This script is part of the Someday My Princess Will Come series.
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[gasp] What are you doing here?
[anxious] You’re not supposed to see me!
Everybody knows that!
[pause]
[still anxious but happy] It’s our wedding day!
[pause]
[calming down] Well . . . I suppose.
Maybe the rule only applies to . . . you know . . . humans.
[wistful] I mean . . . it’s not like I can wear a fancy dress.
[pause]
[sigh]
You know . . . I used to dream about my wedding dress.
I pictured it . . . so many times.
I used to care so much about that stuff.
Clothes . . . palaces . . . elegant balls with all the best people.
It was all I thought about.
The glamorous life.
That all seems so far away now.
Like a dream.
[pause]
Listen . . . I know I’ve said this a million times already, but . . .
[pause]
[firm] No, no, you have to let me say it.
One last time . . . on our wedding day . . . and then, never again.
When I say “I do” to you, I’ll be done with this forever.
[tender] But today . . . now . . . I need to say it.
Deal?
[pause]
I am so, so sorry I got you into this terrible mess.
It’s my own fault.
[bitter] Making a deal with a voodoo priest.
My whole life . . . back in the palace . . . in the old country . . . I always got something for nothing.
I was so spoiled.
Then my parents cut me off, and . . .
[pause]
[confused] I don’t know.
I guess I felt entitled.
I was so stupid.
[pause]
[excited] And then I saw you!
And you were tall . . . and dashing . . . and so, so gorgeous!
I thought you were a prince!
What did I know about . . . Mardi Gras . . . and costumes?
[pause]
[giggle] I did get a great kiss out of you, though.
[buzzing sound]
Oh!
Do you want that?
[pause]
Are you sure?
[pause]
Okay!
[sound of frog’s tongue slurping]
Thanks, honey.
[giggle] Remember that time our tongues got stuck together?
Going for the same fly?
[pause]
[amused] I was so terrified!
[big, joyous laugh]
[several kisses]
Watch out we don’t get our tongues stuck again!
[giggle] And on our wedding day!
[pause]
Anyway . . . for the last time ever, I promise! . . . I’m sorry.
I’m sorry you ended up . . . here . . . like this . . . with me.
[pause]
Oh, that’s sweet of you!
[long pause]
[tender] Really?
[pause]
[playful] Listen, mister.
[tender again] I can’t possibly have changed your life as much as you changed mine.
[regretful] When I said that clothes and palaces and glamour were . . . all I used to care about . . . I meant it.
In the old country, that’s what a princess was raised to care about.
I never gave a single thought to . . . all the hardworking people who had to make it all happen.
All their toil and strain and frustration.
Year after year.
Just so I could loaf around . . . enjoying it all.
Hundreds of people . . . working long hours every day . . . for me.
Thousands of them, maybe.
[ashamed] Isn’t that awful? I don’t even know how many there were.
They had to do all that work for me . . . just so they could make a living.
And they made my living – for me.
My so-called glamorous life.
I took all of it from them.
And I . . . never gave anything back.
I didn’t even know they existed.
I was petty . . . and selfish . . . and cruel.
[pause]
No, no.
Hush, now!
[pause]
I’m sorry, honey, but it’s all true.
[pause]
No, I don’t care if it’s “normal” over there.
That doesn’t make it right.
Here in the new world . . . I see now . . . how unfair the old world is.
[pause]
Hmm?
[long pause]
Well, okay, yes.
Obviously things aren’t perfect here, either.
I know how hard you had to work in that diner, for all those years.
Making a living.
And there are plenty of powerful people here . . . who take . . . and don’t give back.
They stopped you from opening your restaurant.
I’m so sorry about that.
But at least, here, people know it’s wrong!
It’s not the way things are supposed to work.
And there are so many amazing people here . . . like you.
People who don’t just accept the place they’re given.
People who want to build something.
People who want to get somewhere.
People who don’t just shrug and accept it . . . when they’re told that [imitating a snooty voice] “your kind” aren’t allowed to succeed.
People who see this broken world . . . and want to make something better.
Something new.
Something that brings joy and new life to the world.
[pause]
Oh, honey . . . if only you could see the old country, where I come from . . . you’d know how amazing you are in my eyes.
You’d see the way you shine like the stars to me.
[pause]
You’re so dedicated and driven.
You work your butt off for your dream.
You want to do something good for your community.
Something that will make people happy.
And honor your parents, too!
Carry on their legacy.
The restaurant is your dream . . . but it grew inside you because of . . . all the love they poured into you.
[pause]
My parents never poured anything into me.
All they care about is politics . . . and power.
And I guess that’s why I cared about nothing but palaces and glamour.
They kept scolding me . . . because I did nothing all day but . . . dream about dresses and balls.
But what else did they give me to dream about?
What did they give me . . . to help me grow a dream worth dreaming?
A dream like yours?
In all that old world . . . of old palaces and old power . . . what do they have that can give new life?
[pause]
It’s here in the new world that new life can grow.
No castles. No kings.
Where ordinary people have the right to dream their own dreams.
And build their dreams with their own work.
Things like . . . jazz.
[pause]
Oh, you have no idea how I longed to come here . . . for so many years!
To hear real music!
Bursting with life and joy!
[pause]
And . . . things like a restaurant where everyone is welcome.
[pause]
You’ve taught me so much.
You took all those silly dreams about dresses and balls right out of my head.
You opened my eyes to the real world.
[pause]
Look, I’m not a child.
I know . . . even here . . . not everyone has their rights like they should.
Not yet.
But you’re getting there.
We’re getting there.
[pause]
This is my home now.
You are my home now.
I wouldn’t trade my time here for the whole world.
[tender] And I wouldn’t trade you . . . my hardworking hero . . . for the whole world and all the stars in the sky.
[pause]
[giggle]
[playful] No, not even Ray and Evangeline.
[wistful] They’re taking good care of each other up there.
[romantic] Just like we’re going to take good care of each other down here.
[several kisses]
Oops! It’s almost time for the ceremony.
You need to get hopping!
[giggle] Sorry, sorry!
But seriously, get moving, honey.
I can’t wait to marry you.
[excited] We’re almost there!
[long pause to indicate a change of scene; we are now at the end of the wedding]
[deep, heavy breath in and out to get ready, and then…]
[intense, joyful] I do.
[kiss]
What?!?
What’s happening?!?
[gasp]
We’re . . . we’re human again!
How is that . . .
[pause]
Of course!
When you married me, you became a prince!
For real, this time!
So your kiss broke the spell!
And look at you! More dashing and gorgeous than ever!
Come here, you beautiful man!
[several kisses]
And . . .
[gasp]
Look at me!
[overwhelmed] Look at this dress!
[holding back tears] It’s more beautiful than anything I ever dreamed of!
Nobody in the old world could ever have made anything like it!
I couldn’t even have imagined it.
[joyous] For the first time in my life . . . I’m a real princess.
[gasp] And you!
Your restaurant!
Now we can get you that building they wouldn’t sell you!
We can make your dream come true!
[pause]
Oh, no no no. None of that!
[firmly] They have to sell it to you now.
You saved Big Daddy La Bouffe from being murdered.
Not to mention all of New Orleans from being sold into demonic rule.
To that monster and his “friends on the other side.”
[shuddering, disgusted] Uuuuugh!
[pause]
The city may not know that you saved it . . . but the La Bouffes do.
Honey, if Big Daddy La Bouffe tells those bankers to sell, they’ll sell!
And just in case . . .
[playful] Hey Louie!
We’re headed to town. Why don’t you come along?
[pause]
And sharpen those teeth of yours!