At Olney Theatre, casting ‘Beauty and the Beast’ with an eye to inclusion – The Washington Post

But she now understands how her Belle fits into the production, directed with an eye to inclusiveness by Marcia Milgrom Dodge and co-starring Evan Ruggiero, an acclaimed tap dancer and actor who lost a leg to cancer as a teenager. At Olney, the Alan Menken-scored fable drills down on “redefining beauty, and what that means, and what it means to know your worth and to own it,” Jones notes, during a recent interview at the theater.

Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/theater-dance/olney-theatre-disneys-beauty-and-the-beast/2021/11/01/9dbca940-3827-11ec-8be3-e14aaacfa8ac_story.html

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