Susan Egan to reprise role in BATB

Is she playing the castle? She's almost 50.

She should be playing Mrs. Potts. LyndaSmith, no it's not a concert version. It's a fully staged version of the show.

Look there she goes that girl who is so...that middle age woman who is so peculiar...

NOWaWarning said: "I wonder if she'll sing a Change in Me"

This wins the thread. Brilliant and hilarious!!!

Jordan Catalano said: "Man, I wish I could see this. This was the first broadway show I ever saw and I’d give anything to be able to relive this."

It was mine too, seeing it shortly after the Tonys that year well before they moved out of the Palace and downsized for the Lunt. I still hold such great memories of that original production that I'm hesitant to ever see another that doesn't have the full Disney budget behind it. So many just absolutely terrible production photos out there, even from companies that normally do very good work.

I'll be curious to see what the physical production for this one ends up looking like.

that wig thou...

Bwayfan292 said: "Not to be rude but the production photos look like its a production of Granny and the Beast."

I love it when people say not to be rude then are. The photos I saw would certainly not make me think Granny and The Beast. Your idea of a granny is certainly different to mine though I suppose you used (pinched) the phrase to score a cheap laugh.

Worth noting that this thread is mostly a group of men commenting on the appropriateness of a woman playing a role. I'll say no more, but this is what women always say about Hollywood: men decide what they can and should play.

For the record, she looks great in the photos. Maybe Belle is a woman who never married and finds meaning and love in early mid-life. Maybe the story deepens, her relationship with her father, being isolated in a town as a single woman. Who reads.

If she can still sing it, who cares?