Disney On Ice Beauty and the Beast

Walt Disney's World On Ice Beauty and the Beast is a Disney On Ice show that premiered in 1992 and ended its run in 2006. The show is notable for being the first Disney On Ice production to include Beauty and the Beast and incorporating several elements from the Disney Afternoon.

## Show Summary

### Act 1

Act 1 begins with the show's conductor: Mickey Mouse getting ready to tell the story of Beauty and the Beast. Helping him are his friends from various Disney classic cartoons and Disney Afternoon programming including Donald Duck (on trombone), Chip and Dale (on trumpet), Baloo (on upright bass), Minnie Mouse (on flute), and Daisy Duck (on violin). Mickey realizes that he forgot the most important part of the show: the music. Goofy then enters with the music eventually getting wrapped up in it. Baloo has an idea to let some audience members help play the overture for the show. After the overture, it's on with the show!

Mickey starts to tell the story of a prince who was spoiled and selfish. When the prince dismisses the beggar woman, she transforms into a beautiful enchantress who turns the servants into objects during thunder and lightning. He tried to apologize, but she refused to forgive him. As punishment, she turns him into a hideous beast. But who could ever learn to love a beast?

In Belle's small village, the townsfolk sing about her and how she's beautiful but doesn't fit in by reading books. While reading her book, she tries to avoid the stupid guy named Gaston, who wants to marry her because of her beauty. She heads home to help her father with his latest invention which he feels like it's a failure. Belle encourages him and tells him about how she dreams of adventure in the great wide somewhere. As Maurice and Belle get the invention to finally work, he heads off to the fair with Phillippe and they head into a dark part of the woods. Maurice is lost in the woods during the chase and encounters the Beast's castle.

Belle gets word of the news from Phillippe and rushes to the Beast's castle. While she looks for her father, she meets the Enchanted Objects as Lumiere is convinced that Belle is the girl who has come to break the spell, so they decide to show her where her father is. When she finds her father, the angry Beast shows up. As he doesn't understand that Maurice is too old to be a prisoner, she decides to take her father's place, so he agrees and Maurice is gone. Instead of treating her like a prisoner, the Beast gives her a new home and lets her go anywhere she likes, but he doesn't tell her what is in the West Wing. The Enchanted Objects try to convince him to fall in love with her and tell him that he must control his temper as the angry Beast rushes to his room. The Enchanted Objects do everything in their power to make Belle feel welcome while Lumiere invites her to be their guest for dinner where tables, napkins, and silverware sing and dance. Dinner is served.

### Act 2

Mickey comes back out to introduce the second act which starts in a tavern with some pair skaters skating to Human Again. Gaston contemplates Belle continuing to resist him as his crew tries to cheer him up. Maurice enters the tavern and asks them to help him find his daughter Belle who has been kidnapped by the beast in his eyes but the crew laugh at him because they are convinced he's crazy. That gives Gaston an idea. He would take Maurice hostage to get Belle to marry him, so he makes a deal with Monsieur D'arque. Maurice tries to go to the castle to look for his daughter but Gaston stops him and the crew locks him up in the asylum.

Back at the castle, Belle is exploring the castle a little bit more. When Lumiere tells Belle to remember not to go into the West Wing, she is curious to know what is in the West Wing and ends up finding the rose, infuriating the Beast. Belle runs away but is surrounded by wolves. When Lumiere and Babette see this, they warn the Beast, so he saves her but is badly hurt. Belle tries to help him but she and the Beast argue about who was to blame for her running away and she scolds him for his temper, so she could help him. When the Beast learns that Belle loves reading books, he surprises her with the gift of his library, and she enjoys every bit of it. After spending time with the Beast, she misses her father, so the Beast gives her the mirror that shows anything she wishes to see. When she finds out that her father is in danger, he decides to let her go and take care of her father.

Back at the village, Belle finds her father in the asylum and tries to break him free, but Gaston tells her that he would help her, only if she agreed to marry him, but when she rejects him, she learns that Gaston is the culprit that her father is in the asylum when Maurice is telling the truth about the Beast, so she decides to show the Beast with the mirror to the crew to prove her father is not crazy as the crew freaks out to learn that the Beast is real. When she tries to make them understand that the Beast is kind and gentle, Gaston becomes furious to see that she has feelings for that creature. Angry and jealous, Gaston takes the mirror away from Belle and locks her up along with her father, so they can't warn him, as he insists that the Beast will make off with the town's children, they're not safe until his head is held in his wall. The Beast will have to be killed. While Gaston leads the angry mob to the castle, Chip, who snuck out of the castle to follow Belle, rescues Belle and her father by getting them out of the asylum with Maurice's invention.

Back at the castle, the Beast is still depressed because Belle is gone. The enchanted objects battle with the angry mob and succeed in kicking them out while Gaston attacks the Beast, who is still depressed to fight back. When Belle comes back, the Beast fights back. While they battle, Gaston's jealousy makes the Beast realize with anger that Gaston is his rival, so the Beast throws him onto the floor and goes with Belle to hug her. The enraged Gaston gets up, charges the Beast, and stabs his back with the dagger. Laughing wildly, he goes to the top of the stairs, when he is shattered by lightning, he meets his doom. Belle's love for the Beast saves him and turns him back into the handsome prince while The Enchanted Objects are human again. Belle now in her yellow dress, waltzes with the newly transformed Prince joined by Mickey and all of his friends from the orchestra.

## Stories and Characters

### Hosts

* Mickey Mouse
* Minnie Mouse
* Donald Duck
* Chip
* Dale
* Daisy Duck
* Goofy
* Scrooge McDuck (omitted in 2004)
* Baloo

### Stories Represented

* Beauty and the Beast
* DuckTales (1992-2004)
* TaleSpin
* The Jungle Book
* Chip and Dale Rescue Rangers

## Trivia

* Scrooge, Chip, Dale, and Baloo wear their Disney Afternoon outfits on the back of the original program, when the show's program updated when the Walt Disney's World On Ice title was replaced with Disney On Ice, it was replaced with a picture of Belle, Lumiere, Chip, and Babette.
* This is one of the first Disney On Ice shows to include a character outside of the Mickey Mouse universe with that being Baloo.
* The show featured an instrumental of a deleted song from the film: "Human Again". One of the few shows to do that, another example being Aladdin (To Be Free)