The Sylvan-Lucas Unified High School Vocal Music Department will present Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast,” with music by Alan Menken and Lyrics by Howard Ashman and Tim Rice, on Friday, November 17, 2023 at 7:00 p.m. and Sunday, November 19, 2023 at 3:00 p.m. in the Sylvan-Lucas Unified High School Commons Area.
The admission price is $5.00 and you may buy tickets from the students or at the door. The students will also perform a matinee for the Lucas-Sylvan Elementary School and Junior High, the Wilson Elementary School and the Lakeside 5th Grade Class on Thursday, November 16, at 12:30 p.m. There is no charge for these students.
This “tale as old as time” was first recorded on paper in French in the mid-18th Century, but “La belle et la bete” was quickly translated into many languages and has circulated around the world in countless versions ever since. The Disney take on the tale premiered in November 1991 as an animated feature film, the first to be nominated for a Best Picture Academy Award, and it won Alan Menken and Howard Ashman Oscars for Best Score and Best Song (“Beauty and the Beast”). There’s nothing more sublime than when character, music and story combine in the theater to reveal truth about the human condition – in this case, how love and sacrifice go handin-hand, as told by our Narrators: Annaleise Drees, Braelyn Maupin; Colton Lame and Delaney McCollum.
This Disney Junior production involves about 35 students, as well as Music director, Mrs. Janet Seehafer; Choreographer, Mrs. Jennifer Feldkamp; Art and Costume director, Mrs. Beth Hlad and Sound Director, Mrs. Marmie Schultz.
Once upon a time in a faraway land, an Enchantress (LeeAllie Wacker) turns a cruel, unfeeling Prince (Harlan Pancost) into a hideous Beast. To break the spell, the Beast must learn to love another and earn her love in return before the last petal falls from an enchanted rose. Ten years later, a beautiful and intelligent woman, Belle (Sydney Heller), along with her eccentric father, Maurice (Gunner Hulse) seek to find adventure and success outside of their little village. They stumble onto the castle of the Beast after becoming lost where they meet the enchanted servants: Cogsworth,( Lexi Mc-Carter); Lumiere, (Jacob Schultz); Babette, (Molly Heller); Mrs. Potts (Anna Feldkamp) and Chip (Kadence Palmer); Madame de la Grande Bouche (Macie Ortiz). Meanwhile, Gaston (Layne Buttenhoff), the village brute, and his side-kick, Lefou (Isaac Schultz), conspire with Monsieur D’Arque (Ashton Bennison) to find a way to force Belle into marriage. This planned proposal causes much dismay with the Les Filles de La Ville (Aubrelle Hurlbut, Lydia Heffel, Annaleise Drees and LeeAllie Wacker).
We hope you will “Be our Guest” as you support our wonderful high school musicians by attending these performances of Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast, Jr.” Come and sing along with our villagers: Alana Pritchett, Caitlyn Sigle, Saydee Goss, Liam Goss, Peyton Wacker, Casey Janssen, Codie Huehl, Kenzley Frederking, Asher Hernandez, Carter Johnson, Abigail Feldkamp, Kailea Goss and Hannah Pahls as they see how this “tale as old as time” plays out.
