How does the Beast in Beauty and the Beast change back into the prince during the show?- Page 2

[PB ENT.]

Posted: 2/26/05 at 1:34pm

Contractual secret? This info. is as available as the POTO dissappearing chair "miracle". Why, it's just Disney Magic at its best.

[RumTumTugger22]

Posted: 2/26/05 at 1:41pm

Its a mask actually, that just comes off.

[FosseBoi]

Posted: 2/26/05 at 1:45pm

PB ENT., you just mentioned the chair trick in PHANTOM. Do you or anyone know how they do it? I havnt seen the show yet, so I cant assume anything.

[PB ENT.]

Posted: 2/26/05 at 2:19pm

check your pm.

[Lisatwin-2]

Posted: 2/26/05 at 2:34pm

My nephew works backstage at a theater in Seattle. There is a door which is called a "Beauty Door" and they installed it for the production of Beauty and the Beast. It is up on the back wall(I forget what the back wall is called), high up on the wall and when the Beast spins into the air he actually changes places though the door with a look alike.

[FosseBoi]

Posted: 2/26/05 at 3:03pm

Lisatwin-2, could you simplfy that a little more please? I think I get what your saying.

[Lisatwin-2]

Posted: 2/26/05 at 3:17pm

Oh I wish I could simplify a tad more...but my nephew is in route flying home from Costa Rica right now (with my daughter too) and I cant reach him to get the exact specifics. Coincidentally he just told me about this door a couple weeks ago..and didnt tell me in great detail. He will be home late tonight and maybe I can get the exact specifics and post tomorrow. I know the door was very interesting to him, he job shadows the stage manager at the theater, hoping to become a professional one himself (he is only 16) and every time he goes he finds out more trivia about the props/stage/sets/rigging/lights etc. (My nephew is at a very good local public high school that is really into the arts and is a stage hand there, and they do FIRST CLASS productions!)
My nephew did talk to a stage manager once from the actual Beauty musical (sat next to him on a plane..much to my nephews JOY!) and tried getting some "secrets" revealed..the stage manager said he absolutely could not divulge any of the secrets.
Updated On: 2/26/05 at 03:17 PM

[Lisatwin-2]

Posted: 2/26/05 at 3:47pm

OK, my nephew and my daughter think I am a space case...they just called on a layover in Newark and were all pumped about their trip...then I asked my nephew to explain the Beauty Door! He says it is up "way high" and it is ONLY used for Beauty and the Beast (they actually had to cut it into the back wall for the production when it came here) and he said it is when they "change out" the beast to the prince. The Beast goes up into the air and that is when it takes a split second for the actors to change places, during a flash...the prince has been on a platform behind the door waiting. (now this is in my interpretation of his explanation, me not really knowing the correct language for stage stuff!)

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 2/26/05 at 4:04pm

Actually, the info isn't available. As I said, it is illegal to release any information.

I suggest this not be brought up again.

[trpguyy]

Posted: 2/26/05 at 9:20pm

I can say with 100% certainty that actors do not switch in mid-air in the Broadwya production of Beauty and the Beast. Maybe this is how a "regional" production does it, but I doubt Disney would make that big a change for one of the tours.

[elphieisperky]

Posted: 2/27/05 at 10:52am

When I saw it, and I stayed afterwards, they were like, "Oh it's Disney magic!" But I think it's like the whole Into the Woods thing, there's a double.

[Jon]

Posted: 2/27/05 at 11:49am

Anyone who says "It's Disney Magic" deserves to be slapped.