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Master of ceremonies: Ladies and gentlemen! Our princess is sixteen today. There will be a ball in her honour at the Palace. Welcome to the ball! (Goes out.)
Aurora (enters the room with Melissa): So, my dear Melissa, he is the most handsome young man I’ve ever seen.
Melissa: Really? What’s his name.
Aurora: Prince Aubrey. That’s him. (Shows his portrait to Melissa.)
Melissa (thoughtfully): Very handsome, indeed.
King (comes in with the Queen): Is our dear daughter ready for the ball?
Aurora: Yes, father.
Queen: Many happy returns of the day, Aurora.
Aurora: Thank you, mother.
King: Who is this pretty girl?
Aurora: My gentlewoman, Lady Melissa.
Melissa (makes a curtsey): How do you do, Your Majesty?
King: Charming, she is really very charming.
Queen: Stuff and nonsense! She’s just a child.
King: But a lovely child.
Master of ceremonies (enters): Excuse me, Your Majesties, it’s time to begin the ball. All your guests have arrived.
King: Yes, of course. (To the Queen.) I think, our daughter is old enough to dance. (To Aurora.) Who is your partner, dear?
Aurora: Prince Aubrey, Daddy.
Queen: He is a pleasant young man with excellent manners.
SCENE II
A ball-room in the King’s Palace. Everybody’s dancing.
King (to the Queen): Have a short rest, my dear wife. You are too pale.
Queen: No, I…
King (to Melissa): May I invite you to the next dance?
Melissa: But Her Majesty…
King: She is tired. Her age is beginning to tell on her.
Melissa: And what about your age, my lord?
King: You shouldn’t make personal remarks. It’s not polite.
Melissa: Please, forgive me, Your Majesty.
Aurora (to prince Aubrey): Why are you constantly looking at my gentlewoman?
Prince Aubrey (stops dancing and comes up to Melissa): What’s your name?
Melissa: Melissa.
Prince Aubrey: I’m Prince Aubrey. Will you marry me, Melissa?
Aurora: What did you say?
Melissa: Of course, I will. (Lets him his her.)
Aurora: Stop it! Just stop it! Don’t you remember? I am your bride! You must marry me! (to Melissa) He is mine!
Melissa: No, mine
Aurora: Why on earth?
Melissa: Because I love him.
Aurora: But I love him too.
Wicked Fairy (in disguise): What’s the trouble, ladies?
Aurora: We are both in love with Prince Aubrey. I’m his bride, but Melissa is going to marry him.
Wicked Fairy: I can settle everything. The best singer will be the prince’s wife.
Aurora: I’ll sing the first. (Sings).
Melissa: It’s my turn now. (Sings).
Everybody: Both of them are very good at singing.
Wicked Fairy: The best dancer will marry the prince.
(Aurora and Melissa dance.)
Everybody: We can’t say who is better.
Wicked Fairy: I know now! The best spinner will become the prince’s wife. (She gives Aurora a spindle.)
Aurora: What is it? Such a funny thing.
Wicked Fairy: It’s a spindle.
King (worried): Don’t touch it, my daughter!
Queen (frightened): Throw it away, Aurora!
Aurora: Oh! I pricked my finger with this spindle.
King: Let me have a look at it.
Aurora: How strange! I’m so sleepy. I want to go to bed. (Falls asleep.)
Wicked Fairy: Ha-ha-ha! She pricked her finger with the spindle and fell down dead!
Queen (recognizes her): Wicked Fairy! Our child is lost!
King: Aurora, my girl! She is dead!
Good Fairy (appears in a blaze of light): Don’t give way to tears. Your daughter is not dead. She is sleeping. She’s fallen into a sleep lasting a hundred years.
King: Oh, thank you, Good Fairy.
Queen: You’re so kind.
Good Fairy: And now, sleep! Sleep! Let this sleep spread through the whole Palace. Sleep, King and Queen. Sleep, ladies and gentlemen. Sleep, servants. Sleep, horses in the stables, hounds in the courtyard, doves upon the roof. Sleep, fire on the hearth. Sleep, trees in the garden. Sleep, wind outside the door.
(Everybody falls asleep.)
Prince Aubrey: Wait a moment, Good Fairy! We don’t want to fall into a sleep. We love each other and are going to be married.
Good Fairy: I know. Go back home and be happy.
Prince Aubrey and Melissa (together): Thank you, Good Fairy! (They go away.)
Good Fairy: And now, everyone and everything in the kingdom, sleep, sleep, sleep…
SCENE III
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