Beauty And The Beast (Nicol)
Ron Nicol
Genre: Pantomime
Cast size: 11 +Chorus
Duration: Two Act
Ron Nicol | Pantomime | Full-length | 3m, 8f +Chorus
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Rosella introduces Gabrielle, a mischievous but resourceful maid in rich merchant Monsieur Villeneuve’s house. Villeneuve’s daughters Clementina and Nectarina see themselves as embodying perfection in womanhood and look down on everybody else, even their sister Belle. When wicked enchantress Maleva intervenes, Villeneuve falls on hard times and the family have move to the country and live on a farm.
On a journey to the city to try to restore his fortunes Villeneuve and his manservant Claude stay overnight in a palace in the woods where they’re looked after by servants Hermione and Hortense. Villeneuve plucks a rose from the garden as a present for Belle, but the palace belongs to an ugly Beast who gives him a chest of gold pieces but demands that one of Villeneuve’s daughters becomes his prisoner.
Despite her father’s protests, Belle consents to live in the palace. Hermione and Hortense reassure her that the Beast doesn’t intend to harm her. They give Belle a magic mirror in which she can see what’s happening in her home. Beast visits Belle regularly and eventually she comes to respect and like him. Beast proposes marriage, but Belle turns him down. The Beast agrees that Belle can visit her home for a week, giving her a magic ring which has the power to return her to his palace.
Clementina and Nectarina are now unhappily married, and are jealous of Belle’s apparent good fortune. Maleva intervenes, inciting the two sisters to prevent Belle returning to the palace by stealing the magic mirror. They’re prevented by Gabrielle and Claude. The sisters then try to steal the magic ring, but are again foiled by Gabrielle and Claude.
Belle returns to the palace where she realises she’s fallen in love with Beast. Maleva reveals that Beast had refuses to marry her, and in revenge had turned him into an ugly creature, but he has now been released from Maleva’s magic spell and turned into a handsome prince.
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