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BRT Tames a 'Beast' of a Show
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Disney's Beauty and the Beast
Music by Alan Menken
Lyrics by Howard Ashman and Tim Rice
Book by Linda Woolverton
Produced, Directed and Designed by
Lewis Kempfer
Musical Direction by Jamey Green
Technical Direction by Anthony Popolo
Costume Design by Cat Eberwine
November 11 - December 22, 2005
BRT's production of Disney's Beauty
and the Beast marks the Nashville premiere of a
locally produced, professional staging of the beloved
Disney musical,
and promises to be the most lavish and elaborate production
in BRT's five-year history. Based on the Academy Award-winning
animated feature, the stage version includes all of the songs
from the film, written by Alan Menken and the late
Howard
Ashman (the team responsible for Little Shop of Horrors
and The Little Mermaid), plus new songs written especially
for the Broadway version by Menken and Tim Rice (Aladdin,
Aida). Audiences will be transported to a small French
provincial town where the beautiful Belle lives with her
dotty
inventor father. When Belle's father doesn't return from
a trip to the local fair, she rushes off to find him.
To her
dismay, she discovers he is being held captive in an old
castle by a horrible beast. She trades her freedom for
his and the
"tale as old as time" begins. How Belle tames the
unfortunate Beast and his ultimate transformation into a
handsome
prince continues to enthrall audiences on Broadway nightly.
Starring Dan Whorton as The Beast
and Laura Thomas as Belle with Erik Garcia as Gaston, Lisa
Gillespie as Mrs. Potts, Alan Lee as Cogsworth, Joseph
Beuerlein as
Lumiere, Lauri Bright as Babette, Wesley Fox as Maurice,
Scott Rice as Lefou, and Sondra Morton-Chaffin as Madame
de La Grande Bouche with Megan Murphy, Melodie
Madden-Adams, and Corrie Miller as the Silly Girls. Also
featuring Mike Baum, Devin Clevenger, Nick
DeNuzio,
Ashley
DiGiorgi,
Kymberly
Doyel, Delaney Jacoway, Erin McDonough, Jose Ochoa, Art
Peach, Madelyn Reynolds, Markus McClain, Megan Roddick,
Grace Partin, and Claire Scholes. |
Seating:
House opens 30 minutes prior to show time. Seating is open,
in other words, the early bird gets the better worm. We do
not, however, oversell performances, so if you have a ticket,
you will have a seat.
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