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Music CD - Alan Menken, Howard Ashman, Tim Rice: Disney's Beauty and the Beast: The Broadway Musical (Original Broadway Cast Recording)
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Music CD: Disney's Beauty and the Beast: The Broadway Musical (Original Broadway Cast Recording)
Artist: Alan Menken, Howard Ashman, Tim Rice
List Price: $18.98
Our Price: $7.77
Your Save: $ 11.21 ( 59% )
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Manufacturer: Disney
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Tracks:
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1. Act I: Prologue (The Enchantress) - Wendy Oliver
2. Act I: Belle - Susan Egan/Burke Moses/Kenny Raskin/Sarah Solie Shannon/Paige Price/Linda Talcott...
3. Act I: No Matter What - Tom Bosley/Susan Egan
4. Act I: No Matter What (Reprise) / Wolf Chase - Tom Bosley
5. Act I: Me - Burke Moses/Susan Egan
6. Act I: Belle (Reprise) - Susan Egan
7. Act I: Home - Susan Egan
8. Act I: Home (Reprise) - Beth Fowler
9. Act I: Gaston - Kenny Raskin/Burke Moses/Sarah Solie Shannon/Paige Price/Linda Talcott...
10. Act I: Gaston (Reprise) - Burke Moses/Kenny Raskin
11. Act I: How Long Must This Go On? - Terrence Mann
12. Act I: Be Our Guest - Gary Beach/Beth Fowler/Heath Lamberts/Barbara Marineau/Brian Press/Stacey Logan...
13. Act I: If I Can't Love Her - Terrence Mann
14. Act II: Entr'acte / Wolf Chase - Original Cast
15. Act II: Something There - Susan Egan/Terrence Mann/Gary Beach/Beth Fowler/Heath Lamberts
16. Act II: Human Again - Gary Beach/Barbara Marineau/Heath Lamberts/Stacey Logan/Brian Press...
17. Act II: Maison Des Lunes - Burke Moses/Kenny Raskin/Gordon Stanley
18. Act II: Beauty And The Beast - Beth Fowler
19. Act II: If I Can't Love Her (Reprise) - Terrence Mann
20. Act II: The Mob Song - Burke Moses/Kenny Raskin/Gordon Stanley...
21. Act II: The Battle - Original Broadway Cast
22. Act II: End Duet / Transformation - Terrence Mann/Susan Egan
23. Beauty And The Beast (Reprise) - Original Broadway Cast
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0050086086177
Label: Disney
Manufacturer: Disney
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Disney
Release Date: 1994-04-26
Studio: Disney
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Thank you
Comment: Thank you for the Beauty and the Beast (Broadway original cast) CD. Although I ordered it a few days before Christmas, the CD arrived on Christmas Eve. Thank you for making it a special Gift for my daughter.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great CD. Right off Broadway
Comment: I didn't get the part. Shoot. Oh, well, the CD has been a blast to listen too.
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Summary: NOT the same as the movie soundtrack
Comment: I bought this so that my daughter would have the music to practice with when she was cast in "Beauty and the Beast". There are additional songs that aren't in the Disney movie version and this helped her to put in extra practice. Actually, one of her favorite songs from the production was one that was in the play that wasn't in the movie. She still listens to this CD, even though the play was over with months ago.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Disney's Beauty and the Beast
Comment: I could listen to this cd for hours and hours. It is absolutely fabulous. It makes me feel like I'm back in front of a stage watching the play all over again.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great CD
Comment: I bought this for my wife and daughter before they went to see the play on broadway. They really enjoyed listening to the music before seeing the play. Great for all ages.
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Editorial Reviews:
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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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