Today I was the watching the beast cast actors rehearse certain scenes to get the lighting and sound correctly set up but first I activated the glow tape behind the backdrop. Then the first scene that was run was when Maurice entered the palace with the welcoming objects like Lumiere and then the beast found out that a stranger had trespassed into his palace. One prop used was a blanket which pre set on the top stair that was grabbed and put on Maurice which in a later scene the beast grabs it from him, and he throws it on the stage deck then after a bit on dialogue on the stage deck he picks up the blanket that he then throws to Maurice that he walks off stage with. All of the scenes had to be multiple times for lighting and sound and once he forgot to pick up the blanket and throw it to Maurice. Then sound added a voice changer to the Beast’s microphone which made his voice lower pitched and rougher like a beast which made it scarier creating effective roars and his dialogue was ominous from it too. There were two things that the beast had to aware of with his voice which was not to talk too quickly and to not talk directly to another actor because their voice would be picked up on his voice changer, so he had to look over his shoulder. Also, Cog worth’s hat kept on falling off so it might to be attached with hair pins and there was already a strap on their chin. Then the sound and lighting plotting was continued with the beauty cast from the scene where the Beast puts Maurice in the prison cell and Belle offers to take his place instead. After that scene was plotted, they did the scene where Belle was shown to her room and after she sang a song, she talked to the wardrobe who was acted by two people, Mrs. Potts and chip. The wardrobe characters had a piece of fabric each that was given to the other actors to wear as a scarf which was then given back to them at the end of the dialogue but one of the fabric pieces kept on shedding feathers onto the floor, so it was swapped to a different bit of fabric. After their dialogue Belle is comforted by the other characters and then the 4 narrators enter holding a half dead rose each that they give to Belle. Then a scene set in the tavern was rehearsed that had everyone singing about how great Gaston which has girls that are madly comically in love with Gaston. This song has good choreography, but Gaston’s choreography had changed when I wasn’t there because he stood on top of a stage box on the stage deck, and he got thrown the axe by LeFou but it was thrown back in a way to keep the focus on Gaston. Before the two characters stood opposite each other and they threw in with exaggerated movement. He also got lifted up by the actors who were circling him. Then a short scene was run between Belle and LeFou from the Beast cast which had LeFou wearing Maurice’s scarf that he found in the woods. I like both acting casts for different reasons because in the Beast cast, I like the acting of Lumiere and Cogs worth but in the Beauty cast I like Belle’s and LeFou’s acting.