3a. Beauty’s Cottage (Beauty Comforts Father/Lullabye) MET2’s Beauty and the Beast (An Original Musical Adaptation) (Ft. Beauty, Father, Ghost of Mother & Young Beauty)

(While BEAUTY is downstage, a scrim flies in, and we leave the MARKETPLACE. We are in the INTERIOR OF BEAUTY’S COTTAGE. Beauty’s FATHER enters downstage. He carries a candle.)

FATHER: (spoken)
Beauty! My dear, what’s the matter? It was only a nightmare. It was nothing.

BEAUTY:
Oh Papa. I’m sorry I woke you. I’ve been having the strangest dreams lately. I dreamt about a group of traveling players and one of them told my fortune. We were back in the marketplace and my sisters and I wеre wandering through the shops. Likе we used to, remember? We used to buy perfume and books and sweets and pretty things. And flowers. Oh, how I miss the flowers. Do you remember how Mother used to fill the house with beautiful roses every Sunday?

FATHER:
Of course I remember, Beauty. How could I forget? But things were different then. Your mother was alive, and I was a wealthy man with a fleet of ships. Fortune destroyed that life for us all. I lost everything.

BEAUTY:
But you still have your children. And we all love you very much. Papa, I know it was hard on you to sell everything and move to the country, but things will be fine again, you’ll see.

BEAUTY COMFORTS FATHER / LULLABYE

BEAUTY: (singing)
FATHER DON’T WORRY,
YOU MUSTN’T BE ANXIOUS.
OH FATHER, IT SEEMS YOU’RE THE ONE WHO NEEDS COMFORTING.
FATHER I WISH I COULD COMFORT LIKE MOTHER COULD.
FATHER, FATHER

BEAUTY, & (FATHER):
AGES IT’S BEEN SINCE I
SAW YOU CRY (BEAUTY,)
(BEAUTY,)