THE MOST ENCHANTED MUSICAL OF ALL TIME
RE-IMAGINED IN A BRAND NEW PRODUCTION
Spectacular new designs and state-of-the-art technology fuse with the
classic story, bringing the beloved tale to new life
New production reunites members of the original Broadway creative team
Iconic songs include Belle, Be Our Guest and Beauty
and the Beast
www.beautyandthebeastmusical.co.uk
Disney’s beloved Olivier Award-winning stage musical Beauty and the Beast - re-imagined and re-designed in a completely new production staged by members of the original award-winning creative team.
Spectacular new designs and state-of-the-art technology fuse with the classic story, as the timeless romantic tale is brought to life on stage like never before, with all the charm and elegance audiences expect from Belle and her Beast.
Courtney
Stapleton and Emmanuel Kojo will play the iconic lead roles. Courtney’s credits
include Dear Evan Hansen, Six, Les Misérables and Bat
Out of Hell, and Emmanuel is best known for performing in Oklahoma!,
Girl from the North Country, Show Boat and The Scottsboro Boys.
Gavin
Lee (Mary Poppins, SpongeBob SquarePants, the Broadway Musical, Les
Misérables) plays Lumiere and Tom Senior (The Pirates of Penzance,
Eugenius!) is Gaston.
Sam
Bailey (The X-Factor winner 2013, Blood Brothers) plays the
legendary role of Mrs Potts, with Nigel Richards (The Phantom of the Opera,
Les Misérables) as Cogsworth.
Martin
Ball (Les Misérables, Wicked, Top Hat) takes the role of Maurice,
Samantha Bingley (Martha In The Secret Garden) is Wardrobe, Emma Caffrey
(Curtains, 42nd Street, Funny Girl) is Babette and Louis Stockil (Miss
Saigon, Mamma Mia!) plays Le Fou.
The
full company is completed with Jake Bishop, Pamela Blair, Liam Buckland,
Jasmine Davis, Matthew Dawkins, Autumn Draper, Daisy Edwards, Alyn Hawke,
George Hinson, Jennifer Louise Jones, Brontë Lavine, Thomas- Lee Kidd, David
McIntosh, Aimee Moore, Sam Murphy, Ashley-Jordon Packer, Emily Squibb, Grace
Swaby, India Thornton and Rhys West.
Beauty and the Beast is
reimagined in startling new designs which will use the latest theatrical
innovations. Among the many new features is an exuberant tap dance within the
legendary production number Be Our Guest, created expressly for Gavin
Lee, recognised as one of the great tappers on either side of the Atlantic.
Olivier Award nominee Matt West directs and choreographs
this new production, leading a team that includes composer Alan Menken,
lyricist Tim Rice, bookwriter Linda Woolverton, scenic designer Stan Meyer,
costume designer Ann Hould-Ward and lighting designer Natasha Katz. The team
collectively received five Tony® nominations and a win for Hould-Ward’s costume
design, when Disney first debuted Beauty and the Beast on Broadway 26 years
ago.
The structure and tone of the story and score – as
conceived for the 1991 film by its executive producer and lyricist Howard
Ashman with a continued evolution for the Broadway adaptation three years later
– made Disney history. Only once before – in Menken and Ashman’s previous film
musical The Little Mermaid – had a Disney film been structured like a
stage musical where the songs are integral to plot and characterisation rather
than only ornamental or digressions. This Menken/Ashman innovation is credited
with the 1990’s Disney animation renaissance that went on to create such film
classics as Aladdin, The Lion King and Hunchback of Notre Dame
and helped re-introduce the book musical form to popular culture.
This new Beauty, while retaining the lush period
sound of the Oscar-winning and Tony®-nominated score - which brought classics
including Be Our Guest and Beauty and the Beast, as well as Change
in Me, added to the musical production in 1998 and retained thereafter -
will be heard afresh with new dance arrangements by David Chase, allowing
original choreographer Matt West to re-visit his work. Longtime Menken
collaborators Michael Kosarin and Danny Troob are musical supervisor/vocal
arranger and orchestrator, respectively.
Completing the design team, Tony®-winner John Shivers is
sound designer, Darryl Maloney is the video and projections designer, and David
H. Lawrence is hair designer. Jim Steinmeyer is the illusions designer, as he
was on the original 1994 production. Casting for the production is by Pippa
Ailion Casting.
The
original West End production of Beauty and the Beast opened at
the Dominion Theatre in April 1997, playing over 1100 performances to more than
two million people. It won the 1998 Olivier Award for Best Musical and enjoyed
a hugely successful UK & Ireland tour in 2001.
Based
on the 1991 film – the first animated feature ever nominated for an Oscar for
Best Picture – Beauty and the Beast opened on Broadway in April 1994 and
garnered nine Tony nominations and one win. It played for more than 13 years on
Broadway, closing in 2007. It remains to this day – 26 years after it opened –
among the top 10 longest running shows in Broadway history. The live-action
retelling of the animated classic quickly became the highest grossing live
action film musical of all time in 2017, a record only beaten by The Lion
King live-action release in 2019.
Beauty
and The Beast is produced by Disney Theatrical Productions, under the
supervision of Thomas Schumacher.
Beauty and The Beast – 2021/22 Tour Dates
Until Saturday 16 October 2021
Liverpool Empire
Box Office: 0844 871 3017
www.atgtickets.com/venues/liverpool-empire
Thursday 21 October – Saturday 27 November 2021
Edinburgh Playhouse
Box Office: 0844 871 3014
www.atgtickets.com/venues/edinburgh-playhouse
Thursday 9 December 2021 - Saturday 15 January 2022
Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff
Box Office: 029 2063 6464
Thursday 20 January – Saturday 19 February 2022
Sunderland Empire
Box Office: 03330 096 690
www.atgtickets.com/venues/sunderland-empire/
Thursday 3 – Saturday 26 March 2022
Birmingham Hippodrome
Box Office: 0844 338 5000
Thursday 31 March – Saturday 4 June 2022
Manchester Palace Theatre
Box Office: 0333 009 6690
www.atgtickets.com/venues/palace-theatre-manchester
DISNEY THEATRICAL PRODUCTIONS (DTP) operates under the direction of Thomas Schumacher bringing live entertainment events to a global audience of more than 20 million people a year in more than 50 countries. Current London: The Lion King, which recently celebrated its 20th anniversary at The Lyceum, and Mary Poppins at the Prince Edward Theatre. Other London credits: Aladdin, the Olivier-nominated play Shakespeare in Love and DTP’s inaugural production Beauty and the Beast, which won the Olivier Award for Best Musical. Other productions on Broadway and around the world: Newsies, Peter and the Starcatcher, The Little Mermaid, Mary Poppins, a co-production with Cameron Mackintosh, TARZAN® and Elton John & Tim Rice’s Aida. Other successful stage musical ventures have included productions of Disney’s High School Musical, Der Glöckner Von Notre Dame in Berlin, and King David in concert.
Worldwide, its ten Broadway titles have been seen by over 200 million theatregoers, and have been nominated for 20 Olivier Awards, winning the honour five times. When performances resume worldwide, Disney Theatrical Productions’ slate of 20 produced or licensed productions will mean a Disney musical is being performed professionally somewhere on the planet virtually every hour of the day.
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