#26
Posted: 6/26/05 at 8:02pm
I don't remember it. It's been a long while since I saw the show on tour. I've heard of the song, but I've never actually heard it. What the heck is she singing?
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#27
Posted: 6/26/05 at 8:21pm
Susan Egan recorded "A Change in Me" on her 'so far...' CD and it's a fantastic recording. the song is great in the show because at that point there are no more solos left so it's nice to have one last sort of tender solo before the mob song, the battle and then finale. it also creates an additional moment between Belle and her father. also I think without it act two seems so much shorter than act one. it's a great song and it adds a lot, I think.
#28
Posted: 6/26/05 at 8:35pm
Right it was Toni who was being stalked during her run in Beauty and the Beast....
#29
Posted: 6/26/05 at 8:43pm
I don't think she sounds like an ingenue. She sounds like a man. Way to stunt cast, guys.
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#30
Posted: 6/26/05 at 9:11pm
Yeah, she doesn't sound like the innocent girl that Belle is usually portrayed as.
#31
Posted: 6/26/05 at 9:13pm
She still has a great voice, but it's not what I hear when I think of Belle.
#32
Posted: 6/26/05 at 9:31pm
I recently saw a picture of the Belle dress that Toni had. It was very diffrent, but very pretty.
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#33
Posted: 6/26/05 at 11:32pm
Toni Braxton can really sing, however, I 100& don't think she makes a good Belle. Her voice is much, much too deep. Also, why did she get entire different costumes? Was it because she was a "name"? That hardly seems fair.
#34
Posted: 6/26/05 at 11:38pm
That's how showbiz works a lot of the time. You've got the big name, you get the big perks.
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#35
Posted: 6/27/05 at 12:00am
mattel alsom made a dool of her in the gold dress as i recall
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#36
Posted: 6/27/05 at 12:07am
Woo. Ethnic Belle. That'sa me. But the problem is, I'd be some Asian chick playing a Caucasian woman in some sort of French provincial town.
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#37
Posted: 6/27/05 at 12:47am
aigoo- in that case you'd be ann sanders (christmas eve u/s in ave q) who did all that but in the german cast- she was an asian woman playing a white french girl while singing in german
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#38
Posted: 6/27/05 at 1:33am
Wow! That's a mouthful! Aigoo could do it!
#39
Posted: 6/27/05 at 2:43am
I cant imagine her as Belle, i havent seen her, but what I would imagine, with her set of pipes, she would come off too strong instead of the timid young girl Belle really is.
#40
Posted: 6/27/05 at 2:52am
I actually laughed outloud when I read the Ann Sanders interview. God, I love that woman. She gives me hope. 
She actually lived in the city that I'm quite familiar with. I live about 30 minutes away from it.
But the problem is, I look a lot more "Asian" than Ann Sanders does. Well, atleast now I do. And I doubt I'll get those monster-Idina cheekbones or some beautiful Kelli-love...but we shall see, eh?
ETA: No, I am not Canadian...lack of sleep forced that "eh?" in there.
She actually lived in the city that I'm quite familiar with. I live about 30 minutes away from it. But the problem is, I look a lot more "Asian" than Ann Sanders does. Well, atleast now I do. And I doubt I'll get those monster-Idina cheekbones or some beautiful Kelli-love...but we shall see, eh?
ETA: No, I am not Canadian...lack of sleep forced that "eh?" in there.
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#41
Posted: 6/27/05 at 3:55am
yeah... Toni Braxton is a great singer
#42
Posted: 6/27/05 at 11:06am
I have always regretted that they were never able to work Lea Salonga into the role. She wanted it, and from what I heard that wanted her for it, but the timing was never right until she got too old for it. She would have been fantastic!
#43
Posted: 6/27/05 at 2:24pm
Here is the link to Leah delos Santos Homepage. She was the original Belle in the Stuttgart Production. When she left Ann Sanders took over as 1st Cast Belle. Leah is from the Philippines and it was a big "scanal" when she got the part, because she was Asian!
If you listen to the clip you understand why she got the part!
http://www.leahdelossantos.com/multimedia.htm
If you listen to the clip you understand why she got the part!
http://www.leahdelossantos.com/multimedia.htm
#44
Posted: 6/27/05 at 2:39pm
I saw Braxton in Beauty!
Updated On: 6/27/05 at 02:39 PM
#45
Posted: 6/27/05 at 2:43pm
BJC - was she good?
#46
Posted: 6/27/05 at 3:03pm
When Toni Braxton went into "Beauty and the Beast" they had to change the keys for her--in fact, some of the chorus books still have songs in the "Toni" key, which is very confusing. That's why "A Change in Me" sits so much lower than the rest of Belle's songs and makes the role awkward to voice-cast now. I do like the song, though--it gives Belle more of an arc than the original cartoon did.
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#47
Posted: 6/27/05 at 3:11pm
Belle seems like it is always being stunt cast---
Debbie Gibson
Toni Braxton
Christy Calrson Romano
I saw Andrea Mcartle as Belle, but I did hear CCR sing A Change In Me at Bway On Bway last year, she was pretty good... Anyone have any clips of CCR as Belle?
Debbie Gibson
Toni Braxton
Christy Calrson Romano
I saw Andrea Mcartle as Belle, but I did hear CCR sing A Change In Me at Bway On Bway last year, she was pretty good... Anyone have any clips of CCR as Belle?
#48
Posted: 6/27/05 at 3:18pm
I think Lea could play it still. She has a very young face, and from far away I think she could look the part.
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#49
Posted: 2/21/07 at 11:39am
considering Disney doesn't like to pay it's actors for their work, does anyone know (or can speculate) how much Toni Braxton made for her performances is Aida or Beauty & the Beast? i'm just curious...
#50
Posted: 2/21/07 at 11:47am
"mattel alsom made a dool of her in the gold dress as i recall"
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