Standing ovations at Beauty and the Beast

Those numbers do not deserve standing ovations. Victoria Clark singing Dividing Day or Christine Ebersole singing The Revolutionary Costume are two numbers that do, however. (And that have unfortunately never gotten them durring performances I've been to.) It's sad that audiences ovated the two numbers. Your audience probably consisted of tourists who were impressed by the show-offish dance steps and scenery.

Updated On: 10/3/06 at 03:28 PM

Those numbers in BATB IMO have very complex choreography and timing. Those actors are working very hard in my opinion and dealing with props, hydraulics and other special effects all the while singing and dancing. Again, IMO, those folks deserve a standing ovation. They work just as hard as any other actor on Broadway. Don't discredit their blood, sweat, and tears just because it is a Disney show.

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Unless you were at that same show and saw those numbers performed, you can't really say they didn't deserve standing ovations.

That's just foolish.

Updated On: 10/3/06 at 03:43 PM

I've seen Light in the Piazza twice and never felt the need to give a standing ovation after Dividing Day. Be Our Guest is a different story.

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"it was a dumb audience and a group in the front row was just a little overzealous "

God forbid someone be having an incredible time and get so lost in it that they stand up here and there because they are loving their evening of theatre and the music.

Maybe they were just dumb. Who knows.

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i agree, stalker...i think steve blanchard is a very passionate beast (although he isn't as scary in the beginning as i would hope). i don't know why people think otherwise...

anyway, i was at BATB on friday night and be our guest got a standing ovation. gaston didn't, although it did deserve it - i have been in shows that required such hand-eye coordination and rhythm, as in the cup clanking section, and it's SO tough to keep your energy and rhythm. so yes, gaston did deserve a standing o

i think the comedy of his character adds to his likability as the show goes on it makes him more human. at least in my opinion...

Steve as the Beast - the problem, IMO, is WHEN he uses the comedy. The first moment during the fight in Belle's room just doesn't work. Granted, I'm a sucker, and I laugh every time cause you really don't know how overboard he's going to go. But storywise, it doesn't work. Later on, when he's starting to show more humanity, and that he really starts to like Belle, when he's never had these feelings before, it works. Bring on the comedy. But at that moment in the room during Act I, again JMO, it doesn't work right.

Back on topic, go "Gaston"! And for an object enthusiast like me, GO "BOG!!!" So glad they got the ovations they deserve.

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Sometimes I think they do...I am not sure in the middle of Beauty and the Beast if they do...at the end yes. There is a clip of LaChanze on the forbidden site from the once on this island concert...they give her a standing o...but she deserved that

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I would think that those two numbers do deserve a standing ovation, but When I went they didn't have one for either (I was 4, so its possible that it did). I thought it was pretty cool though when I saw Boy From Oz, everyone standed up after Once Before I Go. I started laughing a bit because we were standing so long. And it was he number before the finale too.

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