Beauty and the Beast
The Charleston Light Opera Guild in collaboration with the Clay Center will bring this classic tale to the Maier Performance Hall stage October 25-27 and November 1-3, 2024.
Charleston Light Opera Guild in collaboration with the Clay Center will bring the classic tale about a beautiful girl who becomes the companion of a brutish beast to save her father's life to the Maier Performance Hall stage at the Clay Center. The stage version of the popular animated Disney film, Beauty and the Beast, includes all the wonderful Alan Menken and Howard Ashman songs from the Disney movie plus new songs written for the Broadway show by Menken and Tim Rice. These include Belle, No Matter What, Gaston, Be Our Guest, Something There, Human Again and Beauty and the Beast. The show features humor, style, magic, classic songs and beautiful sets and costumes with a few updated changes to the 2024 script. The Light Opera Guild previously presented the musical at the Clay Center in 2005 and 2016.
CAST OF CHARACTERS
Belle - Meredith Aliff
Beast/Prince - Cedrick L. Farmer
Gaston - Jonathan Thorne
Maurice - Eric Hudnall
Lefou - Brett Wiley
Lumiere - Bob McCarty
Cogsworth - Jacob Fleck
Mrs. Potts - Su Voycik-Meredith
Madame de la Grand Bouche - Elizabeth Cary Brown
Chip - Trenton Hardway
Babette - Taylor Shaw
Les Filles De La Ville - Alexandra Muldoon, Hannah O'Brien, Karis Sutherland
Monsieur D'Arque - Clint Thomas
Enchantress - Sara Golden
Villagers & Enchanted Objects - Natasha Allen, Aiden Bowen, Ted Brightwell, Dionne Canterbury, Jim Damron, Horace Emery, Jake Epling, Carah Gunnoe, Micah Gunnoe, Geoffrey Gregory, Samantha Ingram, Jack Jarvis, Pam Kessler, Kayla Marcum, Frankie Marrs, Janie Rhodes, Spencer Rowan, Katy Ruffell, Dulce Vance, Tim Whitener, Mark Worlledge
DIRECTION
Director/Choreographer
Nina Denton Pasinetti
Musical Director
David Patrick
Accompanist
John Patrick
Technical Director
Thomas P. Pasinetti