Beauty and the Beast tour montage.

The official website of the national tour of "Beauty and the Beast" has been posted. I think it looks good, but I was expecting more since the original creative team did this tour. What do you think of it?

http://www.beautyandthebeastontour.com/video-gallery

It's non-eq. so it won't be as big as Broadway, naturally. I have never seen it, so I'm excited.

I agree with CATSNY. I think it looks okay, but nothing great. Regardless, I'll still go in with an open mind when I see it in May.

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Saw the tour last night in Chicago....while it has it's good moments it was very obviously non-equity to me. In terms of performances and sloppiness. If I had seen this at a regional theatre I might have been more impressed but in the cadillac palace where they still charge $40-$100 a seat!?? ridiculous.

Chip (spoiler?!? maybe***)

Chip was a child actor in a 'cart' for most of the show...but there is one creepy, wrong, bad idea that nobody fixed, where Mrs. Potts carries a child's HEAD with a tea cup on it on a tray and the head talks. It's obvious its a puppet head that she is controlling while holding the tray, but still, a talking child's head on a tray? who thought that was a good idea!? and it probably didn't help that Mrs. Potts sounded like Mrs. Lovett (Cockney, all the way...)

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The showdeck is distracting as hell.

and Belle sounds like she's in High School

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This looks so scaled down in every aspect, seeing this i can't understand why they didn't use use the current European tour sets whom the Disney creatives praised so much.

I think this looks a lot better
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ccs-Ck3793A

Three sections of new videos are posted. Justin (the Beast) and Liz (Belle) sound amazing.

http://www.beautyandthebeastontour.com/video-gallery/page-1.html#gallery

http://www.beautyandthebeastontour.com/video-gallery/page-2.html#gallery

http://www.beautyandthebeastontour.com/video-gallery/page-3.html#gallery

Updated On: 4/7/10 at 05:42 PM

I saw this in Chicago a week ago today. It was just OK. I thought Belle and Gaston were good, the rest of the cast did well enough. The set had a very cheap feeling about it and was definitely the most disappointing aspect of the show.

Why they did make the great move of bringing back the original creative team I know this show would probly hugely in better shape if actualy produced by disney in the first place it doesn't live up to the broadway or first national touring production.

I'm seeing it in June. :)

I am curious as to how the prologue and transformation work as well. What is the pre-show curtain for the show?

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