The St. Louis MUNY BEAUTY and the BEAST Scripted Scenic Flow 3/21/05
ACT ONE
BookStand Unit Prologue w/ Boom 2. Voice-Over Narration, The Spell. Transformation via pyro and smoke pots. Prologue illusion unit is placed in front of the boom. This unit is rigged with pyro and a contained system of fog . The illusions and change between the old woman to princess and the prince to beast happen on this unit.
Scene 1: BOOM 1 A Farmer’s Market with Vendor Carts and Color/Banners, provincial French Village in a “clearing” with SR and Center as Belle’s cottage. Closes in front of Book Stand Transformation Unit. IA clears unit backstage.
Scene 1a: BOOM 1 Exterior of Belle’s Cottage (SL) separated a little from the Market area. Golf Cart Contraption for Father’s Invention.
“Belle Playoff” Orchestra
“Maurice’s Entrance” Orchestra w/ his invention.
“No Matter What”
“No Matter What – Reprise” Orchestra
Scene 2: BOOM 2 The Forest w/ Wolf eyes (lights) in Boom a la Fiddler
“Wolf Chase #1”
Scene 3: The Castle Interior (Entryway)
“Maurice & the Beast” Orchestra
Scene 4: BOOM 1 Exterior of Belle’s Cottage
“Gaston’s Crossover” Orchestra
“Me”
“Belle – Reprise”
“Then I’ll Find Him Myself” Orchestra
Scene 5: The Castle Interior
“Belle in the Castle” Orchestra
Maurice behind bars in a cell. Caryatid comes alive. Beast leads Belle through the dark, dreary castle. Door to the West Wing. Belle’s Room
“Is This Home?”
Scene 6: BOOM 2 w/The Tavern Barn Doors open in Boom 2 to reveal Tavern slip wagon (Bar). Back side of barn doors are painted with Tavern Scenery. Furniture and Props from SL.
“Gaston” Dance number.
“Gaston – Reprise”
Scene 7: The Castle Interior (Fireplace)
Belle’s Room
“How Long Must This Go On?”
Beast’s Lair
Fireplace Area
REVOLVE Transform Set into Elaborate Cabaret Show
“Be Our Guest”
The Castle Interior
“Belle in the West Wing” Orchestra
The Rose
“If I Can’t Love Her”
END OF ACT ONE. BOOM 1
ACT TWO
Scene 1: BOOM 2 The Forest, the Fight
“Wolf Chase” Orchestra
Scene 2: The Castle Interior
Small table tracks on … Dinner
“Something There”
Swag opens to reveal Library
“Human Again” Dance Number
Scene 3: BOOM 2 w/The Tavern
“Maison Des Lunes”
Scene 4: The Castle Interior (The Beast’s Lair/West Wing)
“Before ‘Beauty and the Beast’ Orchestra
“Beauty & the Beast”
“Beast Lets Belle Go” Orchestra
“If I Can’t Love Her – Reprise”
Scene 5: BOOM 1 Exterior Belle’s Cottage
“A Change in Me”
“Show Me the Beast” Orchestra
“Mob Scene”
Scene 6: The Castle Interior
“The Battle” Orchestra Fight
“Fight on the Tower” Orchestra
“Is This Home – Reprise”
“Transformation/Finale” (Pyro series starting SR and progressing to SL to distract the switch for Beast to Prince.)
“Bows” Orchestra