James Players is a community group dedicated to theatre and music that has entertained thousands of Peterborough residents and visitors with its musical theatre productions over the past 50 years. More than 20 million people worldwide have heard the show-stopping musical numbers (with music by Alan Menken and lyrics by Howards Ashman and Tim Rice) - including “Belle,” “Gaston,” “Be Our Guest” and, of course, “Beauty and the Beast” - and seen the astonishing sets, lavish costumes, and innovative magic and special effects.įounded in 1972, St. Running for more than 10 years on Broadway, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast was adapted from the Academy Award-winning animated film of the same name. Will they confess their love for one another before it is too late? Their feelings grow ever deeper as the clock ticks and petals continue to fall off the enchanted rose. Potts (Tracey Allison), Lumiere (Keevin Carter), Cogsworth (Seanon Yip Choy), Babette (Elizabeth Moody), Wardrobe (Christie Freeman), and Chip (Indigo Chesser) - watch anxiously as Belle and the Beast grow to understand and befriend one another. The Beast’s enchanted household - populated by such beloved characters as Mrs. There is a time limit too: once a magical rose loses all of its petals, all hope will be lost and he will stay a Beast forever. The only way for the Beast to become human once again is if he learns to love and be loved in return. Natalie Dorsett is directing the November 2022 production of Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast”. Pictured are Lyndele Gauci as Rosie, Natalie Dorsett as Donna, and Christie Freeman as Tanya with the rest of the cast as they perform ABBA’s ‘Dancing Queen’. James Players at Showplace Performance Centre was “Mamma Mia!” in November 2019. Prior to the pandemic, the last fall production of St. When her father Maurice (Keith Goranson) is imprisoned in a mysterious castle, Belle’s attempt to rescue him leads to her capture by the Beast (Andrew Little), a grisly and fearsome monster who was once a young prince but was long ago trapped in his gruesome form by an enchantress (Kate Keating). Romantically pursued by local bachelor Gaston (Aaron Robertson). James Players traditionally presented a major production at Showplace every fall, with the last being Mamma Mia! in November 2019, which featured Beauty and the Beast director Natalie Dorsett in the role of Donna.īeauty and the Beast tells the story of Belle (Whitney Paget), a beautiful and intelligent young woman who feels out of place in her provincial French village where she is being
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