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Proof: 2/13/12; 9:05PMBlue Man GroupPublication: Broadway in Detroit program for “Shrek”Run dates: 2/28 to 3/11Size: full page full bleed trim size: 5-3/8” x 8-3/8” bleed: 1/8” inside margin: 1/4”For: Nederlander Detroit (Fisher Theatre & others) Design: Frank Bach, Bach & Associates; Phone 313-822-43038; frank@frankbach.com

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Broadway In Detroit 50th Anniversary Season sponsored by

NETworks Presentations, LLCpresents

Music byAlan Menken

Lyrics byHoward Ashman & Tim Rice

Book byLinda Woolverton

Originally Produced byDisney Theatrical Productions

FeaturingDane Agostinis Emily Behny

Jen Bechter Logan Denninghoff Michael Haller Julia Louise Hosack Noah Jones Jimmy Larkin Jessica Lorion William A. Martin James May Jordan Moore

withDavid Baur Andrew Betz Skye Bronfenbrenner Jeff Brooks Carly Casey

Brittany Conigatti Kyle DuPree Amanda Grace Holt Brian Kess Kolby Kindle Caroline Kittrell Matt Kopec Caitlin Leary Carter Lynch

Lauren Palmeri Christie Schwartzman Mandy Striph Michael Whitney

Scenic DesignStanley A. Meyer

Costume Design Ann Hould-Ward

Lighting DesignNatasha Katz

Sound DesignJohn Petrafesa

Hair DesignDavid H. Lawrence

Fight DirectionRick Sordelet

Illusion DesignJim Steinmeyer

Puppet DesignBasil Twist

OrchestrationsDanny Troob

Dance Music ArrangementsGlen Kelly

Vocal ArrangementsDavid Friedman

Associate DirectorSam Scalamoni

Associate ChoreographerConnor Gallagher

Music Director/ConductorCarolyn Violi

Technical DirectorSeth Larkin

Production Stage ManagerDavid Zack

Company ManagerJack Stephens

CastingPatricia Pearce Gentry

Bob Cline

Tour MarketingBroadway Booking Office NYC

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General ManagerKim Reiter

Gentry & Associates

Executive ProducerSeth Wenig

Production ManagerHector Guivas

Music Supervisionand Incidental Music Arrangements

Michael Kosarin

Choreography by Matt West

Directed byRob Roth

Disney’s Beauty and the Beast is presented through special arrangement withMusic Theatre International, New York, NY. www.mtishows.com

www.BeautyAndTheBeastOnTour.com

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CAST OF CHARACTERSBelle ..............................................................................................................EMILY BEHNYBeast ........................................................................................................DANE AGOSTINISGaston .......................................................................................... LOGAN DENNINGHOffLefou .......................................................................................................... JIMMY LArKINMrs. Potts ..................................................................................... JuLIA LOuISE HOSACKLumiere .................................................................................................MICHAEL HALLErCogsworth ......................................................................................................... JAMES MAYBabette ......................................................................................................JESSICA LOrIONMaurice ............................................................................................WILLIAM A. MArTINMadame de la Grande Bouche ...................................................................... JEN BECHTErChip (at certain performances) ........................................................................NOAH JONESChip (at certain performances) ................................................................. JOrDAN MOOrEMonsieur d’Arque ........................................................................................... MATT KOPECTownspeople/Enchanted Objects ....................................DAVID BAur, ANDrEW BETZ,

SKYE BrONfENBrENNEr, JEff BrOOKS, CArLY CASEY, BrITTANY CONIGATTI, KYLE DuPrEE, BrIAN KESS, AMANDA GrACE HOLT,

KOLBY KINDLE, CArOLINE KITTrELL,MATT KOPEC, CArTEr LYNCH, LAurEN PALMErI, CHrISTIE SCHWArTZMAN, MANDY STrIPH

Voice of Prologue Narrator .......................................................... LOGAN DENNINGHOff

UNDERSTUDIESUnderstudies never substitute for listed performers

unless a specific announcement is made at the time of the performance.

For the Beast: CArTEr LYNCH; JEff BrOOKS;for Belle: CArOLINE KITTrELL, LAurEN PALMErI;

for Gaston: CArTEr LYNCH, JEff BrOOKS;for Lefou: DAVID BAur, MICHAEL WHITNEY;

for Lumiere: ANDrEW BETZ; BrIAN KESSfor Cogsworth: KOLBY KINDLE; MATT KOPEC;for Mrs. Potts: CArLY CASEY, MANDY STrIPH;

for Madame de la Grande Bouche: CArLY CASEY, MANDY STrIPH;for Babette: SKYE BrONfENBrENNEr, CHrISTIE SCHWArTZMAN;

for Maurice: KOLBY KINDLE, MATT KOPEC;for Monsieur D’Arque: KOLBY KINDLE, MICHAEL WHITNEY;

for Carpet: KYLE DuPrEE, MICHAEL WHITNEY.

Dance Captain .....................................................................................MICHAEL WHITNEYfight Captain ....................................................................................................JEff BrOOKSSwings ............................................................... CAITLIN LEArY; MICHAEL WHITNEY

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MUSICAL NUMBERS AND SCENESACT I

Overture .....................................................................................................................OrchestraPrologue .....................................................................................................................OrchestraBelle .....................................................................Belle, Gaston, Silly Girls and TownspeopleWolf Chase ................................................................................................................... MauriceMe .................................................................................................................................. GastonBelle (Reprise) .................................................................................................................. BelleHome ................................................................................................................................. BelleHome (Reprise) .........................................................................................................Mrs. PottsGaston ..............................................................Lefou, Gaston, Silly Girls and Tavern PatronsGaston (Reprise) ...........................................................................................Gaston and LefouHow Long Must This Go On? ..........................................................................................BeastBe Our Guest ................................... Lumiere, Mrs. Potts, and Enchanted Objects, EnsembleIf I Can’t Love Her ...........................................................................................................Beast

ACT II

Entr’acte/Wolf Attack ................................................................................................OrchestraSomething There ........................................ Belle, Beast, Lumiere, Mrs. Potts and CogsworthHuman Again .....................Lumiere, Madame de la Grande Bouche, Cogsworth, Mrs. Potts,

Babette, Chip and Enchanted Objects, EnsembleBeauty and the Beast ................................................................................................Mrs. PottsIf I Can’t Love Her (Reprise) ...........................................................................................BeastA Change In Me ............................................................................................................... BelleThe Mob Song ...................................................................... Gaston, Townspeople, EnsembleHome (Reprise) ................................................................................................ Belle and BeastBeauty and the Beast (Reprise) .......................................................... Belle, Prince, Company

There will be one 15-minute intermission

ORCHESTRAMusical Director/Conductor: Carolyn Violi

Associate Conductor/Keyboards: Alan PladoViolin: Josh Estrada

Trumpet: Alex BenderDrums/Percussion: Terrence Bates

Flute/Piccolo: Dennis CarterEnglish Horn/Oboe: Geoffrey Johnson

Bass Clarinet/Clarinet/Flute: Paul McCaffreyFrench Horn: Dave Denniston

Cello: Sarah ClevelandBass : James Simonson

Electronic Keyboard Programming by Jeff Marder

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WHO’S WHODANE AGOSTINIS (Beast) is beyond thrilled to join the Beauty and the Beast tour! National tour: The Great American Trailer Park Musical (Duke). Other credits: Paul Bogaev’s Battlecry the Musical (world premiere), Oklahoma!, Spell-ing Bee, Bat Boy, The Full Monty, Side Show, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Carousel, Godspell, A View From the Bridge, Debbie Does Dallas. Graduate of NYU’s Tisch School for the Arts/CAP21. Thank you to everyone at NETworks, Bob, and Sam for this opportunity, my friends for being you, family in Florida and Canada for your constant support, and a special THANK YOU to my Mom, Karen, for EVERYTHING else!!!

EMILY BEHNY (Belle) is thrilled to work with this terrific company of Beauty and the Beast! Credits include: God’s Ear, The Bald Soprano, Violet (Young Violet), The Sound of Music (Liesl), Once Upon a Mattress and The Wild Party (Na-dine). Originally from Silver Lake, IN, she is a graduate of Ball State University, B.A. in Musical Theatre. Much love to hubby Adam, Mom & Dad, Sis, Henderson & Hogan Agency, her professors and all her friends! Jeremiah 29:11.

LOGAN DENNINGHOFF (Gaston) is excited to be part of Beauty and the Beast. Credits include Sweeney Todd (Anthony), Into the Woods (Cinder-ella’s Prince), Thoroughly Modern Millie (Trevor Graydon), On the Town (Pitkin J. Bridgework) and Singin’ in the Rain (Cosmo Brown). He is a proud past attendee of the Broadway Theatre Project. Lo-gan would like to thank his entire family, friends and teachers for all of their love and support.

JAMES MAY (Cogsworth), a Denver native based in SoCal, is so excited to live in an en-chanted castle for the next year! STAGE: Sum-mer of Love (Donovan), Cinderella (Dandini), Hair (Claude), Rent (Mark), Falsettos (Whizzer) FILM: Boycrazy (Corey). Luvtama peops!

JIMMY LARkIN (LeFou) is beyond thankful for this incredible opportunity! Regional/NYC: Vital Theatre Company, Theatre By The Sea, Rea-gle Music Theatre, Wheelock Family Theatre, and Turtle Lane Playhouse (IRNE Award). Thanks to Bob, Amy, the whole cast and crew, his friends and, most importantly, his family. PaceMT’15. This one’s for Margie!

MICHAEL HALLER (Lumiere) is thrilled to be a part of Beauty and the Beast! National tour: All Shook Up (Chad). Other credits: Much Ado About Nothing (Benedick), Lippa’s Wild Party (Black), and Forever Plaid (Frankie). BFA: Ithaca Col-lege. “Many thanks to NETworks and Bob Cline Casting. Thank you Mom, Dad, Lizzie, friends and family for your constant love and support.” michaelhaller.net

JULIA LOUISE HOSACk (Mrs. Potts) is a graduate of Notre Dame de Namur University and has studied/performed with Opera festival di Roma. Favorite roles include: Oklahoma! (Lau-

rey), Fiddler on the Roof (Golde) and Songs for a New World (Woman 1). Love and dedication to her family.

NOAH JONES (Chip at certain performances), a seven-year old home-schooler from Roanoke, VA, is thrilled to be touring with Beauty and the Beast! Stage credits include Peter Pan (Michael) and Cinderella (Mouse). He has shot several com-mercials and can be seen in the film Alone Yet Not Alone. Noah would like to thank his family for making this opportunity possible.

WILLIAM A. MARTIN (Maurice) is an as-sistant professor at the University of Alabama in the Department of Theatre and Dance where he serves as Director of Vocal Instruction for the Mu-sical Theatre Program. He holds degrees in vocal performance from Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University, The University of Ala-bama, and Millsaps College.

JESSICA LORION (Townsperson/ Enchanted Object) is thrilled to be joining the Beauty and the Beast tour! Credits: 42nd Street (Peggy Saw-yer), The Music Man (Marian Paroo) and Wedding Singer (Linda). BFA: Shenandoah Conservatory. Mom, Dad, and Bri…your love makes it possible! Te amo Kevin. Jeremiah 29:11

JORDAN MOORE (Chip at certain performanc-es) is a third grader from Hagerstown, MD. He’s the youngest of four children in a musical theater family. He has been seen in Oliver, Footloose and Disney’s Beauty and the Beast. Thank you for all your love, Mom, Dad, Matthew, Katie, Genevieve, WCP, TTSC and my Smithsburg friends.

JEN BECHTER (Madame de la Grande Bouche). International Tour: Rodgers & Hammer-stein’s Cinderella starring Lea Salonga (Portia). Regional: Urinetown (Soupy Sue), Dames at Sea (Mona), Lend me a Tenor (Maria), Pippin (Fastra-da), Debbie Does Dallas (Lisa). B.F.A.: Wichita State University. Love to my support system MD-CJELK. jenbechter.com

DAVID BAUR (Townsperson/Enchanted Ob-ject) is ecstatic to be a part of such an incredible show! National tour debut! Regional: Hairspray (Sketch), Joseph… (Gad), 42nd Street, Carousel and Hello Dolly. Other credits include dancer on board the Regent Seven Seas Navigator, West Side Story (Riff), Aida, Grease and Thoroughly Modern Millie. Much love and thanks to his family and Matt!

ANDREW BETZ (Townsperson/Enchanted Object). National tour debut! Native of Haddon Heights, NJ. BFA Musical Theatre, Otterbein University. Credits include Princeton Festival, Quintessence Theatre Group, PA Youth Theatre, Broward StageDoor, Utah Shakespearean Festi-val. Thanks to BATB team, Renée & About Art-ists, Mom and Dad.

SkYE BRONFENBRENNER (Townsperson/Enchanted Object) is elated to join the Beauty and the Beast tour! Favorite credits: Peter Pan (Peter), Oliver (Nancy), and Bye, Bye, Birdie (Kim). BFA in

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Music Theatre from UC Irvine. Enormous thanks to loved ones, professors, and dedicated to Gram!

JEFF BROOkS (Townsperson/Enchanted Ob-ject) is thrilled to be back on the road with NET-works, doing one of his all-time favorite shows! National Tours: Oklahoma!, Bathhouse: The Mu-sical! Off-Broadway: Parenting 101, Regional: Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (New Bedford Fes-tival Theater Regional Premier), Oliver, Into the Woods, Carousel, Chicago and many others. Jeff is a proud graduate of SUNY Cortland.

CARLY CASEY (Townsperson/Enchanted Ob-ject) is a Tulsa, Oklahoma native and is thrilled to be making her National tour debut! Favorite cred-its: The Phantom of the Opera (Carlotta), Okla-homa! (Ado Annie), and Masterclass (Sophie). Proud graduate of Elon University, B.F.A. Music Theatre. Endless thanks to her family and friends for their infallible love and support!

BRITTANY CONIGATTI (Silly Girl/ En-chanted Object). National tour debut! Regional: Hairspray and Disney’s High School Musical On Stage at Paper Mill Playhouse. Recent graduate of AMDA and LaGuardia High School of Perform-ing Arts. Special thanks to Bloc and most of all her family and friends for their continued support!

kYLE DUPREE (Townsperson/Enchanted Ob-ject) is thrilled to be making his National Tour de-but with Beauty and the Beast. Kyle was trained at University of the Arts and The School at Jacob’s Pillow.  Credits include:  Les Misérables, CATS, Dreamgirls, Aida, and Xhale Dance Company. Kyle feels grateful and honored to have experi-enced all that has happened and is eagerly await-ing the future.

AMANDA GRACE HOLT (Silly Girl/ Enchant-ed Object) is beyond excited to make her National Tour debut with Beauty and the Beast! Favorite credits: R.Evolucion Latina’s Choreographers Festival (dancer), HAIR (Italian tour-ensemble), and West Side Story (Teresita). Thanks to God, teachers, friends, and family for constant support! Dream BIG!

BRIAN kESS (Townsperson/Enchanted Ob-ject) is elated to be part of this magical show! National tour: All Shook Up (Chad). Favorites: Urinetown (Bobby), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Drowsy Chaperone, La Cage aux Folles. I love you mom and dad! Keep supporting live theatre! briankess.com

kOLBY kINDLE (Townsperson/ Enchanted Object). Making his national tour debut! Has performed with Music Theatre of Wichita, West Virginia Public Theatre, Lyric Theatre of Oklaho-ma, Prather Entertainment Group, and the Negro Ensemble Company of NYC. Thanks to family, friends and CTG. BFA from Otterbein University. Philippians 4:13.

CAROLINE kITTRELL (Townsperson/ En-chanted Object) is thrilled to be on the road with her favorite Disney show! Recent NYU CAP21/Adler graduate. Thanks to family, friends,

agents, and casting for the love and support that got me here. For Dad, dreams do come true! carolinekittrell.com

MATT kOPEC (Monsieur D’Arque/ Townsper-son/Enchanted Object) National Tour: All Shook Up. Favorite credits: Thoroughly Modern Millie (Jimmy), The Wizard of Oz (Tin Man), West Side Story (Bernardo), 42nd Street, Joseph, Regent Seven Seas Cruises. BFA, Wright State Univer-sity. Love and thanks to my family and David.

CARTER LYNCH (Townsperson/ Enchanted Object) received his BA in Dramatic Art from UNC-Chapel Hill. Regional credits include Lady, Be Good! (Dick Trevor), Me and My Girl (Bill Snibson), Altar Boyz (Luke), and Jekyll and Hyde (Jekyll/Hyde). Thank you to his parents John and Peggy, family, Bob and friends for their love and support. carterplynch.com

LAUREN PALMERI (Townsperson/ Enchanted Object) is delighted and incredibly grateful to be joining Beauty and the Beast! BFA in Musical Theatre from UARTS. Regional: A Chorus Line (Diana), The Sound of Music (Leisl), and Carou-sel (Julie Jordan). Much love and thanks to her family and friends for their constant support!

CHRISTIE SCHWARTZMAN (Silly Girl/ En-chanted Object). A recent graduate of AMDA, Christie is thrilled to be on the road with this magical show! National Tour: Nickelodeon’s Backyardigans Live! Regional: Hairspray at Arts Center of Coastal Carolina. Christie would like to thank her family for always being her backbone and promises one day she’ll be able to repay them in more than just hugs and kisses.

MANDY STRIPH (Townsperson/ Enchanted Object), a Toledo native, recently graduated with her BFA in musical theatre from Indiana Univer-sity. Past credits include West Side Story (Anita), The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Logainne SchwartzandGrubenierre) and Okla-homa! (Ado Annie). Love and thanks to her fam-ily, friends, and Robo. Andy, this is for you.

CAITLIN LEARY (Swing). A native of Marl-borough, CT and making her national tour debut with Beauty and The Beast. Recent graduate of The University of the Arts with a B.F.A. in Dance, Minor in Musical Theatre. Love to Mom, Dad, and Brendon.

MICHAEL WHITNEY (Swing), a native of Ni-skayuna, NY, is incredibly happy and humbled to make his national tour debut with Beauty and the Beast. Favorite roles: Yours Anne (Peter) and You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown (Snoopy). Much love to his friends and family, especially his Mom!

CAROLYN VIOLI (Musical Director/Conduc-tor). National Tours: Beauty and the Beast, The Goodbye Girl, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Spamalot, Wicked, The Color Purple. Regional: Alabama Shakespeare Festival (West Side Story, A Christmas Carol). Indiana University of Penn-sylvania, Music Educator 20+ years. Thank you

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WHO’S WHOto Koz, NETworks and as always, much love to my family.

ALAN MENkEN (Composer). Alan’s stage mu-sicals include (in chronological order) God Bless You Mr. Rosewater, Atina: Evil Queen of the Galaxy, Little Shop of Horrors, The Dream on Royal Street, Kicks: The Showgirl Musical, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, Beauty and the Beast, A Christmas Carol, Weird Romance, King David, Der Glockner von Notre Dame, The Little Mermaid and Sister Act. His film musicals include Little Shop of Horrors, The Little Mermaid, Beau-ty and the Beast, Aladdin, Newsies, Pocahontas, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Hercules, Home on the Range, A Christmas Carol and Enchanted. He has won more Academy Awards than any oth-er living individual, including 4 Oscars for Best Score (The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin and Pocahontas) and 4 Oscars for best song (“Under the Sea,” “Beauty and the Beast,” “A Whole New World” and “Colors of the Wind”). In addition, he has been nominated 18 times, in-cluding Best Song nominations for “Mean Green Mother From Outer Space,” “Kiss the Girl,” “Belle,” “Be Our Guest,” “Friend Like Me,” “Go the Distance,” “Happy Working Song,” “So Close” and “That’s How You Know,” plus a Best Score nomination for The Hunchback of Notre Dame. He has won 10 Grammy Awards (including Song of the Year for “A Whole New World”), 7 Golden Globes, London’s Evening Standard Award, the Olivier Award and the Outer Critics Circle Award. Other notable achievements include Billboard’s number one single (“A Whole New World”) and number one album (Pocahontas), an honorary doctorate in fine arts from New York University and induction into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Alan’s upcoming stage and film projects include a new stage musical of Leap of Faith (opening on Broadway in the fall of ’10), a stage adaptation of Newsies and a new Disney animated musical, Ra-punzel (slated for release holiday season of ’10).

HOWARD ASHMAN (Lyrics). conceived, wrote and directed Little Shop of Horrors, based on Roger Corman’s 1960-era horror flick and with music by Alan Menken. Little Shop played for five years off-Broadway at the Orpheum Theater. The show continues to be produced to great acclaim in the US as well as internationally. In 2003, Little Shop was revived on Broadway and in 2007 it was revived on the West End. It is currently one of the most produced shows in American High Schools. In 1986, Ashman wrote and directed the Broadway musical, Smile, music by Marvin Hamlisch. Little appreciated at the time, Smile is now considered a lost gem of musical theater and is performed by high school students around the US. Turning his talents toward film, Ashman was pivotal in the renaissance of Disney animated musicals and in the development of Disney’s The Little Mermaid (Producer and Lyrics), Beauty and the Beast (Ex-

ecutive Producer and Lyrics) and Aladdin (Lyr-ics), all with music by Alan Menken. Ashman’s contributions to the revival of classic Disney ani-mated musicals were perhaps best expressed by the dedication to the film Beauty and the Beast: “To our friend Howard, who gave a mermaid her voice and a beast his soul. He will be forever missed.” Ashman’s numerous awards include two Oscars, two Golden Globes, four Grammys, a Drama Desk and a London Evening Standard. He died in 1991 at age 40 from complications arising from AIDS. Ashman Sings Ashman, a CD of his work, with never-before-heard demos, including those from Smile, is available from PS Classics. Ashman’s papers are in the permanent collection of the Library of Congress.

TIM RICE (Lyrics) (Sir Tim to you) has been writing lyrics for musical theatre and related en-terprises for over forty years, something he only intended to do for a few months while waiting to become a pop star. The waiting has been extend-ed, mainly because of the world’s failure to accept him as a rock god, but also because of the distract-ing success of Joseph and the Amazing Technicol-or Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar and Evita with Andrew Lloyd Webber, Aladdin, King Da-vid and Beauty and the Beast with Alan Menken, Chess with Bjorn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson, and The Lion King and Aida with Elton John. He is well known in England, his home country, for his love of cricket and as a tolerable radio and tele-vision personality. He has won numerous awards along the way, including Oscars, Tonys and life-saving badges, but often for the wrong thing and often for simply turning up. He is currently work-ing on a musical play about Machiavelli, and is plugging the recently released DVD and album of Chess in Concert starring Josh Groban, Idina Menzel and Adam Pascal. More gripping info can be found on timrice.co.uk but please don’t feel obliged to go there.

LINDA WOOLVERTON (Book). While work-ing as a development executive at CBS, Linda Woolverton wrote two young adult novels: Star Wind and Running Before the Wind. After her books were published by Houghton Mifflin, she abandoned development and began to write full time. She started by writing scripts for animated television shows. When one of her novels caught the attention of a Disney executive, she was hired to write the script for the animated feature, Beauty and the Beast. Upon its release in 1991, the film won the Golden Globe for the Best Comedy/Musi-cal and became the first animated film to be nomi-nated for the Best Picture Academy Award. Wool-verton was then hired to write the screenplay for The Lion King (shared credit). She then rewrote the script for Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey (shared credit) as well as writing for the animated feature Mulan. She went on to adapt the script of Beauty and the Beast for the Broadway stage and received the Tony Award nomination for Best Book of a Musical in 1994. Woolverton was also awarded the Laurence Oliver Award

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for Beauty and the Beast for Best New Musical in the U.K. Beauty and the Beast ran between 1994 and 2007, becoming the sixth longest run-ning show in Broadway history. She also wrote the Book (shared) for Elton John and Tim Rice’s Musical Aida which ran for five years at the Pal-ace Theatre. Linda Woolverton’s script for Alice In Wonderland directed by Tim Burton and star-ring Johnny Depp, was released in March of 2010. The film grossed over 1 billion dollars worldwide and is the fifth highest grossing film of all time. Woolverton is the only woman ever to have a sole credit on a billion dollar film. She’s currently writ-ing Maleficent for Disney as well as adapting the Alice screenplay for a Broadway musical.

ROB ROTH (Director) received a Tony Award nomination as Best Director for his Broadway de-but Disney’s Beauty and the Beast. The show has played to sold out houses around the world in over 30 productions, winning many awards including the Olivier Award for Best Musical in London. Beauty is the 7th longest running show in Broad-way history. Rob developed and directed the in-augural production of Elton John and Tim Rice’s Aida, which debuted at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta. Rob co-wrote the book and directed The Opposite of Sex, which opened at the William-stown Theatre Festival. Rob developed and direct-ed the Broadway musical Lestat, based on Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles with a score by Sir Elton John and Bernie Taupin, and book by Linda Woolverton. Rob has enjoyed a long collaboration with rock legend Alice Cooper, co-conceiving and directing four world tours. Alice Cooper’s Theatre of Death Tour was filmed in London and has had a very successful DVD release. Rob has also directed tours by notable musicians Cyndi Lauper, The Dresden Dolls, and guitar great Steve Miller. Rob will direct the premiere play by best selling author Jackie Collins, Jackie Collins’ Hol-lywood Lies, in the fall of 2012. The Museum of Modern Art recently held the premiere of Taken By Storm, a film about legendary album graphics creator Storm Thorgerson, on which Rob is the Executive Producer. Rob is proud to maintain the largest collection of rock and roll graphics in the world. The coffee table book The Art of Classic Rock with over 1500 pieces from the collection, was published by Harper Collins in 2010. Rob is writing a play, Strange Dents, about the friend-ship between Andy Warhol and Truman Capote. He lives in New York City with two Labrador re-trievers, Dash Rip Rock and Tag.

MATT WEST (Choreographer). For Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Matt received the L.A. Dra-ma-Logue Award along with London’s Olivier, New York’s Drama Desk and Outer Critics’ Circle Award nominations. Other Broadway: Lestat with music and lyrics by Elton John and Bernie Taupin, and Mimi LeDuck starring Eartha Kitt. Matt cho-reographed the World Premiere of Elton John and Tim Rice’s Elaborate Lives: The Legend of Aida at the Alliance Theatre. Also: Little Shop of Hor-rors, Buenos Aires; The Wanderer, Tokyo’s Parko

Theatre; The Little Mermaid and Peter Pan for Disney Home Video; and The Nutcracker for the Disney Channel. Film: Matt starred as Bobby in A Chorus Line directed by Sir Richard Attenbor-ough. Matt recently directed and choreographed Fantasmic for Tokyo Disney Sea.

MICHAEL kOSARIN (Music Supervisor/Inci-dental Music Arrangements) has worked steadily on Broadway for nearly 30 years, and has been composer Alan Menken’s music director since 1994. Original music director/incidental mu-sic arranger, Broadway production of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast. Other original Broadway: Sister Act (currently), Nine (1982), Grand Hotel, Secret Garden, King David, Mayor, A Chorus Line, Triumph of Love, Little Shop of Horrors, Can-Can (Encores!), Hunchback of Notre Dame (Berlin). Film: Tangled, Enchanted, Pocohontas, Hercules, Home On The Range, many others. TV: Emmy Award Outstanding Music Direction for musical film A Christmas Carol, Once Upon A Mattress, The Music Man (Emmy nomination). Recording/concert work: Carly Simon (gold al-bum/HBO special My Romance),Barbara Cook (concert engagements, produced/arranged album Tribute), Jane Krakowski (concerts, recordings). Composer: TV’s “Wonder Pets,” “Johnny and the Sprites,” “Third and Bird.”

STANLEY A. MEYER (Scenic Design) has recently illustrated the new witty and delight-ful self-help Interior Design Book by James Swan and Carol Beggy called 101 Things I Hate About Your House, which is available online at barnesandnoble.com. Stan has more than four dozen credits as a scenic/production designer that have earned him numerous awards and nomina-tions including an American Theatre Wing De-sign Award nomination, a New York Outer Critics Circle Award nomination, a National Broadway Theatre Award nomination, a Los Angeles Ova-tion Award Nomination, THEA Award, and IAP-PA Brass Ring Award, and numerous Los Angeles Drama Logue Awards for his work at the Grove Shakespeare Festival in Southern California. He was the first recipient of The League of Ameri-can Theatres and Producers, National Broadway Award. His critically acclaimed work includes the smash hit show Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (the sixth longest running show in Broad-way history). Stan has designed in almost every genre of entertainment including everything from Barnum’s Funundrum, the 140th Edition of the Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus; Rock and Roll tour design for Steve Miller, Alice Coo-per and Cyndi Lauper; The New Nutcracker Bal-let for The Lone Star Ballet, Texas; Disney Live! Three Classic Fairy Tales, Feld Entertainment Inc.; SeaWorld’s new spectacular Shamu show One Ocean & Blue Horizons which features a cast of dolphins, whales, birds, trainers, acrobats and divers; 2011 edition of Disney on Ice and the up-coming musical version of Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland. To view more of Stanley’s Design: stanleyameyerdesign.com.

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WHO’S WHOANN HOULD-WARD (Costumes). Broadway (among many others): People in the Picture, Free Man of Color (Drama Desk Nomination), A Ca-tered Affair (Drama Desk nomination), Company, Dance of the Vampires, Beauty and the Beast (Tony Award, American Theatre Wing’s Design Award, Ovation Award, Oliver nomination, Best Costume Design) 30 international tours of Beauty; Into the Woods (Tony, Drama Desk nominations; Outer Critics Circle nomination, L.A. Drama Crit-ics Circle Award); Falsettos; Sunday in the Park with George (Tony, Drama Desk Nominations); Harrigan ‘N’ Heart; Dream; St. Joan; Three Men on a Horse; Timon of Athens; In the Summer House; Little Me; The Moliere Comedies; House Arrest, Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hamlet (Pub-lic Theatre). Off-Broadway: Let Me Down Easy, Road Show, Surviving Grace, Lobster Alice, Cymbeline. Film: Strike!, Miramax. Other cred-its: Metropolitan Opera—Peter Grimes, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus 2001 & 2003, The Most Happy Fella (New York City Opera), Los Angeles Opera—Mahagonny, Graciela Dan-iele (Ballet Hispanico), Lar Lubovitch (the White Oak Project—San Francisco Ballet), American Ballet Theatre (Othello, Artemis and Meadow), Alvin Ailey (Reminicin’, Saddle Up, Morning Star). Over 100 credits in regional theaters in the U.S. Representative of the United States to the International Design Quadrennial in Prague, Re-cipient of Fashion Institute of Technology Patricia Zipprodt Award.

NATASHA kATZ (Lighting Design). Broadway credits include: The Little Mermaid, The Coast of Utopia/Salvage (Tony Award 2007), A Chorus Line (adapted from original design) The 25th An-nual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Tarzan, Aida (Tony Award 2000), Sweet Smell of Success, Twelfth Night, Beauty and the Beast, The Cape-man, Gypsy, Barrymore, and Pack of Lies. Other designs: Sister Act on the West End, Buried Child for The National Theatre in London, Cyrano for the The Metropolitan Opera, Tryst for the Royal Ballet in London, Carnival of the Animals for New York City Ballet, Swan Lake at the Edin-burgh Festival, Don Quixote for American Ballet Theatre, concert acts for Shirley MacLaine, Ann-Margret and Tommy Tune. Ms. Katz has designed many Off-Broadway (current: Altar Boyz) and American regional productions.

JOHN PETRAFESA, JR (Sound Designer) was the production sound engineer and/or asso-ciate sound designer for numerous productions of Beauty and the Beast including, Broadway, Los Angeles, Toronto, U.S. National Tours II & III and the U.K. National Tour. Other theatrical design and engineering credits include The Music Man (Broadway), Guys and Dolls (National Tour) and Les Misérables (Broadway and National Tour). John is a director with Syntonic Design Group in New York, Orlando and Las Vegas, where he

focuses on sound system design for theatre, live music and special events. 

DAVID H. LAWRENCE (Hair Design). Having worked on Broadway productions many years, Da-vid has had the pleasure of working with all of the best casts, crews and fellow designers on Broad-way. This production of Disney’s Beauty and The Beast for NETworks is no exception. Broadway: Baby It’s You, A Catered Affair, Rock’N’Roll, Company, All Shook Up, Guys and Dolls, Tommy, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Fo-rum, he King and I, Grease, Death of a Salesman, The New 42nd Street and The Full Monty. David also designed the hair for two seasons of Satur-day Night Live. David won the 1994 Outstanding Achievement award from Theatrecrafts Interna-tional for his work on Disney’s Beauty and the Beast. Thanks Paul Huntley, the late Bob Kelly, plus all who work so hard backstage nightly.

RICk SORDELET (Fight Direction). 49 Broad-way shows including The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, Superior Donuts, The Royal Family and Oleanna. 48 first class productions all over the world. Cyrano the opera starring Placido Do-mingo at the Met, The Royal Opera House, and La Scala in Milan, Ben Hur Live on tour all over Europe. As You Like It for Sam Mendes Bridge Project playing BAM, European tour and finally London. Film and television: The Game Plan, Dan in Real Life, Hamlet and Guiding Light. Edith Oliver Award for Sustained Excellence by the Lucille Lortel Foundation. Board member for the Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey. Instructor at Yale School of Drama, The New School Univer-sity, and The Neighborhood Playhouse.

JIM STEINMEYER (Illusion Design). Accord-ing to The New York Times, Jim Steinmeyer is the “celebrated invisible man, designer and creative brain behind many of the great stage magicians of the last quarter century.” His illusions have been featured by magicians Doug Henning, Siegfried and Roy, David Copperfield, Criss Angel, Ricky Jay and many others. Jim has created special illu-sions for Broadway, Off-Broadway, West End, and Las Vegas shows, including Beauty and the Beast, Into the Woods, The Phantom of the Opera and Mary Poppins. In 2009, his illusions are featured in the 139th edition of Ringling Brothers and Bar-num and Bailey Circus. He’s also the author of several books on the history of magic, including the bestseller, Hiding the Elephant, and The Glo-rious Deception and The Last Greatest Magician in the World. Jim lives in Los Angeles with his wife, television producer Frankie Glass.

BASIL TWIST (Puppet Design), originally from San Francisco, is a 3rd generation puppeteer who lives and works in New York City. Original cre-ations: The Araneidae Show, Symphonie Fantas-tique, Petrushka, Master Peter’s Puppet Show, Dogugaeshi, La Bella Dormente nel Bosco. Col-laborations: Arias with a Twist, Behind The Lid and Red Beads. Partnerships with The Spoleto Festival, Lincoln Center Festival, Lincoln Cen-ter’s Voice and Visions Series, The Los Angeles

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Philharmonic, The Japan Society and Gotham Chamber Opera. Premiered his second opera, Hansel and Gretel with The Houston Grand and Atlanta Opera Companies. Awards: Obie Award, four UNIMA Awards for Excellence in Puppetry, two Bessie Awards, New York Innovative Theatre Award, and Henry Hewes Design Award, Gug-genheim Fellow and inaugural United States Art-ist Ford Fellow. He will team with Lee Breuer to premiere Streetcar Named Desire at The Comedie Francaise; Fall 2010. He designed the puppetry for The Addams Family and is the Director of the Dream Music Puppetry Program in New York.

SAM SCALAMONI (Associate Director). Broadway: Associate Director, Elton John’s Les-tat and Disney’s Beauty and the Beast worldwide. New York: Co-Book writer and Director:Get Happy! Director, Alan Menken’s Leap of Faith (workshop), Mulan Jr., At the Back of the North Wind, Fidelity Futurestage at New World Stages, Treaty 321! (Fringe) Tours & Regional: The Gazil-lion Bubble Show, Nickelodeon’s Storytime Live!, Sense and Sensibility for Berkshire Musical The-atre Workshop, I Do, I Do for Cortland Rep., Dis-ney’s Beauty and the Beast, Montreal, Las Vegas, Ill., and Oklahoma City, Dracula at the Bickford Theatre. Founding Member and Managing Artis-tic Director of the Skyline Theatre Company. For Tricia, Spencer and Mia.

CONNOR GALLAGHER (Associate Choreog-rapher) is very happy to be working with Matt and the Beauty team. As a choreographer: Fat Camp (2009 NYMF Award), Cleveland Playhouse, Lincoln Center, Northern Stage, Revision The-atre, Perez Hilton… (2008 Fringe Best Musical), 3 Broadway Bares (Associate Director). Connor appeared on Broadway in Beauty and the Beast (Doormat) and is a graduate of the Cincinnati Con-servatory. UTPO forever. connorgallagher.com

MUSIC THEATRE INTERNATIONAL (MTIShows.com) is one of the world’s leading dra-matic licensing agencies, granting schools as well as amateur and professional theatres from around the world the rights to perform the largest selec-tion of great musicals from Broadway and beyond. MTI works directly with the composers, lyricists and book writers of these shows to provide official scripts, musical materials and dynamic theatrical resources to over 60,000 theatrical organizations in the US and in over 60 countries worldwide. MTI is particularly dedicated to the idea of theatre as education and has created special collections for younger performers. The MTI Broadway Ju-nior Collection® includes “JR.” titles, 60-minute musicals for performance by middle school chil-dren; and “KIDS” titles, 30-minute musicals for performance by elementary school children. MTI School Editions™ are musicals that have been an-notated for performance by high school students, and the Theatre For Young Audiences (TYA) Col-lection are 70-minute musicals designed for adults to perform for children. MTIShowSpace.com is the theatre world’s online community where prac-titioners and fans from around the world share

advice, photos, videos, sets, props, costumes and more, to help bring their next productions to life.

BROADWAY BOOkING OFFICE NYC (Tour Marketing) is a leading theatrical tour booking, marketing and press company, representing musi-cals, plays and theatrical productions. Currently: Jersey Boys, War Horse, The New 25th Anniver-sary Production of Les Misérables, Mary Pop-pins, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific, Hair, Cirque Éloize iD, Wintuk from Cirque du Soleil, NETworks presents Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Bob Fosse’s Dancin’, Holland Taylor in Ann: An Affectionate Portrait of Ann Richards, Menopause The Musical, The Rat Pack is Back! and Roger Rees in What You Will. bbonyc.com

THE BOOkING GROUP (Tour Booking). Since its inception in 1996, The Booking Group has been considered the  most prominent Broad-way booking agency in the industry. Their current roster includes: The Book of Mormon, Anything Goes, Beauty and the Beast, Mamma Mia!, The Addams Family, Memphis, Shrek The Musical, Million Dollar Quartet, La Cage Aux Folles, West Side Story, In the Heights, Fiddler on the Roof, and Irving Berlin’s White Christmas. Past shows have included Rent, The Producers, Annie, Av-enue Q, The Full Monty, Contact, Cabaret, Evita, Legally Blonde, Thoroughly Modern Millie, 12 Angry Men, August Osage County and Fosse, among many others. TheBookingGroup.com

SETH WENIG (Executive Producer) has been with NETworks since its inception in 1995. He spearheaded the international tours of Fosse star-ring Ben Vereen/Ruthie Henshall as well as the U.K. regional tour of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s The King and I. Together with Cameron Mack-intosh, Seth served as executive producer of a 40 week UK regional tour of the National Theatre’s My Fair Lady, which also ran in the United States. He is currently serving as Executive Producer on Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Les Miserables, Mary Poppins, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific and collaborating on the 2011 Tony Award® winner War Horse. He is most proud of his greatest productions, Marlo and Camden.

NETworks PRESENTATIONS, LLC (Pro-ducer). Since 1995, NETworks has produced and managed over 45 touring productions in the US., U.K. and internationally. Current productions in-clude Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Disney and Cameron Mackintosh’s Mary Poppins, Young Frankenstein, Rodgers and Hammerstein’s South Pacific, Blue Man Group National Tour, La Cage Aux Folles, Shrek The Musical, Billy Elliot The Musical and The New 25th Anniversary Produc-tion of Les Misérables. Future productions include Elf The Musical, Flashdance the Musical and National Theatre of Great Britain’s production of War Horse touring the U.S.

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STAFF FOR BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

Executive ProducerSeth Wenig

General ManagementGentry & Associates

Scott W. Jackson, Kim Reiter

Tour MarketingBroadway Booking Office NYC

Steven Schnepp, Temah Higgins,Kent McIngvale, Jenny Bates, Zach Stevenson, Rachel Goldman

Tour DirectionTHE BOOKING GROUP

Meredith BlairMollie Mann, Kara Gebhart, Brian Brooks, Rich Rundle

www.thebookinggroup.com

CastingPatricia Gentry and Bob Cline

Company ManagerJack Stephens

Production Stage Manager ............................................... David Zack Ass’t. Stage Manager .....................................Matthew A. GilbertsonHead Carpenter ................................................................. Seth LarkinAss’t. Company Manager ....................................................Drew Blau Assoc. Scenic Designer ...............................................Christine PetersAssoc. Lighting Designers ............................................ Daniel Walker,

Peter HoerburgerLighting Programmer ................................. Sean Beach, John DunkleAss’t. Costume Designer .....................................Christopher VergaraAssoc. Sound Designer ..................................................... Eric TaloricoProduction Assistants .................................Trey Gerrald, Hols FischerCarpenter ........................................................................... Jon Jordan Flyman.....................................................................Daniel Wade JollyProduction Electrician ...................................................... Barb Bartel,

Trevor MaynardHead Electrician ................................................................... Erik PlathAss’t. Electrician ............................................. Joseph Barrett RobertsHead Audio .................................................................. Walter TillmanAss’t. Audio .......................................................................Tylor FosterProduction Properties ....................................................Meghan AbelHead Properties ................................................................Corey KloosHead Wardrobe ............................................................ Laci BradshawAss’t. Wardrobe .....................................................Caitlin “Cat” BoothHead Wigs .................................................................... Jennifer ToberDance Captain ..........................................................Michael WhitneyFight Captain ..................................................................... Jeff BrooksRehearsal Pianist.............................................................. Kevin CaseyDialect Coach .........................................................Claudia Hill-SparksPrint Design, Printing.....................................................Marty MolinaRadio and TV Spot Production .......................................... HMS MediaVideo Production .............................................................. HMS MediaWebsite ................................................................. Pit Bull InteractiveProduction Photography................................................. Joan MarcusMerchandising ...................................Disney Theatrical MerchandiseAccounting ............................................NETworks Presentations, LLCHR & Payroll Servicess ......................................Human Resources inc.Financial Services ...................................................George W. Wilson,

OneSource PSGInsurance ........................................................................ Chubb GroupTax Consultant ............................................................ Brent A. Turner,

One Source PSGIT Services...............................................................George W. Wilson,

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Trucking ......................................................................... Clark TransferCast Bus .................................................................Croswell VIP CoachCrew Bus ........................................................................ Clarion CoachHotel Booking .........................................Lisa Morris, Road Concierge

For NETworks PresentationsChief Executive Officer ..................................................... Ken GentryChief Operating Officer ........................................... Scott W. JacksonDirector of Finance ............................................................John KinnaExecutive Producers .............................. Seth Wenig, Kary M. WalkerAssociate Producer ..................................................... Angela RowlesAssistant Producers ....................................Jim Lanahan, Mary WitteAssistant to the CEO ..........................................................Curt OwensSenior General Manager ..................................Gregory Vander PloegGeneral Manager ..................................... Dawn Kusinski, Kim ReiterAssociate General Manager ..............................................Curt OwensAssistant General Manager .................................Bobby MaglaughlinProduction Manager ....................................................Jason JuenkerAssociate Production Manager .................................... Hector GuivasAssistant Production Manager .............................. Christian BottorffMarketing/PR ................................................................ Heather HessMusic Coordinator .......................................................... John MezzioAssistant Controller .................................................. Jennifer GiffordAccounts Payables ............................................................ Laura CareyOffice Manager ......................................................... Buddy Piccolino Office Assistant .............................................................. Carol Jewell

CreditsAudio Equipment by PRG Audio; Lighting Equipment by PRG Lighting; Scenery Constructed by 3DX Scenic Studios; Automated Scenery by: 3DX Scenic Studios; Drops Painted by Joe Forbes, Scenic Arts Studios; Illusion Construction by Entertainment Design and Fabrication; Props Construction by Spoon Group; Puppet Construction by Tandem Otter Productions; For Tandem Otter: Barbara Busackino, Producer. Wigs and Prosthetic by Atelier Bassi Gmbh with Sari Rambut Wig Production and Toga; Additional wigs by wigfactoryusa.com; Specialty Props by Tom Talmon Studio

Rehearsed at Gateway Playhouse

Special Thanks toProvidence Performing Arts Center;

Norbert Mongeon, J. L. “Lynn” Singleton, Joseph Harris, Paul Allen,

Anne Quart

Financial Services and banking arrangements by M&T Bank

Stock and Amateur rights forDisney’s Beauty and the Beast are represented by

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All stage work performed by employees represented by IATSE.

United Scenic Artists represents the designers and scenic painters for the American Theatre.

The Director and Choreographer are members of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, an independent national labor union.

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Production StaffHead Stage Technician ........................................... Robert HaywardHead Lighting Technician ................................................. Sam AluiaHead Propman ................................................................ Joe AchatzHead Sound Technician ............................................. J. B. RalbovskyHead Scenery Technician................................................Ronald IveyWardrobe Supervisor ....................................... Kristyn Pinky MahleMusical Director ..............................................................Alice Sauro

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