Beauty & the Beast: Is It Even LEGAL? — Page 3

my school did beauty and the beast about 2 years ago. we were the first production of it in NH.

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When I did a stock production of Beauty last year, we used this set from ZFX (http://www.zfxflying.com/bbrentals.html). If you look at it, especially at the castle, you will see that it looks very much like the Broadway set. Before going off to do the show, I spent a day with the Broadway company to pick up some pointers, and I specifically spent a lot of time walking on the castle. The ZFX castle is a little bit smaller (there's no room for the dungeon and the tunnel to be separate entrances), but otherwise to my eye it's exactly the same, with a slightly different paint job, but the same basic color scheme. We used some of their costumes, too and those looked pretty much like the Broadway ones, too.

I don't get into the legalities of rights and that kind of thing, but I can't imagine if it was illegal that they could be so high-profile about it. I'm not saying every community theatre production has paid for the rights to all the designs, but maybe there's an additional fee for that.

Disney's two official national tours were 1995-1999 and 2000-2003. I am certain the that the first tour played the Dallas Summer Music Hall within its first two years, and I am pretty sure the second, smaller tour also played Texas at some point. Disney and MTI licensed the show very quickly after the second tour closed. Believe it or not, ticket sales at the Broadway production seemed to get better immediately after the licensing, perhaps because people who were producing or considering producing it wanted to see it. It has been done in hundreds and hundreds of professional, semi-pro, amateur, high school, community, and children's theatres across the country and around the world since. I have seen it a couple of different arena ("in the round") theatres, with varying degrees of success. I have seen it done professionally with lavish costumes and at a high school with costumes you could probably buy at any Halloween shop, and both were valid (occasionally troubled, occasionally brilliant) theatrical experiences. That's the joy of putting on a show, huh?

Is my original question THAT stupid?

Yes.

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My Highschool doing it:
http://www.shutterfly.com/progal/album.jsp?aid=768a5498cf4b02b5a5b3

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Husk, I think he's talking about Garland Civic Theatre... and there's no defending them. They blow. I mean, Blaine Community Players if there ever was one.

They are doing an illegaly production...omg i am on the phone with MTI now....wah wah.

this reminds me of the time when a high school did "Titanic" near me and we had heard a rumor that "My Heart Will Go On" was added....we were going to call MTI at intermission...but it was not.

whoever put the link to the pics of their high school...that looks pretty good.

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Updated On: 5/26/07 at 02:43 PM

theaterdude, it was really good!

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DUDE we're a BROADWAY board. BITTER queens CONSTANTLY come HERE to MAKE fun OF ignorant PEOPLE, and YOUR question NEEDED to BE mocked. THINK before YOU post.

(I wanted to see how many unnecessary capitalized words I could put in one post)

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that is you.

i give people credit for costumes etc. for the show.

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um, im sure its a lot better than what most high schools would do.

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Sondhead-
No, he was talking about Artisan, he told me in a PM>

Dallas Summer Musicals has had both the first and second national tours, and I think the second national came again last year or the year before. And I want to say Jodi Benson was playing Belle in the first national...or at least she was in town around that time for something.

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That's nothing I would be proud of....

Come on...it's one thing to ridicule a sh!twit who starts a thread like this, but there's no need to be a queen about someone's high school production (really, what on earth could be the point of taking jabs at a show that the kids obviously took pride in?). At least making fun of idiots is funny.

BroadwayEnthusiast2, I think your production looks great, and as someone who has seen quite a few HS productions here in the NY area I do think it easily looks better than what most schools would do (heck, your costumes are more interesting to look at than the ones at the BatB show in Disney World).

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Updated On: 5/26/07 at 04:20 PM