The Akron All – City Musical presents Beauty and the Beast

Sponsored by The Akron Civic Women’s Guild

Friday, June 17, 2016 7:30 PM

Saturday, June 18, 2016 2:30 PM

Saturday, June 18, 2016 7:30 PM

Akron Civic Theatre

This first of Disney’s stage adaptations is based on the on the 1991 animated Disney film, which was adapted from the French fairy tale by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont.

Story:

A wandering enchantress transforms a cruel and vain prince into a hideous Beast, leaving him only one way to reverse the curse – fall in love with another and earn her love in return. Belle, a beautiful book-lover, encounters the Beast when she arrives at his castle to plead for her father’s freedom, ultimately trading her own for his. As tension over her imprisonment escalates in the town, spurred by Gaston, the selfish lover who seeks Belle’s hand in marriage, the relationship between Belle and the Beast grows, leading to an emotional, and transformative, conflict.

Additional support from The Robert O. and Annamae Orr Family Foundation, the Samuel Reese Willis Foundation and The Maynard Family Foundation.