Be our Guest

I'm now a fan of Beauty and the Beast it has to be said, Belle belting out the songs is more than enough to get anyone hooked, and want to 1/2hour long show to last longer. It is slightly annoying that these shows at the different parks are always shortened but of course can see why, they can't have 90 minute shows 6 times a day while giving the actors time to breathe and cool down from the heat, but also the main point being that guests coming to the park want to experience as much as possible in a day not to come and watch a musical.

Stage shows like with a lot of theatre the costumes aren't that detailed and some can be seen as quite basic, like Belle here is in her stranded Belle costume, so it's made to the simple design but using bright colours and the colour blue (unlike the rest of the dancers who are all wearing pastel colours) to still keep her standing out as she is the main character.


To make quite a contrast when we move onto one of the more theatrical songs of 'Be our guest' all the crockery and pieces of furniture are dancers as they have come to life, and here as an ice-cream sundae. I love seeing costumes like this, When she first appears on stage, the skirt is lifted up in and grey/blue colour to look like the vase of the ice-cream, then it drops and out come all the colours!

This is the Disney difference with the thought behind the quick changes some of which seem obvious but then again it is only a half hour show and it's probably just me not being able to sit back and enjoy a show, but looking for the scene changes and trickery.
Then the big one, Belles yellow dress which wasn't as spectacular as I was expecting but again you only see her where it for about 60seconds.

What I would really like to go and see now is a full length theatre show of Beauty and the Beast, and see how many more scenes, costumes there are, and compare them to a Disney show.