Photo Coverage: Symone Visits van der Pol at 'Beauty'

By: Walter McBride Jul. 07, 2007

On July 6th, Raven Symone visited her "That's So Raven" co-star Anneliese Van Der Pol backstage at Disney's Beauty and the Beast, in which van der Pol stars as Belle.

After enchanting audiences for more than 13 years, the musical will take its final bow at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre (205 West 46th Street) on Sunday, July 29th. The Broadway production will have played 46 previews and 5,464 regular performances. Beauty and the Beast officially opened on Broadway on April 18, 1994 and played at the Palace Theatre for the first five years of its run. The production transferred to the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on November 11, 1999. The musical is the 6th longest-running Broadway show of all time.

The musical, directed by Robert Jess Roth, features Alan Menken's Academy Award-winning score, with songs by Alan Menken and the late Howard Ashman (including the Academy Award-winning title song and the show-stopping "Be Our Guest"), plus songs written especially for the stage by Alan Menken and Tim Rice (including "If I Can't Love Her" and "A Change In Me"). The production also features a book by Linda Woolverton, author of the original screenplay and choreography by Matt West.

The cast includes van der Pol as Belle, Steve Blanchard as the Beast, Stephen Buntrock as Gaston, David Devries as Lumiere, Jeanne lehman as Mrs. Potts, Glenn Rainey as Cogsworth, Jamie Ross as Maurice, Ann Mandrella as Babette, Mary Stout as Madame de la Grande Bouche, Aldrin Gonzalez as Lefou, and Trevor Braun and Marlon Sherman alternating in the role of Chip.

Visit www.disneyonbroadway.com for more information on Beauty and the Beast. Visit this link for more on "That's So Raven."

Photos by Walter McBride/Retna Ltd.

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Anneliese Van Der Pol and Raven Symone

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