WA Premiere

The WA Premiere of Disney's Beauty and the Beast opens tonight at the Mandurah Performing Arts Centre. For details of this and other performances, check at www.manpac.com.au

i am going to see this on the 21st and i can't wait! supposedly it has an absolutely amazing cast and most of the tickets have been sold!?!

The only performances where there are a larger number of tickets available are the matinee on Australia Day and the last Sunday evening show (28th Jan)

I went to the matinee performance yesterday and thought the show was extremely well done. The sets and costumes are magnificent - I want the Beast's Blue Coat. The cast were all very strong - although at times it was extremely difficult to hear anyone who didn't have a mic. In particular in the large chorus numbers. Especially the three silly girls in Kill the Beast, at first I thought someone had forgotten to sing until I realised it was the three girls and they were no longer wearing mics I understand that there are only so many mics for each performance, but it was a shame not to hear people as the vocal quality was great. The leads were all fabulous in particular Gaston, Lefou, The Beast and Belle. The household were tight and fun. I especially like the Wardrobe. Her attention to detail with her movement was spot on. My only big grumble about the show was the behaviour of some audience members, in particular the family sitting in front of me who went out at interval and returned with a serving of hot chips and proceded to eat them during the second half. If you can get tickets, go see the show. If you have children or are a child at heart it is so worth it.

i saw the sunday night performance... the sets and costumes were superb! absolutely fantastic that they could use them but without the great quality of the performances it would have been a waste... i have to agree that the leads were fantastic! stand-outs were most definetly belle, lumiere, lefou and mrs potts whose number was sung to perfection. belle was brilliant her voice was absolutely amazing, she was so sweet and if you weren't quite sure the ooo's and ahhh's when she walked out in that gold ball dress sealed it. the beasts characterisation was superb and the little "slip-up" was forgotten as soon as the 2nd act began. i have to say that my personal favourite and in my opinion the stand out performance had to be lumiere (sp?) great accent, beautiful voice and not a second where he was out of character! i loved the gaston dance number but one problem i did have was the choreography in be our guest, the costumes and sets and the leads were fantastic but the choreography, unfortunately it looked as though it had been choreographed without anyone ever looking at it from the audience, half of the choreography and tricks were not seen and the choreo that could be seen was rather tedious. i loved the show, completely and totally but i also don't see the point of just raving without giving what i hope will be taken as constructive criticism. good job everyone and i can't wait to see what you come up with next!

Well done Bruce, it has certainly been worth all the blood sweat and tears

Hi DFE glad you enjoyed the show. the children were auditioned on a one on one basis.

Massive Congratulations! Coming in in tech week to help with these massives sets I was simply amazed at the quality of acting singing and dancing, better than anything I had seen before! Just think everyone involved deserves a massive round of applause for their spectacular jobs, now the only problem is, how on earth can you raise the bar from that!! THATS TOO EXPENSIVE!