{"id":159843,"date":"2022-12-16T20:10:13","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T20:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/burning-questions-about-abcs-beauty-and-the-beast-live-production\/"},"modified":"2022-12-16T20:10:13","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T20:10:13","slug":"burning-questions-about-abcs-beauty-and-the-beast-live-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/burning-questions-about-abcs-beauty-and-the-beast-live-production\/","title":{"rendered":"Burning questions about ABC&#8217;s &#8216;Beauty and the Beast&#8217; live production"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"wpds-c-grBDNq hide-for-print mb-sm undefined\">\n<div class=\"PJLV PJLV-iAjpuP-css flex items-center\" config=\"[object Object]\" data-qa=\"article-actions\">\n<div class=\"wpds-c-fLphcs\">\n<div class=\"wpds-c-jmLDag wpds-c-jmLDag-bywHgD-variant-primary wpds-c-jmLDag-biynoz-density-compact wpds-c-jmLDag-hZSyid-isOutline-true wpds-c-jmLDag-ejCoEP-icon-left wpds-c-jmLDag-futxca-cv wpds-c-jmLDag-iknmtxO-css\"><button aria-label=\"Comment\" class=\"PJLV PJLV-iPnDcc-css\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewbox=\"0 0 16 16\" fill=\"currentColor\" aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\" role=\"img\" class=\"wpds-c-kKAfCG wpds-c-efqEZa focus-highlight flex items-center justify-center brad-lg pointer transition-400 ease-in-out transition-colors\" aria-label=\"Comment on this story\"><title>Comment on this story<\/title><path d=\"M14 14V2H2v9.47h8.18L12.43 13ZM3 10.52V3h10v9.23l-2.5-1.66Z\"\/><\/svg><\/button><\/p>\n<p>Comment<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"teaser-content grid-center\">\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">If Disney&#8217;s 1991 \u201cBeauty and the Beast\u201d animated movie had a baby with the 2017 live-action remake, \u201cBeauty and the Beast: A 30th Celebration\u201d would be a product of that union.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">The TV musical extravaganza that aired Thursday night on ABC was a mix of clips from the original \u2014 the first animated film to snag a best picture nomination at the Oscars \u2014 and live musical scenes performed by a star-studded cast, including HER as a guitar -rocking Belle and Josh Groban as the slightly creepy-looking Beast.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">Joining them onstage \u2014 and sometimes overshadowing the main couple \u2014 were Martin Short as Lumi\u00e8re, David Alan Grier as Cogsworth, Joshua Henry as Gaston, Shania Twain as Mrs.  Potts and Leo Abelo Perry as Chip.  Rita Moreno, the legendary actress, singer and dancer, served as host for the whole shebang, often citing fun facts about the movie.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">The goal was to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the animated version, complete with a set that paid homage to the 1991 film.  Jon M. Chu, the director of \u201cCrazy Rich Asians,\u201d was behind the hybrid interpretation, with its set pieces featuring original sketches and songs performed to storyboard animations.  In short: It was a tale as old as time \u2026 but with a twist.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p><span class=\"font--article-body font-copy hide-for-print ma-0 pb-md db italic interstitial\">&#8216;The Little Mermaid Live!&#8217;: Five very important questions about ABC&#8217;s bizarre musical<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">Social media was abuzz during the two-hour broadcast, with #BeautyAndTheBeast30th trending on Twitter.  Plenty commended the cast&#8217;s diversity \u2014 HER is the first Black-Filipina woman to portray Belle \u2014 and its musical talent.  Others, however, were again unimpressed by the constant cartoon-to-live-performance switcheroo, just as they were during the network&#8217;s 2019 production of \u201cThe Little Mermaid Live!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">That left many on social media \u2014 and at The Washington Post \u2014 with some<b> <\/b>burning questions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<h3 data-qa=\"article-header\" class=\" pb-sm pt-lgmod\" id=\"SVU32CI4WNCHJCVT3SUDWUCYT4\">\n<p>What&#8217;s up with the Beast&#8217;s exposed ribs?<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">Unlike Shaggy&#8217;s red leather suit in \u201cThe Little Mermaid Live!\u201d  \u201cBeauty and the Beast\u201d slayed the costume game.  But the one that dominated the stage also divided viewers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">Groban&#8217;s 10-feet-tall, grayish contraption looked a bit like something out of the \u201cTransformers\u201d universe.  Instead of the movie&#8217;s chimeric mesh of lion, wild boar, bear and wolf, this beast is all mechanic body parts and zero fluff.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">Groban peeked out from behind an exposed rib cage, and somehow managed to move around a hefty puppet-style device weighing about 60 pounds.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">The vision was there \u2014 a metaphor of a human underneath the Beast&#8217;s scary scowl;  or how the once-arrogant prince was imprisoned in a beastly shell.  But the execution left some unnerved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<h3 data-qa=\"article-header\" class=\" pb-sm pt-lgmod\" id=\"4YUWBRWTZVHIVI35OAXGRAISFE\">\n<p>Should Belle have just chosen Gaston?<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">The Twitterverse was clear on Thursday night about whose team they prefer to be on.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">Let&#8217;s face it, Belle&#8217;s options \u2014 a prince-turned-beast kidnapper or a brutish, illiterate hunk \u2014 aren&#8217;t great.  However, Henry&#8217;s rendition of \u201cGaston\u201d left many swooning over the villain.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">despite<b> <\/b>Gaston&#8217;s many red flags \u2014 like, say, his sexist views \u2014 social media users were questioning why Belle would not give him a chance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">Perhaps it was the energy Henry, a Tony Award nominee, infused into the role;  or his singing chops;  or his looks.  Or, maybe he&#8217;s right and no one&#8217;s slick as Gaston.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<div data-oembed-type=\"twitter\" class=\"\" style=\"min-height:171px\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I&#8217;m so happy to see the Joshua Henry love, his voice always makes me swoon.  So him playing Gaston had me \ud83d\ude0d\ud83d\ude0d\ud83d\ude0d.  I hope he gets so many movie musicals, more leads on Broadway, and everything good come his way because of this. <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BeautyAndTheBeast30th?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BeautyAndTheBeast30th<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Julia Rose O&#8217;Hara (@JujRose) <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JujRose\/status\/1603566486609465344?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 16, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<h3 data-qa=\"article-header\" class=\" pb-sm pt-lgmod\" id=\"DRCT27J54RHJJL3OYFRX2RPAU4\">\n<p>Why were there so many hands in &#8216;Be Our Guest&#8217;?<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">From the animated film to its Broadway interpretation, \u201cBe Our Guest\u201d is always one of the most celebrated and popular scenes in \u201cBeauty and the Beast.\u201d  In 1991, Post film critic Hal Hinson wrote \u201cthe filmmakers have referenced \u2014 and then topped \u2014 the lavish eccentricity of Busby Berkeley.\u201d  Think: cabaret meets \u201cThe Great Gatsby.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">And while Thursday&#8217;s rendition ended with flashing lights and human-sized cutlery dancing to Short&#8217;s suave voice, the beginning was not quite as luxe.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">As the dining room began to proudly present HER&#8217;s dinner, hands \u2014 yes, many human hands \u2014 began moving dishes and prancing about like Thing from \u201cThe Addams Family.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">Thankfully, the hands eventually gave way to Twain and an adorable group of children dressed as teacups.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">Like \u201cBe Our Guest,\u201d the post-dinner dance scene in \u201cBeauty and the Beast\u201d is iconic.  The yellow ball gown Belle wears is what dreams are made of.  The ABC celebration, however, just showed a movie clip of it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">Not to throw more shade at the Beast costume, but it appears to be the reason the audience didn&#8217;t get to see a live-action version of the waltz.  \u201cWe knew when we had to put the white flag up,\u201d Groban told Entertainment Weekly.  \u201cFighting off wolves was easier than learning how to do the foxtrot.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">Still, viewers seemed to delight in Twain performing the title track, which also featured a cameo by Alan Menken, the song&#8217;s composer, on the piano.  By the end, the screen showed a photo of Angela Lansbury, the original Mrs.  Potts who died in October, in a tribute that some said brought them to tears.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<h3 data-qa=\"article-header\" class=\" pb-sm pt-lgmod\" id=\"S5H7HVBECJHPTNVKRWPGWR72IU\">\n<p>Did it pull off the transformation scene?<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">Like \u201cThe Little Mermaid Live!,\u201d many of the final \u201cBeauty and the Beast\u201d moments were left to play out through movie clips.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">Fair enough \u2014 transforming actors dressed as furniture, a clock and a candlestick to humans, live onstage, is a difficult job.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">Yet, if there were any hopes of seeing HER and the contraption-less Groban waltz away in glory, sorry to disappoint \u2014 there was no dancing between them.  There was however a moment in which a sunglass-clad Belle takes out an electric guitar and starts rockin&#8217; to it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">And, if it brings any solace, HER and Groban did finish off the broadcast with a spectacular rendition of the movie&#8217;s title track \u2014 that some Twitter users said gave the Academy Award-winning version by Celine Dion and Peabo Bryson a run for its money.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<h3 data-qa=\"article-header\" class=\" pb-sm pt-lgmod\" id=\"RRP3QAMBEBE53JD7XAA6QG2X3Y\">\n<p>Did Lumi\u00e8re and Cogsworth steal the show?<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">There was not much acting in \u201cBeauty and the Beast: A 30th Celebration,\u201d as most of the live portions focused on the musical numbers.  However, Short and Grier came out as dynamic duo that left the audience wanting more.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">Grier&#8217;s salty \u2014 and occasionally goody-two-shoes \u2014 clock with Short&#8217;s rebellious and charismatic candelabra was a match made in Disney heaven.  The chemistry between the two, along with their hits at each other \u2014 and yes, there was even a reference to TikTok \u2014 elicited laughter and applause from the live audience in Burbank, Calif., and wide appraisal on social media.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">Why didn&#8217;t producers use them more often in the live-action scenes?  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