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The personality traits of the bicep-tular Gaston (played by Alan Dietlein), a show stealer, are reflected in the color, fabric choices (Gaston does not wear silk or velvet), the line of the costume (fabric does not drape on his body - he is poured into the costume), and the costume accessories such as his wig. The introverted Beast?s costume, donned with style as he goes roaring and growling while he stalks and leaps about the stage, told us that he had become more animal than human but it also told us that he was still a Prince who was just imprisoned in the body of the Beast. The clothes also indicated the nature of the characters in the musical?their stations in life, their age, occupations and personalities. When a character walked on stage, we immediately knew something about the character through his costume, telling us if the character was male, female or animal. In the second half, when Belle finally stepped out in that iconic, yellow dress, the audience actually gasped. As I can tell, the designs for the show have changed over the years while maintaining the same basic shape. In the first half of the musical, starting with the panoramic opening with the simple but classically beautiful title song "Belle," she wears a standard-issue Disney heroine drag?an ankle-length skirt topped by a corseted vest and a white, face-framing collar. Nominated for 9 prestigious Tonys and 10 Drama Desk Awards, Costume designer Anne Hould-Ward was the only one to take home a Tony for her colorful and resplendent costumes (clothes, make-up, hairstyles and wigs, masks and prosthetics, etc.)Īnne?s interpretations of Belle?s costumes hark back to the film version but remain firmly planted in the musical?s set time, the Rococo period. Since then, the musical has been translated in 8 languages and has logged over 15,000 performances in more than 120 cities and 21 countries.
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Presenting this original Broadway spectacular in Manila (the first stop in the Asian leg), part of its 10-country international tour, are Disney Theatrical Productions, NETworks, Broadway Entertainment Group and MKFAE, with Ovation Productions (now observing its 35th anniversary in music and entertainment promotion) as its partner.īeauty and the Beast proved to be a big hit when it premiered at the Palace Theater on Broadway on Apand ran for 13 years, ranking as the ninth longest-running and one of the highest-grossing (grossing more than US$1.4 billion worldwide) Broadway shows of all time.
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The film (a 1991 Academy Award winner for animated feature film) and now musical, Beauty and the Beast, is directed by Robert Jess Roth. There were new scenes added to fill out the story for the stage and give depth to just about every character. The fairy tale written by French novelist Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont is given new life by Linda Woolverton, screenwriter of the original Disney film as well as The Lion King, Alice in Wonderland and The Maleficent. Members of media were given front row seats to this awesome and unforgettable experience in musical entertainment, based on a delightful and inspiring classic fairy tale of love and transformation. Beauty and the Beast, one of the most successful Broadway musicals of all time, had a press preview last January 9 at the Main Theater (Nicanor Abelardo Hall) of the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) in Pasay City.