Jerry Orbach credited as playing...
Lumiere
- Lumiere: Ma chère mademoiselle. It is with deepest pride and greatest pleasure that we welcome you tonight. And now we invite to relax. Let us pull up a chair as the dining room proudly presents... your dinner.
- Beast: [pounds on Belle's door yelling] I thought I told you to come down to dinner!
- Belle: I'm not hungry.
- Beast: [yelling to Belle] You'll come out or I'll-I'll-I'll break down the door!
- Lumiere: Master, I could be wrong, but that might not be the best way to win the girl's affections.
- Cogsworth: Please, attempt to be a gentlemen.
- Beast: But she's being so difficult.
- Mrs. Potts: Gently, gently.
- Beast: [calmly, dejected] Will you come down to dinner?
- Belle: No!
- Beast: [points at door] Hmm?
- Cogsworth: Suave, genteel.
- Beast: [suavely] It would give me great pleasure...
- [tries to hold in his anger]
- Beast: ...if you would join me for dinner.
- Cogsworth: [clears throat and mutters] And we say please.
- Beast: [dejected] Please.
- Belle: No, thank you.
- Beast: [yells] You can't stay in there forever!
- Belle: Yes, I can.
- Beast: [yells] Fine! Then go ahead and starve!
- [he turns to the objects]
- Beast: If she doesn't eat with me, then she doesn't eat at all!
- [storms down through the hallway and slams the door behind him]
- Mrs. Potts: Oh, dear. That didn't go very well at all, did it?
- Beast: Oh, it's no use. She's so beautiful, and I'm-- Well, look at me!
- Mrs. Potts: Oh, must help her to see past all that.
- Beast: I don't know how.
- Mrs. Potts: Well, you can start by making yourself more presentable. Straighten up. Try to act like a gentleman.
- [Beast stands up straighter]
- Lumiere: Ah, yes. When she comes in, give her a dashing, debonair smile. Come, come. Show me the smile.
- [Beast gives a big, forced smile]
- Mrs. Potts: But don't frighten the poor girl.
- Lumiere: [trying to prepare the Beast for his dinner with Belle] Voilà! Oh, you look so-- so...
- Beast: [fur done up in curls and bows] Stupid.
- Lumiere: Not quite the word I was looking for. Perhaps a little more off the top.
- Cogsworth: [clears throat, then bows and gestures to the door] Your lady awaits.
- [giving Beast advice on how to impress Belle]
- Lumiere: Impress her with your rapier wit.
- Mrs. Potts: But be gentle.
- Lumiere: Shower her with compliments.
- Mrs. Potts: But be sincere.
- Lumiere: And above all.
- Lumiere, Mrs. Potts: You must control your temper!
- Cogsworth: [shakes Lumiere's hand in truce] Well, Lumiere, old friend. Shall we let bygones be bygones?
- Lumiere: Of course, mon ami. I told you she would break the spell.
- Cogsworth: I beg your pardon, old friend, uh, but I believe I told you.
- Lumiere: No, you didn't. I told you!
- Cogsworth: You most certainly did not, you pompous, paraffin-headed peabrain!
- Lumiere: En garde, you--you overgrown pocket watch!
- Lumiere: Be our guest, be our guest, put our service to the test / Tie your napkin round your waist, cheri, and let us provide the rest / Soup du jour? Hors d'oeuvres? Why, we only live to serve / Try the gray stuff, it's delicious! Don't believe me? Ask the dishes! / They can sing, they can dance, after all, Miss, this is France / And a dinner here is never second best / Come on, unfold our menu, / Take a glance and then you / will be our guest / Oui, our guest, Be our guest!
- Lumiere: [Chorus joins in] Beef ragoune, cheese soufflé, pie and pudding en flambé / We'll prepare and serve with flair, a culinary cabaret / You're alone and you're scared, but the banquet's all prepared / No one's gloomy or complaining, while the flatware's entertaining / We tell jokes, I do tricks, with my fellow candlesticks / And it's all in perfect taste, that you can bet! / Come on and fill your glass / You've won your own free pass / To be our guest / If you're stressed, it's fine dining we suggest! Be our guest, be our guest, be our guest!
- Lumiere: Life is so unnerving, for a servant who's not serving / He's not whole, without a soul, to wait upon! Ah, those good old days when we were useful... suddenly those good old days are gone / Ten years we've been rusting, needing so much more than dusting / Needing exercise, a chance to use our skill! / Most days, we just lay around the castle / Flabby fat and lazy, then you walked in and oops-a-daisy!
- Mrs. Potts: It's a guest! It's a guest! Sakes alive and I'll be blessed! / Wine's been poured, and thank the Lord I've had the napkins freshly pressed / With dessert, she'll want tea, and my dear, that's fine with me / While the cups do their soft-shoeing I'll be bubbling, I'll be brewing / I'll get warm, piping hot... Heaven's sakes, is that a spot? / Clean it up! We want the company impressed! / We've got a lot to do! / Is it one lump or two? / For our guest! She's our guest!
- Chorus: Be our guest! Be our guest! Our command is your request! / It's been ten 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...
- Lumiere, Mrs. Potts, Chorus: Course by course! One by one! / Till you shout "Enough! I'm done!" / And we send 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!
- Mrs. Potts: Pardon me, Master.
- Beast: Leave me in peace.
- Mrs. Potts: But sir, the castle is under attack!
- Villagers: [singing outside and trying to knock the door down] Kill the Beast! Kill the Beast!
- Lumiere: [All the objects are trying to hold the door closed] This isn't working.
- Featherduster: Oh Lumiere. We must do something.
- Lumiere: Wait, I know!
- Villagers: [Still singing outside] Kill the Beast! Kill the Beast!
- Mrs. Potts: What should we do, Master?
- Beast: It doesn't matter now. Just let them come.
- Cogsworth, Mrs. Potts: [singing] When we're human again/ Only human again/ When the world once more starts making sense...
- Cogsworth: I'll unwind for a change!
- Lumiere: Really? That'd be strange!
- Cogsworth: Can I help it if I'm t-t-tense? In a shack by the sea, I'll sit back sipping tea, let my early retirement commence! Far from fools made of wax, I'll get down to brass tacks...
- [Lumiere rat-tails him]
- Cogsworth: And RELAX!
- Chorus: When I'm human again!
- Cogsworth: I knew it, I knew it was foolish to get our hopes up.
- Lumiere: Maybe it would have been better if she'd never come at all.
- [the footstool runs to the window and starts barking]
- Lumiere: Could it be?
- Mrs. Potts: Is it she?
- [they look outside and see Gaston leading the mob to the castle doors]
- Lumiere: Sacre bleu! Invaders!
- Cogsworth: Encroachers!
- Mrs. Potts: And they have the mirror!
- Cogsworth: Warn the master - if it's a fight they want, we'll be ready for them! Who's with me?
- [the doors close, he realizes he is alone]
- Cogsworth: Aah!
- [Lumiere, Mrs. Potts and Cogsworth hops close to the Prince and Belle one by one, they were swirled around and turned into humans]
- Prince Adam: Lumiere! Cogsworth! Mrs. Potts! Look at us!
- Chip: [riding on Sultan the footstool] Mama! Mama!
- [he swirled around and turned into a boy]
- Mrs. Potts: Oh my goodness!
- Lumiere: It is a miracle!
- [as the castle turn back to normal, they were revealed to be humans again.]
- Prince Adam: Lumiere. Cogsworth. Oh, Mrs. Potts!
- [he hugs back to the others]
- Prince Adam: Look at us!
- Chip: [chip rides with Sultan] Mama, mama!
- Footstool: Ruff, ruff, ruff, ruff, ruff! Ruff ruff!
- [Sultan the footstool reveals back to being a dog, and Chip turning back into a boy again]
- Mrs. Potts: Oh, ho, ho, my goodness.
- [she carries and hugs him]
- Lumiere: It is a MIRACLE! Ho ho ho ho!