Musical Beauty & Beast opens

Playbox Theatre’s annual end-of-summer Musical Theatre Festival this year brings a familiar and very loved show to The Dream Factory, Disney’s Beauty & the Beast J, from 9 to 18 September.

Featuring a cast of over 50 young artists from across the entire region, Disney’s musical focusses on the power of change, growth and learning in everyone’s lives told through a song-filled show with lively and memorable hits like Be Our Guest as well as many others.

Belle is the captive of an arrogant Prince, who has been transformed into a beast. Can she convince him that there is beauty in everyone and he has the power to change?

Belle is played by 18-year-old Priya Edwards from Solihull with Beast played by Joe Lydick and the ever loved Lumiere by Cameron Walker. Other major roles are taken by Hayden Coward, Cameron Scriven, Tom Codd, Alex Cottriall and Martha Markham.

Playbox Theatre open the 2016-17 30 Birthday Season with a perfect musical to end the holidays, appealing to all ages. An enchanted evening with a big Broadway musical.

Beauty & The Beast was created by Disney Theatrical Group and played to huge acclaim on Broadway. This production from director Juliet Vankay is inspired visualy by the lavish shows produced by The Radio City Rockettes in New York with a sense of dazzle and showbiz, colour and spectacle.

Juliet heads Playbox Theatre’s hugely successful musical theatre programme with over 100 young people training and performing. Her previous productions for Playbox’s Musical Theatre Festivals include The Secret Garden (2014) and Disney’s The Little Mermaid Jr (2015).

Tickets are £14, concessions £8 from 01926 419555 ext 2 or book online at www.playboxtheatre.com