Disney’s BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
15-23 October 2010 at the PRINCESS THEATRE
“For who could ever learn to love a beast?”
From the magic and wonder of Disney comes an event that brings a tale as old as time to life on the Princess Theatre stage. Based on the Disney animated film version of the much loved fairytale and featuring the stunning Academy-Award winning musical score that made the animated film such a hit.
Disney’s Beauty and the Beast is the story of Belle, a young woman in a provincial town, and the Beast, who is really a young prince trapped in a spell placed by an enchantress. If the Beast can learn to love and be loved, the curse will end and he will be transformed to his former self. But time is running out. If the Beast does not learn his lesson soon, he and his household will be doomed for all eternity.
Enchanting audiences of all ages, it is a classic tale of love, sacrifice, jealousy, revenge and redemption exploring an age-old theme: the true meaning of beauty.
DIRECTOR Di Summers
MUSICAL DIRECTOR Matt Dudfield
CHOREOGRAPHERS Julie Argent & Di Summers
STAGE MANAGER Lauren Harper
LIGHTING DESIGNER Mark Hayes
SOUND DESIGNER Phillip Ivan Pietruschka
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Jamie Hillard
THE BEAST Dean Cocker
BELLE Samantha Hammersley
GASTON Daniel Priest
LUMIERE Matthew Garwood
MRS POTTS Belinda J King
COGSWORTH Ross Marsden
LeFOU Nicholas Tolputt
MAURICE John Allen
BABETTE Dani Zolnierczak
MADAME del la GRANDE BOUCHE Susie Fisher
MONSIEUR D’ARQUE Sam Bye
Disney’s Beauty and the Beast with music by Alan Menken, Lyrics by Howard Ashman & Tim Rice and Book by Linda Woolverton. Produced by arrangement with Hal Leonard Australia Pty Ltd, Exclusive agent for Music Theatre International (NY).
