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Belle warms the Beast's icy heart
[Photos: Feld Entertainment]
Brandi-Lee Rousseau’s Belle is joined by Cogsworth, Lumiere, Le Fou, Chip and Mrs. Potts in the ice show. |
By WILMA NORTON
© St. Petersburg Times, published September 21, 2000
The Disney treatment keeps this "tale as old as time' popular year after year.
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ST. PETERSBURG -- Belle, the Beast and all their friends bring the familiar story of "true beauty" to St. Petersburg for six shows this weekend.
Disney on Ice's production of Beauty and the Beast comes to the Times Arena at Bayfront Center Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Tickets for the 7:30 p.m. Friday performance are $10.75 to $32.
Tickets for the other five shows -- 11 a.m., 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. and 6 p.m. Sunday -- range from $14.75 to $32. Children who are not yet 2 may attend free; everyone age 2 and above must have a ticket.
Belle and the Beast are back and on the ice.
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Discounts of $2.50 per ticket are available for children and seniors.
The production features songs from the 1991 animated film, including the chipper Be Our Guest and the Academy Award-winning title song.
It follows the story from the film, in which the young Belle falls in love with the person inside the Beast, at last transforming him into a prince. The skating characters include Lumiere, Mrs. Potts and Chip, Cogsworth, Le Fou and the pompous Gaston.
And, because this is Disney on Ice after all, Mickey and Minnie will put in an appearance, too.
The Beauty and the Beast show, one of six Disney on Ice productions touring the country, last appeared in the the Tampa Bay area in 1993.
The newest Disney ice extravaganza, Disney's Jungle Adventures on Ice, featuring characters and songs from the Jungle Book, theLion King and Tarzan, premiered in Lakeland earlier this month. It is scheduled for a Tampa stop next year.
For more information or tickets to Beauty and the Beast, call the Bayfront box office at (727) 892-5767 or Ticketmaster at (727) 898-2100 or (813) 287-8844.
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