Altoona Community Theatre

ACT is supported in part by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency, through its regional arts funding partnership, Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts (PPA). State government funding to the arts depends upon an annual appropriation by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and support from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. PPA is administered in this region by the Pennsylvania Rural Arts Alliance.

Disney's
Beauty and the Beast
Music by Alan Menken
Lyrics by Howard Ashman and Tim Rice
Book by Linda Woolverton

Disney’s musical version of “Beauty & The Beast” first gained popularity as an Academy Award-winning animated film, then was transformed into an eye-popping spectacle on Broadway in 1994 where it continues today as the sixth longest-running show and has spawned record-breaking runs around the world.

ACT Operations Manager Steve Helsel directed the show, with Jennifer de Coste as Musical Director and Maria Pacifico as Assistant Director/Co-choreographer. Amber (Stout) McDonald is Co-choreographer. Lindsay Satryan is Assistant Choreographer. Dawn Bonghi is Production Manager. Maureen Wittmer and Shelly Modico are Stage Managing.

PHOTO GALLERY
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Cast members of "Disney's Beauty and the Beast" pose with the B&B bus (courtesy of Amtran and Vipond's Sign Store)	The ensemble performs "Belle"
Belle (Lauren Anastasi) gazes in wonder as Gaston (Jayson Gabany) shows off his marvelous thighs	Jonathan O'Harrow as Cogsworth and Max Dick as Lumiere
Lefou (Ryan Decker) is trapped under Gaston's foot as the silly girls (Kristin Franco, Amber McDonald, and Gina Volpe) watch in delight	Mrs. Potts (Susan Brandt), Cogsworth, Lumiere, and Madame de La Grande Bouche (Liz Yon) try to calm the Beast (Gregg Brandt) as he argues with Belle
Chip (Jacob Herbster) discusses Belle's arrival with Mrs. Potts	The Flatware perform "Be Our Guest" (L to R Zach Weirich, Courtney Sherkel, Nick Finochio, Mark Perehenic, Emily Fochler, Bill Markley)
The entire cast, lead by Lumiere, perform "Be Our Guest"	The Beast sings "If I Can't Love Her"
Cogsworth, Mrs. Potts, and Lumiere sing "Something There"	Gaston hatches his sinister plan with the help of Monsieur D'Arque (Alan Campbell) and Lefou
Mrs. Potts sings "Beauty and the Beast"	Belle sings "A Change in Me" to Maurice (Gary Johnson)
Madame de la Grande Bouche prepares to frighten Lefou	Human again, Cogsworth and Madame find love at last
The cast joins the Prince and Belle in a reprise of "Beauty and the Beast"