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

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

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.

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

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

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

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??

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

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.

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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.

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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.

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/

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

that and Disney is greedy and evil.

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

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