Beauty And The Beast at Santa Monica Playhouse

The first Holiday show of the season, with a grand festive opening on Halloween Eve, the 20th anniversary production of BEAUTY AND THE BEAST is an excitingly heart-warming musical adaptation of the original French tale. This classic with a twist, set in a fantasy Medieval milieu "long, long ago," introduces audiences to a lively, lovely and spirited Beauty and a most endearing Beast, offering 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.