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After an exhaustive audition of 79 potential enchanted creatures, the Greater Cleburne Carnegie Players has set its cast for its upcoming production of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast.
The show’s director, long-time Cleburne favorite and Carnegie regular Jay Lewis, told those attending the auditions that he did not think in all the shows he has directed he’d ever had the wealth and depth of talent from which to cast a show.Husband and wife team Karen and Matt Martin will act as music directors. The choreographer will be Keli Price, who worked in the same capacity on past Carnegie favorites The Music Man, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and Oliver.The cast is led by one of Johnson County’s favorite performers, Christine Atwell, who will be debuting in her first Carnegie show. She will reprise her role of Belle. Performing opposite her as the Beast will be Hillard Cochran, a long-time Carnegie regular. Local fans will remember him as Captain van Trapp in The Sound of Music and as Professor Harold Hill in the Music Man.The remainder of the ensemble cast will be made up of many Carnegie regulars as well as one or two new faces. Cherie Robinson will appear as Mrs. Potts, the lovable teapot and her son Daniel as LeFou. JaceSon Barrus, well-known to Cleburne theater goers, makes his first appearance, along with Dade Elza, as the egotistical and villainous Gaston.Carnegie’s production of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast opens June 19 and runs weekends through July 5 in the Don Smith Performing Arts Center on the campus of Cleburne Senior High School, 1501 Harlin Drive. The curtain will rise on Friday and Saturday shows at a new time this year, 7:30 p.m., Sunday matinees will start at 2:30 p.m. ON July 4, a special 2:30 matinee will be presented but no evening production that day.For more information regarding The Greater Cleburne Carnegie Players and its production of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, visit www.carnegieplayers.com
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