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Beauty and the Beast is Disney’s first stage musical, with music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Howard Ashman and Tim Rice, and a book by Linda Woolverton.Adapted from Walt Disney Pictures' animated film Beauty and the Beast – which in turn had been based on the fairy tale "Beauty and the Beast" by French author Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont – [1] Beauty and the Beast tells the story of ...
Upon its release in 1991, Beauty and the Beast received universal acclaim, becoming the first animated film ever to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, and winning the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy. The success of Beauty and the Beast led
As with Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King, The Hunchback of Notre Dame opened three years after the release of the movie it is based on. The musical is a darker, more gothic adaptation of the film and is more heavily based on Victor Hugo's 1831 novel. According to translator Michael Kunze, he was "campaigning to allow Esmeralda to die at ...
In a review of the musical version, The Globe and Mail said it "stops the show midway through Act 1". [1] ColumbiaUnderground called it "the second best song and dance number of the musical". [8] SputnikMusic wrote "Ever one to recognize a true gem, Disney then decided to employ White and Corti for the subsequent song "Gaston" and its reprise ...
Beauty and the Beast: Live on Stage is a Broadway-style musical at the Theater of the Stars, on Sunset Boulevard, at Disney's Hollywood Studios, Walt Disney World. [1] It is based on Disney's 1991 animated feature film Beauty and the Beast and opened on November 22, 1991, the same day the film was released.
Beauty and the Beast: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the official soundtrack album to the 1991 Disney animated film Beauty and the Beast.Originally released on October 22, 1991, by Walt Disney Records, the album's first half – tracks 2 to 9 – generally contains the film's musical numbers, all of which were written by composer Alan Menken and lyricist Howard Ashman, while its latter ...
Originally, Beauty and the Beast, under the direction of Richard Purdum, was not intended to be a musical.Then-studio chief Jeffrey Katzenberg decided to turn the film into a Broadway-style musical similar to The Little Mermaid (1989), Disney's previous animated film, after he, displeased with the film's initial story reel, ordered the film scrapped and restarted from scratch.
The narrative of the Sierra Entertainment adventure game King's Quest VI follows several fairy-tales, and Beauty and the Beast is the focus of one multiple part quest. [106] G5 Entertainment published a free-to-play hidden object game called Sherlock (2020), where one of the featured books is Beauty and the Beast. [107]