For 31 years, Robert A. Stuart has starred in his roles as theater director and educator. Although Stuart retired from teaching in 2020, he has continued to act and direct around Tallahassee.
His full circle moment happened this summer as the director of Leon High School’s “Beauty and the Beast” musical production. Stuart once performed on Leon High School’s stage
Let’s start off with a confession: I am a glasses-wearing, book-loving woman of a certain age who adored Belle when Beauty and the Beast hit cinemas in 1991. Today, little girls wear Elsa gowns, I wore that iconic yellow dress. (Though if we’re being honest, the blue pinafore is much more my style.)
So, it’s a little surprising that last
The Branson Regional Arts Council is hosting six public performances of Disney’s Beauty and The Beast JR. this week at the Historic Owen Theatre.
The cast of the production features the 71 young actors between the ages of 6 and 18 who have spent the last three weeks training for the show with the Branson Regional Arts Council’s Summer Youth
The tale as old as time returns to the West End. The 1991 animated film is doubtlessly one of the most beloved out of the Disney catalogue and saw a number of live-action films of varied quality developed over the years. Now, its musical adaptation takes over the Palladium in a grand spectacle directed and choreographed by Matt West. It’s
Beauty and the Beast: The Musical at London Palladium | Theatre review
The magic of the enchanted castle in Beauty and the Beast takes the London Palladium by storm. Like the witch casting the spell at the story’s beginning, the cast and creatives bewitch theatregoers with this spectacular musical.
Belle (Courtney Stapleton) is the
Disney’s beloved Olivier Award-winning stage musical Beauty and the Beast – re-imagined and re-designed in a completely new production staged by members of the original award-winning creative team – is now open at the London Palladium for a strictly limited season until Saturday 17 September.
Courtney Stapleton and Shaq Taylor play the iconic lead roles.
Beauty and the Beast is
When Disney’s ‘Beauty and the Beast’ musical premiered on Broadway in 1994 it was understandable that it cleaved fairly slavishly to the smash film, which had only hit cinemas three years previously.
Almost 30 years on, and it maybe seems weird that so much of the plot in this retelling of a centuries-old fairytale hinges on the antics of a
It originated as a 1740 French fairytale about a woman who must learn to love a hairy monster, one that was probably designed to get young girls used to the idea of arranged marriages.
Disney’s 1991 film added a welcome injection of feminism, making Belle a bold, bookish heroine who risks everything to save her elderly
TEKOA – Local third- through sixth-grade students performed their rendition of Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast” during three shows at the Empire Theatre.
Avery Blank played Belle and Ryker French portrayed the prince/beast.
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Belle (Avery Blank) cleans the Beast’s (Ryker French) wounds after he saved her from wolves.
Others in the troupe included Bayler
Robert A. Stuart
“Bit by bit, putting it together. Piece by piece, only way to make a work of art.”
These lyrics, from the musical “Sunday in the Park with George” were written by the late Stephen Sondheim, one of the world’s greatest composers, songwriters, and lyricists, and it is this verse that I hum every time I begin to