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Beauty and the Beast Star Ashley Brown's Diary Goes Online
By: BWW News Desk Oct. 24, 2005
Brown was discovered by casting director Tara Rubin almost immediately after graduating Cincinatti College-Conservatory of Music. She went on to co-star in the touring Disney show On the Record, a blend of revue and book musical that showcased dozens of songs from the Disney catalogue.
Disney's Beauty and the Beast, currently in its 12th year on Broadway, features Steve Blanchard as the Beast, Ashley Brown as Belle, Grant Norman as Gaston, Peter Flynn as Lumiere, Alma Cuervo as Mrs. Potts, Jeff Brooks as Cogsworth, Jamie Ross as Maurice, Pam Klinger as Babette, Mary Stout as Madame de la Grande Bouche and Aldrin Gonzalez as Lefou. Trevor Braun and Alexander Scheitinger alternate the role of Chip.
Beauty and the Beast "is the classic love story of Belle, a young woman in a small, provincial town, and the Beast, who is really a prince trapped in a spell placed on him by an enchantress. If the Beast can learn to love and to be loved, the spell will be broken and he will be transformed back to his former self. But time is running out, and if the Beast does not learn his lesson soon, he will be doomed for all eternity." The musical opened on Broadway at the Palace Theatre in 1994, where it played more than 2,250 performances; it became the longest-running show ever to play that theatre. Beauty and the Beast, now also the longest running tenant in the history of the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, is Broadway's longest running American musical and the 6th longest-running show of all time.
