Beauty and the Beast (Theatre Version)
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ickaimpHafta admit, was wondering if my memory of the show from 16 years ago was faulty, but there's some Vids on Youtube of the show the year I saw it, and wow. Have they changed a lot of the costume and sets.
.... For one thing, Lumière no longer has real fire. Y'know those little prop fire cauldrons or torches? They use that. It works really well. Potential costume idea.
The sets tend to be a bit more... um. Moveable. Most of the items rotated 360 and would fill in for multiple things. People dressed as gargoyles did it in the castle, then crouched down and it looked AWESOME. Things were simpler and different and it totally worked. Difference between permanent and travelling show, I think. Compare: Travelling Be our Guest Original Broadway Be our Guest
... Verified that I'm really not a musical person. I liked some, but every time Beast sang, I kinda went 'oh no, not again'. The guy had a great voice. Beast's songs were just depressingly emo. He needed more eyeliner and skinny tight belts instead of a codpiece. With rhinestones.
Gaston's song is still a total showstopper. Watch the mugs.
Okay, Belle I had a little trouble with. The fact that I was expecting her to suddenly burst out in a 'BROOKLYN RAGE!' accent at any time might have had something to do with it. But I liked the talk at the beginning with her father about them moving, and how they travelled so much. She seemed to fiddle with a necklace when she talked about her Dad meeting her Mom, which makes me wonder if it got passed down to her.
... Plunnies.
She also could stop Beast with a glare and a single pointed finger. Dude. And that was BEFORE the whole 'Wolf' thing.
... The Wolves were giant floaty puppets. Kinda cool.
Beast was more emo and violent than his movie counterpart. Physically grabbing, pushing. manhandling and tossing Belle around a couple of times, accidentally tearing her clothing at one point. Cowboy boots amused me, as did his glee at hearing Arthur's tale. Such a little kid.
Zombie!Beast staggering around chanting "Be a Gentleman. Be a Gentlemen." is worthy of an icon or fic in and of itself.
And CODPIECE. 'Nuff said.
Loved the mention that Cogsworth, Lumière and Mrs. Potts are actually slowly transforming as time goes on. Cogsworth gains a wind-up key part way through and Mrs. Potts becomes more stiff. As they mention at one point,
"Remember Pierre was as thick as a brick?"
"Don't tell me he's a brick."
"You know that wall behind the stove-?"
As Wren commented, very horror-worthy.
Human!Cogsworth/Lumière fistbump at the end? Awesome.
Gaston... is Gaston. "No one can make up flattering lyrics like Gaston!" Excellent Gaston, he was flirty enough and bully enough that he was great.
Le Fou totally stole the show with his acrobatics. He got to grope Gaston more than the triplettes did, and they were TRYING to grope Gaston. And he got a kiss.
Turns out the actor for Belle's father and I have the same birthday. Just a random squee.
Trying to think and I'm on little sleep with the prospect of less tonight. Got a long stream of the confetti they shot into the audience and clipped it to my hair. Then talked with a couple of women who were TOTALLY sloshed during intermission. Very cool.
.... For one thing, Lumière no longer has real fire. Y'know those little prop fire cauldrons or torches? They use that. It works really well. Potential costume idea.
The sets tend to be a bit more... um. Moveable. Most of the items rotated 360 and would fill in for multiple things. People dressed as gargoyles did it in the castle, then crouched down and it looked AWESOME. Things were simpler and different and it totally worked. Difference between permanent and travelling show, I think. Compare: Travelling Be our Guest Original Broadway Be our Guest
... Verified that I'm really not a musical person. I liked some, but every time Beast sang, I kinda went 'oh no, not again'. The guy had a great voice. Beast's songs were just depressingly emo. He needed more eyeliner and skinny tight belts instead of a codpiece. With rhinestones.
Gaston's song is still a total showstopper. Watch the mugs.
Okay, Belle I had a little trouble with. The fact that I was expecting her to suddenly burst out in a 'BROOKLYN RAGE!' accent at any time might have had something to do with it. But I liked the talk at the beginning with her father about them moving, and how they travelled so much. She seemed to fiddle with a necklace when she talked about her Dad meeting her Mom, which makes me wonder if it got passed down to her.
... Plunnies.
She also could stop Beast with a glare and a single pointed finger. Dude. And that was BEFORE the whole 'Wolf' thing.
... The Wolves were giant floaty puppets. Kinda cool.
Beast was more emo and violent than his movie counterpart. Physically grabbing, pushing. manhandling and tossing Belle around a couple of times, accidentally tearing her clothing at one point. Cowboy boots amused me, as did his glee at hearing Arthur's tale. Such a little kid.
Zombie!Beast staggering around chanting "Be a Gentleman. Be a Gentlemen." is worthy of an icon or fic in and of itself.
And CODPIECE. 'Nuff said.
Loved the mention that Cogsworth, Lumière and Mrs. Potts are actually slowly transforming as time goes on. Cogsworth gains a wind-up key part way through and Mrs. Potts becomes more stiff. As they mention at one point,
"Remember Pierre was as thick as a brick?"
"Don't tell me he's a brick."
"You know that wall behind the stove-?"
As Wren commented, very horror-worthy.
Human!Cogsworth/Lumière fistbump at the end? Awesome.
Gaston... is Gaston. "No one can make up flattering lyrics like Gaston!" Excellent Gaston, he was flirty enough and bully enough that he was great.
Le Fou totally stole the show with his acrobatics. He got to grope Gaston more than the triplettes did, and they were TRYING to grope Gaston. And he got a kiss.
Turns out the actor for Belle's father and I have the same birthday. Just a random squee.
Trying to think and I'm on little sleep with the prospect of less tonight. Got a long stream of the confetti they shot into the audience and clipped it to my hair. Then talked with a couple of women who were TOTALLY sloshed during intermission. Very cool.
