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Donny Osmond to Return on Closing Night of Beauty and the Beast

NEWS April 25, 2007 | 6:02PM

Donny Osmond will return to Broadway to play Gaston in the final performance of Disney's Beauty and the Beast at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on July 29, a spokesperson has confirmed. Osmond revealed his plan to come back for Beauty's last night during a performance of his current cabaret show at Feinstein's at the Regency.

Osmond enjoyed a ...

John Tartaglia

Q&A March 19, 2007 | 1:04PM

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...

Anneliese van der Pol Will Be Beauty and the Beast's Final Belle

NEWS February 6, 2007 | 12:02PM

Anneliese van der Pol, a star of the Disney Channel hit That's So Raven, will make her Broadway debut as Belle in Disney's Beauty and the Beast beginning April 3 and remaining in the role until the show closes on July 29 at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. She will be the 17th actress to play Belle on Broadway.

Van ...

Deborah Lew

FRESH FACE January 18, 2007 | 11:17AM

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 ...

Beauty and the Beast to Close in July '07 to Make Way for The Little Mermaid

NEWS January 17, 2007 | 5:47PM

After 13 years on Broadway, Disney's Beauty and the Beast will end its run on July 29. The next tenant of the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre and Disney's next theatrical undertaking will be The Little Mermaid, which will begin performances on November 3 with opening night set for December 6. Upon closing, Beauty will have played 46 previews and 5 ... Read More...

Lew and Buntrock to Join Beauty and the Beast, Beginning 12/26

NEWS December 18, 2006 | 11:14AM

Deborah Lew and Stephen R. Buntrock will step into the roles of Belle and Gaston in the Broadway company of Beauty and the Beast on December 26, replacing Sarah Uriarte Berry and Donny Osmond. Uriarte Berry and Osmond had been playing their roles since September 19 and will give their final performances at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on Christmas Eve.

Lew ...

John Tartaglia, Jonathan Freeman to Join Beauty and the Beast

NEWS November 13, 2006 | 10:42AM

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 ...

Donny Osmond Extends to 12/24 in Beauty and the Beast

NEWS October 17, 2006 | 4:39PM

Donny Osmond will continue flexing his biceps on Broadway as Gaston in Beauty and the Beast through December 24. He began his run on September 19 and had originally been scheduled to depart on November 21.

In a statement, Osmond said, "New York audiences have welcomed me with open arms, and I couldn't think of a more special way ...

Donny Osmond

Q&A October 3, 2006 | 10:38AM

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...

Sarah Uriarte Berry Joins Donny Osmond in Beauty and the Beast 9/19

NEWS September 7, 2006 | 10:50AM

Sarah Uriarte Berry is returning to the Broadway company of Beauty and the Beast as Belle, beginning September 19. She will star opposite Donny Osmond, who joins the cast the same day as Gaston for a limited nine-week engagement at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre.

Berry recently completed a 16-month run as Franca in the Lincoln Center Theatre production of The Light ...