Fall in love again with Beauty and the Beast

As a little girl I adored this movie. I actually have a movie of me at age 6 in 1992 sitting on my floor in my old apartment in Washington, D.C. watching “Beauty & the Beast”. I love the characters the adorable “Chip” the talking tea cup, “Miss Potts” the teapot, “Lumiere” the candelabra, “The Clock”, even the cute flirty featherduster, and of course Belle the main 

character. I loved the music, the story line, and of course at that age every little girl wants to be just like their favorite Disney characters adore her we both have something in common we wanted and expect more for ourselves, we love books and reading and going to a bookstore or library. I think I am still even at 30 trying to emulate them. Their humility, goodness, sweetness, kindness, and how they reflect women of this era and generation too.  My favorite scene growing up had to be “Be Our Guest” and of course the movie’s film theme song “Beauty & the Beast” sung by the amazing, the Canadian crossover diva/queen, Celine Dion. This time in 2017 Grammy award and Oscar winner, John Legend and American Music Award winner, Ariana Grande will perform a duet in  honor of the film.

            I remember I even wanted the enchanted rose and enchanted mirror that reflects and changes showing you visions of who you wanted to see. I think I even wanted the library that the Beast personally gave her as well.  You are instantly captured and wanted to fall in love with the movie. The story transforms you and takes you to a whole different world and you are rooting for the Beast and Belle to become a couple.

             Now with the 25^th anniversary coming up the movie debuted on November 22, 1991 and it hit box offices and earned over 425 million at the box office worldwide that year. The film did incredibly well and it became a classic becoming loved by many people for generations. Now next year on March 17, 2017 Saint Patrick’s Day weekend Beauty & the Beast will debut in theaters. After two years of production, they shot the film in Surrey, England and began in 2015 shooting. The internet has been going crazy predicting who would play Belle and the Beast. Now the cast has been revealed and it will star the following actors and actress. Emma Watson who is well known all over from the Harry Potter series she has been used to playing the fantasy characters and Harry Potter’s Hermoine. The film will also star, Dan Stevens as the Beast, Luke Evans, Kevin Kline, Josh Gad, Ewan McGregor , Stanley Tucci, Ian McKellen,  Gugu Mbatha-Raw, and award winning actress, Emma Thompson.

So finally we will all see this film come to life just like with Cinderella and hopefully we will see many other classics one personal request Aladdin would love to see the film come to life or even “Mulan”, “Pocahontas”, or “Princess and the Frog” would be pretty incredible.  A new generation of Disney fans will get to know the story and will also fall in love with the Disney characters, the music, the soundtrack, and so much more from the film. I also hope the little girls and boys will take away the most important message from the movie “Never to judge a book by it’s cover” and “You can also fall in love with any person who truly loves you, who will fight for you, and respects you.”  Also you can see Beauty and the Beast live in person the show is currently on tour right now. For more information on the film visit http://www.disney.com , http://www.beautyandthebeastontour.com