20 Something There
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BELLE: THERE'S SOMETHING SWEET
AND ALMOST KIND 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. (Lumiere points to the chair. Taking the prompt, the Beast lifts the chair as Belle crosses to it. He clumsily slides the chair beneath her and she falls into it. The beast crosses to his chair and perches, unable to sit. Mrs. Potts returns with two bowls of soup. Belle raises her bowl…the beast follows suit) CHIP: Cheers! (Belle and the Beast drink their soup.) MRS POTTS: (to Belle) Come along, dearie. Let’s get you cleaned up. (Mrs. Potts leads Belle off. Bell looks back and indicates that the Beast should wipe his mouth. He does so.) 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. When she smiles at me…I get all choked up. My heart starts pounding and I can’t breathe! COGSWORTH: Good! BEAST: That’s good? LUMIERE: Excellent! BEAST: I've never felt this way about anyone. (Looks excited) I want give her something. (Looks discouraged.) But what? LUMIERE: It has to be something very special. Something that sparks her interest--wait a minute. (Lumiere whispers into the beast’s ear. Belle comes back cleaned up, with a bright bow in her hair) COGSWORTH: Look who’s back! LUMIERE: (under his breath to the beast) Say something about her hair. BEAST: (confused) It’s brown? LUMIERE: A compliment! BEAST: Oh. (to Belle) What a…nice bow. BELLE: Thank you! (The beast looks at Lumiere and Cogsworth: “How’d I do? They nod and make “go on” motions…) |
BEAST: Belle, I uh... have something to show you. But first, you have to close your eyes. It's a surprise. (BELLE closes her eyes, and BEAST waves his hand in front of her. He leads her across the stage.) BELLE: Can I open them? BEAST: All right. Now. (BELLE opens her eyes library filled with books is revealed.) BELLE: I can't believe it. I've never seen so many books in all my life! BEAST: You--you like it? BELLE: It's wonderful. BEAST: Then it's yours. (Belle runs giddily to look at the books.) 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. BELLE: (showing a book to the beast) This is one of my favorites. King Arthur. Have you ever read it? BEAST: No! (pushes the book back, then confesses) I can’t… BELLE: You never learned to read? BEAST: Only a little…and long ago. BELLE: Well, it just so happens, this is the perfect book to read aloud. Come here, sit by me. (The Beast and Belle sit down to read. Lumiere, Cogsworth, Mrs. Potts, Chip, Babette and Madame De La Grande Bouche enter) LUMIERE: Well, who’d have thought? MRS POTTS: Well, bless my soul COGSWORTH: WELL, WHO’D HAVE KNOWN BABETTE: WELL, WHO INDEED? WARDROBE: AND WHO’D HAVE GUESSED THEY’D COME TOGETHER ON THEIR OWN MRS POTTS: IT’S SO PECULIAR WAIT AND SEE ALL: WAIT AND SEE A FEW DAYS MORE THERE MAY BE SOMETHING THERE THAT WASN’T THERE BEFORE COGSWORTH: PERHAPS THERE’S SOMETHING THERE THAT WASN’T THER BEFORE. CHIP: WHAT? MRS POTTS: THERE MAY BE SOMETHING THERE THAT WASN’T THERE BEFORE. CHIP: What's there, Mama? MRS. POTTS: I'll tell you when you're older. (The servants exit, leaving Belle and the Beast alone.) |
The Dialogue Continues:
BELLE: (reading) “Then for the third time, Arthur drew forth the sword…” BEAST: (excited So that must mean that he’s the king! BELLE: Wait and see. BEAST: (shakes his head with wonder) I never knew books could do that. BELLE: Do what? BEAST: Take me away from this place and make me forget…for a little while. BELLE: Forget? BEAST: Who I… (correcting himself) …what I am. (Belle looks at the beast. He has touched her heart. Lumiere enters and watches them from afar.) BELLE: We have something in common, you know. BEAST: what? BELLE: In the town where I come from, the people think I’m odd. BEAST: You? BELLE: So I know how it feels to be…different. And I know how lonely that can be. Then for the third time, Arthur drew forth the sword, and there arose from the people a great shout: "Arthur is King!" BEAST: Told you so. |