"Beauty and the Beast" - a fairy tale about beautifula girl with a kind heart and a bewitched prince languishing in the guise of a terrible Beast. This touching story is known all over the world, loved by both children and adults.
Сказка была многократно экранизирована, по ней a large number of theatrical productions were created, including the famous musical by Alan Menken, the premiere of the Russian version of which took place on October 18, 2014 in Moscow.
The fairy tale "Beauty and the Beast" is so wisethat it seems as if it is a folk, and many really think so. But the fairy tale has an author - this is the French writer Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbeau de Villeneuve. Here are just a magical love story Belle and the Beast was not quite the same as we know it. In the fairy tale, written by Madame de Villeneuve, there were much more characters and subject lines than in the version that is familiar to all of us, and it was told far from only about the enchanted Prince and Beauty. We are accustomed to the version that appeared 16 years after the work of the writer de Villeneuve saw the light. Jeanne-Marie Leprens de Beaumont (great-grandmother of the famous Prosper Merimee) edited and cut the original version. Fairy tale de Villeneuve in the wording of de Beaumont almost immediately gained incredible popularity.
The musical "Beauty and the Beast" (whose duration is 3 hours) tells that only love and beauty will save the world, because they have great power to make the world and people better.
The list of his most famous works includes music.for cartoons and productions of Broadway, such as The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Rapunzel, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and also for the musical Act, Sister. He is the author of songs and offscreen tracks to the cartoon "Pocahontas" and to the tape "Home Alone". This is not a complete list of masterpieces that glorified A. Menken to the whole world.
Libretto wrote L.Wolverton is the author of scenarios for children's TV shows and cartoons. Her most famous works are: "The Lion King", "Real Ghostbusters", "Alvin and the Chipmunks", "Duck Tales".
The lyrics to the cartoon "Beauty and the Beast", which were also used in the production, belong to H. Eshman. For additional songs, the text was written by the famous Tim Rice.
Already 20 years of success with the audience of allages in many countries of the world musical "Beauty and the Beast." Reviews about him are filled with such epithets as "fantastic spectacle", "amazing action", "bright extravaganza", "fascinating tale" ...
Belle is the first beauty in her town.Smart and kind girl. Differs from all not only beauty. She loves to read and dream, which is why the residents of the city consider her strange. Only her father understands her - an inventor and a dreamer like a daughter.
Monster - Prince, who enchanted sorceressin punishment for not knowing how to love and compassion. There is only one way to remove the spell: the Prince must love a girl who in return loves him, despite his terrible appearance.
Gaston - handsome, tall, strong, confidentimagine a young hunter. All the girls are in love with him, except for Belle, whom he dreams of getting married and does not give her a pass. Belle does not want to become his wife, as he is rude and arrogant.
Lefu is a friend of Gaston, puny, small and stupid.
When the prince was cast as a spell, everyone wholived and worked in his castle, also fell under the spell of the witch: Lumiere, the head waiter, became a chandelier; butler Cogsworth - mantel clock; Mrs. Chayton - teapot; her son Chip - a cup of tea; Babette's maid is a broomstick.
One winter night at a young prince living inluxurious castle, beggar begged overnight. He was heartless and ordered to chase her away. The old woman turned out to be a sorceress and punished the Prince, turning him into a Beast, and his servants into objects. The spell can only be removed by a girl who loves the Beast.
Belle lives with his father, who once got lost inthe forest, wandered into the castle to the Beast and became a prisoner there. The girl goes to look for him and, once in the castle, asks to release his father, he says that he will remain in captivity in his stead. The monster agrees. Father returned home, and she remains in the castle.
The enchanted Prince and his servants hope thatA beautiful woman can take a spell from them. First, the girl and the owner of the castle do not get along, Belle scares the monster not only with her appearance, but also with rude manners. Over time, it learns to be gallant, Belle stops being afraid of him, and they become friends. Thanks to the girl, the Beast becomes kinder and more humane, it sincerely falls in love with her. Noticing that the Beauty longs for her father, the Prince lets her go home, she promises to return, but he is sure that she will not see her again. At parting, the girl receives as a gift a ring that will allow her to instantly end up in the castle, if she wishes, and a magic mirror in which she can see anything she wants.
At home she is met by Gaston, who threatens thatif she does not become his wife, her father will be sent to a shelter for insane, because he tells all the stories about the Monster. The girl, trying to prove the truthfulness of her father’s words and avoid marriage that she hated, shows in the magic mirror the Monster, which Gaston intends to destroy by raiding him, for which he gathers a crowd of citizens.
The young hunter is trying to kill the Prince, which is whatHe does not resist at all, for he does not need life without Belle. Belle returns to the castle to save the Beast, but Gaston manages to mortally wound him. The girl says that she loves the Beast, the spell is broken, love conquers death, and instead of a terrible beast, a beautiful Prince appears before her. One of the favorite stories about the all-conquering power of love is the musical Beauty and the Beast. Feedback from viewers around the world allows you to get an answer to the question: "Is it worth going to this show?" There is no doubt that such a good musical tale deserves attention and will surely please everyone.
It was almost impossible to buy tickets for the production of “Beauty and the Beast” (musical) tickets, since they were bought up several months in advance.
The selection of artists took a very long time.There was even an open national casting "Find the Monster", which was shown on the TVC channel, where out of 500 applicants they chose one artist for the role of the enchanted Prince in the musical "Beauty and the Beast". Actors who performed roles in the first Moscow production:
These wonderful performers adorn the musical “Beauty and the Beast”, the public reviews about the troupe sound exclusively in a positive way.
After in 2010 the performance"Beauty and the Beast" in Russia was completed, the audience wrote a huge number of letters to the company "Stage Entertainment" asking for his return to the domestic stage. In October 2014, when the Beauty and the Beast (musical) production celebrated its 20th anniversary, Moscow once again welcomed this beautiful romantic story. The producers have no doubt that this time this musical tale will enjoy great success with the Russian public.
35 actors were selected in the production of "Beauty and the Beast" (musical). The composition of artists performing roles in the performance of 2014, updated. But there are actors involved in the 2008 production.
To become the performers of the roles, in the musical “Beauty and the Beast” the actors passed strict casting, which lasted for about a year.
Staging "Beauty and the Beast" (Russianmusical) - this is a rich arsenal of very interesting and complex costumes. Many of them have rather big weight. For example, the Belle dress, in which she appears before the audience in the final play, weighs 16 kilograms. The Lumiere costume (candelabrum) weighs 10 kilograms, while the actor's hands are raised all the time, and they are wearing accessories that imitate candles that can burn, since gas torches are hidden in hidden pockets. In order to perform roles in such heavy robes, artists need endurance and good physical training.
The make-up of the main character in the production of “Beauty and the Beast” (musical) is very complex. You can see below a photo of the process of applying make-up to an artist performing the role of the enchanted Prince.
The performance was staged in 22 countries, and the total number of viewers around the world was more than 35 million people. The author of Russian texts for the arias of the play is actor Alexei Kortnev.
Tickets for the “Beauty and the Beast” (musical) tickets can be purchased via the Internet, their cost varies on average from 1,000 to 4,000 rubles.
There is a performance every day at the Russia Theater, at Pushkin Square, 2. Nearby are the metro stations Tverskaya, Chekhovskaya and Pushkinskaya.
On weekdays you can watch a fairy tale.only in the evening. On weekends and holidays - twice, in the afternoon and in the evening, the musical “Beauty and the Beast” is shown. The duration of the performance is 3 hours.
