Summary
The truly great innovation in the Disney musical, which opened Thursday and runs through Aug. 28 at Kildonan Park's Rainbow Stage, is that the spell cast over the Beast's castle has caused each of the servants to turn gradually into a household object.
In their wonderfully clever costumes (on loan, along with the storybook sets, from a theatre in Kansas), the once-human clock (David Warburton) candelabra (Chris Sigurdson), teapot (Donna Fletcher), teacup (Tyler Horvey), feather duster (Brenda Gorlick) and bureau (Debbie Maslowsky) are delightful supporting characters whose plight is both funny and affecting. Many are played by the same performers who sparkled in Rainbow's indoor production of Beauty five years ago.Other crowd-pleasing numbers include the charming Human Again and the high-energy Gaston, the latter a manly, tongue-in-cheek salute to [Belle]'s brawny dolt of a suitor. Peter Huck brings just the right cheesy humour to the role of the cartoonish Gaston ("I'm especially good at expectorating," he boasts in song), though his pummelling of his sidekick LeFou (gifted pratfaller Andrew Stelmack) grows repetitive.See the full content of this document
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Musical Fairy Tale a Fantasy Fit for a Princess
Beauty and the Beast is, as the title song reminds us, a "tale as old as time."
As with all enduring fairy tales, audiences of all ages can still be engaged and moved by the story of the bitter...See the full content of this document
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