Sarah Uriarte Berry will return as bibliophile heroine Belle in Disney's
Beauty and the Beast. The Light in the Piazza star will begin performances on Tuesday, September 19th at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre (205 West 46th Street).
Uriarte Berry will star opposite
Donny Osmond, who also will join
Beauty and the Beast on Tuesday, September 19th, as Gaston, for a limited nine-week engagement. She will succeed
Sarah Litzsinger in the role.
Uriarte Berry recently completed a 16-month run as Franca in the Lincoln Center Theatre production of
The Light in the Piazza, for which she received Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Award nominations. Broadway theatre credits include
Taboo, Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, and
Les Miserables. City Center Encores! Credits include
The Boys From Syracuse, and
Tenderloin. National tours include
Carousel, Sunset Boulevard, and
Les Miserables, and regional credits includ
e A Little Night Music, Violet, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Oklahoma!, Jekyll & Hyde, West Side Story, The Sound of Music, and
Almost Heaven. As of September 19th,
Beauty and the Beast, now in its 13th year on Broadway, will feature
Steve Blanchard as the Beast,
Sarah Uriarte Berry as Belle,
Donny Osmond as Gaston,
Stuart Marland as Lumiere,
Jeanne Lehmann as Mrs. Potts, Christopher Duva as Cogsworth,
Jamie Ross as Maurice, Meredith Inglesby as Babette,
Mary Stout as Madame de la Grande Bouche and Aldrin Gonzalez as Lefou. Trevor Braun and Marlon Sherman alternate in the role of Chip.
The musical opened on Broadway at the Palace Theatre in 1994, where it played more than 2,250 performances, becoming the longest-running show ever to play the legendary 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. More than twenty million people have seen the show in over twenty productions worldwide.
The performance schedule is as follows: Tuesday at 7pm, Wednesday – Saturday at 8pm, Saturday at 2pm and Sunday at 1:30pm and 7pm.
For tickets, visit online at
www.disneyonbroadway.com, via Ticketmaster at (212) 307-4747 or
www.ticketmaster.com, or in person at the Lunt-Fontanne box office (205 West 46th Street).
