Script
Audition Central: Disney's Cinderella KIDS
Script: Stepsisters
SIDE 1
(The NARRATORS exit as CINDERELLA enters, balancing a huge breakfast tray on her head, wincing from the bloodcurdling screams of her STEPMOTHER and STEPSISTERS.)ANASTASIA
Where's my muffin?DRIZELLA
Where's my tea? I can't possibly start the morning without my tea!!!(The STEPSISTERS charge out of their bedroom and crash into CINDERELLA, causing the breakfast tray to spill all over them.)
ANASTASIA
Look what you've done now, you klutz!DRIZELLA
My favorite nightie, and you've completely ruined it!STEPMOTHER
Girls, girls - what's going on?(CINDERELLA scrambles to clean up the mess.)
Oh, I should have guessed. Really, Cinderella, you must learn to be more careful.
SIDE 2
(STEPMOTHER and the STEPSISTERS stop dead in their tracks. CINDERELLA shows them her dress.)CINDERELLA
Isn't it lovely? Do you like it? Do you think it will do?ANASTASIA
Cinderella!DRIZELLA
I don't believe it!ANASTASIA
Oh, she just can't -- STEPMOTHER
Girls, please. After all, we did make a bargain. Didn't we, Cinderella?(fingering her beads)
These beads, they give it just the right touch. Don't you think so, Drizella?
DRIZELLA
No, I don't. I think she's --(gasps)
Why, you little thief! They're my beads! Give them here!
(rips the beads off of CINDERELLA)
CINDERELLA
Oh, no.ANASTASIA
Oh, and look, that's my sash. Wearing my sash! She can't. (The STEPSISTERS shrief as they tear at CINDERELLA's dress.)
CINDERELLA
Oh, stop. Please stop!DRIZELLA
Oh, this is mine -- ANASTASIA
Oh, you ungrateful little --STEPMOTHER
Girls! Girls! That's quite enough. Hurry along now, both of you. I won't have you upsetting yourselves.(CINDERELLA looks at her torn dress. STEPMOTHER sneers at CINDERELLA.)
Goodnight, Cinderella.
(STEPMOTHER and the STEPSISTERS exit. CINDERELLA collapses to the ground.)
NARRATOR 3
Cinderella tried to be brave and hide her tears, but it was too much. The mice tried to comfort her, but it was no use.CINDERELLA
There's nothing left to believe in. Nothing.(Suddenly, FAIRY GODMOTHER appears.)
FAIRY GODMOTHER
Nothing, my dear? Oh, now, you don't really mean that.CINDERELLA
Why, who are you?FAIRY GODMOTHER
I'm your Fairy Godmother.CINDERELLA
But that's impossible.FAIRY GODMOTHER
Nonsense, child. If it were impossible, I wouldn't be here. And here I am.SIDE 3
(The scene changes to the Royal Palace, where STEPMOTHER and the STEPSISTERS are preparing to enter. The STEPSISTERS are fighting like cats and dogs.)DRIZELLA
Me first!ANASTASIA
No, ME first, you ugly beast!DRIZELLA
Takes one to know one!ANASTASIA
(imitating)"Takes one to know one!" How is your Prince ever going to pick you with that whhhhiiiiine of yours?
DRIZELLA
Am I hearing something? I think someone's talking but I'm not sure ... STEPMOTHER
Now girls, girls! Is that any way for future princesses to behave? Now, come along and practice your curtsies.ANASTASIA
Like she has to bother.(to DRIZELLA)
One look at you and the prince is going to run ...
DRIZELLA
Oh yeah? After choking at the sight of your face, he'll be frozen stiff!ANASTASIA
Take that back, you stupid ninny!SIDE 4
(CINDERELLA runs on carrying a broom, mop and bucket.)CINDERELLA
Please wait. May I try it on?STEPMOTHER
Oh, pay no attention to her.DRIZELLA
It's only Cinderella.ANASTASIA
She's just the maid!DRIZELLA
She works in the barn!ANASTASIA
Yuck!DRIZELLA
Very smelly.ANASTASIA
She doesn't count!DRIZELLA
She's out of her mind.STEPMOTHER
(making "cuckoo" sign)Woo! Woo!
GRAND DUKE
Madam, my orders were ... every maiden.(to CINDERELLA)
Come, my child.
NARRATOR 1
So Cinderella was allowed to try the slipper on, and there wasn't anything that her Stepmother could do about it!