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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
May 23, 2000
Pros: The sets are amazing. The acting is great. Perfect for children!
Cons: The Disney play is much like the Disney's animated film of this story, so it is a bit repetitive if you've seen the movie.
Summary: Broadway's "Beauty and the Beast" takes this classic fairy tale and turns it into a ravishing vision.
The play is basically a live version of Disney's animated feature of the story, with a few additions and subtractions. So, if you have ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
May 21, 2000
Pros: Great Music and Special Effects
Cons: None
Summary: The beauty and the beast play was extremely good! It had great special effects that I am still racking my brain to figure out how they did some of them. The acting was great. It was a perfect play for the whole family. Grownups will have a blast ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
May 19, 2000
Pros: Costumes, sets and fun!
Cons: Completely brainless.
Summary: I grew up in NY. My mother was a professional actress and singer. By the age of 6 I had already seen more than 30 shows. Most of them not geared towards children. Actually, most of them not even remotely appropriate for children. I love theater. I ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
May 5, 2000
Pros: Beauty, Songs, Sets
Cons: Beast, Length
Summary: I saw this show when the tour came to Raleigh, NC. Granted this is more than a little off-Broadway, but they still have some high caliber talent involved. Overall, I enjoyed the show very much. Here are the highlights and lowlights:
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
May 3, 2000
Pros: Unbelievable special effects.
Cons: Some parts can be frightening to children.
Summary: We saw Beauty and the Beast at the Forrest Theatre in Philadelphia over the Christmas holidays. This was my daughter's first experience with Broadway theatre and she loved it.
I think we all know the story of Beauty and the Beast from our ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Apr 23, 2000
Pros: scenery
Cons: know the story before you see it
Summary: I had the opportunity to see this show with colleagues from work on a bus trip to New York City. We had great seats. We were roughly 15 rows from the stage, in the center of orchestra seating.
The story seen on stage is very similar, I guess ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Apr 22, 2000
Pros: Great show, costumes, and set!
Cons: NONE
Summary: Disney has outdone themselves with this one! We went and saw this production in Orlando, Florida. The set was UNBELIEVABLE and the changes were so fast and effortless. The costumes were breath taking! This is a traveling show I would see again! The ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Apr 11, 2000
Pros: Beautiful songs, lavish sets and costumes, a wonderful story.
Cons: Tickets are expensive.
Summary: I enjoyed this play so much on Broadway that when it came to my own town of Columbus, Ohio, I went to see it a second time. (My review is not specific to either production, since I make no mention of the actors.) Many of my co-workers also ended up ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Apr 9, 2000
Pros: Special effects
Cons: I wanted to never end!!
Summary: Last week my class went to New York, to go and see some Broadway plays. My teachers choose to see Beauty and the Beast. Let me just tell you, when the play was done, no one was sitting down. The costumes were gorgeous, the props were phenomenal, the ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Mar 31, 2000
Pros: All ages event
Cons: tickets are hard to get
Summary: Last week, while a bunch of friends and I visited New York City, we had the opportunity to see Beauty and The Beast on Broadway. Before leaving our hotel, we were discussing the possiblity that this production may be a bit on the childish side because ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Mar 30, 2000
Pros: A great time for everyone young and old
Cons: None
Summary: My husband took me to see Beauty and the Beast 2 years ago for our first wedding anniversary. He said he really wasn't sure how I'd react to tickets to this particular play, but at the time, it was the only Broadway show he could get tickets for without ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Mar 15, 2000
Pros: Wonderful Effects, Great Acting, Spectacular Scenery
Cons: none
Summary: I saw Beauty on Broadway two years ago. I went into the show with a positive feeling, because Beauty and the Beast is my favorite Disney movie. When I left, not only did I still have that positive feeling, but I was in awe! Although I had HORRIBLE seats, ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Mar 14, 2000
Pros: Great special effects, sets and costumes
Cons: Not the most stirring of musicals
Summary: The Broadway version of Beauty and the Beast was a far cry from the best musical I've ever seen, but it wasn't nearly the worst either. Adapted from the classic Disney animated version, the musical follows the plot closely, however there are some added ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Feb 12, 2000
Pros: Nicely staged, good special effects.
Cons: The bad guys are more entertaining than the good guys.
Summary: "Beauty and the Beast" is one of Disney's revamped fairy tales. Unlike "The Little Mermaid" this telling stays pretty true to the original tale, and moral. In the story by the Bothers Grimm, there is no Gaston or Lafou to add humor ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Feb 11, 2000
Pros: magical, colorful, fun, unexpected
Cons: the kids in the audience can be distracting
Summary: The first time I saw Beauty and the Beast, I was dragged, because a friend of mine wanted to go. I didn't see how a cartoon could be put on stage effectively - candlesticks and teacups don't sing and dance. I went during the summer for a weekday ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Feb 6, 2000
Pros: Energetic and exciting show
Cons: Don't go if you don't enjoy a theatre full of families
Summary: On a recent trip to NYC, I decided to take my kids to see a Broadway show. Since they are ages 14 and 3, I was fairly limited in my choices. I only hoped my 14 year old son would not be too bored at a Disney production.
I am happy to say that he ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jan 31, 2000
Pros: Real life fantasy comes true
Cons: grabbing a taxi after the show
Summary: We attended an evening show in the month of June 1999. We attended the show at the Palace Theatre and had seats in the third row of the balcony. This directly overhung a major portion of the lower seats and therefore put us very close to the stage. We ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jan 11, 2000
Pros: The elaborate special effects
Cons: The added music scores are bland and out of character
Summary: I was very curious to see how Disney was going to pull off a staged, musical version of their award winning animated Beauty and the Beast. Already a fan of the original version, I was under the opinion that some things just shouldn't be tampered ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jan 10, 2000
Pros: its a good one
Cons: toy have to see it
Summary: we sall this play not too loing ago and i likes it very much the reason i likes it becouse the people in it look as if they fit in it and they looked as if they did a very good job. I am not one to go to alot of plays but this one i would probly go ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jan 2, 2000
Pros: Costumes and Music was excellent
Cons: Tickets are a lil expensive
Summary: My husband and I have wanted to see this show for quite some time and we finally did and we both loved it! The costumes were beautiful and the show was so nicely performed....It was a great show for both the young and the old...it was easy to follow and ... read more
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