Beauty and the Beast will be closing on Sunday, July 29. Today we’re looking back at a performance from the 1994 Tony Awards
(Note: Thank you to the folks that alerted me to the typo. In my rush to pre-post before leaving for vacation, I had fat-fingered and written the performance year as 2004. It is obvious that it wasn’t 2004, but instead 1994. Sorry for the error.)
Enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3v3C6NYM3lI
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Three Broadway musicals take their bows for the last time before closing on July 29, 2007.
Those three include:
Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, which opened for previews on March 9, 1994 and to the general public on April 18, 1994.
Grey Gardens, which opened for previews on October 3, 2006 and to the general public on November 2, 2006. It also recently won three 2007 Tony awards. There are rumors that this will be recorded for a future television special.
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Beauty and the Beast officially opened on April …