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“Rock Star” Disney Princesses coming to town in November
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n November 28, a new show will be coming to the Kodak Center. Disney Princess: The Concert is a “glow-up” of a show called Broadway Princess Party, which has been running for three years, says Belle cast member Susan Egan. “It’s kind of like a rock concert,” she says. Her co-star Courtney Reed calls this a cabaret-style show, and says audiences tend to come with a lot of excitement—there’s even screaming, “almost as if we were Destiny’s Child, or the Spice Girls. It’s so crazy.” Some people come in full cosplay, dressed as princesses or their favorite Disney characters. “We’re thrilled,” Egan says. “We’re not here to grace you with our princess presence,”—it’s
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an interactive show and a celebration. “We are just Susan and Christy and Courtney and Aisha.” The cast will be performing songs from many favorite Disney movies, and it’s a celebration aimed at a wide audience. Kids love the singing and animated backdrop, and adults enjoy reliving childhood memories through these songs and stories too. Millennials are re-living their love of their favorite childhood movies, she says. A prince will come onstage too, to join in on classic Disney duets. Egan, the original Belle from Beauty and the Beast on Broadway, explains that rather than portraying characters “We are playing ourselves,” in the new show. The cast coming to
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BY CAROLYN SPERRY
