School Concert 20XX

Synopsis

A cruel and selfish prince is visited in a castle by an enchantress disguised as a beggar woman, who offers him an enchanted rose in exchange for shelter from a storm. When he refuses, she reveals her identity and transforms the prince into a beast and his servants into household objects. She warns the prince that the spell will only be broken if he learns to love another and be loved in return before the last petal falls, or he will remain a beast forever.

Several years later, in a nearby village, Belle, the book-loving daughter of an eccentric inventor named Maurice, dreams of adventure. She frequently tries avoiding Gaston, a narcissistic hunter who wants to marry her because of her beauty. En route to a fair to showcase his latest invention, Maurice gets lost in the forest and seeks refuge in the Beast's castle; There, the Beast finds Maurice and imprisons him for trespassing. When Maurice's horse returns alone, Belle ventures out searching for her father, finding him locked in the castle dungeon. Belle agrees to take Maurice's place as the Beast's prisoner in exchange for her father's freedom.

Belle befriends the castle's servants who prepare her dinner welcoming her to the magical castle. When she wanders into the forbidden west wing and finds the rose, the Beast catches her and angrily forces her to flee the castle. In the woods, she is ambushed by a pack of wolves. Showing unexpected kindness and bravery, the Beast rescues her, and is injured in the process. As Belle nurses his injuries, a rapport develops between them. Perhaps the Beast is capable of showing love afterall.

Meanwhile, Maurice returns to the village and fails to convince the townsfolk of Belle's predicament. Hearing Maurice's statements about the Beast, Gaston hatches a plan: He bribes Monsieur D'Arque, the warden of the town's insane asylum, to have Maurice locked up as a lunatic. Gaston will use this to force Belle into marrying him in exchange for Maurice's release. Before they can act, however, Maurice leaves for the castle to attempt a rescue alone.

Belle uses the Beast's magic mirror to check on her father and sees him collapsing in the woods. The Beast releases her to save Maurice, giving her the mirror as a memento. After Belle takes her father to the village, a band of villagers led by Gaston arrives to detain Maurice. Belle uses the mirror to show the Beast to the townsfolk, proving her father's sanity. Realizing that Belle loves the Beast, a jealous and outraged Gaston rallies the villagers to help him slay the Beast.

When the villagers arrive at the castle, the Beast's servants fend them off. Meanwhile, Gaston attacks the Beast. The Beast defeats Gaston but spares his life before reuniting with Belle. However, Gaston fatally stabs the Beast before losing his footing and falling to his death. The Beast dies in Belle's arms before the last petal falls. Belle tearfully professes her love to the Beast, and the spell is undone, reviving the Beast and restoring his human form along with his servants and castle. The Prince and Belle host a ball for the kingdom, where they dance and live happily ever after. The End.

Featured Songs

#2 Prologue

A cruel and selfish prince is visited in a castle by an enchantress disguised as a beggar woman, who offers him an enchanted rose in exchange for shelter from a storm. When he refuses, she reveals her identity and transforms the prince into a beast and his servants into household objects. She warns the prince that the spell will only be broken if he learns to love another and be loved in return before the last petal falls, or he will remain a beast forever.

#3 Belle

We meet Belle, who loves to read books and dream of visiting exciting places far away from the sleepy town in which she lives with her father. Belle and her father, an inventor, are considered odd by the townsfolk for their imagination and eccentricity.

#8 Home

On the way to show his latest invention at the fair, Belle's father strays on to the enchanted castle grounds, where he is imprisoned by the heartless Beast for trespassing. Belle arrives to rescue her father, but the Beast will release him only in exchange for Belle's freedom. Seeing no other way to save her father, Belle reluctantly agrees, dreaming and singing of her home in the sleepy town she now longs for. 

#11 Be Our Guest

The castle residents, imprisoned alongside Belle by the Enchantress's curse, have only one hope to break the spell and set themselves free. They must welcome Belle to the castle, and teach the Beast how to show kindness towards her. They begin by preparing for Belle the most delicious and delightful welcome dinner.

#12 If I Can't Love

Sung by the Beast, he knows that only he can break the spell and set the castle and its residents free. But after living for so many years as a monster, alone in his castle lair, the Beast wonders if he can ever learn to show kindness and, given his repulsive form, ever receive kindness in return.

#16 Human Again

With each day that passes, the Enchantess's spell on the castle residents becomes stronger: little by little they lose their human features and become more like objects - a candelabra, a clock, a teapot... The castle residents dream of years past when they were human, and of the day to come when the spell will be broken and they will be set free. Now Belle has brought new hope: if, by showing kindness to Belle, the Beast breaks the spell, the castle residents' dreams will come true and they will be human again.

#17 Beauty and the Beast

And so, despite his many bad tempered and lonely years in the castle, the Beast learns to show kindness towards Belle. But when Belle learns that her father is in trouble, lost in the woods, she knows she must help him. Changed by their time together, the Beast sees that he must now show his greatest act of kindness: to release Belle from the castle and let her go.

#22 Transformation

The villagers learn that Belle has been staying at the castle, and falsely imagine the terrible cruelty shown to her by the Beast. Armed with the excuse they have been waiting for, and ignorant to Belle's protestations, the villagers form a mob to hunt and kill the Beast. As they descend on the castle and attack, the Beast fights valliantly, but he is mortally injured. Now it is Belle's turn to show great kindness: bravely placing herself in front of the angry mob, she defends the Beast and tends his wounds. With these acts of kindness, the spell is finally broken: the castle is restored, the residents made human again, and the Beast is healed and transformed, becoming a now much kinder and wiser handsome prince.