THE LITTLE MERMAID Script.pdf, Schemes and Mind Maps of Voice

Download THE LITTLE MERMAID Script.pdf and more Schemes and Mind Maps Voice in PDF only on Docsity! 1 SCENE 1 - THE OCEAN SURFACE “Fathoms Below” PILOT: I’ll tell you a tale of the bottomless blue SAILORS: And it's hey to the starboard, heave-ho PILOT: Brave Sailor beware, ‘cause a big one’s a brewin’ SAILORS: Mysterious fathoms below! Heave ho! PILOT: I’ll sing you a song of the king of the sea… SAILORS: And it's hey to the starboard, heave-ho PILOT: The ruler of all of the oceans is he… SAILORS: In mysterious fathoms below! ALL: Fathoms below, below, From whence wayward westerlies blow. Where Triton is king and his merpeople sing In mysterious fathoms below! PRINCE ERIC (spoken) Isn't this perfection, Grimsby? Out on the open sea, surrounded by nothing but water! GRIMSBY Oh, yes, it's simply... delightful. PRINCE ERIC: The salt on your skin and the wind in your hair And the waves as they ebb and they flow… We're miles from the shore and guess what, I don't care! GRIMSBY: As for me, I'm about to heave ho! ARIEL: Ah, Ah… Ah! 2 PRINCE ERIC What is that? Do you hear something? GRIMSBY Milord, please… enough seafaring! This talk of merpeople and the King of the Sea is nautical nonsense! PRINCE ERIC There it is again! Straight ahead! ARIEL: Ah… ah! GRIMSBY Your Majesty, you’ve got to return to court and take up your father’s crown! PRINCE ERIC That’s not the life for me, Grimsby. Now, follow that voice - to the ends of the Earth if we have to! PILOT Aye-aye, Captain! ALL: There's mermaids out there in the bottomless blue… An' it's hey to the starboard, heave-ho Watch out for 'em, lad, or you'll go to your ruin… In mysterious fathoms below! SCENE 2 - KING TRITON’S COURT KING TRITON 5 ARIEL Just look, Flounder! The sun, the sand… isn’t it the most beautiful place you’ve ever seen? FLOUNDER I dunno, Ariel… I’m not sure we ought to be up here. ARIEL Don’t be such a guppy! FLOUNDER A guppy? I’m as brave as you are! I’m not afraid of anything! ARIEL What about sharks? FLOUNDER Where?! ARIEL Oh Flounder, you really are a guppy! You’ll never guess what I found today. Look! Have you ever seen anything so wonderful in your entire life? FLOUNDER Wow! Cool! What is it? ARIEL I don’t know, but I bet Scuttle will! Come on, I’ll race you! FLOUNDER Hey, wait for me! 6 SCUTTLE Mermaid off the port bow! Ariel, how you doin’ kid? ARIEL Scuttle, look what we found! SCUTTLE More human stuff, eh? Lemme see… Wow this is special. This is very, very unusual. FLOUDER What, What is it? SCUTTLE It’s a dinglehopper! ARIEL A dinglehopper? SCUTTLE Oh, these babies are fantabulous… absolutely indispensary. When it comes to dingle hoppers I'm a regular encyclopoodia! “Human Stuff” SCUTTLE: Say thatcha wanna have a hairdo, like the folds who live up there do that'll flap their wigs! GULL 1: Flop their wigs! 7 GULL 2: Flap! GULL 3: Awwwk! SCUTTLE: Well, you'll look absolutely dandy if you use one of these handy Little thingmajigs! GULL 1: Thingmabobs. GULL 2: Jigs! GULL 1: Bobs! GULL 3: Awwwk! SCUTTLE: Pick up the dinglehopper, just like so. Twirl it the way I'm twirling now! Give it a little yank, and there ya go! You're what the call "the dog's meow"! GULLS: Wonderful stuff! GULL 3: Awwwk! GULLS: That human stuff! Can't get enough - GULL 3: Awwwk! GULLS: Of human stuff! And we are the authority - No need for us to bluff! Because we're great and explanatin’ Human stuff! ARIEL What’s that? SCUTTLE A Snarfblatt! ARIEL 10 Of course he does! Use a little black magic to help out a few menfolk, and this is the thanks I get! Well, now it’s time to turn the tides on Triton. We just need to find a weakness that will crack his armor… FLOTSAM The king is terribly devoted to his daughtersssss JETSAM Especially the youngest, with the beautiful voice. URSULA Hmm… A woman doesn’t know how precious her voice is until she’s been silenced. JETSAM, FLOTSAM Sssilenced… URSULA You two find out what the girl really wants and then lure her here to my lair. I’ll whip up a little spell to make her dreams come true. Once we have her tapped, Triton will rush to her rescue! And then, my dears, the trident, crown, and throne will all be mine! SCENE 5 - KING TRITON’S COURT ARIEL Daddy, forgive me, I’m so sorry, I just forgot… KING TRITON As a result of your careless behavior, the entire celebration was… SEBASTIAN Ruined! Completely destroyed! This concert was going to be the pinnacle of my distinguished career… ARIEL But I didn’t mean to… 11 KING TRITON Ariel, listen. You’ve been given a gift… your mother’s voice. It’s a wondrous talent, one that demands stewardship and care. So please, dear child, for the sake of her memory… FLOUNDER It wasn’t even Ariel’s fault! We were gonna come back straight away. But then the seagull started goin’ on and on about human stuff… KING TRITON Human stuff? You went up to the surface?! You could have been seen by one of those Barbarians! They’re dangerous, and you’re my youngest… ARIEL I’m old enough to look after myself! KING TRITON As long as you live under my reef, you’ll obey my rules! ARIEL If you’d just listen to me for once… KING TRITON That’s the last time you’re ever swimming up to the surface! Understood? SEBASTIAN Teenagers! Give ‘em an inch, and they swim all over you. KING TRITON Maybe I was too harsh. SEBASTIAN Nonsense! Ariel needs constant supervision! Someone to watch over her… to keep her out of trouble! KING TRITON And you are just the crab to do it! From now on, Ariel is your responsibility! 12 SEBASTIAN Mine? But your Majesty… she’s a clever mermaid, I’m just a crustacean! Surely you ought to pick someone higher on the evolutionary ladder… SCENE 6 - ARIEL’S GROTTO “Part of Your World” ARIEL If only I could make my father understand. I just don't see how a world that makes such wonderful things could be so bad. ARIEL: Look at this stuff Isn't it neat? Wouldn't you think my collection's complete? Wouldn't you think I'm the girl The girl who has everything? I've got gadgets and gizmos a-plenty I've got whozits and whatzits galore You want thingamabobs? I've got twenty! But who cares? No big deal I want more I wanna be where the people are I wanna see, wanna see them dancin' Walking around on those - what do you call 'em? Oh - feet! Flippin' your fins, you don't get too far Legs are required for jumping, dancing Strolling along down a - what's that word again? Street Up where they walk, up where they run Up where they stay all day in the sun 15 ALL: The newt play the flute The carp play the harp The plaice play the bass and they soundin' sharp The bass play the brass The chub play the tub The fluke is the duke of soul (yeah) The ray, he can play the lings on the strings The trout rockin’ out The blackfish she sings The smelt and the sprat They know where it's at And oh, that blowfish blow! (instrumental) ALL: Ah, under the sea (under the sea) Under the sea (under the sea) SEBASTIAN: When the sardine begin the beguine It's music to me FISH: It’s music to me! ALL: What do they got, a lot of sand? We've got a hot crustacean band Each little clam here know how to jam here Under the sea Each little slug here cutting a rug here Under the sea Each little snail here know how to wail here That's why it's hotter under the water Yeah, we in luck here down under the muck here Under the sea Under the sea! SEBASTIAN See, child that’s what I’m talking about! Ariel? Hello? Oh, somebody’s gotta nail that girl’s fins to the floor. SCENE 7 - THE OCEAN SURFACE 16 PRINCE ERIC Now suppose I don’t want to be king… GRIMSBY I swore and oath to your dear father on his death bed that I’d turn you from a roustabout into a royal and have you married to a princess by your next birthday, which is now just three days away! PRINCE ERIC Did you ever try to take a princess sailing? It’s a joke! Their dresses get caught in the rigging. And most of ‘em can’t even swim… GRIMSBY You know, there’s more to a woman than her flutter kick. Our kingdom needs a queen! PRINCE ERIC Where am I gonna find her, Grimsby? A girl who’s as carefree and alive as the sea itself. Where? FLOUNDER I’ve never seen a human this close before! SCUTTLE Me neither! FLOUNDER I thought you were the expert! SCUTTLE On their stuff, sure! But yikes the sight of ‘em! Hideous, ain’t it? PRINCE ERIC Trust me, Grimsby, when I come across the girl of my dreams, it’ll hit me like lightning. “The Storm” 17 PILOT Hurricane’s a coming, Captain! King Triton must be angry indeed! PRINCE ERIC Batten the hatches then everyone below deck, and quickly! SCUTTLE Whoa! The wind’s on the move here! ARIEL Careful, Scuttle! SCUTTLE Ariel! PILOT The ship’s listin’ badly. GRIMSBY Oh, good heavens! PILOT Secure the rigid! Eric, take the wheel! PRINCE ERIC Help! PILOT Man overboard! GRIMSBY Prince Eric! ALL: Ah… ah ah! SCENE 8 - THE BEACH ARIEL 20 ALLANA: Look, I think she’s even wearing brand new shells! ANDRINA, ARISTA & ADELLA: She’s in love! AQUATA, ATINA & ALLANA: In love and it’s divine! ANDRINA, ARISTA & ADELLA: She’s in love! AQUATA, ATINA & ALLANA: That girl’s on sandbar nine! ANDRINA, ARISTA & ADELLA: Glory be! MERSISTERS: Lord above! Gotta be she’s in love! ARISTA Hey, Flounder – d’ya notice anything weird about you-know-who? FLOUNDER You mean Ariel? I’ll say! FLOUNDER: She acts like she don’t see me She doesn’t even speak She treats me like sashimi Left over from last week You see her late at night Tossin’ in her ocean bed MERSISTERS: Shoop, shoop Shoop, shoop… FLOUNDER: And she sighs, and she swoons And she’s hummin’ little tunes MERSISTERS: Even has a sorta glow FLOUNDER: What on earth could it be? MERSISTERS: Any hammerhead can see! 21 AQUATA & ADELLA: That sigh! ARISTA & ALLANA: That glow! ANDRINA & ATINA: That swoon! FLOUNDER: Oh, no! She’s in love! MERSISTERS: She’s flipped, it never fails! FLOUNDER: She’s in love! MERSISTERS: All hot beneath her scales! FLOUNDER: See her hips, How they swish! MERSISTERS: Well, well, well Don’t you wonder who’s the lucky seafood dish? FLOUNDER: She’s in love! MERSISTERS: She found a deep-sea hunk! FLOUNDER: She’s in love! MERSISTERS: And now she’s as good as sunk! FLOUNDER: See her blush! MERSISTERS & FLOUNDER: See her grin! Gotta be love she’s in! FLOUNDER: Ariel-and-someone swimmin’ in the sea! K-i-s-s-i-n-g! MERSISTERS: She’s in love, she’s in love! FLOUNDER & MERSISTERS: She’s in love! 22 FLOUNDER & MERSISTERS: She’s in love! She’s in love! Plain to see! No mistake! Look at those moonbeams in her wake! Obvious what they must be symptoms of— She’s in love! She’s in love! She’s in love! Yeah, yeah! KING TRITON In love? My little Ariel? So that explains it! Who’s the lucky Merman? FLOUDER Gee, I dunno. I didn’t even know it was love until the second chorus! KING TRITON Sebastian? Any ideas? SEBASTIAN I’ve tried to stop her Sire, but she doesn’t listen! I tell her, “Ariel, you’ve got to stay away from those humans, they’re nothing but trouble…” KING TRITON Humans?! Sebastian, have been keeping this from me? Where is that girl?! SCENE 10 - ARIEL’S GROTTO KING TRITON Ariel! What is all this? ARIEL Daddy, they’re my… KING TRITON Human junk! ARIEL No, treasures! 25 URSULA A prince, I hear! Quite a catch! Well, the answer is simple. You’ve got to become human yourself! ARIEL Can you do that? URSULA My dear, sweet child… it’s what I live for! To help unfortunate merfolk like yourself. “Poor Unfortunate Souls” URSULA: I admit that in the past I've been a nasty They weren't kidding when they called me, well, a witch But you'll find that nowadays I've mended all my ways Repented, seen the light, and made a switch True? Yes. And I fortunately know a little magic It's a talent that I always have possessed And here lately, please don't laugh I use it on behalf Of the miserable, the lonely, and depressed Pathetic! Poor unfortunate souls In pain, in need This one longing to be thinner That one wants to get the girl And do I help them? Yes, indeed! Those poor unfortunate souls So sad, so true They come flocking to my cauldron Crying, "Spells, Ursula, please!" 26 And I help them Yes I do! Now, it's happened once or twice Someone couldn't pay the price And I'm afraid I had to rake 'em 'cross the coals Yes, I've had the odd complaint But on the whole I've been a saint To those poor unfortunate souls! URSULA I know a spell that will turn you into a human for three days. Before the sun sets on the third day, you've got to get dear ol' princey to kiss you. If you do, you'll stay human forever. ARIEL And if I don’t? URSULA You will turn back into a mermaid and your soul will be mine forever! Life’s full of tough choices, isn’t it? Of course, there is one more thing… my fee. ARIEL But I don’t have any… URSULA I’m not asking for much. Only… your voice. ARIEL But if I give away my voice, how can I ever… URSULA You'll have your looks. . . your pretty face. . . and don't underestimate the power of body language! URSULA: Come on you poor unfortunate soul Go ahead! Make your choice! 27 I'm a very busy woman And I haven't got all day It won't cost much Just your voice! You poor unfortunate soul It's sad, but true If you want to cross the bridge, my sweet You've got the pay the toll Take a gulp and take a breath Go ahead and sign the scroll! Flotsam, Jetsam--now I've got her, boys The boss is on a roll You poor unfortunate soul! URSULA So how’s about it, cupcake? ARIEL If I become human, will I ever see my family again? My sisters… Daddy URSULA Now, do you want Princey-Poo or not? Five, four, three, two… ARIEL Yes, yes, I’ll do it! “Beluga Sevruga” URSULA: Beluga, sevruga, come winds of the Caspian Sea. . . Larynxes, glaucitis, ad max laryngitis, la voce to me! URSULA Now, sing! Sing your voice over to me! ARIEL: Ah-ah-ah-ah, ah-ah-ah-ah... URSULA 30 Ça c'est toujours delish Les poissons, les poissons Hee-hee-hee, haw-haw-haw With the cleaver I hack them in two I pull out what's inside And I serve it up fried God, I love little fishes, don't you? Here's something for tempting the palette Prepared in the classic technique First you pound the fish flat with a mallet Then you slash through the skin Give the belly a slice Then you rub some salt in 'Cause it makes it taste nice. CHEFS: Les Poissons, Les Poissons! Ooh la, la! Here they are! Say bonjour to our friends from the sea! Fish fillet! Fish pate! Fish flambe! Fish tartare! LOUIS: It’s a fish-how you say?-jamboree! CHEFS: Curried bass! Kippered smelt! Fish-ka-bobs! Tuna melt! LOUIS: If it's grilled, its been grilled to a "t"! CHEFS: Fish lightly toasted and roasted and steamed! Tossed in the blender and tenderly creamed Dish after dish like you'd wish to have dreamed! SEBASTIAN Out of the frying pan, into the fire! The things I do for you, young lady! Now, I should march you right back home to your father… so you can be miserable the rest of your life. I have no backbone. All right child, I’m in. Now, a few pointers from a clever crab to a little mermaid. You gotta bat your eyes, like this. Then, you pucker your lips, like this. 31 ARIEL (Bats eyes and puckers lips) SEBASTIAN Put those two things together tomorrow and you got the boy in the palm of your hands. SCENE 15 - THE LAGOON PRINCE ERIC No girl’s ever dared to join me out here. Too afraid they’d muddy their shoes. But not you! ARIEL (Smiles) PRINCE ERIC Peaceful, isn’t it? Not another living soul for miles and miles. FLOUNDER Hi there! What’s happening? SCUTTLE Nothing is happening! SEBASTIAN Shh! They spent all morning on horseback, then an afternoon picnic, now this… and not so much as a peck on the cheek! FLOUNDER Oh no! There’s only one day left! PRINCE ERIC So… how about this weather? SEBASTIAN We gotta do something, and quick! 32 SCUTTLE You mean like set the mood? With candlelight? SEBASTIAN Nonsense, it don’t take all that. Everything we need, we got right here. Percussion. . . strings. . . winds. . . and words. . . “Kiss the Girl” SEBASTIAN & ANIMALS: There you see her, (sha la la) sitting there across the way. (sha la la) She don't got a lot to say, But there's something about her. (about her) And you don't know why, But you're dying to try. You wanna Kiss The Girl. Yes, you want her. Look at her, you know you do. Possible she wants you, too. There is one way to ask her. (kiss the girl, kiss the girl) It don't take a word, Not a single word. Go on and Kiss The Girl. Sing with me now: Sha la la la la la, my oh my. Look like the boy too shy. Ain't gonna Kiss The Girl. Sha la la la la la ain't that sad? Ain't it a shame, too bad. He gonna miss the girl. PRINCE ERIC You know, I really ought to know your name. Maybe I could guess. . . Alexandra? Annabelle? Beatrice? 35 Why look! Such a gorgeous sunset! And on the third day, too! Time’s up. You lose! PRINCE ERIC Ariel, what’s wrong?! She’s jumped into the sea! I have to after her! SEBASTIAN Oh no. The worst is happening, I’ve got to help! SCENE 17 - ARIEL’s GROTTO KING TRITON Ariel? I’ve come to apologize. SEBASTIAN Most merciful Triton… KING TRITON Where have you been, Sebastian? And where is Ariel? I should have you cracked and shelled! FLOUNDER You see, your Majesty, these two slippery eels came and took Ariel to Ursula, and she traded her voice for a pair of legs… ARIEL Oh, Ariel, what have you done?! Come, we must save my daughter! SCENE 18 - URSULA’S LAIR URSULA Say goodbye to your prince! You’re mine now, mermaid! Get ready to spend the rest of your days as my slave! KING TRITON Ursula! What have you done to my daughter? URSULA 36 Nothing! She’s done it all to herself, trading her voice away. And for what? Human heartbreak! KING TRITON Give her back to me! URSULA Not on your life! “Poor Unfortunate Souls (Reprise)” URSULA: It so happens that your daughter signed a contract KING TRITON No! URSULA: Swapped her vice to land a man up where it’s dry. Is it binding? Goodness, yes! Unbreakable, unless... KING TRITON Unless? URSULA: There is a little somethin' we could try KING TRITON Go on URSULA: Yes… Perhaps we can arrange a sort of tradeoff KING TRITON What? URSULA: Maybe swap your daughter's soul for, say, your own Sing the scroll and set her free Or else she comes with me To suffer through eternity alone... KING TRITON 37 It's not my soul you're after-it's my power. URSULA Which would you rather be? The King of the Sea... or a father to his little girl? Finally! The oceans belong to me! URSULA: And now you poor unfortunate soul! Time's up! You're through! Now the power of Poseidon Has been once again made whole All the magic of the trident And the shell in my control! And now dark shall reign forever Over ocean, sea and shoal! Now see for yourselves how banishment feels! You poor unfortunate souls! “Confrontation” ARIEL: Ah ah ahhhhh ARIEL My voice. URSULA Well, look who’s talking! No matter. I have what I want now. And you don’t! ARIEL You may have my father’s trident, but you’ll never have his power. URSULA Silly mermaid. I’ll dispatch of you just as easily as I eliminated your mother. Wait! No, stop! I can’t control it! (Whirlpool sucks in URSULA, ARIEL grabs the trident)