Beauty and the Beast
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Productions
1994 Houston Tryout 1994 Broadway 1995 1st US National Tour International productions 1995 Australia 1997 West End 1998 Argentina 1998 Mexico 1999 2nd US National Tour 1999 Spain 2001 UK National Tour 2001 3rd US National Tour 2002 Brazil 2007 Final Broadway performance 2008 South Africa 2008 Mexico Revival 2008 Gdynia (Poland) 2009 Brazil 2001 3rd US National Tour 2010 Argentina 2010 4th USA tour 2011 First Mexico Tour 2012 2nd Spain Tour 2013 5th USA tour 2013 1st France production 2014 6th USA tour 2014 Canadian tour |
Awards
1994 Tony Award for Best Costume Design
1998 Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Musical
1998 Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Musical
Beauty and the Beast is a musical with music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Howard Ashman and Tim Rice and a book by Linda Woolverton. It is based upon the 1991 Disney film of the same name. Seven new songs were written for the stage musical. Beauty ran on Broadway for 5,461 performances between 1994 and 2007, becoming Broadway's eighth longest-running production in history.
The musical has grossed more than $1.4 billion worldwide and played in thirteen countries and 115 cities. It has also become a popular choice for high school productions. In 2019 Thomas Schumacher revealed that 'Beauty and the Beast' would return to Broadway.[1]
Background
Story
The story follows a young prince who falls under a curse by an Enchantress, as punishment for his selfishness and cruelty. Now a hideous beast, the prince must learn to love and earn their love in return, before the last petal of an Enchanted Rose falls. Should he fail, he would be doomed to remain a beast for all time.
Productions
Beauty and the Beast premiered in a joint production of Theatre Under The Stars and Disney Theatricals at the Music Hall, Houston, Texas, from November 28, 1993, through December 26, 1993.
The musical opened on Broadway at the Palace Theatre on April 18, 1994 and ran there until September 5, 1999, transferring to the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on November 11, 1999, with an official opening date of November 16, 1999. The musical closed on July 29, 2007 after 46 previews and 5,464 performances, and is Broadway's eighth-longest running production in history (As of August 2011). The production holds the record of being the longest running production at both the Palace Theatre, where it opened, and the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, where it closed its Broadway run.
The Broadway production closed to make way for Disney's next musical venture, The Little Mermaid. With Disney set to open its Broadway version of The Little Mermaid on November 3, 2007 at the time, it was believed that having two Disney film of the same style I.E. Princesses on Broadway at the same time would divide audiences and cause competition between the two shows. At this point, Disney also had three other shows running at the same time: The Lion King, Tarzan, and Mary Poppins.
The West End production opened at London's Dominion Theatre on April 29, 1997 and closed on December 11, 1999. It won the Olivier Award as Best New Musical for 1998.
Broadway Revival
On April 24, 2019 Disney Theatrical Productions announced that they're going to bring 'Beauty and the Beast' back to Broadway. Theatre and dates have not been announced.[2]
Cast
Production | Beast | Belle | Gaston | Lumière | Cogsworth | Mrs. Potts | Chip | Maurice | LeFou | Madame de la Grande Bouche | Babette | Monsieur D'Arque |
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Original Broadway cast | Terrence Mann | Susan Egan | Burke Moses | Gary Beach | Heath Lamberts | Beth Fowler | Brian Press | Tom Bosley | Kenny Raskin | Eleanor Glockner | Stacey Logan | Gordon Stanley |
Variations from the 1991 film
Characters
- The three town Bimbettes (or Silly Girls as they're called in the musical) plead Gaston to choose one of them over Belle on his way to her cottage; he smugly assures them that his marriage to Belle will have no effect on any future rendezvous he will most likely have with them, meaning that he would not be a very faithful husband to Belle and would cheat on her constantly with the other women of the village. The Bimbettes also have more dialogue and an expanded role than in the film (including wailing and crying like infants before Me even begins), including actually witnessing and even partaking in the mocking of Maurice's claims about the Beast holding Belle prisoner, though they still don't appear during The Mob Song. In addition, they are implied to not be waitresses in this version due to being dismissed from the tavern alongside everyone else except LeFou in the reprise. In addition, their witnessing (and reacting angrily) to Belle's initial refusal towards Gaston was cut, presumably in order to avoid any implications that they might have supported Belle going with Gaston, and they are also shown to be gossiping about Belle in the opening song, when in the film, they only comment on Gaston passing by.
- In addition, in the musical, the Silly Girls are depicted in a more garish light in terms of physical appearances instead of being extremely attractive in the film. This was presumably done in order to further highlight Belle's status as the most beautiful woman in the village.
- Philippe the horse is removed from the story. Instead, Belle knits Maurice a scarf for good luck for his trip to the inventors’ fair. After he becomes prisoner of The Beast, the scarf is found in the woods by LeFou- having been sent there by Gaston to fetch a deer for the feast after his presumed marriage to Belle- and worn back to town (not knowing who it belongs to), thereby alerting Belle to her father’s disappearance. She heads into the woods on foot.
- The Feather Duster's name is Babette. In the film, it never says her name just like the wardrobe.
- The Wardrobe in Belle’s room (unnamed in the Disney film) is called Madame de la Grande Bouche and revealed to be a former famous opera diva, something that had previously only been alluded to in the Marvel Comic serial's second and twelfth issue.
- The dog-turned-footstool of the castle is not present in this version.
- Chip the teacup, though present, has his role greatly diminished due to the difficulty of pulling off his character convincingly. The head of his actor is usually stuck through the tops of tables and rolling carts wearing a teacup-shaped helmet. He is not seen individually mobile until after the spell is broken and he is human again.
Plot points
- In the film prologue it is stated that the enchanted rose 'would bloom until [the Beast's] 21st year.' In the stage adaptation this is changed to an unspecified 'many years.'
- Prior to the reprise, all of the villagers, except LeFou and Gaston, are dismissed from the tavern shortly before the reprise, while in the film, everyone in the tavern heard the plan Gaston had, or at least enough details about it to deduce what he was planning. This was presumably done to avoid any implications that the villagers were all in the know about Gaston's plan of blackmail and supporting him. In addition, the reprise itself featured expanded lyrics making more clear that Gaston was fully aware of the dirtiness of his plan and has no remorse whatsoever in carrying it out. As a result, Gaston and LeFou sing the final lyrics of the reprise instead of the chorus.
- The magic behind the transformations is slightly modified: Instead of being fully transformed (as shown in the movie), the characters are slowly transforming into their respective objects. Lumiere, Cogsworth, Mrs. Potts, and Babette the Feather Duster lament this fact, revealing that some of the servants have already completely transformed and cannot speak, see, or move; they fear the same will happen to them if the spell is not broken soon, such as Cogsworth gaining a key in his back as the storyline unfolds. In addition, the original film originally implied that the curse's effects were instantaneous for all involved.
- As Lumiere and Cogsworth take Belle on a tour (right before she sneaks off to explore the West Wing), the Beast makes his way to her room with a plate of food in hopes of making amends with her. However, he overhears Belle voicing her distaste of him, and throws the plate away in anger and sulks off.
- A scene only briefly seen in the background in the film is expanded upon, where Belle teaches the Beast to read. Additionally, the book they read in the film is Romeo & Juliet while in the musical it is King Arthur.
- During 'The Mob Song', Belle and Maurice are not imprisoned in their own basement; instead they decide to get a head start on the angry villagers and sneak off to the castle halfway through the musical number.
- Gaston repeatedly stabs Beast in the back rather than only once before losing his balance.
- After the Beast gets stabbed and Gaston loses his balance, the Beast is seen trying to rush and help him before he falls of the roof.
- After the spell is broken, Cogsworth and Madame de la Grande Bouche appear to have a romantic connection.
- In the Spanish version, only 'Beauty and the Beast ' keep exactly like in the film, the other songs were slightly modified (some words were different).
Broadway
Act I
- Overture* — Orchestra
- Prologue — Orchestra
- Belle — Belle and Townsfolk
- No Matter What*# - Maurice and Belle
- No Matter What [Reprise]*#/Wolf Chase* — Maurice
- Me*# — Gaston
- Belle (Reprise) — Belle
- Home* — Belle
- Home (Tag)* — Mrs. Potts / Madame de la Grande Bouche (Jr. Broadway)
- Gaston† — Gaston, Lefou and townsfolk
- Gaston (Reprise)† — Gaston and Lefou
- How Long Must This Go On?*# — Beast
- Be Our Guest† — Lumiere and Enchanted Objects (Ensemble)
- If I Can't Love Her*# — Beast
Act II
- Entr'acte/Wolf Chase* — Orchestra
- Something There — Belle, Beast, Lumiere, Mrs. Potts, Cogsworth, and Chip
- Human Again‡ — Lumiere and Enchanted Objects (Ensemble)
- Maison des Lunes# - Monsieur D'Arque, Gaston and Lefou
- Beauty and the Beast — Mrs. Potts
- If I Can't Love Her (Reprise)*# — Beast
- A Change in Me# — Belle
- The Mob Song — Gaston and the Mob
- The Battle* - The Mob and Enchanted Objects
- Home (Reprise)* — Belle
- Transformation* — The Company
- Finale — The Company
* New song or instrumental cue
† Expanded vocal or instrumental content, using either cut lyrics by Ashman or dance arrangements by Glen Kelly, or both.
‡ 'Human Again' was written by Menken and Ashman for the movie, but was cut, due to the complications it made on the film's timeline. It was repurposed for the Broadway play, and on account of the musical's great success, an entirely new animated sequence based on the Broadway version was set to this song and inserted into 2002's Special Edition DVD release.
§ 'A Change in Me' was written into the show in 1998 and was retained thereafter.
# not in the Junior Broadway show.
† 'No Matter What' was not included in the Broadway tour.
Gallery
References
- ↑Disney Theatrical Productions will revisit the show that kicked off Disney’s reign on Broadway 25 years ago
- ↑Disney's Beauty and the Beast Is Getting a Broadway Revival
External links
- Beauty and the Beast at Internet Broadway Database
- Beauty and the Beast on Disney Musical Wiki
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It’s the Jewish “Shuffle Along.” Paula Vogel takes a forgotten but seminal work, Sholem Asch’s “The God of Vengeance,” and tells the backstory of its incredible journey in her new play, “Indecent,” which opened on Tuesday nearly a year after its premiere at Off Broadway’s Vineyard Theatre with much of the same cast.
Last season on Broadway, director George C. Wolfe resurrected a hit 1921 musical, “Shuffle Along,” giving a rich behind-the-scenes history of its African American creative team but little of the original plot.
Vogel gives us much of Asch’s plot in her new play, and what a story it is! “The God of Vengeance,” which bombed the year after “Shuffle Along” opened, featured a story so controversial that its producer and cast were found guilty of giving immoral performances.
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A respected Jewish businessman keeps a brothel in the basement of his home. His wife is an ex-hooker, and the two set out to prevent their daughter from learning the sordid truth. Instead, she falls in love with one of the female prostitutes, and the play ends with dad hurling the Torah at her.
This is Broadway circa 1922?
The story, as told by Vogel, gets better. “The God of Vengeance” actually had its world premiere in 1907 in Berlin, and after traveling throughout Europe it opened in New York City in a Yiddish theater on the lower East Side. There were no censorship problems even when it was translated into English and played the historic Provincetown Theater in Greenwich Village in 1918. Only when it went to Broadway did the censors descend.
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Actually, the producer self-censored the play prior to Broadway, excising the famous “rain” scene in which the daughter and the prostitute make love. Before Broadway, the women’s relationship was celebrated. After the cuts were made, the prostitute became an evil seducer of the young girl.
I’m a total sucker for plays, movies and books about little known events that completely shake up our sense of history. Four black guys wrote a successful Broadway musical in 1921? Lesbian love was glorified in a popular Yiddish play in the early 20th century?
Vogel tells her complicated, sprawling story with urgent economy. She uses the rain scene, enacted by Katrina Lenk and Adina Verson, as a leitmotiv. The words remain the same (and they’re pretty graphic), but the meaning keeps changing, growing. The hurling of the Torah by the father (Tom Nelis) is also repeated often.
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With a title like “The God of Vengeance,” you might think you’re in for a real night of penance at the theater. On the contrary. Under Rebecca Taichman’s dazzling direction, much humor is exposed, especially with the repeated hurling of that Torah. Also, Vogel nicely details the personalities within the Yiddish troupe. They’re a seasoned, worldly bunch (Mimi Lieber as the actress playing the ex-prostitute mom is especially droll), and their various reactions to the charges of indecency and anti-Semitism run the gamut.
Vogel and Raichman (they take co-creator credit) weave a very eclectic score into the fabric of “Indecent.” Much of it is original, by Lisa Gutkin and Aaron Halva. But there are also show tunes and pop songs of the period and choreography by David Dorfman. “Indecent” is practically a musical.
At the center of Vogel’s play, but often in the wings, is Asch (Max Gordon Moore, Tom Nelis). Vogel wisely makes him an enigma, as all great artists must be. He wrote “The God of Vengeance,” but despite its great success he gave up the theater to write novels and essays.
He didn’t appear to have much interest in what happened to his play, even when it came to the infamous cuts for Broadway. He later prevented “The God of Vengeance” from being performed, making both Asch and Vogel’s play about him utterly fascinating.
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