Beautiful and a little beastly at the People’s Theatre

This festive season a little holiday magic will dazzle on stage, pantomime style, with the The People’s Theatre production of Beauty and the Beast, running until December 24, 2011.

Following the successes of Alice in Wonderland and Fun, Magic and Tales from Africa, directors Jill Girard and Keith Smith have now brought this all-time favourite fairytale to life. With a cast of delightful actors starring Gavin Gomes (Beast) and Alexandra Snyman (Belle) as well as a spectacular set, innovative, funky musical treatments and new songs that will make a traditional favourite delightfully contemporary, this is Beauty and the Beast in wonderful style!

The play tells the story of Beauty’s father, who picks a rose from the Beast’s garden and gets caught. To save himself, he makes a promise to send his daughter to the Beast when she is older.
He does so unwillingly but in the end, Beauty and the Beast fall in love…

To add humour and great antics, traditional pantomime-style spoilt-rotten ugly sisters Cynthia and Prudence played by Nomsa Makhubu and Mary-Anne Wright, a wicked fairy (Davina, played by Lebogang Mphahlele) and a good fairy Koisanni (played by Noni Mkonto) and an apprentice Fairy Dewdrop, played on alternate days by Jaydene Marais, Skye Proctor and Miguel Da Silva will keep the action going with compelling variety. A dictatorial housekeeper (Mrs Bollocks, also played by Lebogang) have been added to the script to keep audiences in stitches.

Sir Sid (Noni Mkhonto) and Sir Thomas Twit (Gavin Gomes) are the bumbling suitors who try impressing King Ben (Gomes), while his younger daughter Belle (Alexandra Snyman) treats a rather ineffectual father, Mr Brown (Adam Pelkowitz) with great affection.

A delightful, colourful set by Grant Knottenbelt and beautiful costumes by Linda Wilson make Beauty and the Beast a guaranteed winner for children, teachers, mother and fathers! It is indeed, perfect family entertainment.

Tickets
Tickets are available from the People’s Theatre with special rates for Kids’ Club Members and school groups.
Children can join the Kids’ Club for R80 a year and gain free entrance to a show closest to the member’s birthday.
Kids’ Club members: R60
Members of the public accompanying a Kid’s Club member: R80
Normal Ticket price: R90

School ticket prices:
Learners: R50
Teachers: R50
Accompanying adults: R70
For every 70 children, one educator gains free entry.
For more information please phone 011-403-1563 or e-mail peoplestheatre@artslink.co.za

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Gavin Gomes King Ben and Alexander Synman as Belle.