October, 2010

For Tony Award winner Gary Beach , his association with " Beauty and the Beast " pretty much began the way the rest of ours did. In a movie theater. "I was living in LA when Disney premiered the film at the El Capitan Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard. It was a really big deal. They had a stage show before the movie," Beach recalled. "So I went and I just loved it. I mean, almost ridiculously." "So I'm sitting there, watching 'Beauty and the Beast.' And...

To hear Robby Benson tell the tale, the only reason that this " Ice Castles " star wound up doing the voice of the Beast in Disney's acclaimed animated feature was because Robby knew his way around a Walkman. "This is a story that I always tell the students in my acting classes. How I got past that first audition for ' Beauty and the Beast ,' " Benson recalled last week in NYC. Where Robby and Paige O'Hara were doing publicity for this Academy Award-winning film...