BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

A Magical, Majestic, Magnificent Musical Romance

Molding the magic, romance, humor and grandeur of this timeless tale, Beauty and the Beast, offers a rose garden of a thousand and one delights, replete with dizzily ditzy sisters, a sweetly sensitive sire, a spell-binding sorceress and a flamboyantly foppish suitor, who all inadvertently or intentionally strew more than a few thorns along Beauty and her Beast’s arduous, and ardorous, path. But the determination and spirit of true love win out, allowing them to find the magic that will ultimately unite them for a happily-ever-after ending that leaves all who are young at heart breathless.

A “jewel of a theatre” (Jewish Journal), Santa Monica Playhouse consistently creates some of “the brightest, most intelligent theatre in town.” (LA PARENT)

Written and directed by Chris DeCarlo and Evelyn Rudie (“Your work is brilliant!” English Shakespeare Company) with beautiful and authentic costumes designed by award-winning Ashley Hayes (“Ashley Hayes’s inventive, multicolored costumes - and the jewel-box Santa Monica Playhouse itself - supply visual treats” LA TIMES)

This charmed production features:

Patrick Censoplano (Grey's Anatomy; Fame; Gettin’ It – Seven Arts Pictures)

Nicole Cleveland (Pirates of Penzance – Civic Theatre West; The Threepenny Opera – California Stage; The Breakup – Sacramento PCS Film Festival)

James Cooper (Red – Actors’ Repertory Theatre®; 1994 – Kenilworth Castle, Warwickshire, England; Charlie’s Place – Santa Monica Playhouse)

Megan Fleming (Little Women – Center Stage Rep; Hamlet - Edinburgh;Behind Closed Doors – NYC Fringe Festival)

Merri Jamison (We the People With Gloria Alred – NBC; Alien Encounters – Discovery Channel; Forever Fosse – Hollywood Fight Club Theatre)

Cydne Moore (Cinderella – Santa Monica Playhouse; The Amazing American Melodrama – The Dream Factory, UK; The In ‘n’ Out Café – The International Club, Tokyo)

Melissa Ryan (Waterwalker – Renovatio Pictures; Shades of Stain – web series; Hello, Dolly! – Oklahoma Shakespeare)