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| | Disney's Beauty and the Beast: The Broadway Musical (Original Broadway Cast Recording) | | | Music Artist : | | Alan Menken | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Walt Disney Records | | Release Date : | | 1994-04-26 | | Store Price : | | $18.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $14.99 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Act I: Prologue (The Enchantress) - Wendy Oliver
2. Act I: Belle - Susan Egan/Burke Moses/Kenny Raskin/Sarah Solie Shannon/Paige Price/Linda Talcott...
3. Act I: No Matter What - Tom Bosley/Susan Egan
4. Act I: No Matter What (Reprise) / Wolf Chase - Tom Bosley
5. Act I: Me - Burke Moses/Susan Egan
6. Act I: Belle (Reprise) - Susan Egan
7. Act I: Home - Susan Egan
8. Act I: Home (Reprise) - Beth Fowler
9. Act I: Gaston - Kenny Raskin/Burke Moses/Sarah Solie Shannon/Paige Price/Linda Talcott...
10. Act I: Gaston (Reprise) - Burke Moses/Kenny Raskin
11. Act I: How Long Must This Go On? - Terrence Mann
12. Act I: Be Our Guest - Gary Beach/Beth Fowler/Heath Lamberts/Barbara Marineau/Brian Press/Stacey Logan...
13. Act I: If I Can't Love Her - Terrence Mann
14. Act II: Entr'acte / Wolf Chase - Original Cast
15. Act II: Something There - Susan Egan/Terrence Mann/Gary Beach/Beth Fowler/Heath Lamberts
16. Act II: Human Again - Gary Beach/Barbara Marineau/Heath Lamberts/Stacey Logan/Brian Press...
17. Act II: Maison Des Lunes - Burke Moses/Kenny Raskin/Gordon Stanley
18. Act II: Beauty And The Beast - Beth Fowler
19. Act II: If I Can't Love Her (Reprise) - Terrence Mann
20. Act II: The Mob Song - Burke Moses/Kenny Raskin/Gordon Stanley...
21. Act II: The Battle - Original Broadway Cast
22. Act II: End Duet / Transformation - Terrence Mann/Susan Egan
23. Beauty And The Beast (Reprise) - Original Broadway Cast
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 Pretty good soundtrack
Submitted on: 2009-04-24 |
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| Very good Broadway soundtrack. It is different from the movie soundtrack. It took two listenings to fully appreciate it, but I love this CD. Highly recommended for fans of the musical, with great cast and music. My only gripe, not significant to dock a point from the rating, is that the booklet doesn't tell when the CD was recorded. Other than that, a must buy for Broadway and Disney fans. |
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 Music Tames the Beast
Submitted on: 2009-03-07 |
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Beauty and the Beast was a marvelous Disney animated film; their best in at least two decades. So, it was commendable that they chose this film to be the first Disney movie to be translated for the stage. It was fresh and contemporary.
The cast is satisfactory in their roles on the cast recording. Susan Egan is elegant, full of life and coyness as Belle. Burke Moses and Kenny Raskins are hysterical as the scheming Gaston and Lefou. Heath Lamberts, Gary Beach and Beth Fowler adequately fill the roles of Cogsworth, Lumiere and Mrs. Potts.
My only real contention with the recording, is not the casting of Terrance Mann, but nothing that really shows the ferocious nature of the Beast before Belle starts to affect him. This isn't Mr. Mann's fault but more to Alan Menken and Tim Rice who fail to write anything that shows the animalistic nature he has turned to. To be fair, there is a token ballad that was written for Beast in this stage version, that Terrance Mann shines on.
The new music is distinctly different, which is amazing since Alan Menken wrote all the music and the old and new are only three years apart. It feels like the new music was written for a smarter theater audience as opposed to the child audience that the film was geared towards. It's a improvement to the show in it's musical quality, but a distraction if you're very familiar with the movie before hearing this new album.
Beauty and the Beast is now a classic in animation and music, the show has plenty of stage magic and wonder. But if you have never seen the show, I recommend just picking up the movie soundtrack. If you saw the Broadway show or one of it's tours and enjoyed it, the cast recording is a welcome addition to your music library. |
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Awsome, just like being there
Submitted on: 2009-01-06 |
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| Just like sitting at the show or being at Disney's Hollywood Studio watching the Beauty & The Beast live show. |
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Surprising!
Submitted on: 2008-12-25 |
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I avoid Disney because they usually throw enough "sweetness" at a person to give them diabetes! Having heard two of the songs on AOL Radio, I was curious enough to order the CD.
It was a TOTAL surprise! There is enough sugar in it, but there is FAR more passion than I would expect from Disney. It's a love story. (Aren't they ALL?) BUT there are enough other enjoyable moments in it to make it worthwhile. (Including what I perceive to be a suicide threat, "If I can't love her/Let the world be done with me."). Not what you'd expect!)
While the whole musical can be summarized in three of the tracks, (Prologue, to tell the premise, Something There, to show development, and End Duet to resolve the situation) that doesn't say that the other tracks are fluff. They ALL contribute to the telling of the story.
All in all, far better than I expected!
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Beauty and The Beast On Broadway
Submitted on: 2008-08-27 |
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We saw this show on Broadway in 1994 and even my then nine year old son loved the music. There are nine songs here that were not in the animated Disney movie. David Ogden Stiers (Winchester from MASH, Cogsworth in the animated movie) narrates the prologue and his voice is extremely sensuous! The cast works perfectly together and the magic comes through in the music. I am a little surprised that The Transformation (Home reprise) didn't become more popular as a wedding song:
"We are home
We are where we shall be forever
Trust in me
For you know I wont run away
From today
This is all that I need
And all that I need to say is...
Don't you know how you've changed me
Strange how I fin'lly see
I found home
You're my home
Stay with me" |
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