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Beauty and the Beast (musical)
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Beauty and the Beast is a musical with music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Howard Ashman and Tim Rice, and book by Linda Woolverton. To revert back into his human form, the Beast must first earn the love of a bright. All eight songs from the film were reused in the musical. Original songwriter Menken composed six new songs for the production alongside lyricist Rice, Woolverton, who had written the films screenplay, adapted her own work into the musicals libretto, and specifically expanded upon the characterization of the Beast. Woolverton also expanded the storylines of the staff from servants who had already been transformed into household objects into humans who were gradually turning into inanimate objects. After completing tryouts in Houston, Beauty and the Beast premiered on Broadway on April 18,1994, starring Susan Egan and Terrence Mann as the eponymous Belle and Beast, respectively. The musical opened to mixed reviews from critics, but was a massive commercial success. Beauty ran on Broadway for 5,461 performances between 1994 and 2007, becoming Broadways tenth longest-running production in history, the musical has grossed more than $1.4 billion worldwide and played in thirteen countries and 115 cities. It has also become a choice for high school productions. The Walt Disney Company CEO Michael Eisner was hired to ensure the performance of the next animated projects. Eisner himself had been a major in college. Eager to redeem himself, Ashman agreed to work on Disneys animated film The Little Mermaid, upon release, The Little Mermaid was a massive critical and commercial success, garnering two Academy Awards, both of them for Ashman and Menkens original music. Disney established a successful period, during which Ashman and Menken became responsible for teaching the art of transforming traditional animated films into animated musicals. Before the film had even completed, executive vice president Ron Logan suggested to Eisner that he consider adapting Beauty and the Beast for Broadway. Beauty and the Beast became the last project on which Menken worked with Ashman, once again, Academy Awards were won for Ashman and Menkens music. Several critics noticed the films live musical potential, among them prolific New York Times theatre critic Frank Rich. Lamenting the Broadway selection at the time, Rich famously praised the duo for having written The best Broadway musical score of 1991. Than anything he had seen on Broadway in 1991, richs review would ultimately provide Eisner and Katzenberg with the confidence needed to seriously consider the film as a potential Broadway project
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Disney's Hollywood Studios
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Disneys Hollywood Studios, originally Disney-MGM Studios, is a theme park at the Walt Disney World Resort in Bay Lake, Florida, near Orlando. It is owned and operated by The Walt Disney Company through its Parks, based on an idea by Marty Sklar, Randy Bright, and Michael Eisner, the park opened on May 1,1989, and was the third of four theme parks built at Walt Disney World. To increase public interest and the variety of representation within the park, Disney entered into a licensing agreement with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The parks current name took effect in 2008, with the removal of the MGM-branding throughout the park, the parks icon was originally the Earffel Tower from the parks opening until 2001 when the Sorcerers Hat—a stylized version of the magical hat from Fantasia—was erected in the parks central hub. It then served as the icon until its removal in January 2015. The tower was removed in April 2016. Currently, the park remains without an official designated icon, although both the Great Movie Ride and the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror are represented as such in marketing materials. In 2015, the park hosted approximately 10.8 million guests, ranking it the fifth most-visited theme park in North America and we welcome you to a Hollywood that never was—and always will be. A team of Walt Disney Imagineers led by Marty Sklar and Randy Bright had been given an assignment to two new pavilions for Epcots Future World section. The brainstorming sessions led to Wonders of Life and Great Movie Ride pavilions, the latter was to look like a soundstage backdrop, with a movie theater-style entrance in the middle and would have sat between the Land and Journey Into Imagination pavilions. In 1988, MGM/UA responded by filing a lawsuit that claimed Disney violated the agreement by operating a working movie, when the park first opened, the only two attractions were the Studio Backlot Tour and The Great Movie Ride. Disney later filed a countersuit, claiming that MGM/UA and MGM Grand, on October 23,1992, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Curtis B. The 33-acre MGM Grand Adventures Theme Park opened in 1993 at the Las Vegas site, on August 9,2007, Walt Disney World President Meg Crofton announced that Disney-MGM Studios would be re-branded as Disneys Hollywood Studios, effective January 7,2008. On March 12,2015, during a shareholders meeting. Disneys Hollywood Studios is divided into six themed areas, the parks original layout featured a large Hidden Mickey, which was visible in aerial photographs of the park and on the parks early guide maps. Construction and other changes have eliminated much of this image. Hollywood Boulevard, inspired by the street in Los Angeles, serves as the main entrance and operates in the same vein as Main Street. It is lined with themed streetscape facades and venues selling Disney merchandise, guests enter through the main entrance gate, which resembles the Pan-Pacific Auditorium
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Walt Disney Creative Entertainment
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The division was altered on January 31,2001, at the retirement of Executive Vice President, Ron Logan, who was the head of the division. Disney Creative Entertainment was founded in 2000 with the arrival of Executive Vice President Anne Hamburger, Parade - Disney California Adventure Park Disneys Aladdin, A Musical Spectacular - Disney California Adventure Park Disney Junior, Live on Stage. - Disney California Adventure Park Mickeys Soundsational Parade - Disneyland Park Fantasmic, - Disneys Hollywood Studios Celebrate the Magic - Magic Kingdom Fantasmic. - Disneys Hollywood Studios Festival of Fantasy Parade- Magic Kingdom Beauty, - Disneys Hollywood Studios Celebrate The Magic - Magic Kingdom Fantasmic. - Disneys Hollywood Studios Star Wars, A Galactic Spectacular - Disneys Hollywood Studios Beauty, - Tokyo Disneyland Legend of Mythica - Tokyo DisneySea Fantasmic
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Beauty and the Beast (1991 film)
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Beauty and the Beast is a 1991 American animated musical romantic fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures. To become a prince again, Beast must win her love in return, otherwise, he will remain a monster forever. The film also features the voices of Richard White, Jerry Orbach, David Ogden Stiers, Walt Disney first attempted unsuccessfully to adapt Beauty and the Beast into an animated film during the 1930s and 1950s. Following the success of The Little Mermaid, Walt Disney Pictures decided to adapt the fairy tale, Disney chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg eventually dismissed Purdums idea and ordered that the film be a musical similar to The Little Mermaid instead. The film was directed by Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise, with a screenplay by Linda Woolverton story first credited to Roger Allers, lyricist Howard Ashman and composer Alan Menken wrote the films songs. Ashman, who served as the films executive producer, died of AIDS-related complications eight months before the films release. The film was a box office success, grossing $425 million worldwide and it won the Academy Award for Best Original Score and Best Original Song for its title song. In April 1994, Beauty and the Beast became Disneys first animated film to be adapted into a Broadway musical, the success of the film spawned two direct-to-video follow-ups, Beauty and the Beast, The Enchanted Christmas and Belles Magical World. This was followed by a television series, Sing Me a Story with Belle. An IMAX version was released in 2002 that included Human Again, after the success of the 3D re-release of The Lion King, the film was reissued in 3D in 2012. In 2002, the film was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress for being culturally, historically, a live-action remake of the film was released on March 17,2017. Somewhere in France, an enchantress, disguised as an old beggar, offers an enchanted rose to a prince in exchange for shelter in his castle from the bitter cold. For his callousness, the enchantress transforms him into a beast to match his character and she gives him a magic mirror that enables him to view faraway events, along with the rose. To break the spell, the prince must learn to love another, if he fails, he will remain a beast forever. Ten years later, a woman, Belle, is bored of her village life. Because of her nonconformist ideals, she is ridiculed by everyone except her father Maurice, the bookseller. Despite being popular with the townsfolk, Gaston is determined to marry Belle, Maurice and his horse Phillipe get lost in the forest while traveling to a fair to present his newest invention, a wood-chopping machine. When Phillipe abandons Maurice, he comes across the Beasts castle, inside, he meets Lumière the candlestick, Cogsworth the clock, Mrs. Potts the teapot, and her son Chip the teacup
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FastPass
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Disneys Fastpass, FastPass+, and MaxPass are virtual queuing systems created by the Walt Disney Company. Disneys Fastpass and FastPass+ services are available at no charge to all park guests. Each attraction inside a Disney theme park has a number of guests that attraction can handle in a given operating day. For example, a ride-through attraction like the Haunted Mansion may be able to carry 2,000 guests per operating hour, during a 12-hour operating day,24,000 guests can experience this attraction. Similarly, a theatrical show with a theatre capacity of 3,000 guests that has five shows during the day has a capacity of 15,000 guests. When Fastpass is installed on the attraction, a number of those seats are set aside. The remainder are available on a stand-by basis to other park guests. At the beginning of the day, the enabled attractions wait is pre-set at a given time. The number of Fastpasses available is divided into time intervals. As guests obtain Fastpasses for the attraction, time intervals are depleted, for an average attraction, the Fastpass wait will generally stay near this initial pre-set time. In the case of very popular attractions, such as Splash Mountain or other thrill rides, time intervals are depleted quickly. Sometimes, all the time intervals will be depleted early in the day, Disney currently operates a paper ticket Fastpass system at its parks in Anaheim, Paris, Hong Kong, and Tokyo. Walt Disney World in Florida has eliminated the paper ticket system to implement a FastPass+ system of reservations made in advance via computer, paper Fastpass tickets are dispensed by machines outside each attraction that uses them. The guest inserts their park ticket into a reader on the machine, the machine then returns the admission ticket and a Fastpass ticket will be printed. This ticket will show the window at which the guest may enter the special priority line at that attraction. The return time period given is one hour for rides. It will also show when another Fastpass can be obtained, in normal practice, only one Fastpass ticket can be held at a time. Another Fastpass ticket can be obtained either at the start of the current Fastpass tickets return time or after two hours, whichever is earlier
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Broadway theatre
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Along with Londons West End theatres, Broadway theatres are widely considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English-speaking world. The Theater District is a popular tourist attraction in New York City, the great majority of Broadway shows are musicals. They presented Shakespeare plays and ballad operas such as The Beggars Opera, in 1752, William Hallam sent a company of twelve actors from Britain to the colonies with his brother Lewis as their manager. They established a theatre in Williamsburg, Virginia and opened with The Merchant of Venice, the company moved to New York in the summer of 1753, performing ballad operas and ballad-farces like Damon and Phillida. The Revolutionary War suspended theatre in New York, but thereafter theatre resumed in 1798, the Bowery Theatre opened in 1826, followed by others. Blackface minstrel shows, a distinctly American form of entertainment, became popular in the 1830s, by the 1840s, P. T. Barnum was operating an entertainment complex in lower Manhattan. In 1829, at Broadway and Prince Street, Niblos Garden opened, the 3, 000-seat theatre presented all sorts of musical and non-musical entertainments. In 1844, Palmos Opera House opened and presented opera for four seasons before bankruptcy led to its rebranding as a venue for plays under the name Burtons Theatre. The Astor Opera House opened in 1847, booth played the role for a famous 100 consecutive performances at the Winter Garden Theatre in 1865, and would later revive the role at his own Booths Theatre. Other renowned Shakespeareans who appeared in New York in this era were Henry Irving, Tommaso Salvini, Fanny Davenport, lydia Thompson came to America in 1868 heading a small theatrical troupe, adapting popular English burlesques for middle-class New York audiences. Thompsons troupe called the British Blondes, was the most popular entertainment in New York during the 1868–1869 theatrical season, the six-month tour ran for almost six extremely profitable years. Theatre in New York moved from downtown gradually to midtown beginning around 1850, in 1870, the heart of Broadway was in Union Square, and by the end of the century, many theatres were near Madison Square. Broadways first long-run musical was a 50-performance hit called The Elves in 1857, New York runs continued to lag far behind those in London, but Laura Keenes musical burletta The Seven Sisters shattered previous New York records with a run of 253 performances. It was at a performance by Keenes troupe of Our American Cousin in Washington, the production was a staggering five-and-a-half hours long, but despite its length, it ran for a record-breaking 474 performances. The same year, The Black Domino/Between You, Me and the Post was the first show to call itself a musical comedy, Tony Pastor opened the first vaudeville theatre one block east of Union Square in 1881, where Lillian Russell performed. Comedians Edward Harrigan and Tony Hart produced and starred in musicals on Broadway between 1878 and 1890, with book and lyrics by Harrigan and music by his father-in-law David Braham. They starred high quality singers, instead of the women of repute who had starred in earlier musical forms. Plays could run longer and still draw in the audiences, leading to better profits, as in England, during the latter half of the century, the theatre began to be cleaned up, with less prostitution hindering the attendance of the theatre by women
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Musical theatre
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Musical theatre is a form of theatrical performance that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting, and dance. The story and emotional content of a musical – humor, pathos, love, anger – are communicated through the words, music, movement, since the early 20th century, musical theatre stage works have generally been called, simply, musicals. These were followed by the numerous Edwardian musical comedies and the theatre works of American creators like George M. Cohan. Musicals are performed around the world and they may be presented in large venues, such as big-budget Broadway or West End productions in New York City or London. Alternatively, musicals may be staged in smaller fringe theatre, Off-Broadway or regional theatre productions, musicals are often presented by amateur and school groups in churches, schools and other performance spaces. In addition to the United States and Britain, there are vibrant musical theatre scenes in continental Europe, Asia, Australasia, Canada, the three main components of a book musical are its music, lyrics and book. The interpretation of a musical is the responsibility of its team, which includes a director. A musicals production is also characterized by technical aspects, such as set design, costumes, stage properties, lighting. The creative team, designs and interpretations generally change from the production to succeeding productions. Some production elements, however, may be retained from the production, for example. There is no fixed length for a musical, while it can range from a short one-act entertainment to several acts and several hours in length, most musicals range from one and a half to three hours. Musicals are usually presented in two acts, with one intermission, and the first act is frequently longer than the second. A book musical is usually built four to six main theme tunes that are reprised later in the show. Several shorter musicals on Broadway and in the West End have been presented in one act in recent decades, moments of greatest dramatic intensity in a book musical are often performed in song. Proverbially, when the emotion becomes too strong for speech, you sing, typically, many fewer words are sung in a five-minute song than are spoken in a five-minute block of dialogue. Therefore, there is time to develop drama in a musical than in a straight play of equivalent length. Within the compressed nature of a musical, the writers must develop the characters, the material presented in a musical may be original, or it may be adapted from novels, plays, classic legends, historical events or films. On the other hand, many musical theatre works have been adapted for musical films, such as West Side Story, My Fair Lady, The Sound of Music, Oliver
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Walt Disney World
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The Walt Disney World Resort is an entertainment complex in Bay Lake and Lake Buena Vista, Florida, near Orlando and Kissimmee, Florida. The resort is the destination of Disneys worldwide corporate enterprise. Opened on October 1,1971, Walt Disney World is the most visited vacation resort in the world, the resort is owned and operated by Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, a division of The Walt Disney Company. It was initially operated by Walt Disney World Company, Magic Kingdom was the first theme park to open in the complex, in 1971, followed by Epcot in 1982, Disneys Hollywood Studios in 1989, and the most recent, Disneys Animal Kingdom in 1998. Designed to supplement Disneyland in Anaheim, California, which had opened in 1955, the Florida Project, as it was known, was intended to present a distinct vision with its own diverse set of rides. Walt Disneys original plans called for the inclusion of an Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow. Walt Disney died on December 15,1966, before construction began, without Disney spearheading the construction, the company created a resort similar to Disneyland, abandoning experimental concepts for a planned community. In 1959, Walt Disney Productions began looking for land to house a second resort to supplement Disneyland in Anaheim, California, which had opened in 1955. Market surveys at the revealed that only 5% of Disneylands visitors came from east of the Mississippi River. Additionally, Walt Disney disliked the businesses that had sprung up around Disneyland, Walt Disney flew over a potential site in Orlando, Florida – one of many – in November 1963. To avoid a burst of land speculation, Walt Disney World Company used various dummy corporations to acquire 30,500 acres of land, in May 1965, some of these major land transactions were recorded a few miles southwest of Orlando in Osceola County. In addition, two tracts totaling $1. Some are now memorialized on a window above Main Street, U. S. A. in Magic Kingdom, the smaller parcels of land acquired were called outs. They were 5-acre lots platted in 1912 by the Munger Land Company, most of the owners in the 1960s were happy to get rid of the land, which was mostly swamp at the time. Another issue was the rights to the land, which were owned by Tufts University. Without the transfer of rights, Tufts could come in at any time. Eventually, Disneys team negotiated a deal with Tufts to buy the rights for $15,000. Working strictly in secrecy, real estate agents unaware of their clients identity began making offers to landowners in April 1964 in parts of southwest Orange and northwest Osceola counties
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Disneyland
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Disneyland Park, originally Disneyland, is the first of two theme parks built at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California, opened on July 17,1955. It is the theme park designed and built under the direct supervision of Walt Disney. It was originally the attraction on the property, its name was changed to Disneyland Park to distinguish it from the expanding complex in the 1990s. Walt Disney came up with the concept of Disneyland after visiting various amusement parks with his daughters in the 1930s and 1940s. He initially envisioned building a tourist attraction adjacent to his studios in Burbank to entertain fans who wished to visit, however, after hiring a consultant to help him determine an appropriate site for his project, Disney bought a 160-acre site near Anaheim in 1953. Construction began in 1954 and the park was unveiled during a televised press event on the ABC Television Network on July 17,1955. Opened in 2001, Disney California Adventure Park was built on the site of Disneylands original parking lot, Disneyland has a larger cumulative attendance than any other theme park in the world, with over 650 million guests since it opened. In 2013, the park hosted approximately 16.2 million guests, according to a March 2005 Disney report,65,700 jobs are supported by the Disneyland Resort, including about 20,000 direct Disney employees and 3,800 third-party employees. To all who come to this place, Welcome. Here age relives fond memories of the past, and here youth may savor the challenge and promise of the future. Disneyland is dedicated to the ideals, the dreams, and the facts that have created America, with the hope that it will be a source of joy. The concept for Disneyland began when Walt Disney was visiting Griffith Park in Los Angeles with his daughters Diane and Sharon. While watching them ride the merry-go-round, he came up with the idea of a place where adults and their children could go and have fun together and he may have also been influenced by his fathers memories of the Worlds Columbian Exposition of 1893 in Chicago. Another likely influence was Benton Harbor, Michigans nationally famous House of Davids Eden Springs Park, Disney visited the park and ultimately bought one of the older miniature trains originally used there, the colony had the largest miniature railway setup in the world at the time. His ideas evolved to a play park with a boat ride. The initial concept, the Mickey Mouse Park, started with an 8-acre plot across Riverside Drive and his designers began working on concepts, though the project grew much larger than the land could hold. Disney hired Harrison Price from Stanford Research Institute to gauge the proper area to locate the theme based on the areas potential growth. Based on Prices analysis, Disney acquired 160 acres of groves and walnut trees in Anaheim
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Disneyland Paris
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It is owned and operated by Euro Disney S. C. A. A publicly traded company in which The Walt Disney Company owns a controlling stake, Disneyland Park is the original theme park of the complex, opening with the resort on 12 April 1992. A second theme park, Walt Disney Studios Park, opened in 2002, the resort is the second Disney park to open outside of the United States following the opening of the Tokyo Disney Resort in 1983. Following the success of Walt Disney World in Florida, plans to build a theme park in Europe emerged in 1972. Under the leadership of E. Cardon Walker, Tokyo Disneyland opened in 1983 in Japan with instant success, in late 1984 the heads of Disneys theme park division, Dick Nunis and Jim Cora, presented a list of approximately 1,200 possible European locations for the park. By March 1985, the number of locations for the park had been reduced to four. Both nations saw the economic advantages of a Disney theme park. Both Spanish sites were located near the Mediterranean Sea and offered a climate similar to Disneys parks in California. Disney had also shown interest in a site near Toulon in southern France, the pleasing landscape of that region, as well as its climate, made the location a top competitor for what would be called Euro Disneyland. However, shallow bedrock was encountered beneath the site, which would have rendered construction too difficult, finally, a site in the rural town of Marne-la-Vallée was chosen because of its proximity to Paris and its central location in Western Europe. This location was estimated to be no more than a drive for 68 million people. The final contract was signed by the leaders of the Walt Disney Company, construction began in August 1988, and in December 1990, an information centre named Espace Euro Disney was opened to show the public what was being constructed.3 billion. In order to provide lodging to patrons, it was decided that 5,200 Disney-owned hotel rooms would be built within the complex. In March 1988, Disney and a council of architects decided on an exclusively American theme in each hotel would depict a region of the United States. At the time of the opening in April 1992, seven hotels collectively housing 5,800 rooms had been built, an entertainment, shopping and dining complex based on Walt Disney Worlds Downtown Disney was designed by Frank Gehry. With its towers of oxidised silver and bronze-coloured stainless steel under a canopy of lights, for a projected daily attendance of 55,000, Euro Disney planned to serve an estimated 14,000 people per hour inside the Euro Disneyland park. In order to accomplish this,29 restaurants were built inside the park, menus and prices were varied with an American flavour predominant and Disneys precedent of serving alcoholic beverages was continued in the park. 2,300 patio seats were installed to satisfy Europeans expected preference of eating outdoors in good weather, in test kitchens at Walt Disney World, recipes were adapted for European tastes
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Be Our Guest
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Be Our Guest is a song written by lyricist Howard Ashman and composer Alan Menken for Walt Disney Pictures 30th animated feature film Beauty and the Beast. The song had originally intended for Belles father Maurice. However, Be Our Guest had to be entirely re-written as the story evolved in order to return its focus to Belle, be Our Guest has since been extolled as one of Disneys most celebrated and popular songs, establishing itself as one of the studios greatest and most iconic. Be Our Guest received nominations for both the Golden Globe and Academy Awards for Best Original Song, ultimately losing both to the title song. Be Our Guest has been ranked highly on several best Disney song countdown lists, garnering recognition from IGN, M and it was also covered by Alvin and the Chipmunks and The Chipettes. Originally, Beauty and the Beast, under the direction of Richard Purdum, was not intended to be a musical, as a result, Purdum resigned, and first-time feature film directors Kirk Wise and Gary Trousdale replaced him. Musically, Be Our Guest is based on a melody that was composed by Menken. Subsequently, Ashman wrote the songs lyrics, originally, the filmmakers had initially intended for Be Our Guest to be performed by Lumiere to Belles disoriented father Maurice when the character first discovers the Beasts castle. Consequently, the song had to be re-written and the entire scene re-animated, Trousdale explained, We had to bring Jerry Orbach and all the other vocal talents back into the studio to change all references to gender that appeared in the original recording. Upon insisting that they treat her more like a guest than a prisoner, Lumiere decides to go against the Beasts orders, a food chorus line, Be Our Guest is a rollicking invitation to Belle from the castle staff. As the films heroine, Belle is served a meal in the form of a Broadway-quality stage show, commonly regarded as the show-stopper of Beauty and the Beast, the sequence both visually and musically derive insatiable energy and excitement from the gradual accumulation of participation. Longing to be human, servant and maître d Lumiere is also of the impression that he is worth nothing unless he serves, singing, significantly, Be Our Guest marks the debut of the system that is featured in the ballroom dance sequence and Be Our Guest. Due to its elaborateness, the sequence has been noted for tak full advantage of the advantages of animation, in terms of character development, Be Our Guest introduces both Belle and audiences to Lumieres musical expertise. American actor and singer Jerry Orbach, who provided the voice of Lumiere, described as both a musical montage and the magical set piece of Beauty and the Beast, Be Our Guest is a big production number featuring dancing cutlery. David Kronke of Amazon. com hailed the song itself as an inspired Busby Berkeley homage, Film critic Roger Ebert joked that the Be Our Guest choreography resembles Busby Berkeley running amok. Written in the key of B♭ major, Be Our Guest is, according to the songs sheet music. Another inspiration for the song is a theme from Mahlers Third Symphony. An energetic, turbo-charged Broadway chorus number, Be Our Guest was written in time at a free tempo of 50 beats per minute
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Something There
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Something There is a song written by lyricist Howard Ashman and composer Alan Menken for Walt Disney Pictures 30th animated feature film Beauty and the Beast. Critical reception towards Something There has been positive, with film, Something There was written by lyricist Howard Ashman and composer Alan Menken. According to Menken, Something There was written as a quick replacement for. Human Again, the latter of which was cut from Beauty. Eleven minutes in length, producer Don Hahn explained that the song was cut because We just couldnt figure out how to make it work, in his biography Im Not Dead. Actor Robby Benson, voice of the Beast, revealed that it was co-star Paige OHaras idea to have Bensons character duet with OHaras Belle in Something There, according to Benson, the actress explained to Ashman and Menken that had made records and sang in Broadway musicals. By this, Ashman meant that he wanted OHara to impersonate singer and actress Barbra Streisand, Something There was recorded by OHara and Benson accompanied by a live orchestra. In the book The Meanings of Beauty and the Beast, A Handbook, bandaging and nursing after he rescues her from the wolves. Contextually, the purpose of the song has been identified as Dramatizing partnership, leading up to the musical sequence, the Beast first surprises Belle by showing her his library and then they learn to eat together. Author Robin O. Initially, Belle is alarmed as she realizes her love for the Beast. According to the Hal Leonard Corporation and Music Theatre International, the staff of enchanted objects also discover something different between Belle and the Beast. Something There concludes with Belle and the Beast retreating to a fireplace, in the original film, Something There immediately precedes the films title song. However, for its special edition re-release, the song is followed by the newly reinstated Human Again. Identifying the song as where the genius of music as storytelling kicks in, the author observed that In two minutes and 19 seconds, gets across just how the position and feelings of the characters have changed. For instance, At the beginning of Something There, Belle admits that she thought the Beast was mean, coarse, by the end, she’s feeling pretty smitten, according to Oh My Disney. The song also depicts the passing of time, while providing audiences with an opportunity to appreciate Beast and first see the potential for Belle. On the songs role in the special version of the film, co-director Kirk Wise explained. Dubbing the song soliloquies of Belle and the Beast, TV Guide drew comparisons between Something There and songs from the musical South Pacific, the Something There musical sequence was added towards the end of Beauty and the Beasts filmmaking process
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Beauty and the Beast (Disney song)
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Beauty and the Beast is a song written by lyricist Howard Ashman and composer Alan Menken for the Disney animated feature film Beauty and the Beast. Lansbury was initially hesitant to record Beauty and the Beast because she felt that it was not suitable for her singing voice. In order to promote the film, Disney decided to release Beauty and the Beast as a single, and first recruited solely Dion to record a radio-friendly version of it. At first Dion was also hesitant to record Beauty and the Beast because she had just recently been fired from recording the song of the animated film An American Tail. First heard during the end credits, the single was produced by Walter Afanasieff who also arranged it with Robbie Buchanan. The single was accompanied by a music video, directed by Dominic Orlando, it combined footage of the singers recording the song at The Power Station with excerpts from the film. The single was nominated for the Grammy Award for Record of the Year. Lansburys performance has been lauded by both film and music critics. In addition to returning Disney songs to the pop charts after an absence, the success of Beauty. Considered to be among Disneys best and most popular songs, Beauty, in 2004, the American Film Institute officially recognized Beauty and the Beast as one of the greatest songs in film history, ranking it 62nd. Grande and Legends version of the song is an homage to the performed by Dion and Bryson for the 1991 film. Beauty and the Beast was written by lyricist Howard Ashman and composer Alan Menken in 1990, intending for the song to be the height of simplicity, the songwriters drew much of its influence from Broadway music. Due to Ashmans failing health, some of Beauty and the Beasts pre-production was relocated to a hotel in Fishkill, Out of all the songs he has written for Beauty and the Beast, Menken devoted the most time to the title song. The track was first recorded by British-American actress Angela Lansbury, who voices the character Mrs. Potts, the songwriters first introduced Beauty and the Beast to Lansbury as a demo recording, which was accompanied by a note asking her if she might possibly be interested in singing it. Lansbury suggested that the songwriters ask someone else to sing Beauty and the Beast, on the day of her scheduled recording session, Lansburys flight was delayed due to a bomb threat, which prompted an emergency landing in Las Vegas. Unaware of her whereabouts for several hours, the filmmakers had begun making plans to reschedule the session until Lansbury finally telephoned the studio once she arrived safely in New York, ultimately, Lansbury recorded her version in one take, which wound up being used in the final film. Producer Don Hahn recalled that the actress simply sang Beauty and the Beast from beginning to end and we picked up a couple of lines here and there, but essentially that one take is what we used for the movie. Lansburys performance moved everyone who was present in the studio at the time to tears
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Celine Dion
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Céline Marie Claudette Dion, CC OQ ChLD is a Canadian singer and businesswoman. Dion first gained recognition in the 1980s by winning both the 1982 Yamaha World Popular Song Festival and the 1988 Eurovision Song Contest where she represented Switzerland. Following a series of French albums during the 1980s, she signed on to Epic Records in the United States, in 1990, Dion released her debut English-language album, Unison, establishing herself as a viable pop artist in North America and other English-speaking areas of the world. During the 1990s, with the help of Angélil, she achieved fame after releasing several English albums along with additional French albums. Her albums, Falling into You and Lets Talk About Love, were certified diamond in the US while Deux became the best-selling French-language album of all time. However, in 1999 at the height of her success, Dion announced a hiatus from entertainment to start a family and spend time with her husband and she returned to the top of pop music in 2002 and signed to perform nightly in A New Day. A five-star theatrical show at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace, Paradise and it became the most successful residency show of all time, grossing US $385 million. Dions music has influenced by genres ranging from rock and R&B to gospel. Her recordings are mainly in French and English, although she sings in Spanish, Italian, German, Latin, Japanese. While her releases have received mixed critical reception, she is regarded as one of pop musics most influential voices. Dion has won five Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year and she is the second best-selling female artist in the US during the Nielsen SoundScan era. In 2003, Dion was honoured by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry for selling over 50 million albums in Europe, Dion remains the best-selling Canadian artist and one of the best-selling artists of all time with record sales of over 200 million copies worldwide. Dion was born in Charlemagne, Quebec, Canada, the youngest of 14 children of Thérèse, a homemaker, and Adhémar Dion, Dion was raised a Roman Catholic in a poverty-stricken, but, by her own account, happy home in Charlemagne. Music had always been a part of the Dion family, indeed, Dion herself was named after the song Céline. Thereafter, she continued to perform with her siblings in her parentss small piano bar called Le Vieux Baril, from an early age, Dion had dreamed of being a performer. In a 1994 interview with People magazine, she recalled, I missed my family and my home, I had one dream, I wanted to be a singer. At age 12, Dion collaborated with her mother and her brother Jacques to write and compose her first song, Ce nétait quun rêve, whose title translates as It Was Only a Dream or Nothing But A Dream. Her brother, Michel Dion, sent the recording to music manager René Angélil, Angélil was moved to tears by Dions voice and decided to make her a star
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The Oprah Winfrey Show
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The Oprah Winfrey Show, often referred to simply as Oprah, is an American syndicated tabloid talk show that aired nationally for 25 seasons from September 8,1986 to May 25,2011 in Chicago, Illinois. Produced and hosted by its namesake, Oprah Winfrey, it remains the highest-rated talk show in American television history, the show has been highly influential, and many of its topics have penetrated into the American pop-cultural consciousness. Winfrey has used the show as a platform, featuring book clubs, interviews, self-improvement segments. Oprah is one of the daytime television tabloid talk shows in history. The show received 47 Daytime Emmy Awards before Winfrey chose to stop submitting it for consideration in 2000, in 2002, TV Guide ranked it at #49 on TV Guides 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time. In 2013, they ranked it as the 19th greatest TV show of all time, the show has its roots in A. M. Chicago, a morning talk show airing on WLS-TV, an ABC owned-and-operated station in Chicago. Winfrey took over as host on January 2,1984 and, within a month, for the premiere, the shows producers tried rigorously to book Miami Vices Don Johnson as the first guest, even trying to bribe him with Dom Pérignon and a pair of rhinestone sunglasses. All attempts to book Johnson failed and Winfrey decided to do what we do best, the topic for the premiere show was How to Marry the Man or Woman of Your Choice. Early in the 12th season of The Oprah Winfrey Show, Winfrey confessed she was exhausted and considered quitting. However, while making the 1998 movie Beloved, Winfrey then admitted that it brought her back to her responsibility as a black woman with a great deal of power. She realized that being in such a position within the media industry, Winfrey was once again inspired to continue to help people take better control of their destinies, hence her slogan, Live Your Best Life. In the midst of doing Beloved, in a 2008 interview with Larry King, Winfrey announced that in 2011, although there would be a full season of her shows in that year, she would not renew her contract, thus ending the show. Winfrey interviewed a plethora of public figures and everyday people during the shows 25-year history, Winfrey claims her worst interviewing experience was with Elizabeth Taylor in the shows second season. Just before the interview, Taylor asked Winfrey not to ask any questions about her relationships, Winfrey found this to be a challenge considering Taylor had been married seven times. Taylor returned to the show in 1992, apologized to Winfrey and told her that she was in excruciating back, on February 10,1993, Winfrey sat down with Michael Jackson for what would become the most-watched interview in television history. Jackson, a private entertainer, had not given an interview in 14 years. The event was broadcast live from Jacksons Neverland Ranch and was watched by 90 million people worldwide, Jackson discussed missing out on a normal childhood and his strained relationship with his father, Joe Jackson
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Oprah Winfrey
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Orpah Gail Winfrey, better known as Oprah Winfrey, is an American media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist. She is best known for her talk show The Oprah Winfrey Show, several assessments rank her as the most influential woman in the world. In 2013, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama and honorary degrees from Duke. Winfrey was born into poverty in rural Mississippi to a single mother and later raised in an inner-city Milwaukee neighborhood. She has stated that she was molested during her childhood and early teens and became pregnant at 14, her son died in infancy. Sent to live with the man she calls her father, a barber in Tennessee, Winfrey landed a job in radio while still in high school, by the mid-1990s, she had reinvented her show with a focus on literature, self-improvement, and spirituality. From 2006 to 2008, her endorsement of Obama, by one estimate, Winfrey was named Orpah on her birth certificate after the biblical figure in the Book of Ruth, but people mispronounced it regularly and Oprah stuck. Winfrey was born in Kosciusko, Mississippi, to a teenage mother. She later said that her conception was due to a sexual encounter. Her mother, Vernita Lee, was a housemaid, Winfreys biological father is usually noted as Vernon Winfrey, a coal miner turned barber turned city councilman who had been in the Armed Forces when she was born. However, Mississippi farmer and World War II veteran Noah Robinson, a genetic test in 2006 determined that her matrilineal line originated among the Kpelle ethnic group, in the area that today is Liberia. Her genetic makeup was determined to be 89% Sub-Saharan African, 8% Native American, however, the East Asian may, given the imprecision of genetic testing, actually be Native American markers. Her grandmother taught her to read before the age of three and took her to the church, where she was nicknamed The Preacher for her ability to recite Bible verses. When Winfrey was a child, her grandmother would hit her with a stick when she did not do chores or if she misbehaved in any way. Around this time, Lee had given birth to daughter, Winfreys younger half-sister. By 1962, Lee was having difficulty raising both daughters so Winfrey was temporarily sent to live with Vernon in Nashville, Tennessee, while Winfrey was in Nashville, Lee gave birth to a third daughter who was put up for adoption and later also named Patricia. Winfrey did not learn she had a second half-sister until 2010, by the time Winfrey moved back in with Lee, Lee had also given birth to a boy named Jeffrey, Winfreys half-brother, who died of AIDS-related causes in 1989. When Winfrey discussed the alleged abuse with family members at age 24, Winfrey once commented that she had chosen not to be a mother because she had not been mothered well
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Belle (Disney)
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Belle is a fictional character who appears in Walt Disney Pictures 30th animated feature film Beauty and the Beast. Originally voiced by American actress and singer Paige OHara, Belle is the daughter of an eccentric inventor. Belle yearns to abandon her predictable village life in return for adventure, Walt Disney Studios chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg commissioned Beauty and the Beast as an animated musical with a strong heroine and hired first-time screenwriter Linda Woolverton to write it. Basing her on the heroine of Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumonts fairy tale Beauty, however, the story artists and animators often disagreed with Woolvertons liberated vision for the character. Several additional Hollywood actresses inspired Belles appearance, including Natalie Wood, Elizabeth Taylor, Belle has garnered widespread acclaim from film critics who appreciated the characters bravery, intelligence and independence. Reception towards her feminism, however, has more mixed. The fifth Disney Princess, Belle is often ranked among the franchises best, also one of Disneys most iconic characters, Belle was the only animated heroine nominated for the American Film Institutes greatest heroes in film ranking. The character also appears in the films several sequels and spin-offs, American actress Susan Egan originated the role of Belle in the Broadway musical adaptation of the film, for which she was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical. Emma Watson plays a version of the character in a 2017 live action adaptation of the original 1991 film. However, the project was abandoned due to the fairy tales static plot. The filmmaker was also concerned about the intensity required to depict Belle imprisoned. Inspired by the success of The Little Mermaid, Disney chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg green-lit another attempt at adapting Beauty. Opting instead for a feminist twist on the story, Katzenberg hired television writer Linda Woolverton, before Beauty and the Beast, Disneys tradition of depicting female characters as victims had already long been established. The fact that Belle was hardly depicted as a feminist in earlier versions of the film became a point of contention among the filmmakers. Despite the fact that Disney wanted Beauty and the Beast to resemble an old-fashioned film, Woolverton strongly believed that contemporary audiences would not identify with Belle unless she was updated appropriately, and thus evolved the character into a woman of the 90s. Similarly, story artist Brenda Chapman drew influence from Hepburns on-screen bickering with actor Spencer Tracy during the scene in which Belle tends to the Beasts wounds. Animator Mark Henn observed that, unlike Ariel, Belle does not fall in love at first sight, Woolverton also eliminated the subplot of Belle asking her father for a rose. Despite constant regressive re-writes, Woolvertons overall vision for Belle generally remained intact, Beauty and the Beasts story department was predominantly male, a time during which few women were involved
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John O'Hurley
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John George OHurley is an American actor, voice actor, author and television personality. He is known for the role of J. Peterman on the NBC sitcom Seinfeld, OHurley was born in Kittery, Maine, the son of Jean, a housewife, and John OHurley, an ear, nose, and throat surgeon. OHurley attended Natick High School in Natick, Massachusetts and Kingswood-Oxford School in West Hartford, Connecticut and his older sister Carol died in 1970 at the age of 17 due to epileptic seizures, and so OHurley performs charitable work for the Epilepsy Foundation. He has younger brothers, Bruce and Neal. On Seinfeld OHurley played J. Peterman, a version of catalog-company entrepreneur John Peterman. In 2001 OHurley financed the relaunch of The J. Peterman Company and he was a contestant on the first season of the television show Dancing with the Stars which aired during the summer of 2005. OHurley and his dance partner Charlotte Jørgensen made it to the final competition, unlike the first episode, viewer vote solely determined the outcome as opposed to a combination between the three professional judges and the viewer votes. OHurley and Jørgensen emerged as the winners, the rematch earned $126,000 for Golfers Against Cancer charity. Afterward the duo produced a dance video called, Learn to Dance with John. In 1995, he had a role as Ralph Stafford on the Murder She Wrote episode Nailed, in 1995, OHurley co-starred on the short-lived sitcom A Whole New Ballgame. From 2000–2014 he announced for Cartoon Network sister channel, Boomerang, OHurley has been the host of Purinas annual National Dog Show every Thanksgiving since 2002. In 2003, he played the role of Roger Heidecker on the UPN television series The Mullets, in October 2005, he guest-starred in an episode of Drake & Josh. In March 2007, he took the role in the Wynn Las Vegass production of Spamalot. He starred on Broadway and on National Tour as Billy Flynn in Chicago, in July 2008 he reprised his role as King Arthur in the Los Angeles production of Spamalot at the Ahmanson Theatre. OHurley is the voice of the owner of the Cow and Corset bar in the Fable II videogame for the Xbox 360 and he also replaced Frank Welker as the Phantom Blot for Mickey Mouse Works and Disneys House of Mouse. He is also the voice of Coors Light commercials for more than 10 years, OHurley guest-starred in an episode of The Emperors New School called Malinas Big Break, and in 2010, guest-starred on Wizards of Waverly Place as Captain Jim-Bob Sherwood. Since 2008 he acts as Roger Doofenshmirtz, Heinz Doofenshmirtzs brother, in Phineas and he also played in the award-winning 2000x dramatic series produced by the Hollywood Theater of the Ear for National Public Radio. He also acted in the soap opera Loving as Keith Lane-Jonathan Matalaine, in 2015, he has a recurring role as Dr. Christopher Neff on Devious Maids
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Dancing with the Stars
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Currently the format has been licensed to over 42 territories. Versions have also produced in dozens of countries across the world. The dancers are then scored by a panel of judges, viewers are given a certain amount of time to place votes for their favourite dancers, either by telephone or online. The couple with the lowest combined score provided by the judges and this process continues until there are only two or three couples left, when they have competed for the last time one couple is declared the champion and wins a trophy. There have been a total of 377 winners of Dancing with the Stars around the world, country of origin Currently airing Upcoming or returning No longer airing The Chinese version is a co-production between mainland Chinas HBS and Hong Kongs TVB, under licence from the BBC. In mainland China it is aired on Hunan Television and in Hong Kong on TVB Jade, the Chinese title is difficult to translate, but could be rendered as Miracle Dancing or Miracles of Dance Moves. The official English title is Strictly Come Dancing, each broadcaster provides five male and five female dancers, for a total of twenty. Pairs were determined by audience SMS votes, the programme began airing in late 2007, in order to mark the anniversary of the 1997 handover of Hong Kong from the UK to the Peoples Republic of China. The Indian version is called Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa and it was first broadcast in September 2006 on Sony Entertainment Television. A lot of people confuse Dancing With The Stars with Nach Baliye which airs on StarPlus, Nach Baliye and Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa have similar content and presentation but there are minor differences in the concept. The celebrity dancers on Nach Baliye are real life couples, the dancers on Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa have one celebrity paired with a trained dancer/choreographer. A notice at the end of the show verifies that the Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa is indeed a version of Dancing With The Stars and it has the same title as the 1996 movie by the same name, but it has no relation to it beyond the shared name. This one ran from 8 April 2006, to 17 March 2007 on NTV-4, the show has aired on MBC TV since June 10,2011, and is hosted by Lee Deok-hwa, with co-host Lee So-ra in Season 1 while former contestant Kim Gyu-ri co-hosted the second season. The first season was won by Moon Hee-joon and his partner Ahn Hye-sang while the season was won by Choi Yeo-jin. The 3rd Season was won by pop-singer and dancer Fei and her partner Kim Soo Ro, nachley is the Pakistani version of Dancing with the Stars. The show is aired on ARY Digital and its theme is based around traditional Pakistani music, the first Peruvian reality show based on Dancing With The Stars was Baila con las estrellas, hosted by Rebeca Escribens and broadcast on Panamericana Televisión on Saturday afternoon. The show had 2 series, then it was cancelled and this show was hosted by Gisela Valcárcel and Giancarlo Chichizola and aired every Saturday night. The show was like Dancing With The Stars, but instead of professional dancers and they danced every week in order to win a prize, to achieve a personal/humanitarian goal or dream
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Beauty and the Beast (franchise)
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Beauty and the Beast is a Disney media franchise comprising a film series and additional merchandise. In March 2017, Disney released a remake of the film. Belle was also added to Disney Consumer Products Disney Princess franchise, Beauty and the Beast is the original film of the franchise. It was directed by Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise and it was produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation, and released in 1991. Beauty and the Beast is the 30th Disney animated feature film, the plot of the film is based on the fairy tale Beauty and the Beast by Jeanne-Marie Le Prince de Beaumont. Beauty and the Beast, The Enchanted Christmas is the first direct-to-video installment of the film series and it was directed by Andrew Knight, and released on November 11,1997. The film is set within the events of the first film, taking place after the fight with the wolves, Belles Magical World is the second direct-to-video installment of the film series. It was directed by Cullen Blaine, Daniel de la Vega, Barbara Dourmashkin, Dale Kase, Bob Kline, Burt Medall, and Mitch Rochon. It was released on February 17,1998, and is set during the original film, taking place after Christmas. Belles Tales of Friendship is a live-action/animated direct-to-video installment of the film series and it was directed by Jimbo Mitchell, and released on August 17,1999. It is set during the film, and was released in part to help promote Disney Channels television series. On March 17,2017, Disney released a remake of the film. Sing Me a Story with Belle was a live-action spin-off series created by Patrick Davidson and it featured Belle, who now owns and manages the bookshop in the village. The show ran for 65 episodes on The Disney Channel from September 8,1995 to December 11,1999, two episodes from the first season were released with an episode of an abandoned Beauty and the Beast cartoon series and were released direct-to-video as Belles Tales of Friendship. A musical, based on the animated film, debuted April 18,1994. The musical was directed by Robert Jess Roth, produced by Disney Theatrical, Beauty and the Beast ran on Broadway for 5,461 performances between 1994 and 2007, becoming Broadways eighth longest-running production in history. The musical has grossed more than $1.4 billion worldwide and played in thirteen countries and 115 cities. The stage version included songs not included in the musical, such as the deleted songs Human Again and Gaston, a Beast number - If I Cant Love Her
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Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas
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Beauty and the Beast, The Enchanted Christmas is a 1997 American direct-to-video animated Christmas musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Television Animation. It takes place within the timeline of the 1991 film Beauty, a Christmas party is held at the Beasts castle sometime after the spell is broken, attended by almost the entire village. While reminiscing about the previous years Christmas, Lumiere and Cogsworth get into an argument over who saved Christmas, to lighten his spirit, Belle teaches the Beast how to ice skate. They are observed from the West Wing by Forte, a pipe organ who was formerly the Princes court composer and does not want the spell to break, as he is of more use in his enchanted form. He sends his minion, Fife, to sabotage their newfound friendship, causing Belle. Then, when Belle makes a snow angel, the Beast sees his snow figure as a shadow of a monster and he roars, thrashes the snow and storms off in a fit of rage. As Fife claims that Forte will be proud of him, the Beast stomps back into his castle in fury, despite the Beasts misgivings, Belle decides to celebrate Christmas without his consent, though the Beast gradually opens up to the idea with advice from Lumiere. Belle meets Forte in the West Wing and he suggests that she venture into the forest to find a Christmas tree, Belle and a few more servants find and chop the tree down, but Belle falls through thin ice and almost drowns. The Beast intervenes and saves her in time, though he locks her in the dungeon for attempting to leave, as Belle is comforted inside the dungeon by the servants, the Beast has a change of heart when he finds a storybook present Belle left for him. He reads it and frees Belle, giving his consent to celebrate Christmas, Forte attempts to use his powers to bring the castle down and kill everyone. Fife betrays him and aids the Beast and Belle, the Beast reaches the West Wing and after a brief fight, damages Fortes keyboard. Forte smashes to the floor, destroyed, with Forte gone, the castle is repaired and Christmas is celebrated. Back in the present, Mrs Potts concludes that it was Belle who saved Christmas, Belle and the Prince enter the court to greet their guests, presenting Chip with a storybook as a present. As Fife, now the new composer, leads the orchestra, the Prince and Belle share a moment on the balcony. Robby Benson as Beast Paige OHara as Belle Tim Curry as Forte Jerry Orbach as Lumiere David Ogden Stiers as Cogsworth Paul Reubens as Fife Haley Joel Osment as Chip, andrew Keenan-Bolger provides his singing voice. The film was the first product of a subsidiary of Walt Disney Television Animations Toronto Studio, Animation coordination done by Walt Disney Television Animations Sydney Studio and Wang Film Productions Co. Ltd. located in Xindian District, Taipei, Taiwan and Characters Builders. In the early stages of production, the film was going to be a sequel to the original film, the film was to feature Avenant, here depicted as Gastons younger brother, as the villain. Avenants goal was to avenge Gaston by ruining the lives of Belle, although he was cut out of the story and the plot had changed, this trait was given to Forte, the pipe organ, who did not want the Beast to become human again
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Belle's Magical World
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Belles Magical World is a 1998 direct-to-video animated musical film produced by Walt Disney Television Animation, and released by Walt Disney Home Video) on February 17,1998. The film features two songs performed by Belle, Listen With Our Hearts and A Little Thought and this storyline is set within the timeline of the original Beauty and the Beast. When first released in 1998, this consisted of three connected segments, The Perfect Word, Fifis Folly, and The Broken Wing. For the special edition released in 2003 another segment was included, Mrs. Pottss Party, the film consists of four episodes of an unreleased television show loosely woven together in a feature length story, and also based on the original Disney animated feature. It was produced by Walt Disney Television Animation and animated by Toon City Animation in Manila, Philippines and Thai Wang Film Productions in Bangkok, completed and copyrighted in 1997, the film was released January 13,1998. Beast and Belle plan to eat together, and Beast asks for advice from Lumiere, during the meal, while Belle explains a story she has been reading to Beast, Beast gets sweaty. He demands for the windows to be opened, despite there being a draft of air in the room, Beast and Belle get into an argument, and Beast strikes Webster off the table when the dictionary begins giving unwanted synonyms to Belles insults. Subsequently, they stop speaking to each other, despite Lumiere and Cogsworths attempts to patch things up. Eventually, Webster, feeling guilty for his part, forges a letter of apology from Beast to Belle with his friends, a pile of papers named Crane, Belle sees the letter, and makes amends with Beast. That night, however, the truth out, and after a furious chase around the castle, Beast catches and banishes Webster, Crane and LePlume for the forgery. Belle ventures out and brings back, and Beast, touched by Belles sympathy. The moral of the story being that it is easy to forgive, Fifi overhears this, and believes that Lumiere and Belle are having an affair behind her back. In reality, Lumiere has planned a surprise snow ride around the gardens with Fifi. To get back at Lumiere, Fifi attempts to make Cogsworth like her, in the end, things are cleared up and Lumiere and Fifi go for the ride, but the pot they are sitting in slips off the edge of the balcony and hangs over the moat. Lumiere holds onto Fifi while hanging for dear life, and tells her that he loves her, before they can fall, Belle, Cogsworth and a few more servants arrive and get them back to safety. Everyone ends up learning to not jump to conclusions and that things are just as they seem. Mrs. Potts is feeling depressed due to weather. Belle has come to look at Mrs. Potts as a figure by this point
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Belle's Tales of Friendship
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Belles Tales of Friendship is a live action/animated Disney film released direct-to-video produced by Walt Disney Television Animation as a prequel to Beauty and the Beast, The Enchanted Christmas. The film stars Lyndsey McLeod who continues portraying Belle in live-action form and it also stars Paige OHara, Robby Benson, David Ogden Stiers, and Jerry Orbach who reprise their roles as Belle, Beast, Cogsworth, and Lumiere, respectfully, in the animated form. The film was released on August 17,1999, Belle owns and works at her music and bookstore in France. A group of children walk into the store eager to hear Belles stories, Belle agrees to tell a story, but the gang also play games and learn some simple lessons about life. Belle narrates two classic Disney cartoons, Morris the Midget Moose and Hansel and Gretel, while the children help Belle clean the bookstore and she also reads The Wise Little Hen and The Three Little Pigs, but Shawn and Harmony will not help make chili for the group. Along the way, Belle adds music and interacts with the children, during the film, an episode planned for a Beauty and the Beast television show premiered at the end titled Mrs. Potts Party. In animation, Belle is still living in the Beasts castle while the enchanted spell was still happening, one day, Mrs. Potts is feeling depressed due to dreadful weather, and Belle decides to cheer her up by throwing a surprise party for her. Belle has come to look at Mrs. Potts as a figure by this point. During preparations for the party, Belle and her friends have to avoid waking up the sleeping Beast, Beast spent the entire previous night fixing a leak in the roof and needs his sleep. However, Lumiere and Cogsworths rivalry gets in the way, the two argue and compete over the tasks of composing music, choosing Mrs. Potts favorite flowers, and choosing the flavors of the cake that will be served at the party. Two oven mits, Chaud and Tres, also part in the argument. Eventually, Lumiere and Cogsworths attempt to sabotage one anothers decisions has consequences, the baking cake explodes and makes a complete mess in the kitchen. Lumiere and Cogsworth, after a scolding from Belle, decide to put their rivalry behind them for good, the plan goes well, and Mrs. Potts is cured of her depression, and the sun finally shines again. Everyone learns the power of cooperation and compromises and this animated short was released in 2003 as a part of Belles Magical World. The episodes in that film were also from the television show that was later scrapped
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Elemental Masters
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Elemental Masters is a fantasy series written by Mercedes Lackey, taking place on an alternate earth where magic exists. The series largely focuses on Elemental Masters, people who have control over air, water, fire. Each elemental master has power over elementals, as well, each book in the series is loosely based on a fairy tale. DAW Books published the titles, inaugurating the Elemental Masters moniker. Hence Serpents Shadow is the first numbered title in the series, in addition to the main books, two anthologies have been published, containing works by various fantasy and science fiction authors set in the Elemental Masters universe. The setting of the Elemental Masters is an alternative Earth during the early 1900s, the main and perhaps sole difference between this world and our reality is that magic exists, controlled by those who have mastery over the four classical elements. The majority of the tales take place in England, with The Fire Rose taking place in North America, also the 1918 flu pandemic is hinted in Phoenix and Ashes to be due to the machinations of a malevolent Master. The world of the Elemental Masters is home to two types of magic, the elemental magic that plays an important part in the series. There have been mentions of different types and degrees of ability in the series. Elemental magic is the most commonly seen form of magic in the series, with every book having at least a couple of elemental masters as major characters, the masters abilities are tied with their ability to see and control spirits of a particular elemental affinity. Different regions of the world have different Elementals, Elemental magicians are classed by their affinity and by their mastery of their magic, one can be an Elemental Magician or an Elemental Master. This is later proven to not be the case in A Study In Sable, the power of Ice can be the seen as a partial exception of the normal abilities of an Elemental mage. Ice can be controlled by a master of Fire, with cold being the inverse of heat. As seen in The Wizard of London, the power of ice is seen as a perversion and innately destructive, similarly, Necromancy, the power of death, in Unnatural Issue is a destructive perversion of the power of Earth. If Water and Air have similar perversions, we have not yet seen them, most of the details given about the talented are seen in The Wizard of London. While the talented in most part fit the descriptions and abilities given psychics in the modern world, first, certain psychics are able to gain familiars, the second difference is that powerful talents or the talented have psychic Avatars that represent their duties as champions of the light. These avatars tend to draw imagery from fiction and the past, details are given in Reserved for the Cat. Sensitives are those who do not have direct magical talents but are able to see and feel to a degree, some are capable of seeing and sometimes communicating with elemental spirits
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Be Our Guest Restaurant
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Be Our Guest Restaurant is a quick service and table service restaurant in Fantasyland at Magic Kingdom in the Walt Disney World Resort. The restaurant has the theme and appearance of the Beasts Castle from Disneys 1991 animated film Beauty, the name of the restaurant is a reference to Be Our Guest, one of the classic songs from that film. The restaurant was added as part of an expansion and renovation to Fantasyland. It opened in late 2012, and the rest of Fantasyland was completed in 2014, the New Fantasyland will be constructed in phases with most new experiences open by 2013. In September 2009, it was announced at the D23 Expo that Fantasyland would be expanded to incorporate Disney Princess characters, recent conceptual artwork for the expansion shows several new additions and changes. Included is a new area themed to Disneys Beauty and the Beast featuring the Beasts Castle with a new dining experience, Gastons tavern, the castle features a full table service restaurant at night, and provides counter service dining by day, both requiring reservations. The restaurant was the publicly accessible Magic Kingdom venue to serve wine and beer prior to December 23,2016. On March 20,2015, Be Our Guest Restaurant began to serve breakfast meals featuring foods such as eggs florentine and it was announced that the Beasts Castle would be included as part of a meet-and-greet with Belle. The Storytime with Belle attraction which originally was located in the Fairytale Gardens is now performed in the library inside the Beasts Castle, guests can visit Belles fathers cottage, located at the former site of Ariels Grotto. They can explore the home and encounter a magic mirror in Maurices workshop which transports them to the Beasts Castle, inside, they meet an audio-animatronic Madame Wardrobe who casts some guests as objects. Guests then head to the library and meet an audio-animatronic Lumiere who surprises a live Belle with guests and this attraction opened in December 2012. Outside the castle and Belles house is Gastons tavern, another restaurant and it is themed to look like the tavern where Gaston sings his title song in the original film. The tavern features a portrait of Gaston over a large fireplace, antlers and buckskins hang upon the wall, which is lined with barrels. Mugs and goblets can be purchased, but alcohol is not served, just outside is a water fountain of Gaston, holding barrels, with his foot on Le Fou, holding mugs. A gift shop inspired by the village where Belle lived in the film is part of the area. Be Our Guest Restaurant | Walt Disney World Official Site
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Beauty and the Beast (1991 soundtrack)
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Beauty and the Beast, Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the official soundtrack album to the 1991 Disney animated feature film, Beauty and the Beast. While the majority of the content remains within the musical theatre genre, its songs have also been influenced by French, classical, pop. Dion and Bryson were hired to record a pop version of –, Ashman, who was initially hesitant to join the project, died of AIDS before the films completion and the albums release. Much like Beauty and the Beast, the soundtrack was a critical success, receiving universal praise. The soundtrack was nominated for a Grammy Award for Album of the Year. In 2001, the soundtrack was re-released as a Special Edition to coincide with the IMAX re-issue of the film, during the 1970s and 1980s, Walt Disney Feature Animation struggled to release animated feature films that achieved the levels of success of some of the studios earlier productions did. In 1989, Walt Disney Pictures released The Little Mermaid, an animated musical that features songs written by lyricist Howard Ashman and composer Alan Menken, The Little Mermaid was both a tremendous critical and commercial success. Hoping to release a film that achieved success, the studio decided to adapt the fairy tale Beauty. Prior to getting involved with Disney, Ashman and Menken had collaborated on a musical adaptation of Little Shop of Horrors. In addition to hiring a screenwriter, Katzenberg recruited Ashman and Menken to write the films songs, Ashman was initially reluctant to agree to work on Beauty and the Beast because he had just recently been diagnosed with AIDS. Additionally, he had begun writing songs for Aladdin. Ashmans health began deteriorating soon after he completed The Little Mermaid, however, he wanted his illness to remain secret and decided to tell few about it. Ashman wrote the majority of the lyrics from his deathbed. It was later revealed that he viewed the Beasts curse as an allegory for AIDS, and that the mob song Kill The Beast was inspired by public sentiment at the time against AIDS and the gay community. Lyricist Howard Ashman and composer Alan Menken intended for the songs in Beauty, according to Menken, the films songs grew out of the fact that the film was written to almost. Menken also revealed that the songs and score tend to convey a wide variety of emotions, ranging from poignancy to humor. Menken believes that all properly structured musicals should feature an I Want song because they are essentially about a character having a big dream, Belle, the films opening number, is an orchestra-driven, snare-tapping song. Accompanied by an orchestra, it is considered Beauty and the Beasts I Want song
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Beast (Disney)
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The Beast is a fictional character who appears in Walt Disney Animation Studios 30th animated feature film Beauty and the Beast. He also appears in the films two direct-to-video followups Beauty and the Beast, The Enchanted Christmas and Belles Magical World, based on the hero of the French fairy tale by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, the Beast was created by screenwriter Linda Woolverton and animated by Glen Keane. All this must be done before the last petal falls from the rose on his twenty-first birthday. In all animated appearances, the Beast is voiced by American actor Robby Benson. The 1991 animated film was adapted into a Broadway musical in 1994, Dan Stevens portrays the character in a 2017 live-action adaptation of the original 1991 film. Determining a suitable appearance for the Beast proved challenging, although entirely fictional, supervising animator Glen Keane felt it essential for the Beast to resemble a creature that could possibly be found on Earth as opposed to an alien. However, he felt it important that the Beasts eyes remain human, in fear that Glen Keane would design the Beast to resemble voice actor Robby Benson, Disney CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg did not allow Keane to see Benson during production of the film. In the original tale, the Beast is seen to be kind-hearted for the most part, in Disneys variant of the tale, the Beast originally appeared to be constantly angry and depressed. As opposed to his counterpart, the creators gave him a more primal nature to his personality. To reflect his personality, the Beast is seen shirtless, with ragged, dark gray breeches. Despite the actual color of his cape being a reddish color. The reason for change in color is unknown, although the most likely reason is that the color purple is often associated with royalty. After the Beast saves Belle from a pack of wolves, his dress-style changes, upon his reform under his love interest Belle, his personality changes to refined, but naive about the world at the same time. Supervising animator Glen Keane describes The Beast as a guy whos insecure, wants to be loved, wants to love. The Beast is not of any one species of animal, but a chimera and he also bears resemblance to mythical monsters like the Minotaur or a werewolf. In the original versions, he was described as a cross between a lion and a mythical animal and he also has blue eyes, the one physical feature that does not change whether he is a beast or a human. A handsome young prince lives in a castle in France. He has everything he wanted, and as a result, he is spoiled, selfish
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Gaston (Beauty and the Beast)
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Maurice is the village inventor and Belles father. However, most of the villagers believe he is insane, during the beginning of the movie, he is working on a machine that automatically chops up firewood. Once it is working, he leaves for the County Fair to display his invention. However, he is unable to make it to the due to getting lost in the woods. After going down a path results in the loss of his horse and cart. When he enters the castle to stay for the night, he ends up being locked up by the Beast, Belle learns of what happened and goes to the castle, attempting to release her father. She then tries to convince the Beast to release him from the castle and she succeeds in convincing the Beast to release him, under the condition that she is to take her fathers place, to Maurices protests. He later tries to seek the help in trying to rescue Belle, but he learns that they dont believe him. Determined to not give up on Belle, he decides to return to the castle alone, however, it doesnt take long before he succumbs to an unknown illness. Luckily, Belle discovers that her father is in trouble via the Beasts Magic Mirror and is released by the Beast so she can save him, shortly after arriving back home, Le Fou has alarmed the villagers of their return. Belle reveals that Maurices rants are true and that the Beast does exist, both she and Maurice are locked up by Gaston in the cellar, to stop them from interfering with Gastons goal to kill the Beast. Chip has managed to stow away in Belles satchel and uses the automated firewood cutter to destroy the door to the cellar, Maurice and Belle leave for the castle to stop Gaston from killing the Beast. He is last seen in the ballroom standing by Mrs. Potts as he happily watches Belle, in the 2017 live-action remake, Maurice is still an inventor, but makes music boxes to help Belle see the world from the comfort of home in the village of Villeneuve. He fled Paris and settled in the provinces with Belle when she was still a baby to protect the both of them from a plague that took the life of Belles mother and Maurices wife. True to the story, Maurice is imprisoned by the Beast for taking a rose from his garden instead of being caught trespassing in the castle. Maurice returns to Villeneuve to find help, but only Gaston, however, Gaston only wanted to help in order to get Maurices blessing for his marriage to Belle. Knowing that Belle has no interest in marrying Gaston, Maurice refuses her hand, the Enchantress, disguised as a villager named Agathe, rescues him and takes him back to Villeneuve. Upon his return, Maurice attempts to have Gaston arrested for attempted murder, Belle arrives back in time to vindicate Maurice, but both are locked in the asylum wagon while the whole village goes to kill the Beast
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