JASMINE, SULTAN, JAFAR, IAGO
SULTAN: jasmine!!! Jasmine!!
JASMINE: oh father. I was just testing his sense of humor!
SULTAN: (losing patience) jasmine….
JASMINE: he scored very low, in case you’re interested
SULTAN: jasmine! You can’t keep rejecting every suitor that comes to call! The law says you must be married to a prince by your next birthday.
JASMINE: the law is wrong
SULTAN: you’ve only got three more days!
JASMINE: father, I hate being forced into this. If I do marry I want it to be for love
SULTAN: Oh jasmine, really…
JASMINE: please try to understand. I’ve never done a thing on my own. I’ve never even been outside the palace walls.
SULTAN: dearest, you’re a princess…
JASMINE: then maybe I don’t want to be a princess anymore! (jasmine storms out)
SULTAN: argh! (jafar sneaks up behind the sultan) ahhhh! Oh jafar, it’s you, my most trusted advisor. I am in need of your wisdom.
JAFAR: my life is but to serve you my lord
SULTAN: it’s this suitor business. Jasmine simply refuses to choose a husband. I don’t know where she gets it from. Her mother wasn’t nearly so picky. I’m at my wits end.
IAGO: bwak! Wits end!
SULTAN: awww pretty polly want a cracker? (shoves a cracker in iago’s mouth)
JAFAR: oh your majesty, you certainly have a way with dumb animals! And about this
“suitor business” i wouldn’t worry your big, royal head about it. I can find a solution to this phony problem but it may take getting a little creative, after all, desperate times call for desperate measures.
SULTAN: but we only have three days!!!
JAFAR: your majesty seems to be getting a tad fussy. Is it passed nap time?

SULTAN: oh my! Well… i lose track of time you know…
JAFAR: yes, and the stress wears you o ut so fast. Now… here’s your little buddy (hands the sultan a ragged and well loved stuffed animal tiger)
IAGO: bwak! Little buddy!
SULTAN: awww! My little raja! I can’t sleep without my little buddy.
JAFAR: run along and take your little nappy poo! (sultan exits)
IAGO: i can’t take it anymore! If i have to choke down another one of those moldy, disgusting, gluten-free crackers… bam! Whack!
JAFAR: calm yourself iago. Tomorrow we will to comb the streets of agrabah in search of this “diamond in the rough”. Once we find him… all we wish for will be ours.
IAGO: that’s what i’m talkin about!
JAFAR: soon i will be sultan and not that half witted twit.
IAGO: and then i’ll shove the crackers down his throat! (both laugh maniacally and exit)
JASMINE, ALADDIN, ABU
SHOPKEEPER 2 FRESH FISH! We catch ‘em, you buy ‘em
JASMINE: Oh no thank you. There’s no fish aloud in the palace, my father’s allergic.
ALADDIN: Wow… Abu… who is that? (ABU makes a “how should I know sound and gesture)
SHOPKEEPER 2: The Palace?
JASMINE: Ooooo did I say Palace? I meant… ummm… my place… there are not fish aloud at MY PLACE… (awkwardly laughing) Ha, ha, ha… PALACE! Why would I say PALACE??
It’s not like I’m a princess sneaking out of the palace trying to see what it would be like to be a regular person or something
SHOPKEEPER 2: ….a princess?
JASMINE: A PRINCESS?! No, no… I’m NOT a princess. Just your normal, everyday peasant woman window shopping, you know… totally normal peasant. NOT A PRINCESS.
(turns and walks away qui ckly) That was close…

SHOPKEEPER 3 (To Jasmine) Would you like to buy a necklace? Pretty necklace for a pretty lady. It will make you feel like a princess
JASMINE: NO I’M NOT! I mean… oh! You’re too kind (aside) that was Way too close. Get it together Jasmine!
ALADDIN: Well hello there normal, everyday peasant woman. Find any windows?
JASMINE: What?
ALADDIN: oh… uhhh … you said you were “window” shopping… little joke. Just testing your sense of humor
JASMINE: Oh! Window shopping! “Find any windows”…. That’s clever
ALADDIN: Well as a normal, everyday peasant boy myself, having a sense of humor seems to be the only thing I can afford. (they both laugh) You’re not from around here are you?
JASMINE: What? Of course I…. is it that obvious?
ALADDIN: Well… You do stand out…. (ABU sees the flirting and makes an “Oh brother” sound and gesture, they all start wandering from shop to shop while talking)
JASMINE: I thought I was doing pretty good blending in… (Both Aladdin and Abu start to laugh)…no? Well I guess the jig is up. I’m not from around here and I’ve never even been in a market place.
ALADDIN: (he and ABU stop) Never? (this is suspicious. Everyone goes to the market place, even peasants and beggars)
JASMINE: I mean… THIS market place. I’ve never been to THIS market place. (they all start walking again.)
ALADDIN: Well, if you need someone to show you around… I mean, I know these streets pretty well. They’re my home.
JASMINE: You… live on the streets? (they run into a Peasant woman/villager who is always very kind to ALADDIN)
VILLAGER: Ohhhh don’t let that fool you sweetheart. This boy here is a good boy. Meant for great things. He’s a diamond in the rough. (JAFAR AND IAGO HAVE FOUND THEIR
DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH AND DECIDE A PLAN) He’ll be living in the palace someday, mark my words. (ABU makes a little scene not wanting to be left out) You too ABU. You’ll both be in the palace someday. (she pats abu on the head. He is happy and satisfied with her response)
ALADDIN: Ahhhh, thanks Sangita. The palace….

JASMINE: Oh. The palace. Yeah.
ALADDIN: I wonder what it would be like to live there? To have servants and valets.
JASMINE: Sure. People who tell you where to go and how to dress and who to marry…
ALADDIN: That’s better than here. You’re always scraping for food and ducking the guards.
JASMINE: You’re not free to make your own choices…
ALADDIN: Sometimes you feel so
JASMINE: You’re just so…
TOGETHER : Trapped (they have a moment)
IAGO, JAFAR
IAGO: Writing a letter to your mother?
JAFAR: (sarcastic) no I’m working on my penmanship.
IAGO: Oh good. I always thought it could use a little finessing. (JAFAR shoots him a withering glance) Looks like one very old, very important, very ROYAL document.
JAFAR: With a nice new paragraph I just added. Listen to this: “Should an unmarried Royal
Princess, who is sole heir to the throne, fail to choose a husband within the time allotted for such a selection, the Sultan’s highest –ranking official—“
IAGO: That would be you.
JAFAR: Let me finish! (continuing) “…the Sultan’s highest-ranking official” –that would be me- “will immediately become betrothed to the princess and will himself inherit all the rights, privileges, and powers of the sultan.”
IAGO: So now all we gotta do is make sure she doesn’t fall for anybody before tomorrow.
JAFAR:
Oh I think it’s too late for that.
IAGO: What??
JAFAR: I think our princess has fallen deeply and madly in-love with someone within these very palace walls…
IAGO: (taking a moment to think and then it hits him) …..MEEEE????

JAFAR: What? No!
IAGO: I a lways thought there was a certain spark in her eyes whenever she’d glare at me…
JAFAR: Oh good heavens…
IAGO: (Decidedly) I’ll do it Jafar. I’ll marry the princess and be sultan and I promise, you can be my right hand bird and
JAFAR: NOT YOU, you featherbrained tweety bird! The street rat! Our “diamond in the rough” who is sitting in our palace dungeon as we speak. And he was obviously smitten with her. Fortunately for us, the princess couldn’t marry him even if she wanted to.
IAGO: Yeah, diamond or not, he’s certainly no prince. Although he is quite charming…
JAFAR:
Oh shut up! AS I was saying… she couldn’t marry him even if she wanted to. But
HE doesn’t know that….
IAGO: Go on…
JAFAR: I think it’s time we pay a little visit to our incarcerated friend and offer him a deal.
Say a princess bride and a life of luxury in the palace in exchange for say….a trip to a cave in the desert?
IAGO: I LOVE IT!
GENIE, ALADDIN, ABU
GENIE: HE SPEAKS! It’s a miracle! Hopefully he knows more words or this is gonna be a liiiiiiiittle tricky, but it’s a start. “ALADDIN”. Ok, Al, this is gonna be a SNAP! Oh, forgive me, may I call you “Al?” (Doesn’t wait for a response) You know, Al, you’re a lot smaller than my last master. Either that, or I’m getting bigger. What do you think (goes to Abu) Do these
Harem pants make me look fat? (Abu looks and considers while Aladdin realizes what he’s heard genie say)
ALADDIN: Wait a minute- I’m…. your… MASTER?
GENIE: Well look who finally had his morning coffee! Hello?
I’m a genie? Sheesh, where did you grow up kid, under a rock?? (ALADDIN makes a face that he’s not too far off.) Not that there’s anything wrong with that, I’m sure the rocks in Agrabah are just lovely this time of year, am I right monkey man? (high fives Abu)
ALADDIN:
So… do you… I mean… do I get to make a wish and everything?
GENIE: No, I teach you how to make balloon animals. YES you get a wish. Three to be exact. Don’t even bother wishing for more wishes. It doesn’t work like that. You get three.
Uno, dos, tres, THREE! So let’s have it kid! You’re the boss! This is your lucky day. ALL your dreams are coming true!

ALADDIN: This cave air must be very thin… I’m hallucinating…
GENIE: MAST
ER! Let me explain…. Maestro? What key are we in? (a bell tone sounds.
Aladdin and Abu are completely bewildered) We’re in a musical aren’t we??
GENIE:
So what’s it going to be master?
ALADDIN: This is perfect! This is amazing! I know EXACTLY what I want ! There’s this incredible girl, see, she’s beautiful and perfect and…
GENIE: BEEEEEP! TIME OUT! Hey, hi there, hello, two seconds here… I gotta tell you the rules.
ALADDIN: (looking at abu and genie) …rules? What rules?
GENIE:
Three wishes, three rules. ONE: I can’t kill anybody. TWO: I can’t bring anyone back from the dead. It’s not a pretty picture! Annnnnnd THREE: I can’t make anyone fall in love with anybody.
ALADDIN: Why not?
GENIE:
I don’t make the rules, I just have to follow them. So forget the girl already!
Fuhgeddaboudit!
ALADDIN: (looks at Abu and think they can use this to their advantage) Rules? Limitations?
On Wishes? Some “all powerful” genie. Can’t bring people back from the dead. Can’t do this… Can’t do THAT….
GENIE: (to the audience) Can you believe this guy??
ALADDIN:
He probably couldn’t even get us out of this cave.
GENIE: WHAT??
ALADDIN:
C’mon Abu. Looks like we’re going to have to find our own way out.
GENIE: Woah, woah, WOAH! Excuse me? Psh- Are you lookin’ at me? Did you rub my lamp? Did you wake me up? Did you bring me here and all of the sudden you’re walkin’ out on me? I don’t think so. Not right now. You’re getting your wishes so SIT DOWN! (Whistles as if hailing a cab, a magic c arpet enters and comes to a stop by Aladdin and Abu) Can’t do this, can’t do that (mimicking Aladdin) “Can’t even get us out of this cave, we’ll have to do it ourselves” Well I’ll show YOU and your hairy little friend how wishes get granted around here.
ALADDIN: Is this a magic carpet?

GENIE: Pretty impressive huh? Now sit down and scoot over why don’t you? All right, in case of emergency the exits are here, here, here, here, here, here, here, ANYWHERE!
Keep your hands and arms inside the carpet because w e… are… OUT OF HERE!!!!