Saturday, 22 August 2015

‘Beauty and the Beast’ – for the first time in Indian Broadway theatre


Disney India has come on a project to run ‘Beauty and the Beast’, the celestial classic in Indian playhouse for the first time. ‘La Belle et la Bête’, better known as ‘Beauty and the Beast’ in English is a consecutive folk lore authorised by French novelist Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont and published in 1756.  The story got immense popularity throughout the centuries and the tale has been illustrated in about all sectors of art like paintings, poetries, songs, plays even in cinemas. On stage it glittered again and again but never in India. Now Disney India is going to engulf their momentum to Indian theatre with this immortal love story.
The production will be basically based on the award-winning animation movie (1991) which was based on the story said before. Already New York and London has been witness of the play and now complying the original script not-changed, Disney India is patronizing an Indo-Occidental ‘Beauty and the Beast’. The unit is completely international not at all excluding India. Vikranth Pawar is directing the show and also he is the Creative Head of the Live Entertainment at Disney India. Lesle Lewis is the Music Director whereas Terence Lewis is choreographing the entire show. Set will be designed by Varsha Jain. Costume Designer Gavin Miguel, Hair dresseer and Make-up artist Pallavi Devika and Vocal trainer Suzanne D'Mello are working with this mega-production .
The 130 minutes lingering English drama will be played across Mumbai and Delhi from October to December of the running year.

As per said by Siddharth Roy Kapur, Managing Director, Disney India, they are always thinking of ways in which to bring our audiences truly memorable world class entertainment experiences, and this pioneering effort to locally produce one of their most beloved Broadway musicals, is another example of that ongoing effort , at Disney India.

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