Published April 12. 2022 04:41PM
Notre Dame Catholic HS in Easton presented Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast” as its annual musical for three showings this past weekend.
Based on the 1756 French fairytale by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont and famously adapted into a Disney animated feature in 1991, it’s a tale about respect.
There is a prince who is cast with a spell after disregarding a woman who comes to his door for help, and is subsequently turned into a Beast, and the castle servants are turned into ordinary household objects. In order to break the spell, the prince must prove he can love and is worthy to be loved in return. They live with this spell for 10 years and the Beast lives a desolate existence, angry and despondent.
He is able to fulfill the expectation when Belle comes to the castle to save her imprisoned father and reluctantly becomes a resident of the castle, never being allowed to leave. They come to an understanding after much strife and eventually, just in time, the spell is broken as each was able to declare their love separately.
In the castle library, Belle (Sheila Miller) reads a story to the Beast (Nathaniel Urquiza) after learning he is illiterate. She is fascinated by books and is often ridiculed by the people in her small village for loving to read.
Maurice (Dylan Stroppa) explains his invention, an automatic wood chopper, to his daughter Belle (Sheila Miller.) He hopes to win the competition to create a better life for them.
Inventor Maurice (Dylan Stroppa) got lost on the way to the fair and found refuge in a castle. Here, the servants, Cogsworth (David Stangl), Lumière (Keiran Lencheski) and Feather Duster Barnabé (Keegan Ramsay) nervously make their new visitor comfortable while knowing the Beast would be angry about an uninvited guest.
Press photos by Lori Patrick Blustery Gaston (Josh Hoffert) tells pal Lefou (Daniel Carroll) and the local villagers his scheme to win Belle's heart at any cost.
Transformed cook Mrs. Potts (Ursula Kuehne) gives Chip (Lauren Raniszewski) some motherly advice.
