Script

SIDE 1

(THE MARKETPLACE. Realizing the coast is clear, the two cloaked figures turn downstage and remove their hoods; they are ALADDIN and JASMINE. JASMINE reaches under her cloak and withdraws the loaf of bread, which she extends to ALADDIN.)

JASMINE

I don't understand. Why would anybody steal a loaf of bread?

ALADDIN

Gee, I dunno. Acute hunger pangs? Lightness of head? Rude growling noises from the stomach? All of the above?

JASMINE

Hunger pangs? What's that?

ALADDIN

You're not from around here, are you?

JASMINE

Of course I'm from around here!

ALADDIN

Nah. You're too nice. And too scared.

JASMINE

Well, sure I'm scared. Those people chasing us were so angry!

ALADDIN

That's Agrabah: hungry and angry. But when you're trapped here, you get used to it.

JASMINE

Believe me, you're not trapped. You're free to go anywhere you want. Do anything you want.

ALADDIN

Tell me the truth. This is your first time in the marketplace, isn't it?

JASMINE

(looks around, cagey)
Well my first time in this particular marketplace.

ALADDIN

It's the only marketplace we have.

JASMINE

(caught)
Oops.
(ALADDIN and JASMINE laugh.)

ALADDIN

So you don't wanna tell me where you're from. Fine. But I bet wherever it is, it's -- well, it's gotta be --

JASMINE

Boring?

ALADDIN

Beautiful.
(JASMINE is pleased, but she looks away. ALADDIN changes the subject.)
Wow! The Palace looks amazing from here, doesn't it?

JASMINE

(bored)
Oh, yes, it's wonderful. Always perfectly wonderful.

SIDE 2

JASMINE

His name is Aladdin. He's being held somewhere, and you have to release him.

SULTAN

Is this "boy" someone you met while you were roaming the streets?
(JASMINE is silent.)
Jasmine! Members of this family do not consort with the common people.

JASMINE

But we should! YOU should! How else are you going to know what's going on? Did you know that your "common people" are hungry?

SULTAN

Jasmine, my concern is what's "going on" with you.

JASMINE

I've never been happier.

SULTAN

You ran away today, Jasmine! And now that you're back, all you want to talk about is some boy --

JASMINE

Father, please just listen --

SULTAN

You are a Princess! A Princess who must be wed tomorrow!

JASMINE

No!

SULTAN

Your time is up, Jasmine! You will choose one of the princes you've already met, or I will be forced to choose for you.