Script

Audition Central: Disney's The Little Mermaid JR.

Script: King Triton

ARIEL
And now let me see... what did Scuttle call this one? Is it a ditty-whumper? A thumb-doodle? Whatever it is... Prince Eric held it in his own strong, beautiful human hands

(An enraged KING TRITON bursts in.)

KING TRITON
Ariel!

(taken aback by the collection of human stuff)

What is all this?!?

ARIEL
Daddy, they re my

KING TRITON
Human junk!

ARIEL
No, treasures!

KING TRITON
Did you save a human from drowning?

ARIEL
He would ve died!

KING TRITON
That savage brute could have killed you! And it s my job to keep you safe from harm.

ARIEL
But he didn t frighten me. He made me feel... wonderful! Besides, I am not a child anymore!

KING TRITON
No? Well, you are certainly talking like one. He s a human  you re a mermaid.

ARIEL
It doesn t matter  you don t understand! I wish mother were here!

KING TRITON
(takes a moment to recover from the low blow)

Ariel, I miss your mother just as much as you do. But I am still the king. And you are not to go to the surface ever again. Am I clear?!?

(KING TRITON pauses for a moment of regret.)

I m just trying to protect her, Sebastian.