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Beauty and the Beast at the Lincoln Center |
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Written by Rebecca Lapole
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Thursday, 19 July 2007 |
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 Sometimes tales as old as time and tunes as old as song need a little revamping.
The animated movie and Academy Award-winning Best Song, “Beauty and the Beast,” has become the fourth longest running show in Broadway history and was nominated for nine 1994 Tony Awards.
This summer, “Beauty and the Beast” comes to the Lincoln Center for a five-night stay, presented by the Front Range Music Theatre.
Front Range Music Theatre is a nonprofit community theatre that annually provides scholarships to high school seniors entering a degree program in music or theater.
The nonprofit’s parent organization is the Loveland Music Guild.
“We’ve given over a quarter of a million dollars in the 32 years we’ve been in existence,” Peter Muller said. He is artistic director for Front Range Music Theatre and director for “Beauty and the Beast.”
With a small percentage of contributions from friends and advertisers, the majority of its production costs are paid for by ticket sales.
“For community theater, we have really been blessed with awesome actors who get paid to do this elsewhere, volunteer their time for us. These great people do it because we are able to spend money on our sets and production values. Ninety percent of the people who work for us are volunteers,” Muller said.
The Beast, Denver-based freelance actor David Ambroson, and Belle, Michelle Anton, have experience playing these characters, as they both held the same roles a couple of years ago at the Carousel Dinner Theater.
Muller said the experience of the cast varies.
“The lady playing Mrs. Potts and the man playing Cogsworth, have been working professionally for 20 years. But we also have high school people, who’ve never done a show before, in the cast.”
If you’ve seen the movie, it’s nice to know that not much has changed, except a few additions to make it better.
A few songs were added to help advance the story, and the dance numbers are billed as more exciting.
The Beast is still flown into the air and spun to transform into the prince, even though Amboson is scared of heights.
The enchanted objects remain true to their form, like the man who plays Lumiere keeping his lit candelabra arms up in the air the entire time.
And the moral of the story remains intact, too.
“It really deals with themes along the lines of looks are deceiving, and it’s what’s inside a person that counts,” Muller said.
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TO GO TO THE SHOW
Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast”
7:30 p.m. July 20, 21, 27, 28
2 p.m. July 29
Lincoln Center, 417 Magnolia, Fort Collins
$12-$20
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