Disney will launch North American tour of BEAUTY AND THE BEAST in 2025, Broadway stop next?- Page 2

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 5/21/24 at 11:46am

The tour will be using the tier 3 touring contract. Disney could afford to tour this on the highest level contract, so I’m shocked equity approved this.

[The Distinctive Baritone]

Posted: 5/21/24 at 12:03pm

Yes, I just saw the ECC on the AEA site. $1,467 a week minimum, which was on par with a Broadway production like, ten years ago...

Updated On: 5/21/24 at 12:03 PM

[RippedMan]

Posted: 5/21/24 at 12:12pm

And a relatively unknown director. Seems like he's mostly worked at the parks. So I'm guessing we get a slightly stepped up version of that non-union show that was touring. 

[The Distinctive Baritone]

Posted: 5/21/24 at 12:22pm

Well, no, Matt West has actually had quite a career, from being the original Bobby in A Chorus Line to choreographing the original production of BATB and its many tours and international productions. He graduated to director-choreographer for the recent UK tour of BATB, so I'm guessing this tour will more or less be a replica of that.

[RippedMan]

Posted: 5/21/24 at 12:29pm

I'd agree. I just mean we aren't getting an established director's new take on the material. We will probably just get a very safe, standard production. 

[The Distinctive Baritone]

Posted: 5/21/24 at 12:49pm

If it ain't broke, don't fix it I say.

[seaweedjstubbs]

Posted: 5/21/24 at 1:37pm

Call_me_jorge said: "The tour will be using the tier 3 touring contract. Disney could afford to tour this on the highest level contract, so I’m shocked equity approved this."

I feel like Equity has no real power over this. They can’t even stop tours from going non-union, so how would they control what tier a tour goes out on? The good news is, this tour should sell extremely well, so the cast will hopefully make a good amount of overages. I’ve heard that the BEETLEJUICE tour has been selling so well that the cast is actually making more than they would’ve on a full production contract due to the high overages.

[KevinKlawitter]

Posted: 2/13/25 at 8:40am

Kyra Belle Johnson and Fergie L. Philippe to star (video)

A leading actress with the middle name "Belle" is kind of delightful 

[witchoftheeast2]

Posted: 2/13/25 at 8:46am

KevinKlawitter said: "Kyra Belle Johnson and Fergie L. Philippe to star (video)

A leading actress with the middle name "Belle" is kind of delightful"

I love that and also they have wonderful chemistry- he's so attractive 

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 2/13/25 at 9:00am

“It’s gonna be re-thought”

Ugh. 

[rosscoe(au)]

Posted: 2/13/25 at 2:14pm

That current Australian production is a disgrace. Songs half performed, the production values woeful. How did Be Our Guest become a tap number, with 10 per cent of the lyrics gone. A major disappointment in every way

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 2/13/25 at 2:36pm

Rethought as in different from the UK tour or just the same rethought production? Confusing.

[Jeffrey Karasarides]

Posted: 2/13/25 at 4:00pm

It's likely the same rethought production that recently debuted in the U.K.

Updated On: 2/13/25 at 04:00 PM

[Jeffrey Karasarides]

Posted: 2/13/25 at 4:04pm

RippedMan said: "We will probably just get a very safe, standard production."

That pretty much sums up a majority of Disney's content (i.e. movies, TV shows) as of late.

[AEA AGMA SM]

Posted: 2/13/25 at 7:45pm

Call_me_jorge said: "The tour will be using the tier 3 touring contract. Disney could afford to tour this on the highest level contract, so I’m shocked equity approved this."

Equity allowed it because the tour met the qualifications to use that level. The contract lays out the level qualifiers, with the average weekly guarantee being the biggest factor. Producers don't get to just say "we're using this level." They have a lot of things they need to report to Equity before they get approved for the contract.

[merle57]

Posted: 2/13/25 at 8:58pm

It's about a beast who thinks he is a victim, a powerful woman who stands up for her rights, and  a narcissistic violent man who demands the girl submit to him sexually.  Only the violent man represents Make America Great again.  The show has dangerous DEI and WOKE themes about empowering women and healing the outcast.  

Isn't Be Our Guest is code for welcoming immigrants and foreigners, just as Belle is a foreigner in his castle?  Definitely needs to be adjusted in major ways. 

Hope Disney was not planning on taking the show to the Kennedy Center. 

 

[QueenTwinnied]

Posted: 2/14/25 at 1:01am

If that was an attempt at being funny you failed miserably