PCPA rings in the holiday season with beloved Disney classic ‘Beauty and the Beast’
SANTA MARIA, Calif. - PCPA is once again bringing the beloved Disney classic Beauty and the Beast onto the Marian Theatre stage to celebrate the holiday season.
The much-loved musical returns to PCPA for a third time over the past 20 years and is sure to enchant audiences through its entire run, which concludes Sunday, Dec. 22.
"It is a tale as old as time," said director Erik Stein. "The animated film that Disney put out back in the early 90s is such a classic. we're just so grateful to get to work on it. The Broadway musical is outstanding. The music is beautiful, the story is incredible. We're just we're just thrilled to get to do it."
The show premiered on Nov. 7, and according to Stein, the audience response has been extremely positive.
"The audiences seem to just be loving the show," said Stein. "I mean, huge ovations throughout the show, not just at the end. Lots of laughter, lots of cheering. Lots of just kind of astonishment, and it's been really great and it's selling really well, so if folks want to see the show, we really recommend they call like right now because seats are limited. We really want everybody who wants to see it to get a chance to see it."
PCPA and Orcutt Academy alumni Edella Oroz Westerfield stars in the lead role as Belle, which she called a dream come true.
"It's really, really, really special to me," said Oroz Westerfield. "Beauty and the Beast is about love. It's about finding love in unexpected places, and it is about navigating through feelings of being different because Belle is. She's the oddball out. She's not the beauty of the ball that everybody kind of makes her out to be at the end, but she's in a small provincial town and she doesn't really belong, and she doesn't feel like she belongs, and it's really, really amazing for her to find where she does belong and accept where she is and her life and what that is going to be."
Both Stein and Oroz Westerfield promise the audience will enjoy two hours of riveting entertainment, complete with spectacular visuals, iconic music and other magical moments that are sure to awe all of the senses.
"They're going to see the most insane dance numbers, the most shimmery dresses, the most happy faces in the whole world, and people who love doing it and are happy to share the story with everybody," said Oroz Westerfield. It's so shimmery and it just glimmers. It's the way that the sun hits the sparkle and it looks wonderful."
For more information about Disney's Beauty and the Beast, or to purchase tickets, click here to visit the PCPA website.
