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Beauty's Next Belle is Brooke Tansley

By: Aug. 18, 2004
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Brooke Tansley (most recently seen as Penny in HAIRSPRAY) will be the next Belle in Disney's Beauty and the Beast a production spokesperson confirmed. Brooke will begin rehearsals on August 24th and her first performance will be on September 14th. She will take over for Disney Channel fave, Christy Carlson Romano.

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Tansley's other credits include Regional: Smokey Joe's Cafe (Downtown Cabaret), tap dancing en pointe as Helen Hayes in At Wit's End (Florida Stage), Wendy in Peter Pan (Mill Mountain), world premiere play In Service, The Nutcracker (Moscow State Ballet).

Disney's BEAUTY AND THE BEAST features Alan Menken's Academy Award-winning score, songs by the late Howard Ashman and Alan Menken (including the Academy Award-winning title song and the show-stopping "Be Our Guest"), plus songs written especially for the stage by Alan Menken and Tim Rice (including "If I Can't Love Her" and the recent addition "A Change In Me"). Book is by Linda Woolverton, author of the original screenplay. Disney's BEAUTY AND THE BEAST is choreographed by Matt West and directed by Robert Jess Roth. Sets are by Stan Meyer, costumes by Ann Hould-Ward, and lighting by Natasha Katz.

Disney's 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 performance schedule for Disney's BEAUTY AND THE BEAST on Broadway at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre (205 West 46th Street) is as follows: Tuesday at 7:00 PM, Wednesday through Saturday at 8:00 PM, with matinees Wednesday and Saturday at 2:00 PM, Sunday at 3:00 PM.




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