Brooke Tansley Picture as Belle

[millie_dillmount]

Posted: 9/13/04 at 6:05pm

https://www.broadwayworld.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=1180

[moonys_autumn]

Posted: 9/13/04 at 7:20pm

She's so pretty, she will make a wonderful Belle! I had the pleasure of really meeting her last Friday (I had met her briefly once before) and she is so very excited. She deserves this, and I can't wait to see her. Brooke, with a little bit of fairy dust, dreams do come true!

[broadwayguy2]

Posted: 9/13/04 at 7:22pm

Brooke is SUCH a doll!

[scottwalker]

Posted: 9/13/04 at 7:37pm

You look absolutely Beautiful Brooke.You will be a Great Belle.

[BroadwayDiva]

Posted: 9/13/04 at 8:17pm

She's so pretty! I think she'll be a great Belle (and thank god Belle's brunette again!!).

I would love to see the show with her in it.

[shesings]

Posted: 9/13/04 at 8:31pm

I'm really happy someone else is taking over. I have a free ticket that I can use whenever I want, but I didn't want to see CCR. I don't know why ... just not a big Even Stevens fan I guess.

[saddle shoe side kick]

Posted: 9/13/04 at 8:43pm

Oh my gosh, I almost cried when I looked at this. She looks so beautiful. I'm so incredibly happy for her. The fact that she has beauty inside and out just make her all the more wonderful. I cannot wait to see you as Belle, Brooke! Break a leg tomorrow night! We love you! Dreams do, indeed, come true. -Penny

[Phantom2]

Posted: 9/14/04 at 4:04pm

Wowza!

[Ebonic_Singer]

Posted: 9/14/04 at 5:31pm

Finally--A show with real bway stars.

[crazyforpenny]

Posted: 9/22/04 at 12:40am

Brooke is beautiful- inside & out!!!!

[saddle shoe side kick]

Posted: 9/22/04 at 6:38am

exactly!

[musicalsFan]

Posted: 9/22/04 at 9:19am

is her website working?

still not working for me

[crazyforpenny]

Posted: 9/23/04 at 10:11am

The website is up in it's beginning stages.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 9/23/04 at 10:59am

I wouldn't mind seeing the show again if it had the original set and staging. I saw the national tour a couple of years ago and it was AWFUL.

[dancinfan]

Posted: 9/23/04 at 11:18am

The tour you saw, which ran 2000-2003 in a lot of relatively small venues, probably had the much-scaled-down version of the set. The Broadway show at the Lunt is scenically identical to the first national tour that ran in the bigger houses from 1995-1999, and except for one special effect in Be Our Guest, you may not even notice the set differences that have been made since the show moved from Palace.

The cast was scaled down by four onstage ensemble members, so the staging was adjusted accordingly, but again, you may not even notice.

[broadwayguy2]

Posted: 9/23/04 at 12:02pm

1.) The last tour was a discrace.
2.) I most certainly can see the differences between the Palace and Lunt stagings. Someof the changes were just STUPID and could have done on the same budget with the same materials and been much more effective -- example.. the ballroom.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 9/23/04 at 12:09pm

What about the Wolves? Do they have the dancing people-wolves at the Lunt?

[broadwayguy2]

Posted: 9/23/04 at 12:11pm

yes, they scrapped the mechanical, cool wolves and have the "refugee from the non-equity tour of Cats" wolves.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 9/23/04 at 12:20pm

Ugh! That was one of the dumbest decisions they made. I hate the dancing wolf-people. It was like the devil-boys in J&H. I couldn't figure out who thought that was a good idea.

[broadwayguy2]

Posted: 9/23/04 at 12:24pm

exaclty.....


my gripe about the ballroom is that the original ballroom set, the massive set piece, was GORGEOUS. The painted drop they have now is HIDEOUS. They should have just taken the original design and translated it into a backdrop painted to look like that original set......