Disney's Beauty and the Beast: The Broadway Musical (Original Broadway Cast Recording)
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Brand: BEAUTY & THE BEASTEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1994-04-26
Music Label: Walt Disney Records
Soundtracks:
- Act I: Prologue (The Enchantress) - Wendy Oliver
- Act I: Belle - Susan Egan/Burke Moses/Kenny Raskin/Sarah Solie Shannon/Paige Price/Linda Talcott...
- Act I: No Matter What - Tom Bosley/Susan Egan
- Act I: No Matter What (Reprise) / Wolf Chase - Tom Bosley
- Act I: Me - Burke Moses/Susan Egan
- Act I: Belle (Reprise) - Susan Egan
- Act I: Home - Susan Egan
- Act I: Home (Reprise) - Beth Fowler
- Act I: Gaston - Kenny Raskin/Burke Moses/Sarah Solie Shannon/Paige Price/Linda Talcott...
- Act I: Gaston (Reprise) - Burke Moses/Kenny Raskin
- Act I: How Long Must This Go On? - Terrence Mann
- Act I: Be Our Guest - Gary Beach/Beth Fowler/Heath Lamberts/Barbara Marineau/Brian Press/Stacey Logan...
- Act I: If I Can't Love Her - Terrence Mann
- Act II: Entr'acte / Wolf Chase - Original Cast
- Act II: Something There - Susan Egan/Terrence Mann/Gary Beach/Beth Fowler/Heath Lamberts
- Act II: Human Again - Gary Beach/Barbara Marineau/Heath Lamberts/Stacey Logan/Brian Press...
- Act II: Maison Des Lunes - Burke Moses/Kenny Raskin/Gordon Stanley
- Act II: Beauty And The Beast - Beth Fowler
- Act II: If I Can't Love Her (Reprise) - Terrence Mann
- Act II: The Mob Song - Burke Moses/Kenny Raskin/Gordon Stanley...
- Act II: The Battle - Original Broadway Cast
- Act II: End Duet / Transformation - Terrence Mann/Susan Egan
- Beauty And The Beast (Reprise) - Original Broadway Cast
Music reviews of Disney's Beauty and the Beast: The Broadway Musical (Original Broadway Cast Recording)
Music Review: Pretty good soundtrack
Rating: 5 Stars
Very good Broadway soundtrack. It is different from the movie soundtrack. It took two listenings to fully appreciate it, but I love this CD. Highly recommended for fans of the musical, with great cast and music. My only gripe, not significant to dock a point from the rating, is that the booklet doesn't tell when the CD was recorded. Other than that, a must buy for Broadway and Disney fans.
Description of Disney's Beauty and the Beast: The Broadway Musical (Original Broadway Cast Recording)
No Description AvailableNo Track Information Available
Media Type: CD
Artist: BEAUTY & THE BEAST
Title: ORIGINAL CAST RECORDING
Street Release Date: 07/27/1999
Genre: CAST RECORDINGS
Way back in 1991, many of us saw the single-handed salvation and revival of the old-fashioned American-style Broadway musical comedy. True, it was in the form of a feature-length Disney cartoon, but Beauty and the Beast had it all: a wonderful, tuneful score (including a huge hit title-song), off-the-wall choreography, a great opposites-attract love story with an ultimately happy ending, comic subplots, colorful period costumes, a romantic location in small-town France, and an irresistible cast, including Angela Lansbury as the voice of a teapot. Alan Menken's songs, with lyrics by Howard Ashman and Tim Rice, literally introduced the characters ("Belle" and "Gaston") and carried them gracefully through the old fairy tale with its new animated twists. Disney understandably decided to transpose this cinematic miracle to the Broadway stage in 1992. Beauty and the Beast at the fabled Palace Theatre has done as much as anything to revive New York's theatre district; it led to a similar animated film-to-stage transfer of The Lion King, which allowed for the magnificent restoration of the 1902 New Amsterdam Theatre, which was the cornerstone of the cleanup of 42nd Street, which in turn transformed Times Square and "Broadway" into the world's number-one tourist destination. And we're all terribly grateful. But, on stage, Beauty and the Beast was flat, and most of that lack of fizz is, alas, captured on compact disc. The good songs are all here, such as "Be Our Guest," but the performances of them are mostly perfunctory--the exception being the vocal renderings of Susan Egan as Belle, the Beauty. Further, the Disneyfication of the Broadway musical seems to extend to faceless and interchangeable (read: cheap to hire) players, a practice that extends to The Lion King. The only "names" in the original Beauty and the Beast cast were Beth Howland as the teapot and Tom Bosley, a mere shadow of his former Fiorello, as Belle's father. Even worse, unlike The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast was not reinvented for the stage. It's my theory that the kids who made up the live audience (and many of their parents) were filling in the blanks from repeated viewings of the cartoon on video. If you're willing to do the same when only listening, this CD might do. But why, when the movie soundtrack album is available? --Robert Windeler
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