Full cast and creative team announced for BEAUTY AND THE BEAST at Rose Theatre Kingston

Amelia Kinu Muus (West Side Story, Musickfestival Steyr) and Stanton Wright (Pictures of Dorian Gray, Jermyn St Theatre) have been confirmed to star as Bella and Beast respectively in Ciaran McConville’s new version of Beauty and the Beast, running at the Rose Theatre Kingston from 3 December 2021-3 January 2022.

They will be joined by Daniel Goode (Chicago, West End) as René/Heureux, Paula James (Gin Craze!, Royal and Derngate) as Marguerite/Rousette and Oliver Senton (Peter Pan Goes Wrong, West End) as Francesco.

The cast is completed by a young company comprised of Rose Youth Theatre members including Amelie Abbott, Nosike Akinniboson, Georgia Anderson, Emily Baldwin, Jack Bartlett, Rory Brandreth McConnachie, Joey Burke, Cecily Cleave, Annie Coles, Rosa Cowper, Akira Dias Nagahwatte, Joshua Fernandes, Ronnie Flynn, Alexander Forster, Eva Gough, Isla Griffiths, Hannah Grigg, Cameron Hardcastle, Tom Hardman, Rhianna Jackson, Trisha Kashyap, Neri Keshet, Rebeca Lanaway Gonzalez, Amy Lawrence, Jemima Leason, Lily Licorish, Breanna Merritt, Phoebe Morley, Chloe Nichols, Sophie O’Hare, Alessia Perugi, Cathra Plant, Eva Rouse, Amelie Scott, Ellie Searl, Holly Slade, Maximilian Strain, Christina Taylor, Jacob Towey, Amelie Tu, Tait Walsingham, Ren Walsingham, Amber Westgate, Nathaniel Williams, Megan Wilson and Leah Wingfield.

On her eighteenth birthday, Bella learns that her father is the victim of a terrible curse. She sets out across the mountains to a mysterious valley, determined to face the Beast who condemned her father. In a race to learn the truth, Bella must question everything she’s been told in order to find humanity in the strangest of places. 

One of the oldest fairy tales, Beauty and the Beast is about the power of youth seeing beyond prejudice. This new version has music and lyrics/musical direction by Eamonn O’Dwyer, with direction by Lucy Morrell, set design by Frankie Bradshaw, costumes by Peter Todd, sound by George Dennis, and choreography by Aimee Leigh.

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