Toni B as Belle

[Brave Sir Robin2]

Posted: 6/8/07 at 10:23pm

http://disney.go.com/theatre/beautyandthebeast/index.html

Go to scrapbook of Belles, and click on first of bottom row. There's Toni as Belle. So pretty.

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 6/8/07 at 10:29pm

https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.cfm?boardname=bway&thread=856282#2823127

https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.cfm?boardname=bway&thread=908414#2463672

[mikeyb16]

Posted: 6/9/07 at 5:35am

Ive been on the website and I think they've got the Belles's performance dates wrong.

Why I say this is because i've been looking on the playbill's website looking at old articles of the past Belles when they came to the show and it seems they have different dates of when they started and when they left. I'll post what the dates say on the site now and you tell me if their right or wrong. I know some of them are correct but a couple I think aren't.

Susan Egan as 'Belle' From March 1994 To April 1996
Deborah Gibson as 'Belle' From June To September In 1998
Toni Braxton as 'Belle' From March To September In 1999
Andrea McArdle as 'Belle' From November 1999 To June 2001
Jamie-Lynn Sigler as 'Belle' From January To July In 2003
Megan McGinnis as 'Belle From July 2003 To June 2004
Christy Carlson Romano as 'Belle' From June To September In 2004
Brooke Tansley as 'Belle' From September 2004 To September 2005
Ashley Brown as 'Belle' From September 2005 To May 2006
Sarah Litzsinger as 'Belle' From May To September In 2006 & From June 2001 To September 2002.
Sarah Uriarte Berry as 'Belle' From September To December In 2006 & From March To June In 1996
Deborah Lew as 'Belle From December 2006 To April 2007

I'm suprised they didn't put in Kerry Butler who played Belle after Sarah Uriarte Berry & before Deborah Gibson and that they haven't included Anneliese Van Der Pol for the Final Broadway Belle.

I think they should have also done a scrap book for the Beasts, even though 5 have played the character on Broadway

[dancinfan]

Posted: 6/9/07 at 9:07am

Yeah, some of those early dates are just wrong. Egan was in LA by summer of 1995, so Sarah (then just) Uriarte followed her, then Gibson I think, then Butler, who had played the rolw in the Toronto company.

[Albin]

Posted: 6/9/07 at 9:32am

CNN clip of Toni Braxton as Belle

[DivaBrigader]

Posted: 6/9/07 at 10:27am

McArdle's final performance was at the beginning of December, not in June.

[somethingwicked]

Posted: 6/9/07 at 10:50am

Who replaced Susan Egan?

[mikeyb16]

Posted: 6/9/07 at 11:44am

Sarah Uriarte Berry after Susan left for the LA Company.

[muscle23ftl]

Posted: 6/9/07 at 11:49am

The CNN clip, doesn't work for me.

[Kev]

Posted: 6/9/07 at 12:12pm

Actually, Christiane Tisdale (aka Susan's wonderful cover in TRIUMPH) replaced Egan as Belle. Sarah Uriarte was Broadway's third Belle.

[mikeyb16]

Posted: 6/9/07 at 2:48pm

Forgot to add her on my 1st post. Was there ever a photo of her in the Belle Gear?

[ThankstoPhantom]

Posted: 6/9/07 at 5:06pm

I saw McArdle in March 1999, MONTHS before the date listed there.