Musical "Beauty and the Beast": reviews. Musical "Beauty and the Beast" in Moscow
"Beauty and the Beast" - a fairy tale about a beautifula girl with a kind heart and an enchanted prince, languishing in the guise of a terrible Monster. This touching story is known all over the world, it is loved by both children and adults.
The fairy tale was many times photographed, along itcreated a large number of theater productions, including the famous musical Alan Mencken, the premiere of the Russian version of which was held on October 18, 2014 in Moscow.
Fairy tale
The fairy tale "Beauty and the Beast" is so wise,that gives the impression that it is popular, and many really think so. But the fairy tale has an author - it's the French writer Gabriel-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve. That's just a magical love story Belle and the Beast was not quite the same as we know it. In the fairy tale written by Madame de Villeneuve, there were many more characters and storylines than in the version familiar to us, and it was told in it far not only about the enchanted Prince and Beauty. We are used to the version that appeared 16 years after the work of the writer de Villeneuve saw the light. Jeanne-Marie Leprens de Beaumont (great-grandmother of the famous Prosper Merimee) edited and shortened the original version. Tale de Villeneuve in the editorial de Beaumont almost immediately gained incredible popularity.
The musical "Beauty and the Beast" (which lasts 3 hours) tells that only love and beauty will save the world, because they have great power to make the world and people better.
Creators
The list of his most famous works includes musicto cartoons and Broadway productions, such as "The Little Mermaid", "Aladdin", "Rapunzel", "Hunchback of Notre Dame", as well as to the musical "Act, Sister". He is the author of songs and voiceovers for the cartoon "Pocahontas" and for the tape "Alone at home". This is not a complete list of masterpieces that have glorified A. Menken for the whole world.
The libretto was written by L. Woolverton is the author of children's television programs and animated series. Her most famous works are "The Lion King", "Real Haunted Hunters", "Alvin and the Chipmunks", "Duck Stories".
The lyrics for the cartoon "Beauty and the Beast", which were also used in the production, belong to H. Eshman. To the additional songs the text was written by the famous Tim Rice.
For 20 years already it has been a success with the audience of allages in many countries of the world, the musical "Beauty and the Beast". Reviews about it are filled with such epithets as "fantastic show", "amazing action", "bright extravaganza", "bewitching fairy tale" ...
Characters
Belle is the first beauty in her town. Clever and kind girl. It differs from everyone not only in beauty. She loves to read and dream, because of what the inhabitants of the city consider her strange. Only her father understands it - the inventor and the same dreamer as a daughter.
Monster - Prince, enchanted by a sorceressin punishment for the fact that he did not know how to love and compassion. There is only one way to remove the enchantment: The prince must love a girl who, in return, will love him, despite his awful appearance.
Gaston - handsome, tall, strong, confident ina young hunter himself. He is in love with all the girls except Belle, whom he dreams of getting into his wives and does not give her a pass. Belle does not want to become his wife, because he is rude and arrogant.
Lefu is a friend of Gaston, frail, small and stupid.
When the prince was cast a spell, all wholived and worked in his castle, also fell under the spell of the witch: Lumiere, the head waiter, became a candelabrum; Butler Cogsworth - fireplace clock; Mrs. Chaiton - a teapot; her son Chip - a cup for tea; maid Babette - a broom.
Plot
One winter night at the young Prince living ina luxurious castle, begged for the lodging of a beggar. He was heartless and told to drive her away. The old woman turned out to be a sorceress and punished the Prince, turning him into a Beast, and his servants into objects. The spell can only be removed by a girl who loves the Beast.
Belle lives with his father, who once lost his way inforest, went to the castle to the Beast and became a prisoner there. The girl goes to look for him and, being in the castle, asks to release his father, says that he will remain in captivity instead of him. The monster agrees. Father is returned home, and she remains in the castle.
The enchanted Prince and his servants hope thatBeauty can remove from them a spell. At first the girl and the owner of the castle do not get along, the Beast frightens Belle not only with appearance, but with rude manners. Over time, it learns to be gallant, Belle ceases to be afraid of him, and they become friends. Thanks to the girl the Beast becomes kinder and more humane, it sincerely falls in love with it. Noticing that Beauty yearns for her father, Prince releases her home, she promises to return, but he is sure that he will not see her again. At parting, the girl receives a ring as a gift, which will allow her to instantly be in the castle, if she so desires, and a magic mirror in which she can see everything she wants.
At home, she meets Gaston, who threatens thatif she does not become his wife, her father will be sent to a lunatic asylum, because he tells everyone stories about the Beast. The girl, trying to prove the truthfulness of her father's words and avoid her hated marriage, shows in the magic mirror the Beast, which Gaston intends to destroy by arranging a raid on him, for which he gathers a crowd of townspeople.
A young hunter tries to kill the Prince, to whichdoes not resist at all, for he does not need life without Belle. The Bell returns to the castle to save the Beast, but Gaston manages to mortally wound him. The girl says that she loves the Beast, the spell is destroyed, love conquers death, and instead of the terrible beast, a beautiful Prince appears before her. One of the favorite stories about the all-conquering power of love is the musical "Beauty and the Beast". Reviews of the audience around the world allow you to get an answer to the question: "Is it worth going to this performance?" There is no doubt that such a kind musical fairy tale deserves attention and everyone will like it.
Moscow production of 2008
Buy tickets for the production of "Beauty and the Beast" (musical) tickets were almost impossible, since they sold out for several months ahead.
The troupe of 2008
The selection of artists was very long. There was even an open national casting "Find the Beast", which was shown on TVC channel, where out of 500 applicants chose one artist for the role of the enchanted Prince in the musical "Beauty and the Beast". Actors who performed roles in the first Moscow production:
- Belle - Ekaterina Guseva (actress of theater and cinema, acted as Katya in the musical "Nord-Ost").
- The monster is Victor Dobronravov (the son of actor F. Dobronravov, actor of theater and cinema).
- Monsieur the Dark - Ivan Ozhogin (graduate of GITIS,laureate of competitions and higher theater awards, soloist of musicals Cats, Nord-Ost, Chicago, Wedding Soy, Vampire Ball, Master and Margarita, Phantom of the Opera.
- Gaston - Rostislav Kolpakov (soloist of the musicals "Vampire Ball", "Master and Margarita", "Lukomorye").
- Lumiere - Andrey Birin (actor Oleg Tabakov, starred in the movie "Running on the Waves", played the role of Michael in the musical "The Witches of Eastwick").
- Mrs. Chaiton - Elena Charkviani (10 years worked in the theater-cabaret "Bat", conducted the program on NTV channel.) Soloist of musicals: We Will Rock You, Mamma Mia !, "Witches of Eastwick", Cats).
- Madame de la Komod - Lusine Tishinian (participated in musical projects and performed concerts in Russia and in Europe).
- Lefu - Alexei Yemtsov (He graduated from the EHTI, while still a student, took part in productions of the Yekaterinburg Musical Comedy Theater, lives and works in Moscow).
These wonderful performers have decorated themselves with the musical "Beauty and the Beast", the public's reviews of the troupe sound exceptionally in a positive way.
The Moscow production of 2014
After the performance of the performance in 2010"Beauty and the Beast" in Russia was completed, the audience wrote a huge number of letters to the company "Stage Entertainment" with a request for his return to the domestic stage. In October 2014, when she celebrated her 20th birthday, "Beauty and the Beast" (musical), Moscow once again welcomed this beautiful romantic story. Producers do not doubt at all that this time the musical fairy tale will be a great success for the Russian public.
The troupe of 2014
35 actors were selected in the production of "Beauty and the Beast" (musical). The composition of artists performing roles in the play of 2014, updated. But there are actors who participated in the production of 2008.
- Belle is Anastasia Yatsenko.
- The monster is Alexei Konovalov and Pavel Lyovkin.
- Gaston - Evgeny Shirikov.
- Lumiere - Andrey Birin.
- Maurice is Vladimir Yabchanik.
- Lefu - Alexander Oleksenko.
- Mrs. Chaiton is Anna Guchenkova.
- Madame de la Commodus - Alyona Firger.
- Narrator - Alexey Ivashchenko.
To become performers of roles, in the musical "Beauty and the Beast" the actors underwent rigorous casting, which lasted about a year.
Make up and costumes
Production of "Beauty and the Beast" (Russianmusical) is a rich arsenal of very interesting and complex costumes. Many of them have a rather big weight. For example, the dress Belle, in which she appears in front of the audience in the finale of the play, weighs 16 kilograms. Suit Lumiere (chandelier) weighs 10 kilograms, while the actor's hands are all the time raised up, and they are wearing accessories that mimic candles that can burn, as in hidden pockets, gas burners are hidden. In order to perform roles in such heavy clothes, artists need endurance and good physical preparation.
Very complex is the make-up of the main character in the production "Beauty and the Beast" (musical). Photo of the process of drawing a makeup artist who performs the role of the enchanted Prince, you can see below.
Interesting Facts
The play was staged in 22 countries, and the total number of viewers around the world was more than 35 million people. The author of Russian texts to the aria of the play is the actor Alexei Kortnev.
Prices for tickets. How to get there
On the production of "Beauty and the Beast" (musical) tickets can be purchased through the Internet, their cost on average varies from 1000 to 4000 rubles.
There is a performance daily in the theater "Russia", at the address "Pushkin Square", 2. Nearby are the metro stations "Tverskaya", "Chekhovskaya", "Pushkinskaya".
On weekdays you can see a fairy taleexclusively in the evening. On weekends and holidays - twice, in the afternoon and in the evening, the musical "Beauty and the Beast" is shown. The duration of the performance is 3 hours.
