Beauty and The Beast National Tour!

I read that Beauty and The Beast is going on tour. There are auditions on July 28, 2008. I'm personally very happy about it.

Any thoughts?

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Could you post a link to where you found this info please? :) Thank you very much!

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What was the transformation on tour, and I hope this is produced by Disney, why was it that the UK got a disney tour before we did?

There is no link... it was published in the theatre magazine BACKSTAGE.

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You guys think that yours were lame? Mine was really stupid. This happened when I was 7 and I still remember it. It was at the Orpheum in Minneapolis. So after Gaston is thrown off of the roof, the Beast and Belle stumble back into the castle from the balcony. The set revolves and we see Belle crying at the Beast's "body", which was actually, I'm assuming, just a bundle of cape stuffed with something to look like a body. It was hoisted into the air, spun very fast (may have been sparks?) and when the set turned around again and the Beast walked back onto the balcony with Belle. So, even as a 7 year old I could tell he wasn't really transforming.

I've heard such wonderful things about the transformation scene that I was disappointed I wasn't able to catch in on Broadway.

.... yea, i was in a production of it and i must say, our transformation scene was better than some i've seen... but that doesn't matter bc if Beauty and the Beast went on tour, it would still be magical

Singtopher yes they are.

I was speaking very informally with an actress who I won't name who played Belle as an understudy. I had told her that there were rumors going on around the transformation scene. She asked me what I had heard.

I had heard that during the battle scene when Lumier is telling the best that the castle is under attack. The Beast's reply is a voice over. There is a cover there dressed like the beast. While the real actor is getting all the major parts of his costume off back stage. When the fight is over it is the regualr actor on the stage. When he is up in the air he is spinning around and taking off the last few bits of his costume that can easilly be tucked away or thrown to the side. The the transformation is complete.

After telling her that is what I had heard she had said that that was correct. She also claimed that Disney was a very sneaky group of people to work with.

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when i saw the second National tour in 03 the during the transformation the beast rose up and then he was spun .and then was risen down.

Updated On: 3/22/08 at 02:53 PM

FRICK, the timing of this production sucks...I'm still in college. I was totally planning on them doing a 20th anniversary tour in a few years, which I was totally going to audition for and then get cast as a Lumiere/Beast understudy and start my theatre career.

FRICK!!!

Updated On: 3/26/08 at 04:37 AM

At this point in his carrier I don't think he can do anything else other then play the Beast when offered the role.

In all truthfulness, I am not sure if he will play the role or if he wants to move onto other things. Considering the fact that he was the longest actor to play the role I think that because of his good relationship with Disney he can pretty much have it if he tells them that he wants to do it.

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