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NETworks Presentations, LLC presents

Music by

Lyrics by

Alan Menken

Book by

Howard Ashman & Tim Rice

Linda Woolverton

Originally Produced by

Disney Theatrical Productions Featuring Dane Agostinis Emily Behny Jen Bechter Logan Denninghoff Michael Haller Julia Louise Hosack Chandon Jones Noah Jones Andrew Kruep James May Jordan Moore Christopher Spencer with David Baur Jeff Brooks Carly Casey Brittany Conigatti Amanda Grace Holt Kolby Kindle Caroline Kittrell Matt Kopec Caitlin Leary Jessica Lorion Benjamin Lynch Carter Lynch Nick Nelson Lauren Palmeri Christie Schwartzman Mandy Striph Nate Suggs Michael Whitney Scenic Design Stanley A. Meyer

Costume Design Ann Hould-Ward

Lighting Design Natasha Katz

Sound Design John Petrafesa

Hair Design David H. Lawrence

Fight Direction Rick Sordelet

Illusion Design Jim Steinmeyer

Puppet Design Basil Twist

Orchestrations Danny Troob

Dance Music Arrangements Glen Kelly

Vocal Arrangements David Friedman

Associate Director Sam Scalamoni

Associate Choreographer Connor Gallagher

Music Director/Conductor Carolyn Violi

Technical Director Seth Larkin

Production Stage Manager David Zack

Company Manager Jack Stephens

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Casting Patricia Pearce Gentry Bob Cline General Manager Kim Reiter Gentry & Associates

Executive Producer Seth Wenig

Production Manager Hector Guivas

Music Supervision and Incidental Music Arrangements

Michael Kosarin Choreography by

Matt West Directed by

Rob Roth

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

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CAST OF CHARACTERS Belle .....................................................................................................................EMILY BEHNY Beast............................................................................................................ DANE AGOSTINIS Gaston .......................................................................................... LOGAN DENNINGHOFF Lefou ............................................................................................................. ANDREW KRUEP Mrs. Potts ....................................................................................... JULIA LOUISE HOSACK Lumiere ......................................................................................................MICHAEL HALLER Cogsworth ............................................................................................................. JAMES MAY Babette ......................................................................................................CHANDON JONES Maurice ........................................................................................ CHRISTOPHER SPENCER Madame de la Grande Bouche ...................................................................... JEN BECHTER Chip (at certain performances)....................................................................... NOAH JONES Chip (at certain performances)...............................................................JORDAN MOORE Monsieur d’Arque ............................................................................................. MATT KOPEC Townspeople/Enchanted Objects .... DAVID BAUR, JEFF BROOKS, CARLY CASEY, BRITTANY CONIGATTI, AMANDA GRACE HOLT, KOLBY KINDLE, CAROLINE KITTRELL, MATT KOPEC, JESSICA LORION, BENJAMIN LYNCH, CARTER LYNCH, NICK NELSON, LAUREN PALMERI, CHRISTIE SCHWARTZMAN, MANDY STRIPH, NATE SUGGS Voice of Prologue Narrator........................................................ LOGAN DENNINGHOFF UNDERSTUDIES Understudies 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 - NICK NELSON; NATE SUGGS; for Cogsworth - KOLBY KINDLE; MATT KOPEC; for Mrs. Potts - CARLY CASEY, MANDY STRIPH; for Madame de la Grande Bouche - CARLY CASEY, MANDY STRIPH; for Babette - JESSICA LORION, CHRISTIE SCHWARTZMAN; for Maurice - KOLBY KINDLE, MATT KOPEC; for Monsieur D’Arque - KOLBY KINDLE, MICHAEL WHITNEY; for Carpet - BENJAMIN LYNCH, MICHAEL WHITNEY. Dance Captain........................................................................................ CHANDON JONES Fight Captain.....................................................................................................JEFF BROOKS Swings.................................................................. CAITLIN LEARY; MICHAEL WHITNEY

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MUSICAL NUMBERS AND SCENES ACT I Overture........................................................................................................................ Orchestra Prologue......................................................................................................................... Orchestra Belle........................................................................Belle, Gaston, Silly Girls and Townspeople Wolf Chase........................................................................................................................Maurice Me........................................................................................................................................ Gaston Belle (Reprise).........................................................................................................................Belle Home.......................................................................................................................................Belle Home (Reprise)............................................................................................................ Mrs. Potts Gaston...............................................................Lefou, Gaston, Silly Girls and Tavern Patrons Gaston (Reprise)............................................................................................ Gaston and Lefou How Long Must This Go On?............................................................................................Beast Be Our Guest................................ Lumiere, Mrs. Potts, and Enchanted Objects, Ensemble If I Can’t Love Her................................................................................................................Beast ACT II Entr’acte/Wolf Attack.................................................................................................. Orchestra Something There....................................... Belle, Beast, Lumiere, Mrs. Potts and Cogsworth Human Again.................Lumiere, Madame de la Grande Bouche, Cogsworth, Mrs. Potts, Babette, Chip and Enchanted Objects, Ensemble Beauty and the Beast................................................................................................... Mrs. Potts If I Can’t Love Her (Reprise)...............................................................................................Beast A Change In Me.....................................................................................................................Belle The Mob Song...................................................................... Gaston, Townspeople, Ensemble Home (Reprise)................................................................................................... Belle and Beast Beauty and the Beast (Reprise)...........................................................Belle, Prince, Company There will be one 15-minute intermission ORCHESTRA Musical Director/Conductor: Carolyn Violi Associate Conductor/Keyboards: Alan Plado Violin: Josh Estrada Reeds: Ryan Claus, Brett Gregory, Terry Halvorson Trumpet: David D. Torres French Horn: Jeremy M. Brewer Bass: Catherine O’Malley Cello: Eric Sheaffer Drums/Percussion: Terrene Bates Electronic Keyboard Programming by Jeff Marder

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WHO’S WHO IN THE CAST

DANE 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!, Spelling 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 (Nadine). 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 (Cinderella’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. Logan 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 enchanted castle for the next year! STAGE: Summer of Love (Donovan), Cinderella (Dandini), Hair (Claude), Rent (Mark), Falsettos (Whizzer) FILM: Boycrazy (Corey).

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ANDREW KRUEP (Lefou) is both thrilled and grateful to make his national tour debut!

Favorite regional credits include Big River (Huck), The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Chip), West Side Story (Baby John), The Drowsy Chaperone (Ensemble),

Hair (Tribe), and White Christmas (Ensemble). Thank you to my friends and family for all their love and support!

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 College. “Many thanks to NETworks and Bob Cline Casting.

Thank you Mom, Dad, Lizzie, friends and family for your constant love and support.” www.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! (Laurey), Fiddler on the Roof (Golde) and Songs for a New World (Woman 1). Love and dedication to her family.

CHRISTOPHER SPENCER (Maurice) is overjoyed to be on tour with Beauty and the Beast. Regional credits include: Urinetown (Cladwell), Cabaret (M.C.), A Christmas Carol (Christmas Present), Little Shop of Horrors (Mushnik) and A Funny Thing . . .

Forum (Pseudolus). Thanks to everyone at NETworks and Bob Cline Casting.

CHANDON JONES (Babette/Dance Captain). Regional: North Carolina Theatre, Papermill Theatre. Favorites: A Chorus Line (Sheila), High School Musical 2 (Violet) and The Phantom of the Opera (Ballet Corps).

Recent graduate of Elon University, B.F.A. in Music Theatre. Love to my family and friends.

NOAH JONES (Chip at certain performances), a seven-year old homeschooler 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 commercials and can be seen in the film Alone Yet Not Alone. Noah would like to thank his family for making this opportunity possible.

JORDAN MOORE (Chip at certain performances) 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 | Overture Center 5

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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 & Hammerstein’s Cinderella starring Lea Salonga (Portia). Regional: Urinetown (Soupy Sue), Dames at Sea (Mona), Lend me a Tenor (Maria), Pippin (Fastrada), Debbie Does Dallas (Lisa). B.F.A.: Wichita State University. Love to my support system MDCJELK. DAVID BAUR (Townsperson/Enchanted Object) 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!

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

CARLY CASEY (Townsperson/Enchanted Object) is a Tulsa, Oklahoma native and is thrilled to be making her National tour debut! Favorite credits: The Phantom of the Opera (Carlotta), Oklahoma! (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/ Enchanted 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 Performing Arts. Special thanks to Bloc and most of all her family and friends for their continued support!

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AMANDA GRACE HOLT (Silly Girl/ Enchanted 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! KOLBY KINDLE (Townsperson/ Enchanted Object). Making his national tour debut! Has performed with Music Theatre of Wichita, West Virginia Public Theatre, Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma, 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/ Enchanted 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/ Townsperson/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 University.

Love and thanks to my family and David.

JESSICA LORION (Townsperson/ Enchanted Object) is thrilled to be joining the Beauty and the Beast tour! Credits: 42nd Street (Peggy Sawyer), 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 BENJAMIN LYNCH (Townsperson/ Enchanted Object) is thrilled to be making his national tour debut! Favorite credits: A Chorus Line, Bat Boy, Urinetown and By Jupiter. B.A. in musical theatre from Oakland University. This is for friends, family and the love of his life!

CARTER LYNCH (Townsperson/ Enchanted Object) received his BA in Dramatic Art from UNC-Chapel Hill. Regional credits

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NICK NELSON (Townsperson/Enchanted Object) is elated to be joining Beauty and the Beast. He has recently toured with Nickelodeon and danced for Carnival Cruise Lines. Favorite credits: Crazy for You (Mingo), Hair (Woof) and Assassins (Guiteau). CCM graduate. This is for Mama and Dad. 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 Carousel (Julie Jordan).

Much love and thanks to her family and friends for their constant support!

CHRISTIE SCHWARTZMAN (Silly Girl/ Enchanted 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 University. Past credits include West Side Story (Anita), The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Logainne SchwartzandGrubenierre) and Oklahoma!

(Ado Annie). Love and thanks to her family, friends, and Robo. Andy, this is for you.

NATE SUGGS (Townsperson/Enchanted Object) is fired up over his first national tour!

Throughout his career he has performed as a sailor, an over-thetop director, a peach from Georgia, a bartender, lover, fighter and a donkey. Much love to those he knows!

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 Niskayuna, 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/ Conductor). 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 Pennsylvania, Music Educator 20+ years. Thank you to Koz, NETworks and as always, much love to my family.

ALAN MENKEN (Composer). Alan’s stage musicals include (in chronological order) God Bless You Mr. Rosewater, Atina: Evil Queen of

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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, Beauty 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 other 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, including 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, Rapunzel (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 (Executive Producer and Lyrics) and Aladdin (Lyrics), all with music

by Alan Menken. Ashman’s contributions to the revival of classic Disney animated 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 enterprises 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 extended, mainly because of the world’s failure to accept him as a rock god, but also because of the distracting success of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar and Evita with Andrew Lloyd Webber, Aladdin, King David 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 television 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 working 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 www.timrice.co.uk but please don’t feel obliged to go there.

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LINDA WOOLVERTON (Book). While working 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/Musical and became the first animated film to be nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award. Woolverton 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 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 running 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 Palace Theatre. Linda Woolverton’s script for Alice In Wonderland directed by Tim Burton and starring 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 writing Maleficent for Disney as well as adapting the Alice screenplay for a Broadway musical.

ROB ROTH (Director) was nominated for a Tony Award for his direction of the original Broadway production of Beauty and the Beast. The show has won many awards throughout the world, including the Olivier Award for Best Musical in London. Rob directed the world premiere of Elaborate Lives – The Legend of Aida collaborating with Sirs Elton John and Tim Rice. Rob directed the Broadway production of Lestat, based on works of Anne Rice, with music and lyrics

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directs rock and roll tours, collaborating with Steve Miller, Alice Cooper, Cyndi Lauper and others. A book featuring Rob’s extensive collection of rock and roll graphics, “The Art of Classic Rock,” is available nationwide from Harper Collins. Rob lives in New York City with his black labs Dash Rip Rock and Tag. MATT WEST (Choreographer). For Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Matt received the L.A. Drama-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 choreographed the World Premiere of Elton John and Tim Rice’s Elaborate Lives: The Legend of Aida at the Alliance Theatre. Also: Little Shop of Horrors, 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 Attenborough. Matt recently directed and choreographed Fantasmic for Tokyo Disney Sea. MICHAEL KOSARIN (Music Supervisor/ Incidental 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 music 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 album/ 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.”

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self-help Interior Design Book by James Swan and Carol Beggy called 101 Things I Hate About Your House, which is available online at www.barnesandnoble.com. Stan has more than four dozen credits as a scenic/ production designer that have earned him numerous awards and nominations including an American Theatre Wing Design Award nomination, a New York Outer Critics Circle Award nomination, a National Broadway Theatre Award nomination, a Los Angeles Ovation Award Nomination, THEA Award, and IAPPA 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 American 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 Broadway 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 Cooper and Cyndi Lauper; The New Nutcracker Ballet 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 upcoming musical version of Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland. To view more of Stanley’s Design: stanleyameyerdesign.com.

ANN HOULD-WARD (Costumes).

Broadway (among many others): People in the Picture, Free Man of Color (Drama Desk Nomination), A Catered 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 Critics 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 (Public Theatre). Off-Broadway: Let Me Down Easy, Road Show, Surviving Grace, Lobster Alice, Cymbeline. Film: Strike!, Miramax. Other credits: 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 Daniele (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, Recipient 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 Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Tarzan, Aida (Tony Award 2000), Sweet Smell of Success, Twelfth Night, Beauty and the Beast, The Capeman, 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 Edinburgh Festival, Don Quixote for American Ballet Theatre, concert acts for Shirley MacLaine, Ann-Margret and Tommy Tune. Ms. Katz has designed many OffBroadway (current: Altar Boyz) and American regional productions.

JOHN PETRAFESA, JR (Sound Designer) was the production sound engineer and / or associate 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.

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DAVID H. LAWRENCE (Hair Design).

Having worked on Broadway productions many years, David has had the pleasure of working with all of the best casts, crews and fellow designers on Broadway. 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 Forum, 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 Saturday Night Live. David won the 1994 Outstanding Achievement award from Theatrecrafts International 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 Broadway 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 Domingo 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 University, and The Neighborhood Playhouse.

JIM STEINMEYER (Illusion Design).

According 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 illusions 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 Barnum and Bailey Circus. He’s also the author of several books on the history 18 Overture Center | Beauty and the Beast

of magic, including the bestseller, Hiding the Elephant, and The Glorious 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 creations: The Araneidae Show, Symphonie Fantastique, Petrushka, Master Peter’s Puppet Show, Dogugaeshi, La Bella Dormente nel Bosco. Collaborations: Arias with a Twist, Behind The Lid and Red Beads. Partnerships with The Spoleto Festival, Lincoln Center Festival, Lincoln Center’s Voice and Visions Series, The Los Angeles 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, Guggenheim Fellow and inaugural United States Artist 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 Lestat 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 Gazillion Bubble Show, Nickelodeon’s Storytime Live!, Sense and Sensibility for Berkshire Musical Theatre Workshop, I Do, I Do for Cortland Rep., Disney’s Beauty and the Beast Montreal, Las Vegas, Ill., and Oklahoma City, Dracula at the Bickford Theatre. Founding Member and Managing Artistic Director of the Skyline Theatre Company. For Tricia, Spencer and Mia. CONNOR GALLAGHER (Associate Choreographer) is very happy to be working with Matt and the Beauty team. As a

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choreographer: Fat Camp (2009 NYMF Award), Cleveland Playhouse, Lincoln Center, Northern Stage, Revision Theatre, 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 Conservatory. UTPO forever. connorgallagher.com MUSIC THEATRE INTERNATIONAL (MTIShows.com) is one of the world’s leading dramatic licensing agencies, granting schools as well as amateur and professional theatres from around the world the rights to perform the largest selection 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 Junior Collection® includes “JR.” titles, 60-minute musicals for performance by middle school children; and “KIDS” titles, 30-minute musicals for performance by elementary school children. MTI School Editions™ are musicals that have been annotated for performance by high school students, and the Theatre For Young Audiences (TYA) Collection are 70-minute musicals designed for adults to perform for children. MTI ShowSpace.com is the theatre world’s online community where practitioners 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 musicals, plays and theatrical productions. Currently: Jersey Boys, War Horse, The New 25th Anniversary Production of Les Misérables, Mary Poppins, 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. www. bbonyc.com

THE BOOKING GROUP. (Tour Booking) Since its inception in 1996, The Booking Group has been considered the most prominent Broadway 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, Avenue Q, The Full Monty, Contact, Cabaret, Evita, Legally Blonde, Thoroughly Modern Millie, 12 Angry Men, August Osage County and Fosse, among many others. www.

TheBookingGroup.com SETH WENIG (Executive Producer) has been with NETworks since its inception in 1995. He spearheaded the international tours of Fosse starring Ben Vereen/Ruthie Henshall as well as the U.K. regional tour of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s The King and I. Together with Cameron Mackintosh, 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 (Producer). Since 1995, NETworks has produced and managed over 45 touring productions in the US., U.K. and internationally . Current productions include Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Young Frankenstein, Rodgers and Hammerstein’s South Pacific, Blue Man Group National Tour, La Cage, Shrek The Musical and The New 25th Anniversary Production of Les Misérables. Future productions include Disney and Cameron Mackintosh’s Mary Poppins, Flashdance the Musical and National Theatre of Great Britain’s production of War Horse touring the U.S. Beauty and the Beast | Overture Center 19

STAFF FOR BEAUTY AND THE BEAST Executive Producer Seth Wenig General Management Gentry & Associates Scott W. Jackson, Kim Reiter Tour Marketing Broadway Booking Office NYC Steven Schnepp, Temah Higgins, Kent McIngvale, Jenny Bates, Zach Stevenson Tour Direction THE BOOKING GROUP Meredith Blair Mollie Mann, Kara Gebhart, Brian Brooks, Rich Rundle www.thebookinggroup.com Casting Patricia Gentry and Bob Cline Company Manager Jack Stephens Production Stage Manager.............................David Zack Head Carpenter................................................ Seth Larkin Ass’t. Stage Manager................................ Tyler Jacobson Ass’t. Company Manager..................................Drew Blau Assoc. Scenic Designer........................... Christine Peters Assoc. Lighting Designers.........................Daniel Walker, Peter Hoerburger Lighting Programmer..............Sean Beach, John Dunkle Ass’t. Costume Designer.................Christopher Vergara Assoc. Sound Designer..................................Eric Talorico Production Assistants............ Trey Gerrald, Hols Fischer Carpenter........................................................... Chris Sevin Flyman....................................................Daniel Wade Jolly Production Electrician..................................... Barb Bartel, Trevor Maynard Head Electrician................................................... Erik Plath Ass’t. Electrician........................... Joseph Barrett Roberts Head Audio.................................................Walter Tillman Ass’t. Audio..................................................... Tylor Foster Production Properties..................................Meghan Abel Head Properties.............................................. Corey Kloos Head Wardrobe...........................................Laci Bradshaw Ass’t. Wardrobe.............................................Caitlin Booth Head Wigs...................................................Jennifer Tober Dance Captain.......................................... Chandon Jones Fight Captain.................................................... Jeff Brooks Rehearsal Pianist............................................. Kevin Casey Dialect Coach..................................... Claudia Hill-Sparks Print Design, Printing................................... Marty Molina Radio and TV Spot Production.................... HMS Media Video Production........................................... HMS Media Website.................................................. Pit Bull Interactive Production Photography.............................. Joan Marcus Merchandising.................Disney Theatrical Merchandise Accounting.......................NETworks Presentations, LLC HR & Payroll Servicess..................Human Resources inc.

Financial Services................................George W. Wilson, OneSource PSG Insurance.......................................................Chubb Group Tax Consultant........................................ Brent A. Turner, One Source PSG IT Services...........................................George W. Wilson, One Source PSG Trucking........................................................Clark Transfer Cast Bus............................................. Croswell VIP Coach Crew Bus...................................................... Clarion Coach Hotel Booking.....................Lisa Morris, Road Concierge

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For NETworks Presentations Chief Executive Officer ............................ Ken Gentry Chief Operating Officer ................... Scott W. Jackson Director of Finance ....................................John Kinna Executive Producers ..........Seth Wenig, Kary M. Walker Associate Producer .............................. Angela Rowles Assistant Producers .............Jim Lanahan, Mary Witte Assistant to the CEO .................................Curt Owens Senior General Manager ..........Gregory Vander Ploeg General Manager ............. Dawn Kusinski, Kim Reiter Associate General Manager ......................Curt Owens Assistant General Manager ..........Bobby Maglaughlin Production Manager ...............................Jason Juenker Associate Production Manager .............Hector Guivas Assistant Production Manager ........ Christian Bottorff Marketing/PR ..........................................Heather Hess Music Coordinator .................................. John Mezzio Assistant Controller ........................... Jennifer Gifford Office Manager ................................. Buddy Piccolino Office Assistant ......................................... Nancy Kerr Credits Audio 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 Rehearsed at Gateway Playhouse Special Thanks to Providence 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 for Disney’s Beauty and the Beast are represented by

Music Theater International, New York City.

212-541-4684 www.mtishows.com Visit the Beauty and the Beast website at www.BeautyAndTheBeastOnTour.com 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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