest is all Looking so down in the dumps drips. Ev’ry guy here’d like to be you Gaston Even when taking your lumps. All: There’s no man in town as admired as you No one fights like Gaston You’re ev’ryone’s favourite guy Douses lights like Gaston In a wrestling match nobody bites like Silly Girls: Gaston Ev’ryone’s awed and inspired by you For there’s no one as burly and brawny And it’s not very hard to see why Gaston: Lefou: As you see I’ve got biceps to spare! No one’s slick as Gaston No one’s quick as Gaston All: No one’s neck’s as incredibly Not a bit of him’s scraggly or scawny Thick as Gaston Gaston: Silly girls: That’s right For there’s no man in town half as manly And ev’ry last inch of me’s covered with Perfect! A pure paragon! hair!

Lefou: All: You can ask any Tom, Dick or Stanley No one hits like Gaston Matches wits like Gaston Lefou and Silly Girls: In a spitting match And they’ll tell you whose team Nobody spits like Gaston They’d prefer to be on Gaston: All: I’m especially good at expectorating No one’s been like Gaston Ptooey A kingpin like Gaston No one’s got a swell cleft in his chin All: Like Gaston! Ten points for Gaston

Gaston: GASTON POSES As a specimen, Yes, I’m intimidating! All: Wow! My what a guy that Gaston! All: My what a guy that Gaston! DANCE BREAK SCENE SIX: GASTON (CONTINUED) SCENE SIX: GASTON REPRISE

All: (spoken) Gaston: Gaston! Hey! Let’s go! Lefou, I’m afraid I’ve been thinking

All: Lefou: No one shoots like Gaston A dangerous pastime Makes those beauts like Gaston Then goes tromping around wearing boots Gaston: like Gaston I know. But that wacky old coot is Belle’s father Gaston: And his sanity’s only so so I use antlers in all of my decorating Now the wheels in my head have been turning All: Since I looked at that loony old man My what a guy, Gaston. Hey! See I promised myself I’d be married to Belle And right now I’m evolving a plan

SPOKEN If I…

Gaston and Lefou: Yes? Then we…..

No! Would she…..

Guess? Now I get it, let’s go!

SINGING No one plots like Gaston Takes cheap shots like Gaston Plans to persecute harmless crackpots Like Gaston So his marriage we soon will be celebrating My what a guy, Gaston!

SCENE SEVEN: BE OUR GUEST Flatware: And it’s all in perfect taste Lumiere: That, you can bet! Be our guest be our guest Come on and lift your glass Put our service to the test You’ve won your own free pass Tie a napkin round your neck Cherie To be our guest And we’ll provide the rest Soupe de jour Hot hors d’oeuvres Lumiere: Why we only live to serve If you’re stressed, Try the grey stuff It’s fine dining we suggest.

Chip: Lumiere and Flatware: It’s delicious Be our guest Be our guest Lumiere: Be our guest Don’t believe me? Ask the dishes They can sing, they can dance Mrs Potts: After all, miss, this is France! It’s a guest! It’s a guest! And a dinner here is never second best. Sakes alive, well I’ll be blessed Go on, unfold your menu Wine’s been poured and thank the lord Take a glance and then you’ll be our guest I’ve had the napkins freshly pressed Oui! our guest, be our guest. With dessert she’ll want tea And my dear, that’s fine with me. Flatware: While the cups do their soft shoeing Beef ragout, cheese soufflé I’ll be bubbling, I’ll be brewing, Pie and pudding ‘en flambe’ I’ll get warm, piping hot Heaven’s sake, is that a spot? Lumiere: Clean it up, we want the company We’ll prepare and serve with flair impressed. A culinary cabaret You’re alone and you’re scared All: But the banquet’s all prepared We’ve got a lot to do No one’s gloomy or complaining While the flatware’s entertaining Mrs Potts: Is it one lump or two Flatware: For you, our guest We tell jokes She’s our guest, she’s our guest She’s our guest, be our guest Lumiere: Be our guest, be our guest. I do tricks with my fellow candlesticks Be our guest, be our guest. Our command is your request SCENE SEVEN: BE OUR GUEST (CONTINUED)

It’s been years since we had anybody here And we’re obsessed With your meal, with your ease, Yes indeed, we aim to please While the candlelight’s still glowing Let us help you, we’ll keep going Course by course, one by one, ‘Til you shout, ‘Enough, I’m done!’ Then we’ll sing you off to sleep as you digest Tonight you’ll prop your feet up But for now, let’s eat up Be our guest, be our guest. Be our guest, please be our guest.

SCENE NINE: SOMETHING THERE That wasn’t there before. What? Belle: There may be something there There’s something sweet and almost kind That wasn’t there before. But he was mean and he was coarse And unrefined But now he’s dear and so unsure I wonder why I didn’t see it there before

SPOKEN INTERLUDE

Beast: She glanced this way, I thought I saw And when we touched she didn’t shudder at my paw No it can’t be, I’ll just ignore But then, she’s never looked at me that way before.

SPOKEN INTERLUDE

Belle: New, and a bit alarming Who’d have ever thought that this could be? True, that he’s no Prince Charming But there’s something in him That I simply didn’t see.

Lumiere, Mrs Potts, Cogsworth, Madame de la grande bouche, Chip: Well, who’d have thought? Well, bless my soul Well, who’d have known? Well, who indeed? And who’d have guessed They’d come together on their own? It’s so peculiar, wait and see A few days more There may be something there That wasn’t there before.

Perhaps there’s something there SCENE NINE: HUMAN AGAIN Cogsworth: Can I help it if I’m t-t-tense? Lumiere: In a shack by the sea I’ll be cooking again, be good looking again I’ll sit back sipping tea With a mademoiselle on each arm. Let my early retirement commence When I’m human again, only human again Far from fools made of wax Poised and polished and gleaming with I’ll get down to brass tacks charm And relax when I’m human again. I’ll be courting again, chic and sporting again SPOKEN INTERLUDE

Mrs Potts: All: Which should cause sev’ral husbands We’ll be dancing again alarm We’ll be twirling again We’ll be whirling around with such ease Chip: When we’re human again I’ll hop down off this shelf Only human again And toute suite be myself We’ll go waltzing those old one – two – I can’t wait to be human again threes We’ll be floating again Mrs Potts, Babette, Madame: We’ll be gliding again When we’re human again, only human again Stepping, striding as fine as you please When we’re knick-knacks and what-nots Like a real human does no more I’ll be all that I was Little push, little shove On that glorious morn when we’re fin’lly They could whoosh, fall in love reborn Ah, Cherie, won’t it all be top drawer? And we’re all of us human again. I’ll wear lipstick and rouge And I won’t be so huge Why I’ll easily fit through that door I’ll exude savoir faire, I’ll wear gowns I’ll have hair, it’s my prayer To be human again

Cogsworth: When I’m human again, only human again When the world once more starts making sense I’ll unwind for a change

Lumiere: Really, that’d be strange

SCENE ELEVEN: BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

Mrs Potts: Tale as old as time, true as it can be Barely even friends, Then somebody bends, unexpectedly Just a little change, small to say the least Both a little scared Neither one prepared Beauty and the Beast.

Ever just the same, ever a surprise Ever as before, ever just as sure As the sun will rise.

Tale as old as time, tune as old as song Bitter sweet and strange Finding you can change, learning you were wrong Certain as the sun, rising in the east Tale as old as time, song as old as rhyme Beauty and the Beast

Tale as old as time, song as old as rhyme Beauty and the Beast.

SCENE TWELVE: THE MOB SONG Although the danger’s just increased Raise the flag, sing a song Villagers: Here we come, we’re fifty strong We’re not safe until he’s dead And fifty Frenchmen can’t be wrong He’ll come stalking us at night Let’s kill the beast, kill the beast! Set to sacrifice our children Kill the beast, kill the beast! To his monstrous appetite He’ll wreak havoc on our village If we let him wander free

Gaston: So it’s time to take some action boys It’s time to follow me Through the mist, through the wood Through the darkness and the shadows It’s a nightmare but it’s one exciting ride

Say a prayer, then we’re there At the drawbridge of a castle And there’s something truly terrible inside

Villagers: It’s a beast, he’s got fangs Razor sharp ones Massive paws, killer claws for the feast

Gaston: Hear him roar, see him foam But we’re not coming home Til he’s dead, good and dead Kill the beast!

SPOKEN INTERLUDE

Villagers: (SPOKEN) I am, I am, I am.

(SINGING) Hearts ablaze, banner high We go marching into battle unafraid

SCENE THIRTEEN: HOME (REPRISE)

Belle: We are home, we are where we shall be forever Trust in me, for you know I won’t run away From today this is all that I need And all that I need to say Home should be where the heart is I’m certain as I can be, I found the home You’re my home, stay with …..

SCENE THIRTEEN: FINALE

Ah, ah Two lives have begun now Two hearts become one now One passion, one dream One thing forever true I love you

Certain as the sun Ah rising in the east Tale as old as time Song as old as rhyme Beauty and the Beast Ah, tale as old as time Song as old as rhyme Beauty and the Beast Ah.