Toni Braxton's Dresses in Beauty and the Beast

[disneybroadwayfan22]

Posted: 4/18/14 at 10:16am

I'm confused. Why did they change Belle's dresses when Toni Braxton was Belle?

[east side story]

Posted: 4/18/14 at 10:36am

She had a bit of clout at that point in time. Belle had a significantly more prominent bosom.

[disneybroadwayfan22]

Posted: 4/18/14 at 10:42am

Ok, that makes sense! Thank you :)

[CurtainPullDowner]

Posted: 4/18/14 at 11:41am

And a new song.

[justincharacter]

Posted: 4/18/14 at 12:20pm

If I'm not mistaken, there was a thread on this a few months ago. I'll try searching for it.

EDIT: Here it is:
https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.php?thread=1068062&page=1 Updated On: 4/18/14 at 12:20 PM

[darreyl102]

Posted: 4/18/14 at 3:03pm

It's not that uncommon for them to change costumes for different actors- recent example would be Fran Drescher in Cinderella, who got a complete costume change.

[Musicaldudepeter]

Posted: 4/18/14 at 3:10pm

Yes but the Belle dress is and was iconic at the time... the point being made was that they allowed Braxton to show more skin, rather than the design changing altogether, a la Victoria Clark wearing a green dress in Follies, where Peters wore pink...

[darreyl102]

Posted: 4/18/14 at 3:25pm

Did the keep the changes after Toni left the show- or did they revert back to the original design?

[lambchop2]

Posted: 4/18/14 at 4:14pm

They definitely reverted back to the original style of the blue dress, at least, since that's what shows up in the later promo shots of Andrea McArdle and later replacements.

I wonder if the new/special costume designs were part of her contract? Since, according to Robert Roth, it took Tim Rice promising Toni a brand new song (which he apparently did after a bottle or two of wine) for her to finally sign her contract.

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 4/18/14 at 8:07pm

^Who knew a bottle of wine would help deliver the best song in the show?

[FeiginJames]

Posted: 5/7/14 at 2:46am

Yeah I agree recently in one more broadway show the costume were changed as they told it was not looking cool so there can be any reason to change costumes in shows.


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