Spoken Lines Flashcards
First Line
(Act 1, Scene 2)
Benevolent Merfolk! Creatures of the Deep! Today marks a special anniversary - for many years ago on this fateful day I inherited my father’s Kingdom and banished the Sea Witch Ursula forever!
Sea Creatures: Hail King Triton!
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And so it’s time to celebrate our victory! In honor of the occasion, may I introduce our Master of Ceremonies…
Sebastian: Mornin’ to y’all!
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So tell us, what have you in store?
Sebastian: I wrote this little number for my star pupil -
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And who might that be?
Sebastian: Why, I haven’t heard such magnificent sound since - well…
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…since Her Royal Highness, may she rest in peace.
Sebastian: If only she’d show up for rehearsals once in a while…
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Let the merriment begin!
Sebastian: Not again, child!
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Ariel! Where in the name of Poseidon has that sister of yours gone?
Aquata: Honestly, Daddy! You let Ariel get away with everything -
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Now, now. I love all my daughters equally -
Sebastian: Please, sire! Don’t go pointin’ your Pappy’s trident at me!
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Oops. Sorry, Sebastian…
Aquata: Naked ambition and a willingness to kill.
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ALL RIGHT, THAT’S ENOUGH!
King Triton: ALL RIGHT, THAT’S ENOUGH!
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One son, Sebastian! Was that too much to hope for?
Ariel: Daddy, forgive me, I’m so sorry -
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Ariel, young lady -
Ariel: I just forgot, that’s all -
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As a result of your careless behavior -
Sebastian: Careless and reckless behavior!
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The entire celebration was -
Sebastian: This concert was going to be the pinnacle of my distinguished career.
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Sebastian -
Adella: Mama loved me best, but she’s gone -
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DO YOU MIND?!?
King Triton: DO YOU MIND?!?
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Ariel. Please. You’ve been given such a gift…
Ariel: I know - my mother’s voice.
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It’s a wondrous talent, one that demands stewardship and care. So please. Ariel. For the sake of her memory -
Flounder: It wasn’t even Ariel’s fault! That know-it-all seagull started goin’ on and on -
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Seagull? Seagull! You went up to the surface again?
Ariel: Nothing happened.
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You could’ve been seen by one of those barbarians! One of those humans!
Ariel: Daddy, they’re not barbarians!
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They’re dangerous - traps and harpoons! Like it or not, Ariel, you’re my youngest. My baby! And so I worry about you the most -
Ariel: But I’m old enough to look after myself -
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As long as you live under my reef, you’ll obey my rules!
Ariel: If you’d just listen to me for once -
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That’s the last time you’re ever swimming to the surface! Understood?
Ariel: You’re so unfair!
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Agh! Heaven help me! She’s headstrong! Willful! Stubborn as a barnacle -
Sebastian: Teenagers! Give ‘em an inch, and they swim all over you.
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I can govern a kingdom, but I can’t control by own daughter. I was too harsh. She’ll learn to fear me - I don’t want that. She needs her mother Sebastian. And so do I.
Sebastian: I’m telling ya, dat child needs constant supervision! Someone who can watch over her, keep her out of trouble -
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That’s not a bad idea. Someone to safeguard her every move -
Sebastian: Her every dog-paddle!
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Her every side-stroke -
Sebastian: Her every dive!
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And you are just the crab to do it!
Sebastian: What?
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You heard me! From now on, Ariel is your responsibility!
Sebastian: See child, that’s what I’m talking about! Ariel! Hello?
(Act 1, Scene 8)
Where is she, Sebastian? Where?
Sebastian: You jes’ miss her. She slip away -
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To think she’d betray her family this way. That she’d turn her back on her own kind!
Sebastian: She can’t help it sire -!
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I taught her myself! And now she makes a mockery of everything we hold dear. Where’s she hiding?
Sebastian: If I only knew -
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She keep secrets from me, Sebastian, not from you. I’ll wager you know where she is. Now, take me to her.
Ariel: To think this belonged to him once. He held it in his own two hands.
(Act 1, Scene 9)
ARIEL! Ariel! Tell the truth! Did you save a human from drowning?
Aquata: You get every single solo, and it’s not fair -
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THAT’S ENOUGH! Leave us alone. You too, Sebastian. So did you?
Ariel: I had to rescue the Prince -
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You had to?
Ariel: Without me, he would’ve perished!
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He’s a human, you’re a mermaid.
Ariel: I can’t hate him just because he’s different. Perhaps you can, but it’s just not in me -
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“Different”? They catch us with their hooks, they spear us with their blades -
Ariel: They’re not all like that!
(Act 1, Scene 9)
Have you forgotten what they did to your mother?
Ariel: We don’t know that for certain -
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Can there be any doubt? She slips out one morning for an innocent swim and never returns-!
Ariel: You can’t prove -
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I know it in my heart, and that’s enough. Murderers, all of them!
Ariel: You can’t blame all humans for a few wicked ones -
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I won’t have you build a shrine to them! Worshipping their rubbish! The debris that sullies our waters -
Ariel: Daddy, no -
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The totems of their decadence!
Ariel: Don’t! Please!
(Act 1, Scene 9)
NEVER AGAIN, ARIEL! NEVER AGAIN!
Windward: Your Majesty!
(Act 2, Scene 2)
Have you found her?
Windward: We’ve searched everywhere. We’ve found no trace of your daughter.
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So keep looking until you do!
Aquata: I never meant to wish her ill, Daddy.
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I know, I know.
Allana: We won’t rest, Papa, not till she’s home.
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Thank you, dear child. As if the loss of your mother wasn’t enough…
Sebastian: Most merciful Triton, I pray that you’ll keep calm -
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Where is she? Where is Ariel?
Sebastian: She’d be so angry if she knew I was here!
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I entrust my youngest daughter to you! And what happens? I ought to have you cracked! I ought to have you shelled -
Flounder: He almost was, Your Greatness, and all for Ariel -
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You ought to be ashamed of yourself, too! What kind of tragedy will it take -
Sebastian: A tragedy involving the Sea Witch, to be exact.
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What did you say?
Flounder: …and she traded her voice for a pair of legs, and if the Prince doesn’t kiss her -
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Her voice? She bartered away her voice to become human?!?
Sebastian: By sunset tomorrow, that child could be giving up her very soul -
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Her soul?
Sebastian: - and all to that wicked sister of yours.
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It’s time I settled things with her once and for all.
Jetsam: - plucking the barnacles off of her back!
(Act 2, Scene 12)
Ursula!
Ursula: Brother darling! You’re right on cue!
(Act 2, Scene 12)
What have you done with my daughter?
Ursula: Nothing! She’s done it all to herself, trading her voice away. And for what? Human heartbreak!
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Give her back to me.
Ursula (Sung): It so happens that your daughter signed a contract.
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No!
Ursula (Sung): Is it binding? Goodness, yes! Unbreakable, unless…
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Unless?
Ursula (Sung): There is a little something we could try.
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Go on.
Ursula (Sung): Maybe swap your daughter’s soul for, say, your own.
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What?
Ursula: The mute little hatchling, drowning in her own sorrow, with no voice left to cry out your name…Well? I’m waiting.
(Act 2, Scene 12)
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 this little girl?
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Ariel!
Ursula: You believe that? After all the lies he’s told you?
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Lies? What lies-?
Ariel: Wait a minute! If humans didn’t kill her, then who did?
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It was you, wasn’t it? All these years, I’ve been blaming them, and it was you -
Flotsam: Ursula!
Jetsam: No!
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Ariel!
Ariel: …not my sisters, not this place - the only place I’ve ever truly called my home -
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I’m the one who’s at fault Ariel. Cursing humans, when all along -
Ariel: There’s goodness in people, Daddy.. I know. I’ve seen it.
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Even when I couldn’t. I’m proud of you, Ariel. Your mother would have been, too.
King Triton: Even when I couldn’t. I’m proud of you, Ariel. Your mother would have been, too.
(Act 2, Scene 12)
Somehow, in the blink of an eye, when my back was turned, you grew up.
King Triton: Somehow, in the blink of an eye, when my back was turned, you grew up.
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You love him very much don’t you?
Flounder: It’s what she wants, Your Majesty. More than anything. Please.
(Act 2, Scene 12)
You belong to his world now.
Ariel: This is my father.
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I am King Triton.
Prince Eric: With your permission, sire, I’d like to make her my wife.
(Act 2, Scene 13)
My permission? Ariel can speak for herself.
Grimsby: Grog after bedtime, a bad idea…
(Act 2, Scene 13)
You’re the young man’s father?
Grimsby: Heavens, no. His Majesty’s long dead. I’m his guardian, nothing more.
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Well, I wager his father would be very pleased…with both of you.
Grimsby: He’s my one shining achievement - a bright light in a dark world.
(Act 2, Scene 13)
Congratulations to us both, my friend.
