Script

Audition Central: Disney's Cinderella KIDS

Script: Gus

SIDE 1

NARRATOR 3
Not everyone in the house hated Cinderella.

(MICE scurry on and crowd around Cinderella.)

MICE
Cinderelly? Cinderelly? Cinderelly! Cinderelly!

NARRATOR 3
The mice were her best friends, and helped her as much as they could. Let's see, there was Perla, and Jaq, and Luke ... and Gus ...

(GUS remains cowering in a corner.)

CINDERELLA
Come out, Gus!
(patting GUS's paw)
Don't let them scare you.

GUS
Cinderelly go to the party!

CINDERELLA
A ball. Can you imagine? It would be a dream come true.

GUS
Dream, Cinderelly?

CINDERELLA
Why Gus, don't you know what a dream is? It's important to have a dream.

SIDE 2

HERALD
Announcing his Imperial Grace, the Grand Duke!

(STEPMOTHER flings open the door and pushes the GRAND DUKE and HERALD inside the house.)

STEPMOTHER
Why welcome, welcome, welcome! I thought you'd never get here. May I present my daughters Drizella and Anastasia ...

(The STEPSISTERS enter, curtseying badly.)

ANASTASIA, DRIZELLA
Your Grace.

(The GRAND DUKE and HERALD wince.)

GRAND DUKE
Yes. Charmed, I'm sure. Now, shall we begin?

(The MICE, who have been hiding, observe the action and talk among themselves.)

JAQ
Quick, get Cinderelly, get Cinderelly!

(PERLA runs off to find CINDERELLA. The HERALD displays the slipper.)

DRIZELLA
Why, that's my slipper!

ANASTASIA
(gasps)
Don't be ridiculous. It's - it - it's my slipper!

(GUS shouts out, as the other MICE pull him back into hiding.)

GUS
No, no, no! Cinderelly's slipper. Cinderel --