- [first lines]
- Narrator: Once upon a time in a faraway land, a young prince lived in a shining castle. Although he had everything his heart desired, the prince was spoiled, selfish, and unkind. But then, one winter's night, an old beggar woman came to the castle and offered him a single rose in return for shelter from the bitter cold. Repulsed by her haggard appearance, the prince sneered at the gift and turned the old woman away. But she warned him not to be deceived by appearances, for beauty is found within. And when he dismissed her again, the old woman's ugliness melted away to reveal a beautiful enchantress. The prince tried to apologize, but it was too late, for she had seen that there was no love in his heart. And as punishment, she transformed him into a hideous beast and placed a powerful spell on the castle and all who lived there. Ashamed of his monstrous form, the beast concealed himself inside his castle, with a magic mirror as his only window to the outside world. The rose she had offered was truly an enchanted rose, which would bloom until his 21st year. If he could learn to love another, and earn her love in return by the time the last petal fell, then the spell would be broken. If not, he would be doomed to remain a beast for all time. As the years passed, he fell into despair and lost all hope, for who could ever learn to love a beast?
- Beast: [struggling] You came back.
- Belle: Of course I came back. I couldn't let them... oh, this is all my fault!
- [Belle cradles the Beast's head]
- Belle: If only I had gotten here sooner.
- Beast: Maybe... it's better... it's better this way.
- Belle: [Belle tries to silence him] Don't talk like that! You'll be alright. We're together now; everything's going to be fine, you'll see.
- Beast: At least... at least I got to see you... one last time.
- [Beast dies from his injuries and blood loss]
- Belle: No, No! Please--please--please don't leave me.
- [Belle begins to sob]
- Belle: I love you!
- [the last rose petal falls]
- Belle: [singing] Oh, isn't this amazing / It's my favorite part because, you'll see / Here's where she meets Prince Charming / But she won't discover that it's him / 'Til chapter three.
- Beast: [singing] 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.
- [Belle is washing the Beast's wounds]
- Beast: [roars] That hurts!
- Belle: If you'd hold still, it wouldn't hurt as much!
- Beast: Well, if you hadn't have run away, this wouldn't have happened.
- Belle: If you hadn't frightened me, I wouldn't have run away.
- [Belle folds her arms in anger]
- Beast: [pause] Well, you shouldn't have been in the west wing!
- Belle: Well, you should learn to control your temper!
- [pause]
- Belle: [the Beast's servants glare at him in agreement] Now, hold still. This might sting a little.
- [presses cloth to wound; the beast growls in pain]
- Belle: By the way, thank you for saving my life.
- Beast: [stops growling] You're welcome.
- Belle: [singing] 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.
- Gaston: This is the day your dreams come true.
- Belle: What do you know about my dreams, Gaston?
- Gaston: Plenty! Here. Picture this. A rustic hunting lodge, my latest kill roasting on the fire, and my little wife massaging my feet, while the little ones play on the floor with the dogs. We'll have six or seven.
- Belle: Dogs?
- Gaston: No, Belle. Strapping boys like me.
- Belle: Imagine that.
- Gaston: Do you know who that little wife will be?
- Belle: Let me think.
- Gaston: You, Belle.
- Belle: Gaston, I'm-I'm speechless. I really don't know what to say.
- Gaston: Say you'll marry me.
- Belle: I'm very sorry, Gaston but-- but I just don't deserve you!
- Cogsworth: As you can see, the pseudo-façade was stripped away to reveal the minimalist rococo design. Note the unusual inverted vaulted ceilings.
- [as he, Lumiere, and Belle walk past the knights in armor, they turn their heads to follow them]
- Cogsworth: This is yet another example of the late neoclassic Baroque period. And, as I always say, "If it's not Baroque, don't fix it."
- [laughs]
- Cogsworth: Where was I?
- [laughs at his own joke, notices the knights with their heads turned]
- Cogsworth: As you were!
- [the knights turn their heads back forward]
- Cogsworth: Now, then, if I may draw your attention to the flying buttresses-- Uh, madmoiselle?
- 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?
- Prince Adam: Belle, it's me!
- [Belle stares into his eyes for a minute]
- Belle: [smiles after realizing that Beast is still alive] It is you!
- 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!
- Villagers: [singing] We don't like what we don't understand, in fact it scares us, and this monster is mysterious at least.
- Gaston: [singing] Here in town there's only she/who is beautiful as me/So I'm making plans to woo and marry Belle
- Beast: Who are you? What are you doing here?
- Maurice: I-I-I was lost in the woods, and...
- Beast: You are not welcome here!
- Maurice: I-I-I'm sorry.
- Beast: What're you staring at?
- Maurice: N-Nothing.
- Beast: So, you've come to stare at the beast, have you?
- Maurice: Please, I meant no harm! I-I just need a place to stay.
- Beast: I'll give you a place to stay.
- Maurice: No, no, please! No! No!
- [the Beast slams the door thunderously]
- Monsieur D'Arque: I don't usually leave the asylum in the middle of the night, but he said you'd make it worth my while.
- [Gaston presents him with a bag of money]
- Monsieur D'Arque: Ah, I'm listening.
- Gaston: It's like this: I've got my heart set on marrying Belle, but she needs a little--persuasion.
- Lefou: [chuckles] Turned him down flat.
- [Gaston hits him]
- Gaston: Everyone knows her father's a lunatic. He was in here tonight, raving about a beast in a *castle*.
- Monsieur D'Arque: Maurice is harmless.
- Gaston: The point is, Belle would do *anything* to keep him from being locked up.
- Lefou: Yeah, even marry *him*.
- [points at Gaston; ducks, covering his head with his flask when Gaston tries to hit him again]
- Monsieur D'Arque: So you want me to throw her father into the asylum unless she agrees to marry you?
- [Lefou nods eagerly]
- Monsieur D'Arque: Oh, that is despicable.
- [Chuckling evilly]
- Monsieur D'Arque: I love it!
- Cogsworth: [singing] You know, perhaps there's something there that wasn't there before.
- Chip: What?
- Mrs. Potts: [singing] There may be something there that wasn't there before.
- Chip: *What's* there, Mama?
- Mrs. Potts: Shh. I'll tell you when you're older.
- [kisses Chip]
- Gaston: [Gaston jumps in front of Belle] Hello, Belle.
- Belle: Bonjour, Gaston.
- [Gaston takes her book and rudely reads through it]
- Belle: Gaston, may I have my book, please?
- Gaston: How can you read this? There's no pictures!
- Belle: Well, some people use their imagination.
- Gaston: [Tosses the book in the puddle and Belle picks it back up] Belle, it's about time you got your head out of those books and paid attention to more important things. Like me.
- [Gaston smiles at Belle and the Bimbettes sigh at Gaston]
- Gaston: The whole town's talking about it. It's not right for a woman to read. Soon she starts getting ideas and thinking.
- Belle: Gaston, you are positively primeval.
- Gaston: Why, thank you, Belle. What do you say you and me take a walk over to the tavern and take a look at my trophies?
- Belle: Maybe some other time.
- Bimbette: What's wrong with her? She's crazy! He's gorgeous!
- Belle: Please, Gaston, I can't. I have to get home to help my father. Goodbye.
- Lefou: That crazy old loon! He needs all the help he can get.
- [Gaston and Lefou both laugh at Belle]
- Belle: Don't talk about my father that way!
- Gaston: Yeah, don't talk about her father that way!
- [Pounds Lefou's head]
- Belle: My father's not crazy. He's a genius!
- [Belle's house blows and she runs home while Gaston and Lefou continue to laugh and he accidently slaps Lefou]
- Gaston: I'd like to thank you all for coming to my wedding. First I'd better go in there and propose to the girl.
- [chuckles as the men at his "wedding" laugh while the Bimbettes sob]
- 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!
- Beast: [upon catching Belle in the forbidden west wing] Why did you come here?
- Belle: I'm-I'm sorry.
- Beast: I warned you never to come here!
- Belle: I didn't mean any harm.
- Beast: [yells] Do you realize what you could've done?
- [throws a table]
- Belle: [cowering] Please! Stop!
- Beast: Get out!
- Belle: [dashes out of the room] No!
- Beast: [yelling, while throwing and smashing more furniture] Get out!
- Belle: I-Is anyone here?
- Maurice: Belle?
- Belle: Papa!
- [Grabs torch and kneels down to Maurice]
- Maurice: H-H-How did you find me?
- Belle: Oh, your hands are like ice. We have to get you out of here.
- [Maurice coughs]
- Maurice: Belle, I want you to leave this place.
- Belle: Who's done this to you?
- Maurice: No time to explain. You must go. Now!
- Belle: I won't leave you.
- Beast: [the Beast Enters the room and Belle drops her torch in the puddle] What are you doing here?
- Maurice: Run, Belle!
- Belle: [in the darkness] Who's there? Who are you?
- Beast: The master of this castle.
- Belle: I've come for my father. Please let him out. Can't you see he's sick?
- Beast: [Yelling] Then he shouldn't have trespassed here!
- Belle: But he could die. Please, I'll do anything.
- Beast: There's nothing you can do. He's my prisoner.
- Belle: [to herself] Oh, there must be some way I can-- Wait! Take me instead.
- Beast: You? You would take his place?
- Maurice: Belle, no! You don't know what you're doing!
- Belle: [to the Beast] If I did, would you let him go?
- Beast: Yes, but you must promise to stay here forever.
- Belle: Come into the light.
- [the Beast steps in the castle light to reveal himself; Belle gasps and turns away]
- Maurice: No, Belle! I won't let you do this!
- [Belle looks at him, then rises]
- Belle: You have my word.
- Beast: Done!
- [Belle kneels to the floor, sobbing]
- Maurice: No Belle, listen to me. I'm old, I've lived my life.
- [the Beast grabs Maurice and drags him off]
- Belle: Wait!
- Maurice: Belle!
- Belle: Wait!
- Villagers: [singing:] It's know no wonder that her name means beauty / her looks have got no parallel / But behind that fair façade / I'm afraid she's rather odd / Very different from the rest of us / She's nothing like the rest of us / Yes, different from the rest of us is Belle.
- Chip: Mama, there's a girl in the castle!
- Mrs. Potts: Now Chip, I'll not have you making up such wild stories.
- Chip: Really, Mama, I saw her!
- Mrs. Potts: Not another word, into the tub.
- Chip: [Mrs. Potts lifts Chip into the tub] But. What?
- Featherduster: A girl! I saw a girl in the castle!
- Featherduster: [Chip emerges from the water in the tub]
- Chip: See? I told ya.
- [Gaston and the Beast are battling on the tower]
- Gaston: It's over, Beast! Belle is mine!
- [the Beast strikes at Gaston, grabs him and holds him over the edge]
- Gaston: Let me go! Let me go, please! Don't hurt me! I'll do anything! Anything!
- [after a tense moment, the Beast drags Gaston away from the edge]
- Beast: Get out!
- Belle: [from deleted "Human Again" sequence]
- [Belle is reading "Romeo and Juliet" to the Beast]
- Belle: "There never was a story of more woe, than this of Juliet and her Romeo."
- Beast: [smiling] Hmm. Could you read it again?
- Belle: Well, here.
- [Belle hands him the storybook]
- Belle: Why don't you read it to me?
- Beast: Uhh.
- [he takes the book]
- Beast: Alright.
- [he flips through the pages and tries to read but quietly stutters]
- Beast: [sighs] I can't.
- Belle: [softly] You mean you never learned?
- Beast: I learned, a little. It's just been *so long*.
- Belle: Well here, I'll help you.
- [Belle takes back the book and sets it on the table; she flips through the pages]
- Belle: Let's start here.
- Beast: Okay.
- [he reads]
- Beast: "Twoe"?
- Belle: "Two".
- Beast: "Two". I knew that.
- [the Beast keeps reading]
- Beast: "Two households..."
- Gaston: When I was a lad, I ate four dozen eggs every morning to help me get large/And now that I'm grown, I eat five dozen eggs/So I'm roughly the size of a barge.
- 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.
- Belle: Papa?
- [as she enters the cellar door full of smoke and Maurice is stuck in the barrel breaking out]
- Maurice: How on earth did that stupid, dog--gone it!
- [Pulls out the barrel rim but his underwear shows and quickly pulls his pants back up]
- Belle: Are you alright, Papa?
- Maurice: I'm, I'm about ready to give up on this hunk of junk.
- [Kicks the machine]
- Belle: You always say that!
- Belle: I mean it this time: I'll never get this boneheaded contraption to work!
- Maurice: Yes you will, and you'll win first prize at the fair tomorrow.
- [Maurice frowns]
- Belle: And become a world famous inventor.
- Maurice: [gently] You really believe that?
- Belle: I always have.
- Maurice: [relents as he returns to his work on the machine] Well, what are we waiting for? I'll have this thing fixed in no time! Hand me that dog legged clincher there.
- Maurice: So, did you have a good time in town today?
- Belle: I got a new book. Papa, do you think I'm odd?
- Maurice: [Maurice comes out from under his machine] My daughter? Odd? Huh! Where would you get an idea like that?
- Belle: Oh, I don't know. It's just that I'm not sure I'd fit in here. There's no one I can really talk to.
- Maurice: What about that Gaston? He's a handsome fellow.
- Belle: He's handsome alright, and rude, and conceited and... Papa, he's not for me.
- Maurice: Well, don't you worry, 'cause this new invention's gonna be the start of a new life for us. I think that's done it. Now, let's give it a try.
- [Maurice pulls the machine's lever and the axe automatically chops a log and throws it to the other side of the room]
- Maurice: It works!
- Belle: It does?
- [another log flies to the other side of the room]
- Belle: It does!
- Belle: You did it! You really did it!
- Maurice: Hitch up Philippe, girl! I'm off to the fair!
- [Then a log hits Maurice and knocks him dizzy. The next scene shows Belle waving goodbye while Maurice rides his cart with Phillippe]
- Belle: Goodbye Papa! Good luck!
- Maurice: Goodbye Belle! An, and take care while I'm gone!
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