For a while, it was rare to see actor John Tartaglia on the Broadway scene without his hand hidden up the back of a puppet. But these days, he's traded in his toys from Avenue Q for a pair of candle hands as lady-loving Lumiere in Disney's Beauty and the Beast. The friendly 29-year-old actor earned a 2004 ... Read More...

Age: "I'm in my 20s."

Hometown: Grand Rapids, Michigan

Currently: Charming audiences as Belle in Disney's long-running musical hit Beauty and the Beast.

Big Dreams & Belly Dancing: Lew felt the urge to perform from an early age—and laughingly admits that she shared her aspirations with anyone in sight. "I would run around my house in front of company screaming that I was gonna be a belly dancer," she remembers ...

Avenue Q alum John Tartaglia and Broadway veteran Jonathan Freeman will join the cast of Disney's Beauty and the Beast at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on November 21 as Lumiere and Cogsworth, respectively.

Tartaglia originated the roles of Princeton and Rod in Avenue Q in Las Vegas and on Broadway for which he received a 2004 Best Actor Tony Award ...

The last time Donny Osmond was on Broadway, it was 1982 and the singer was coming off a decade as a squeaky-clean, chart-topping, teeny-bopper heartthrob. Starring in a revival of Little Johnny Jones, George M. Cohan's 1904 vehicle, Osmond sought to move his career to a new level. Reviewers were kind to him, but the show was roundly panned ... Read More...

Age: 26

Currently: Burning the candle at both ends: filming scenes during the day as bad boy J.R. Chandler on All My Children and playing matchmaking candelabra Lumiere in Beauty and the Beast on Broadway at night.

Hometown: "I kind of hail from two places: Tillamook, Oregon, and Roy, Washington." Young sang in every choir he could join through ...