'Beauty and the Beast' hits regional theatres....

[broadwayguy2]

Posted: 7/2/04 at 4:41am

here is some info on current regional theatre productions of Beauty and the Beast.

North Shore's production stars Nikki Renee Daniels as Belle and the site has a photo of her in Belle's blue dress..

http://www.nsmt.org/calendar/showdetailpage.cfm?id_show=6657072

Cumberland>http://www.nsmt.org/calendar/showdetailpage.cfm?id_show=6657072>http://www.nsmt.org/calendar/showdetailpage.cfm?id_show=6657072

Cumberland County Playhouse's staging recently opened and here is an article about it with a picture of Belle and the Beast ::

http://www.tennessean.com/entertainment/arts/archives/04/06/52744473.shtml

Cumberland's>http://www.tennessean.com/entertainment/arts/archives/04/06/52744473.shtml>http://www.tennessean.com/entertainment/arts/archives/04/06/52744473.shtml

Cumberland's website is at http://www.ccplayhouse.comhttp://www.ccplayhouse.com>http://www.ccplayhouse.com Updated On: 7/7/04 at 04:41 AM

[BWayBoy88]

Posted: 7/2/04 at 2:01pm

If anyone sees one of these shows give us a review. Im curious on how these productions turn out.

[BalletGirl85]

Posted: 7/2/04 at 2:12pm

New Bedford Festival Theatre in MA has Barbara Folts from the Broadway company as Belle (she was the u/s on Bway)...and Ogunquit Playhouse in Maine is doing it this summer too.

[broadwayguy2]

Posted: 7/2/04 at 3:50pm

I am most interested in North Shore's staging.

[DivaMommy]

Posted: 7/2/04 at 4:08pm

This is awesome - I have hope to play Belle someday!!!!

Posted: 7/3/04 at 8:49pm

How long has the rights been out for?

[broadwayguy2]

Posted: 7/3/04 at 8:50pm

Rights were just recently rleased for professional companies. These staging this summer are the first ones.

[J.]

Posted: 7/3/04 at 10:13pm

i like beauty and the beast but why did they change it when it changed theatres?

[musicaltheatreman]

Posted: 7/3/04 at 10:27pm

what did they change about it j??? thanks :)

[J.]

Posted: 7/3/04 at 10:28pm

didnt they simplify the set or something i heard?

[musicaltheatreman]

Posted: 7/3/04 at 10:57pm

yeah i think so because they were moveing to a smaller theatre and they also cut back some of the danceing dishes in be our guest. i did notice that they changed mrs. potts costume. i remeber in the 2nd act she had a new tea pot costume, but now she has on the same costume with a costume piece on top of it. i wonder why they changed it??

[J.]

Posted: 7/3/04 at 11:13pm

is it still the original Robert Jess Roth direction though?

[broadwaystar2b]

Posted: 7/3/04 at 11:28pm

I'll be seeing a regional production at Seaside in FL
I'll post my review afterwards

[TheatreMom2]

Posted: 7/3/04 at 11:55pm

It's coming to Pioneer Theatre Company here in Salt Lake City December 2004. They already had auditions for some parts. I know Chip has been cast but they always come to NYC for the leads. When they did Cyrano, Patrick Page was Cyrano (excellent job!) and for Ragtime Duane Martin Foster was Coalhouse with Kenita Miller as Sara so the casts are first rate.

[sean martin]

Posted: 7/4/04 at 3:53am

The community theatre rights are being released October 1, and the Theatre Cedar Rapids production, which I'm designing, opens October 15 (I think), making ours the first production at that level. It's a huge, complicated show, made all the more difficult by all the requirements written into the contract (specifically, you canNOT reproduce ANYTHING from the sets, costumes, or design look in general of either the film or the Bway version), so we're scrambling a bit to figure out how to play it out on the TCR stage. The production schema we're working up will definitely be a different one, given some of the conceptual changes the director and I are bringing to the table (Lumiere and the other Objects as bunraku puppets, for example), but it's still gonna be a major challenge to the company's resources.

[Link Larkin Wanabe]

Posted: 7/4/04 at 4:04am

Sean Martin,

As a fellow designer I would LOVE to see what you come up with...keep me posted.

Akiva

[sean martin]

Posted: 7/4/04 at 4:10am

Akiva -- shall do. I'm not entirely sure myself what we're gonna do in specific, but check the web site in about three weeks -- the first designs should be up by then.

[WayWicked]

Posted: 7/4/04 at 4:11am

I heard a rumor that Oklahoma City University has been granted the first college rights.

[broadwayguy2]

Posted: 7/4/04 at 7:54am

Damn it! Akiva, are you SURE you aren't my Canadian twin?? I am a designer myself.

The Bunraku Puppet Idea sounds VERY interseting.



The transfer from the Palace to the Lunt resulted in MANY changes being made to the design of the show. I consider wht is playing at the Lunt to be an ambarrassment compared to the production I saw at the Palace Theatre.

[ponine24601]

Posted: 7/4/04 at 10:55am

awesome! i would love to see some of your designs!

[Gatesy2]

Posted: 7/4/04 at 11:37am

I'm going to opening night in New Bedford to see my friend Jeff Brooks as Gaston. I know there was a thread a while back about musical theater colleges. Brooks is a graduate of the SUNY Cortland musical theater program. you can check out the New Bedford production at this site: http://www.nbfestivaltheatre.com/http://www.nbfestivaltheatre.com/>http://www.nbfestivaltheatre.com/

[TheQuibbler]

Posted: 7/4/04 at 11:48am

Why are there so many rules on what you cannot do? It's "Beauty and the Beast," everyone already knows it, so why can't directors stick true to the Disney version?

[broadwayguy2]

Posted: 7/4/04 at 11:52am

Because the film and stage versions are extremly simila and the original stage version is still playing..

that and Disney is greedy and evil.

[sean martin]

Posted: 7/4/04 at 1:01pm

>> why can't directors stick true to the Disney version?

Got me, ace. But it's in the contract.

But Disney has a habit of doing things like this: there's a non-disclosure item in anyone working on the high-end productions of BEAUTY (Broadway, the major touring companies) that prevents them from revealing *any* of the secrets about the technology used in the play. A friend of mine worked on the wigs in the Toronto production, and he said the contract was almost frightening. Well, hey, that's Disney.

[jonartdesigns]

Posted: 7/4/04 at 1:06pm

i'd love to know what secrets disney thinks the wig people are harboring