After he leaves two eels, Flotsam (Khari Neal) and Jetsam (Liam Bulkowski) convince Ariel to visit Ursula (Emily Diener), the sea witch. He then confronts Ariel, and destroys the artifacts she has collected. Seeing something strange in Ariel's behavior, King Triton questions Sebastian about it and learns of her love for Eric, a human. Fascinated by the memory of her voice, Eric vows to find the girl who saved and sang to him, and Ariel vows to find a way to join him and his world. She sings to him, but immediately leaves as he starts to wake up to avoid being discovered. Shortly after a violent storm arrives, wrecks the ship and tosses Eric overboard, Ariel rescues him and brings him to shore. Prince Eric's (Adrian Almas) ship and she instantly falls in love with him. One night while on the surface, Ariel, Flounder, and Sebastian observe

With her best friend, Flounder (Joey Collins), she collects human artifacts for a shrine in a cave, where she sings and longs to be 'Part of Your World.' She often go goes to the surface of the ocean to visit Scuttle (Trevor Straub), a seagull, who offers very inaccurate knowledge of human culture, ignoring the warnings of her father, King Triton (Jeff Kemperman), and Sebastian (Titus Hankins), a crab, who is Triton's adviser and court composer, that contact between mermaids and humans is forbidden. Grand Rapids Civic Theatre, one of the largest and oldest community theaters in the nation, is proud to present Disney's The Little Mermaid, which opens this weekend and runs through December 16th in Grand Rapids.Īriel (Mary Lehmann), a sixteen-year-old mermaid princess, is dissatisfied with underwater life in the kingdom of Atlantica and is fascinated by the human world.

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